SAN FRANCISCO
Lee Heidhues 8.24.2024
Opponents of Proposition K staged a car rally on Market Street to decry the measure as a threat to San Francisco’s largely residential Westside. The Standard 8.24.2024
These people should get out of their cars and get some exercise.
Maybe, they wouldn’t be so uptight and stop their bloviating.
The Standard says it all about their political idiocy. Entitled motorists didn’t even know where to protest. On Saturday they polluted the atmosphere with their climate killing hunks of junk downtown.
Seven miles from the site of Ocean Beach Park.
These bitter people believe that cars come first. Forget it. They have lost at the Board of Supervisors, the ballot box and the courthouse Yet, they refuse to give up their misguided birth right. And continue this fight against the environment. It’s over.
Excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle 8.24.2024
Two rallies Saturday presented dueling visions for the fate of the Great Highway, San Francisco’s coastal boulevard at the center of a debate about how the city uses its streets and whether parks or cars should dominate.
About 80 community members at a Panhandle Playground rally listened as Sunset resident Josh Kelly called the campaign to create a Great Highway park “part of a long tradition of San Franciscans reclaiming space in their city for people and not for vehicles.”
“Closing (the highway) is not feasible, is not a good idea, and it wasn’t brought as a community-led compromise,” Sunset District resident Albert Chow, owner of Great Wall Hardware, said to a crowd of about 35 community members on Market Street.
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