The proposal to permanently close Great Highway to cars has opened a divide between west-side elected officials and their constituents in San Francisco.
“For something this transformational, I think it’s important for the voters to have a direct say, rather than it just happening to them,” Engardio said. Great Highway and several other prominent San Francisco roads were closed to cars not long after The City shut down in 2020 in response to COVID-19. A legislative compromise brokered by Engardio’s predecessor, former Supervisor Gordon Mar, allowed the road to be open to cars on weekdays and closed to them on weekends in a pilot program scheduled to last through 2025.It’s either a public vote on it in November, or supervisors vote on it at the end of 2025, Engardio noted.
“The goal is to have that left at Lincoln and going down Sunset to be almost identical in time and mileage,” Engardio said. UCSF ultrasound study adds to growing body of abortion-medication research Researchers found no difference in experience between women who received sonic examinations before being prescribed the drugs and those who did not
In Chan’s district, it was Richmond residents living right along Great Highway who fervently supported reopening it. Of course, it’s impossible to know to what extent voters in 2022 were basing their decisions on JFK Drive or Great Highway.