There are more details regarding the ss Ever Given, still marooned in the Suez Canal in Egypt.  The Wall Street Journal has learned the ss Ever Given struck a vessel in the German Port of Hamburg two years ago. 

It is unknown if the Captain at the helm during the 2019 incident in Hamburg is still captain of the ss Ever Given.

The ongoing effort to free the vessel has tied up world cargo movement for nearly a week.

Wall Street Journal 3.28.2021

Before slamming into the bank of the Suez Canal last week and triggering a global cargo traffic jam, the Ever Given had another serious maritime accident two years ago in Germany.

The captain at the time was investigated in Germany but cleared of any misconduct; authorities blamed wind.

The ferry Finkenwerder sustained damage when the Ever Given crashed into it in Hamburg, Germany, in February 2019

The 1,300-foot container ship, operated then and now by Taiwan shipping giant Evergreen Group, crashed into a small ferry in 2019, triggering a criminal probe, which ultimately didn’t find fault with the bigger ship’s captain.

The Ever Given’s previous accident isn’t likely to have any bearing on the current probe. Still, it is unusual for a ship of such size to have two significant incidents so close in time. The Ever Given’s owner and operator didn’t respond to requests for comment regarding the 2019 collision.

On Feb. 9, 2019, the Ever Given ran into the 75-foot Finkenwerder, a pleasure ferry that was moored alongside a pontoon along the Elbe River in a suburb of Hamburg, Germany. The Ever Given, which had stopped at Hamburg on its way from China to Rotterdam, mangled the ferry and came close to pulling the pontoon free of the shore.

No passengers were aboard the ferry, but the skipper of the vessel was slightly injured, said Liddy Oechtering, a spokeswoman for the Hamburg Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Local police launched a criminal investigation into the actions of the Ever Given’s captain, probing a possible piloting error, Ms. Oechtering said. The investigation found no misconduct and determined the captain of the container ship had been caught by surprise by winds. Its slow speed had limited his ability to maneuver the ship away from the river’s banks, the probe found. It couldn’t be learned if the current captain of the ship was its captain when it hit the ferry.

The economic disaster caused by ss Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal may have a more disastrous toll.  

Thousands of animals, warehoused in container ships stuck in the Suez Canal, may die if the Canal is not opened soon. These animals are packed in close quarters and must be undergoing terrible suffering.

Deutsche Welle 3.28.2021

Suez Canal authorities were optimistic that Sunday’s high tide would help refloat the Ever Given freighter as animal advocates raised concerns for sheep stuck on some 20 livestock ships in the logjam.

Authorities have been working to free the giant vessel since Tuesday, when it ran aground in the canal and blocked the crucial shipping route in both directions.

Animals International announced that thousands of animals — mostly sheep on 13 vessels from Romania — were at risk of dying if the channel did not reopen in the “next 24 hours.”

“We are sitting in front of a major tragedy,” said Gabriel Paul of the nongovernmental group, forecasting that delayed livestock carriers, including vessels from Spain, could run out of water and fodder.

On Friday, Britain’s Guardian newspaper cited the ship-tracking website Marine Traffic as identifying three livestock carriers “stuck at various points in the canal.”

At both ends or headed for Suez were at least 20 such carriers, the Guardian reported. Animals International urged nations to call their respective livestock ships back.

On Thursday, Spain had given orders that no animal ships bound for Saudi Arabia and Jordan be loaded, the Guardian reported.

Romanian veterinary authorities said they had assurances from transport firms that their livestock ships had enough fodder and water “for the coming days.”

Egypt’s Agriculture Ministry was quoted by the state-run Al-Ahram website as reporting that veterinary teams had been sent to livestock stuck offshore.

Salvage experts, equipped with 12 tugs, were pinning hopes on a high tide to refloat the vessel, which is wedged diagonally and blocking the waterway to more than 300 ships waiting at both ends.

Shipping lines, however, had already decided to reroute other vessels around southern Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, Lloyd’s List editor Richard Meade said.

On Sunday, the French shipper CMS-CGM announced that two of its Asia-bound vessels were rerouted and it was considering air and rail alternatives for some clients.

https://www.dw.com/en/suez-canal-live-sheep-stuck-in-ship-traffic-jam/a-57032579

I am all too familiar with the miscarriage of Justice in Progressive San Francisco.

The fighting and brawling San Francisco sense of Justice took a big hit this week with the passing of longtime true people’s advocate Brian Rohan, Esq.

Rohan was an aggressive courtroom advocate for people abused by the criminal justice system. He was never one to shy away from calling out a miscarriage of justice and holding those responsible accountable.

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle – Sam Whiting  – March 28, 2021

The driveway of attorney Brian Rohan’s Larkspur home was often decorated with the psychedelic school bus belonging to Ken Kesey, in the mid-1960s. “Furthur,” as the bus was notoriously named, was the perfect billboard for the type of law Rohan practiced — “dope law,” as he called it.

And there was plenty of demand for his services. Kesey and the Merry Pranksters who lived with Rohan during Kesey’s infamous 1965 trial for possession of marijuana; Jerry Garcia, who conveniently lived a mile away; the Beat bus driver Neal Cassady; and the chemist Owsley Stanley were all among his clients.

Rohan died Tuesday, March 23, at his home, in a different neighborhood of Larkspur. He was 84 and died in his sleep, after living with cancer for six years, said his daughter, Kathleen Jolson of Nicasio.

“He worked until the last day of his life, clutching his phone in one hand and his iPad in the other,” Jolson said. “He fought for his clients, he fought for his friends, and he fought for what he thought was right.”

Neil Hallinan, a third-generation defense attorney, keeps a picture of Rohan on his office, along with his father and grandfather.

“Brian was like a dad to me, a constant loving, loyal figure in my life,” Neil Hallinan said. “He was loud, foul-mouthed and fun, and you knew he would lay down on the tracks for you if you needed it.”

The fight started when he joined the criminal defense firm of the notoriously pugilistic Vincent Hallinan and escalated when he co-formed the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization during the Summer of Love, setting up a table in the Grateful Dead house on Ashbury Street to service live-in and walk-in clients.

Later, Rohan’s fighting spirit became legend when he punched powerful record producer David Geffen at Clive Davis’ 1977 Grammy Awards party, an act that earned the admiration of Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.

“Brian Rohan, the feisty San Francisco attorney … has been stewing for sometime because Geffen refuses to return his phone calls and besides that ‘has stepped on my clients’ … so Rohan grabbed him by his hand-stitched lapels, picked him up and belted him,” wrote Caen, “an act applauded by Jann Wenner, Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan’s lawyer who said ‘I wish I’d done that.’ ”

It is one in a long line of literary credits for the outrageous and charismatic Rohan. His legal heroics are sprinkled throughout Tom Wolfe’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” and earned coverage in David Talbot‘s “Season of the Witch,” Joel Selvin’s “Summer of Love” and Dennis McNally’s “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead.”

Every morning between 6 and 7, he called Selvin to see what the music industry news was. The last time they talked, Selvin said Rohan told him he was “improving.” He died the next morning.

“A feisty Irish drinker, he was no hippie, but his lifelong hatred of bullies made him a good attorney,” McNally wrote, “and he was in the right place having joined the San Francisco firm of the legendary socialist, atheist, and all-round noble rabble-rouser Vincent Hallinan.”

Brian Donald Rohan was born July 24, 1936, in Tacoma, Wash., where he grew up. At Stadium High School he was on the swim team, but his outstanding activity was debate. He also co-chaired the Senior Talent Show, a precursor of his career.

After passing the California bar exam, Rohan was invited to join the Hallinan firm, in 1963. At the firm he met Michael Stepanian, with whom he would later split off to form their own firm.

Rohan and Stepanian liked to take a lunchtime drive to West Portal Joe’s for hamburgers, a route that took them through Haight-Ashbury, which intrigued Rohan.

His greatest legal maneuver was getting Kesey, already famous for writing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” out of a jam that could have sent him away to prison for a long stay. Two felony charges for marijuana possession and one charge of international flight to Mexico were “magically reduced to six months on a county work farm,” said McNally, the official historian of the Grateful Dead.

It was Kesey’s recommendation that brought Rohan to the attention of the Grateful Dead.

“He wasn’t a business attorney, but they trusted him, and that was always the thing with the Dead,” McNally said.

It started with the Grateful Dead’s first album contract, which Rohan negotiated with Warner Bros. in 1966.

After the Human Be-In, in January 1967, the police swept down Haight Street and made around 100 arrests on charges of loitering and “being hippies,” McNally said. Rohan and Stepanian threatened to tie up the courts forever with this and got it brought down to one trial, which they won. All the other charges were dismissed.

They then got the members of the Dead off when police busted the band’s house on Ashbury Street, one of the most widely publicized arrests during the Summer of Love. Charges were dropped, and Rohan became part of the Dead family.

He also represented Jefferson Airplane, Santana and Janis Joplin and was a partner with Bill Graham in Fillmore Records and San Francisco Records, two short-lived labels.

Bill Graham – 1980

“Brian Rohan was the smartest guy in the world and invented music representation for the San Francisco Sound,” Stepanian said. “He had extreme loyalty to his clients and would not allow one of them to be hurt by anybody. In a Shakespearean sense he had ‘a slight dram of evil.’”

Survivors include his ex-wife, Barbara Rohan; daughter Kathleen Jolson of Nicasio; sons Brian Rohan Jr. of San Anselmo, Chris Ray Rohan of Santa Rosa and Michael Lonan of Yuba City; and three grandchildren.

Human Be In – Polo Fields Golden Gate Park – January 14, 1967. Timothy Leary dressed in White.
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/brian-rohan-music-lawyer-who-beat-marijuana-charges-for-ken-kesey-and-the-grateful-dead-dies-at-84

Top Photo – Brian Rohan with Grateful Dead at San Francisco Superior Court – June 1968

The saga of the ss Ever Given is a worldwide story.  Deutsche Welle provides more details on the ongoing struggle to free the containership from its embedded position in the middle of the Suez Canal.

The Deutsche Welle article contains interesting video reports.

The German media has a much greater interest in reporting this story. Much of the traffic which passes through the Suez Canal is headed for European ports such as Hamburg and Rotterdam.

Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 3.27.2021

Egypt’s Suez Canal chief says strong winds and weather weren’t the main reasons the ship ran aground. The Ever Given has been wedged across the canal since Tuesday, blocking the way for other maritime traffic.

The head of Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, said Saturday that “technical or human errors” may be to blame for the grounding of a giant container ship in the crucial waterway.

Authorities are working to free the vessel, named the Ever Given, which has been wedged diagonally across the span of the canal since Tuesday, blocking the shipping route in both directions.

Rabie told reporters that the ship could possibly be refloated by Sunday evening.

Officials previously said strong gusts and a sandstorm had caused the ship to run aground. But Rabie said “weather factors were not the main reasons for the ship’s grounding.”

“There may have been technical or human errors.”

The blockage has caused a huge traffic jam of more than 300 ships along the 193-kilometer (120-mile) canal, and caused major delays in the delivery of oil and other products. Some companies have even been forced to consider re-routing vessels around the southern tip of Africa.

The parent company of Dutch firm Smit Salvage, which is in charge of the salvage operation, said the ship would only likely be afloat again “at the start of next week.”

Crews have been working 24/7 with large dredging machines under floodlights in an attempt to free the ship, which is about the size of the Empire State Building in New York.

Dredgers have so far removed more than 20,000 tons of sand from around the ship’s bow, while 14 heavy tugs have been brought in to assist.  

https://www.dw.com/en/suez-canal-ship-blockage-may-be-due-to-human-errors/a-57022549

A view of the Ever Given from the bank of a village along the Suez Canal on Saturday.Credit…Sima Diab for The New York Times

The saga of the marooned steamship Ever Given, stocked with 20,000 containers, is impacting world trade.

This headline grabbing story provides yet another stressful moment as the World struggles to contain the Pandemic and return to some sense of normalcy.

There is the hard news serious side to this story. There is also the New York Times which floats a different tale about this stoppage in the Suez Canal.

Transportation is a subject near and dear professionally. I spent nearly 25 years in logistics management for international corporations. I am well aware that delays in getting cargo to its destination create major headaches for all involved. Transportation companies, suppliers and customers.

Excerpted from New York Times 3.27.2021

It’s a moment that has managed to wrap Bernie Sanders’s mittens, jokes about poor driving skills and timeless office humor into one.

Initially it was the sheer oddity of a ship being stuck in the Suez Canal, single-handedly snarling global trade in a world already mired in a pandemic, that grabbed the online world’s attention. But it was the photo of a tiny digger working away at its mammoth task that sealed the Ever Given’s fate as the foundation for thousands of relatable memes.

Was the digger — which was trying its hardest to dislodge the vessel despite a titanic size difference — the perfect metaphor for thinking we can make any dent in our to-do lists, finally manage to stop procrastinating or get our thousands of unread emails down to zero?

Chaz Hutton -Today’s Comic: We are all, in our own little way, that ship.

Was it the visual representation of the scant relief that a walk outdoors can offer from the doom and gloom of a pandemic-gripped world?

And it wouldn’t be a fully fledged internet moment without a website built specifically to answer a simple question, which in this case was: Is that ship still stuck?

As of Saturday, the answer was still “Yes.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/world/suez-canal-stuck-ship-memes.html

Excerpted from Wall Street Journal 3.27.2021

SUEZ, Egypt—Egyptian authorities are still working to free the huge container ship blocking the Suez Canal but were wary of offering a firm timeline of when they might unstick the Ever Given, dashing hopes that it might be quickly moved to open up the pivotal trade route.

People involved in the operation had earlier signaled that the 1,300-foot vessel, operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Group, could be moved as early as Saturday. A rescue team was able to restart the ship’s rudder and propeller the previous day after it veered into the eastern side of the canal during stormy conditions earlier this week, blocking the busy waterway to traffic. Some 320 vessels are waiting to traverse the 120-mile channel.

Those involved in the rescue effort said early Friday that the process could take two to three more days as dredgers worked to remove hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of sand around the ship’s bow. But the operation made significant progress late Friday after the salvagers turned on its engines before low tides forced them to suspend the effort.

While European and Asian companies bore the brunt of the impact of the shutdown, the closure also threatened knock-on delays and costs to U.S. importers and exporters. The White House has offered unspecified assistance to clear the waterway. Greece, the United Arab Emirates and China have also offered support, but the canal authority said it hadn’t accepted any help, though it may seek assistance if it has to remove a large number of containers from the Ever Given.

In normal circumstances a maximum of 106 ships can cross the waterway daily, according to the World Shipping Council, a shipping trade body.

Many shipowners had already decided to reroute from the canal south toward Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, adding weeks to the journey and fuel costs. At the start of the rescue effort, salvagers had worried the effort could take weeks as the ship would need to be lightened by taking off fuel and ballast water and possibly by removing its roughly 18,000 containers with helicopters.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/egypt-aims-to-refloat-cargo-ship-grounded-in-suez-canal-11616837175?mod=hp_lead_pos1

Training Day is a gritty and violent crime story  put to film.  Denzel Washington won an Academy Award for his role as the corrupt, veteran Los Angeles cop, Alonzo.  Ethan Hawke was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the rookie cop who spends Training Day with Denzel.

The film is violent and compulsively watchable. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Day

Now we are beginning to learn who is really behind the Right wing cabal to oust San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin.

The San Francisco Chronicle has taken a look at the most recent campaign finance reports. The findings follow.  To ward off this effort the thousands of citizens who spearheaded Chesa’s victory in 2019 need to take to the streets in his behalf, again.

Excerpted from San Francisco Chronicle 3.25.2021

A group seeking to oust San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin has raised over $75,000 in the initial weeks of its campaign, according to the group’s campaign finance records .

More than 100 donors pitched in to the Committee Supporting the Recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin between Jan. 1 and March 15, with a single tech investor bankrolling nearly one-third of the war chest.

DA Boudin with Mayor London Breed – January 2021

By far the recall campaign’s largest donor in the period captured by the group’s campaign finance records was David Sacks, a partner at Craft Ventures and former PayPal executive who forked over $25,000 of campaign’s total $76,587. Sacks and his wife also donated to the campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom.

In  2015 PayPal agreed to fork over $25 million in damages stemming from shady business practices the company used to a) trick consumers into signing up for services that they didn’t really want and b) net more money in the way of fines and late fees than they were entitled to.

https://bgr.com/2015/05/20/paypal-credit-scam-25-million/

Sacks recently took aim at Boudin on Twitter for declining to enforce the “three strikes” law, a policy that significantly ratchets up prison sentences on a person’s third offense. Critics of the law argued that it was a key driver of mass incarceration and disproportionately punished Black and Brown offenders.

California voters in 2012 rolled back these laws to only include serious or violent felonies, and Boudin’s office severely limits it altogether.

Sacks did not return a request for comment on social media and a number listed for him disconnected when The Chronicle tried calling.

“We had a couple of large donors, but the majority were $1,000 and below,” he said.

The committee must collect 51,325 signatures — 10% of the city’s registered voters — by Aug. 11 for the campaign to qualify for a special election.

The recall effort comes just over a year after Boudin was sworn in as district attorney, a role he won after vowing to reduce mass incarceration, hold bad cops accountable and fortify the city’s criminal-justice rehabilitation programs. Boudin has emerged as a national figure in a movement to elect progressive prosecutors, with voters increasingly rejecting the tough-on-crime criminal justice system that fed into to overflowing jail and prison populations.

Boudin on Thursday said his recall campaign’s biggest supporters represent a departure from the city’s famously progressive values.

“We are not surprised to see that Richie Greenberg is leading a charge to push back against a San Francisco that serves everyone, not just the few, and that he is bankrolled by a few very wealthy individuals who have long been out of touch with what San Franciscans want and need,” Boudin said.

“They couldn’t win the election so now they are trying to overturn it. We’ll keep doing our work.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Biggest-donor-to-Chesa-Boudin-recall-campaign-is-16054271.php

California just saw a Star of progressive law enforcement elevated to the top rung of California Justice.

Governor Newsom selected Eastbay legislator and Filipino American Rob Bonta as California’s chief law enforcement officer.

AG Bonta will be a center of attention in the rising tide of looking at criminal justice in a new way.

His ascension will provide a much needed boost to San Francisco DA Boudin and Los Angeles DA George Gascon. Both incumbents are facing vicious attacks by the forces of law and order old school lock ’em up punishment.

Davis Vanguard 3.24.2021

San Francisco, CA – In a move that will no doubt please progressives and came as a shock to many, Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of Assemblymember Rob Bonta as the next Attorney General, filling the seat vacated by Xavier Becerra.

SF DA Chesa Boudin, a leading reformer was excited by the pick.

“Assemblymember Bonta has been a leader in the fight for criminal justice reform and we have partnered on reforms together. I commend @GavinNewsom for this fantastic selection!” Boudin tweeted.

A reformer in the legislature who began his career in John Kekar’s prestigious San Francisco law firm and went to the City Attorney’s Office before being elected to the Assembly, Bonta assuming his nomination is confirmed by a state legislature overwhelmingly Democratic, would become the first Filipino American to serve as California Attorney General.

“Throughout his career in public service, Assemblymember Bonta has taken on big fights to reverse historic injustice – many affecting communities of color. He has been a leader in the fight to reform our justice system and stand up to the forces of hate,” the Governor’s office said in their release.

“Rob represents what makes California great – our desire to take on righteous fights and reverse systematic injustices,” said Governor Newsom.

“Growing up with parents steeped in social justice movements, Rob has become a national leader in the fight to repair our justice system and defend the rights of every Californian. And most importantly, at this moment when so many communities are under attack for who they are and who they love, Rob has fought to strengthen hate crime laws and protect our communities from the forces of hate. He will be ahenomenal Attorney General, and I can’t wait to see him get to work.”

Assemblymember Rob Bonta was elected to the California State Assembly’s 18th District in 2012, where he represents the cities of Oakland, Alameda and San Leandro. He became the first Filipino American state legislator in California’s then 160-plus-year history.

“Thank you, Governor. I am humbled by the confidence you have placed in me,” said Bonta. “I became a lawyer because I saw the law as the best way to make a positive difference for the most people, and it would be an honor of a lifetime to serve as the attorney for the people of this great state. As California’s Attorney General, I will work tirelessly every day to ensure that every Californian who has been wronged can find justice and that every person is treated fairly under the law.”

Elected to the State legislature as the first Filipino-American in California history, he has become “a statewide leader in the fights for racial, economic and environmental justice, advancing reforms that put California on the cutting edge,”the Governor said.

Among his legislative accomplishments:

Outlawed For-Profit Prisons in California: Bonta authored legislation that made California the first in the nation to ban for-profit prisons and immigration detention centers.

Led Major Sentencing Overhaul Effort: Following statewide marijuana legalization, Bonta authored the California law to automatically expunge and modify criminal records for people convicted of minor marijuana charges.

Took on Big Polluters: Bonta authored major environmental justice legislation and has been a leader in the fight against climate change and to ensure every community equitably benefits from our green economy.

Passed Nation’s Strongest Statewide Renter Protections: Bonta led the fight to pass statewide protections for renters, ultimately resulting in the nation’s strongest protections against wrongful evictions.

Fought to Strengthen Hate Crime Laws & Protect Communities: Bonta has introduced a number of bills to improve hate crime statutes, support victims of hate violence, and build bridges between law enforcement and targeted communities.

Protected Immigrant Families from Deceptive ICE Tactics: Bonta authored first-of-its-kind legislation requiring immigrants to be informed of their rights before speaking to ICE agents.

Sought to End Predatory Bail Laws: Bonta co-wrote the law that sought to end the racist and predatory for-profit bail system.

Required Independent Investigations of Unarmed Deaths: Bonta co-authored the law that required an independent investigation when there is a death of an unarmed civilian by law enforcement.

—David M. Greenwald reporting

https://www.davisvanguard.org/2021/03/breaking-news-governor-newsom-appoints-reformer-as-the-new-ag-rob-bonta/

Lee Heidhues 3.23.2021

Attn:  Richie Greenberg – Republican Functionary front man for the Chesa Recall Campaign

Recall Guru Richie

Since you are raising megabucks from Big Tech, well over $100,000 so far when you are going to comply with campaign finance laws and make public a list of contributors who are behind this Trump land attempt to recall Chesa?

I am sure there are all sorts of benignly named PACs propping up this odious effort.

While you’re at it, disclose the PAC of the Police Officers Association which undoubtedly is providing you with all the money and support you need.

Your Trump land cabal will not withstand the scrutiny when the public learns who is really pulling the strings and funding this campaign.

There are campaign disclosure laws in San Francisco which are monitored by the Ethics Commission.

Lee Heidhues 3.23.2021

In response to  comments by three members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in the March 23, 2021 online Chronicle.  The comments revolve around the HOT issue of keeping JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park car free.

My comments are bold type underlined

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Supervisor Shamann Walton – President

“So when we look at segregationist policies like closing JFK to Bayview, Mission, Lakeview, Excelsior communities, that shouldn’t even be considered,” Walton said. “We need to allow Black and brown and all communities of color complete access again now that we’re in the orange tier.”

This argument is beyond nonsensical. What are you talking about? Waving the flag of discrimination is really reprehensible. What we are talking about is a car free environment. People can still drive to GGP and you know it. So, stop this incendiary rhetoric. I expect more from the President of the Board of Supervisors.

Supervisor Connie Chan

Supervisor Connie Chan expressed sympathy for her two colleagues’ positions during Tuesday’s meeting. She said it was hard to get to Golden Gate Park from where she grew up in Chinatown.

“It is a racial equity issue…that consistently for a lot of us immigrants, working families, communities of color, that we have to fight for green space, we have to fight for equity in recreation,” Chan said. “When we have road closures, more often than not, that essentially is what segregation is all about.”

How is it hard to get to GGP from Chinatown?  The 5Fulton can be boarded on Market Street and taken directly to Golden Gate Park beginning at Stanyan Street all the way to Ocean Beach.

What do “road closures” have to do with “segregation?” Yes. Road closures inconvenience people who have cars. It forces these people to park and walk. It’s good exercise.

Supervisor Ahsha Safai

“Open up JFK drive,” he wrote. “Residents of the Excelsior, OMI, Outer Mission, Bayview and all neighbors of the Southern portion of the City need to have access to the park as well. Closing JFK takes away access to GGP attractions for many SF families and many communities of color.”

Explain how “Closing JFK takes away access to GGP.” Making GGP park car free requires people, who drive, to park and walk. It’s good exercise.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Will-cars-come-back-to-Golden-Gate-Park-Some-16048206.php