https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/09/13/covid-this-bay-area-city-pulls-the-dining-tables-off-its-main-street-others-to-follow/

With colder nights around the corner and indoor dining in full swing since the early summer despite the pandemic’s persistent grip, Bay Area cities are trying to figure our whether it’s time to make restaurants pull some of their tables off closed streets so motorists could start driving on them again.

Although the extended parklets that sprung up in the downtown cores of cities have been a lifesaver for many restaurants during on-again, off-again lockdowns, retailers like wine stores, gift shops and service businesses say they’ve impeded customers from finding and easily getting to their shops.