SF News Great Highway Walls Vandalized Yet Again, With Angry Graffiti From Apparent Park-Haters Saturday night was the second time since the Great Highway closed that its concrete walls were defaced with graffiti, this time with misspelled messages of “gentriffy” and “Your bringing trouble.”
SF News Mural at Great Highway Park Defaced Just After Highway Was Closed Permanently The Sunset District did not exactly roll out the welcome mat for their new car-free Great Highway, as on the very first night of its new car-free status, a mural in the park was vandalized in what may have been an act of protest.
SF News Friday Is the Last Day for Cars on the Great Highway, But a New Lawsuit Hopes to Bring Cars Back Just days before the Great Highway is set to become a full-time car-free zone, a new lawsuit is trying to hit the brakes on the car-free conversion, saying that last November’s Prop K vote was unlawfully placed on the ballot.
SF News Sunday Links: US Cyber Command Ordered to Remove Russia From Cyber Threat List Russia has been de-prioritized at the US Cyber Command; the new park along Great Highway is opening up on April 12 — help name it; and some background info on the guy who wears the light-up dinosaur costume in Dolores Park.
Arts & Entertainment Great Highway Reimagined: Ocean Beach Park Launches This Spring SF’s Ocean Beach Park, part of a car-free Great Highway, opens this spring. Traffic improvements boost safety while Emily Fromm paints a 60‑ft mural celebrating local history. State grants and donors back the project despite some concerns.
Arts & Entertainment Here’s Some of the Artwork That May Be Coming to the Car-Free Great Highway Park Once cars are banished from the Great Highway in 2025 and a two-mile stretch of the highway becomes a public park, here are a few art installations that Rec and Parks is proposing for the new open space.
SF News Great Highway Park Effort Receives $1 Million Grant On Friday, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department announced the award of a $1 million grant from the California State Coastal Conservancy Board to help protect the proposed park from flooding and construct safe walkways for pedestrians.
SF Politics Supervisor Joel Engardio Now Facing Recall Effort as Constituents Fume Over Great Highway Vote While District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio rode a wave of recall-fueled voter discontent into office after the Chesa Boudin and school board recalls, the recall movement is now coming after him, following his advocacy for the car-free Great Highway in the Outer Sunset.
SF News Prop K Has Passed, Whether Sunset District Residents Like It or Not An SF debate that’s been raging since early in the pandemic has just been settled at the ballot box, as a two-mile stretch of the Great Highway will indeed go car-free, because the measure Prop K now has enough votes to pass.
SF Politics Early Results Have Car-Free Great Highway Ahead, Prop D Commission Reform Losing While there are still plenty of votes left to count, the Prop K measure to make the Great Highway car-free has a comfortable lead, while the big-money effort to slash SF City Hall commissions is way behind.
SF Politics Car Lovers Holding ‘Car Rally’ Thursday To Protest Car-Free Great Highway Plan Some people are not fans of the car-free Great Highway proposal slated for SF’s November ballot, and they’re organizing a car caravan Thursday morning to honk their displeasure at the idea.
Arts & Entertainment Sup. Engardio Touts New SF July 4 Parade, Which Would Not Be on July 4, But Instead on Pride Weekend District 4 Supervisor Joel Engardio is announcing plans to bring a Fourth of July parade to SF this year. Predictably, it’s in his district, but unpredictably, it’s five days before July 4, and overlapping with Pride Weekend.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Huge Pile of Flaming Garbage Dumped on Great Highway An 18-wheeler carrying garbage caught fire and dumped its load on the Great Highway this morning; BART's 'Fleet of the Future' is coming in under budget; and Google laid off hundreds of engineers overnight.
SF News Great Highway Will Now Remain Car-Free (On Weekends) Through 2025 The current status quo of the Great Highway being car-free on weekends and holidays is now set in stone, or until the end of 2025 at least, as the SF Board of Supervisors voted on a three-year extension of the program.
SF News SF Dad Starts ‘Bike Bus’ of Kids Riding to School, It Swells to Several Dozen In Size Inspired by a similar “bicibús” ride in Barcelona, a pro-slow-streets group has created a pint-sized Critical Mass bike ride for kids pedaling to school en masse.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cars Allowed Back on the Great Highway, Starting Monday The Great Highway will allow cars again on weekdays only, people are pulling guns on firemen and refusing to evacuate in the River Fire, and Guy Fieri showed up at the Sonoma County Fair to drop $30,000 on live pigs.
SF News Sup. Gordon Mar Calls for Cars to be Allowed Back on Great Highway, But in a ‘Hybrid’ Compromise In a new op-ed, the supervisor whose district contains the whole stretch of the Great Highway currently closed off to cars calls for a “compromise” deal on reopening the thoroughfare for automobiles.
SF News Upper Great Highway May Reopen to Vehicles Because of 'Unsafe' Traffic Conditions The Upper Great Highway — which has become a promenade for outdoor recreation and civic activism — could open up to cars again after the same SF supervisor who catalyzed its closure raised concerns that the uptick in traffic along nearby roadways has created "unsafe" conditions.
SF News A Half-Mile of the Great Highway To Be Eliminated for an Ultramodern Sewage Plant Remodel The sewage facility we once tried to name after George W. Bush is getting a big (and overbudget) upgrade, but will remove a small chunk of the Great Highway.
SF News SFPD Cruiser Flips Over At Ocean Beach Injuring Two Officers An SFPD car got in a seemingly random rollover collision Friday evening next to Ocean Beach, within view of the Beach Chalet from which the above and below photos, sent in by an
SF News Police Track Down Mother Of Kid Dumped Outside SF Zoo Many of us were left scratching our heads at the news of a child dumped near the SF Zoo Monday evening. Late Tuesday night police released more details on the case, including information
SF News Why Do So Many People Run This San Francisco Stop Sign? Why don't drivers stop at this stop-signed intersection at Great Highway and Balboa Street? Are they too transfixed by the view of Ocean Beach to notice the sign? Secure in the knowledge that
SF News Ocean Beach Kite Surfer Blown Onto Great Highway And Hit By Car In Freak Accident A man kite surfing at Ocean Beach was picked up by a gust of wind and fell on to the Great Highway where he was then hit by a car. Just before 3:
SF News [Update] Suspected Of Murdering Her Family Member In Novato, Woman Commits Suicide In SF Two women are dead this morning, one suspected of murdering the other and then killing herself. Details are few at this point, but ABC 7 reports that around 6 a.m. today police
SF News This Shack Just Sold For $1.2 Million This is not a joke. This is the world we live in. The above, ramshackle, four-bedroom home, albeit with unobstructed views of the ocean along the Great Highway, just sold for $1.2
