SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco supervisor was recalled Tuesday after he successfully pushed to turn a stretch of coastal highway used heavily by neighborhood motorists into a car-free park despite strong objections by his constituents.
Supervisor Joel Engardio became the fifth elected official to be ousted in a recall vote in four years. He conceded, saying in a statement that he accepts the outcome and still stands by his decision to help create a park called Sunset Dunes.
“Sunset Dunes is a success. It’s good for the environment, good for our local economy, and it’s bringing joy to people of all ages,” Engardio wrote. “Very soon, we will wonder why this was ever a controversy. We won’t be able to imagine San Francisco without a coastal park and all the benefits it offers.”
Typical out of touch political bullshit gotta do something and make waves with complete waste of time actions. We don’t want to delete the ability for a single community in norcal to travel, we want goddamned trains and functional public transit so that we can avoid the need to use cars.
Don’t shut down random ass roads until you fix the core fucking problem. Any fucking moron can shut down a road, a real ladder should see what the people actually need and give them better transportation opportunities.
Getting sick of this lazy ass absolutely bare minimum chat GPT do my assignment for me type of “action”.
He didn’t do it to make waves, the city voted and passed a referendum to close the highway and make a park, he just endorsed the referendum.
It also didn’t delete the ability for people in the sunset or the Richmond to travel, there’s a parallel road a couple blocks inland that is actually more connected to the highway network. People mainly went down the great highway because it was scenic, not because it was the best route.
It was also just a bad road for cars, the dunes on the beach would migrate all the time and the city would have to pay to clean up the sand. It’s better for pedestrians and cyclists who care less about a bit of sand on the road.