SF has a long history of rough bumpy trenched asphalt over concrete streets. The 311 city repair staff readily admit this. But the City and Mayor Lee won't asphalt repave "too little used streets" like Hariett by the courthouse, nor "too heavily used streets" like Toland in the SE Quarter, the Mayor wants to Gentrify and attract neuvo-riche to this neglected street condition and High crime area.

Let's see, when was the last major snafu fubar costly mistake in SF City and County combined govt , delayed year after year, decade after decade, Postponed Maintenance history?

Oh, yeah, it was the well know fact of too old and too brittle cast iron fire hydrant water main pipes in the very affluent Marina district.
Then, the OCTOBER 1989 earthquake, a 7.1richter , happened;  Too old cast iron easily breaks and no adequate supply of fire fighting water to many burning apartments.
People died. Lots of personal property was destroyed. Watch it on You Tube. What a huge preventable disastrous result. Many buildings were finally bolted to their foundations. And instead of one neglected rusty old fireboat with a sloppy hand painted "for sale" sign that pumped Sacramento River water out of the Bay and saved the Marina, the City now has a few newer fireboats parked near the Bay Bridge.

SF could be much better maintained, from too rough streets all over to too few highly paid cops everywhere on the streets. To more night time, high visibility, white on green, Street signs. To way too few public parking garages that are affordable all over the city. Is underground parking at De Young direction signed enough? To still too inefficient litter and trash collection.
Much more often Health Dept posted inspections of all restaurants. Sidewalk cleaning thankfully is on the rise. And faster graffiti removal.
And it isn't that SF can't afford to do better.