Outer Sunset residents slam proposal to close Great Highway to traffic 

There are 3 schools pretty much on Sunset Blvd. Yes make total sense to route MORE traffic on it.🙄 19th Ave is a nightmare on any given days. Getting through GGP always means sitting in traffic these days. Ocean Beach is so cold most days specially summer that hardly anyone is hanging around there. Keep it as it and only close on weekends and holidays. Love that Brian Hackney mentioned that no actual funding has been set aside to actually turn it into a park! Let's focus on revitalizing downtown where it will generate revenue for the City!!

The Great Highway is used heavily by residents in the Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset during the weekday and weekends. It shouldn't shutdown this way. The goal of the Great Highway is to route traffic away from the residential neighborhoods, but I guess the best way to make this a sticking point is for more pedestrians (families and children) to feel the pain of being side swiped and/or hit by more traffic in the residential streets. That's why you have vehicle insurance.

If we close Great High Way, all the cars go into residents. That makes more dangerous for kids. Closing street dose not reduce number of car into the city.

As a past resident (renter) of Great Highway. I'm against it. The side streets will get swamped with car traffic. People won't drive less. It would be really easy to video the area for months and get car traffic readings to see the impact. Hate that we don't use real data.

Traffic has gotten worse since the pandemic in the sunset and richmond due to closing of the great highway and golden gate park. It won't be getting any better if the votes get through. 19th is congested enough and now you want sunset blvd to be the same? No thank you.

The weather is generally pretty bad on the great highway so I don't think having a park there makes sense. It will only be used on the weekends and sparingly on the weekdays. We should do things that benefit the most and not cater to just the few. That's called being selfish.

Only benefits a small group of people. I have an idea, have the neighbors get rid of their cars and convert their garage to low income housing.

San Francisco never ceases to amaze with their dumb city policy proposals.

Should have never been closed to begin with..

Market Street was closed to cars. Look what happened. Ghost town. Great highway is exactly that….a highway! Keep it open.

They agree that cars are problematic and traffic is a problem. But they don’t want cars in their street, they want cars elsewhere? Weird.

I drive down Great Highway 5 days a week to commute to work by the Peninsula. Compared to going down 19th Ave. and Sunset Blvd, Great Highway is a MUCH smoother ride. I can hold 29-30 mph and go all the way through without braking, maximizing my MPG and gas efficiency. 19th Ave. and Sunset Blvd already get very congested, and the roads are terribly damaged. After years of segmented construction on 19th Ave., Caltrans finally paved a part of 19th ave...but just one part! -- I've been waiting years for this, and they didn't even pave the whole 19th Ave. Still full of bumps, uneven patchwork, and potholes. I remember when they paved the entire Park Presidio Blvd during the initial Covid lockdown; they were so quick, I didn't even witness the construction. Sunset Blvd's roads are also getting worse/damaged, and lanes are commonly closed for some kind of construction/tree work. Furthermore, the lights are not timed well so it's a lot of stop & go. You can't just close Great Highway without providing a decent alternative. Even now, when GH is temporarily closed on weekdays (for sand removal), it is already evident that traffic gets redirected to Sunset blvd and residential areas, which end up getting more congested and inefficient for traffic flow. As a resident of the Richmond District, I do enjoy the closed off GH on the weekends for recreation, but I need the path for commute more. If they repave ALL of 19th ave and Sunset Blvd, AND improve the traffic light timing...then I may reconsider my opinion on closing GH.

FFS, another bad idea from the worst ran city in the country.

All part of the City’s plan to close all roads to cars. The homeless do not drive so no need for roads. San Francisco is going downhill fast. People no longer want to visit San Francisco because of the traffic, homeless and crime. I do not blame the large corporations for leaving. Small businesses will slowly close down because nobody can visit them.

Once they close Great highway. All the homeless going to put up their tents there. Good luck

As if the beach on one side and the paved trail on the other side isn’t enough, they want to take the road too and create more traffic congestion on Sunset and residential streets. Stupid idea.

The cars have to go some where & it would be just pile up on Lincoln & in all the side streets next to the water.

Might as well close it. Everything else is closing.

this is a state highway and should be used only by cars.

These guys don’t think about commuters it seems like.

It s a highway let it be, why else was it there in the first place

It’s a major thoroughfare for that area.

Listen to the people who live there and have to deal with it. Also, it's a very good evacuation route, without intersections. Don't give that up! You just don't know when it might come in handy.

LoL NIMBYs gonna loose

The beauty of the Great Highway, is that it allows millions of people to enjoy the view of the coast as they drive down the peninsula. Once the roadway is closed, only able-bodied individuals will be able to see the ocean in this location.

Kids playing in the streets again? There is plenty of open air spaces around san fran. Leave that hiway open 24 seven !

Why not just make SF a walking only city?

Keep it open to cars!!!

“Nobody uses it during the week.” Because it’s closed to pedestrians on the week. Can’t use something that’s not open. Although I do find it strange to cut it off to traffic before a plan is revealed. Hard to get support from something that doesn’t exist.

I think opening it will relieve the traffic on 19th avenue.

If it passes, I expect it will be full of homeless encampments, run down RV's and other "shanty town" mayhem.

Massive Pandering to Anti Car Groups is a safety issue

So there's no plan or funding to turn it into a park! It would only close the road and funnel traffic into the neighborhoods 🤨 how does that make any sense 🤦🏽‍♀️

I gotta say working on that side of the city for years and years great highway was a great break away to fogtown. But you couldn’t rely on it all the time due to high winds blowing sand on to the southbound and sometimes northbound lanes. Just another thing lost from the town I’ve loved since the day I was born in it.

bring Playland back

I use the Great Highway. When it's shut down, I use the side streets just to the east of the Great Highway.

Did they pay for the highway. No they didn't. It was our tax dollars

Think the title should be adjusted, Residents slam proposal to leave great highway closed to people.

Just close the whole city to cars, ppl can walk into the city or take public transport.

Lame - walk to Golden Gate Park for your “recreating”

No way to close highway at all !

Open the great highway

selfish people do not realize what will happen when they close the Great Highway- traffic congestion in the neighborhood, more homeless camps at the beach, first responder time will suffer, garbage and waste will collect in that area. leave it open and let it be a Great coastal Highway.

On weekdays, the Great Highway serves tens of thousands of commuters daily. It prevents gridlock in residential neighborhoods where children walk to school and play outdoors, and it is the safest and most efficient road in the city. If the commuters who use this route lose it, they will be forced through Sunset neighborhoods, making the streets dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. It will add more time to their commute and the stop and go traffic on the Avenues or Sunset Blvd will cause more emissions to be spewed in the air. And to make matters worse, these tens of thousand of commuters will not even be able to enjoy the benefits of a weekday park because...they will be working! Even children will not benefit from a Great Highway "park" on weekdays. They will be in school, in sports programs, at after-school programs, at summer programs, or at home doing homework. A weekday “park” will only benefit the tiny minority of people who are lucky enough to work from home - or not work at all - and can play at a park anytime they want. And that is not most of us.

Let's triple or quadruple the property taxes of the homeowners along great highway to both pay for the park to be built as well subsidize business as well as mass transit upgrades to service the area to make it accessible to all San Franciscans. They should also be responsible for paying reparations to any minority owned business that gets displaced. Also allowing permits for high rises and other multi-family housing in the neighborhood with a percentage going to help pay for the new park and infrastructure.

I like the current situation of where the Great Highway is open to cars/commuters during the weekday and closed on the weekends. I feel residents living in the area shouldn't have to deal with the traffic on side streets if fully closed like during the pandemic. I feel on Friday if the highway can be left open to cars and commuters past the noon time shut down that would be helpful

Good!

A gift for wealthy homeowners and residents. Because they are more deserving than the rest of us.

A lot of SF street were closed during the pandemic now just empty street for the few making other street congested for now reason. OPEN THE STREETS wanna walk? go to the park or the beach.

Typical nimby attitude

That last-minute insertion of facts.. So, SF closed JFK Drive to cars? How is that working out? Could they be correlated?

dumb idea for a minority of residents

No they don't. We love it, except for some very loud whiners.

Another Stupid idea.... at least we can Vote it Down....

Class warfare?

So exited for a Sunset Park!

Awesome. This is gonna be the city's new homeless encampment.

VOTE YES!

Defund the bike coalition.

"Everybody" i dont want to be around other ppl crotch droppings

Cities are for cars, not people! Oh wait...

Huh?! I live here, we love weekend closures and hope for a park

Classic democrat crap, make a big deal out of a road yet do nothing about the out of control crime, drugs and poverty.

Park!!!

You can't hold back sea level rise.

Keep it closed. Not every area in the US needs to be open for cars. If residents don’t like it, then move. 😉

Vote these dumb supervisors out

😂😅I will never forget a war on cars SF dude. He said; "everyone gets to enjoy the street." In Chicago 2023 the teenagers came out and caused trouble the mayor minimized it and said; "well the teens just wanted to enjoy the street"😅😂 BTW I really loved the little boys expressions like, "why am I here and why are they here?"😅😂

Good way to gatekeep ocean beach.

Tourism's down why not make it a park for the homless?

Great sideshow road.

Close it.

Close the highway and build permanent housing for the homeless.