SF Politics New D4 Supervisor Alan Wong Comes Out Against Car-Free Great Highway, Wants a Do-Over With Another Ballot Measure I guess we’re doing another ballot measure on whether the Great Highway should be car-free, because Supervisors Alan Wong and Connie Chan figure it could net them extra votes in the upcoming 2026 elections.
SF News Sunday Links: Northern California Safeway Workers Win Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike A man who jumped from a rope swing into the Russian River is presumed dead; the federal government has released over $6 billion in previously frozen education grants after weeks of backlash; and the Safeway strike was averted after a tentative deal.
SF News Sunset Dunes Park Vandalized Again, Hammocks Stolen For the fourth or fifth time in recent weeks, the new public park on the former Great Highway was hit by vandals over the weekend.
Arts & Entertainment The Outer Sunset Is Having Another July 4th Parade, This Time on July 4th The long-dormant San Francisco July 4th parade was revived last year as a smaller family affair on the Great Highway, but it was curiously held on Pride Weekend. This year it’s back at what we now call Sunset Dunes, and it will in fact be on July 4th.
SF News Once Again, Vandals Do Damage to Art Installations at Sunset Dunes, the Park at the Former Great Highway In at least the third incident of vandalism in the last few months at the former Great Highway, now the park Sunset Dunes, a public piano at the park was damaged “beyond repair” over the weekend, after another installation had just been vandalized.
SF News The Park at the Former Great Highway Now Has a New Name: Sunset Dunes The former Great Highway is now a park, and that park was officially christened Sunset Dunes at Wednesday's SF Rec and Parks meeting, ahead of its grand opening ceremony Saturday afternoon.
