return to San Francisco retells the growth story
You can trust a cab driver to give it to you straight. The one driving Euromoney to a meeting in San Francisco one morning last month narrowly missed clipping a pedestrian who had ambled into the street without looking. "Chinatown used to be the area of the city where we get most trouble from pedestrians crossing the street without looking," he says in a tone lacking any of the condescension many cabbies tend to use on things that get in their way. "But in the last few months the financial district is where we have to be most careful. These guys must have got so busy all of a sudden."
He's right, and for many...