{"id":449307,"date":"2026-08-31T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T23:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T23:14:11","slug":"bring-back-the-great-highway-campaign-tries-to-trick-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449307\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bring Back the Great Highway’ Campaign Tries to Trick Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, let\u2019s clarify something on Proposition G, an upcoming re-vote of the 2024 decision to turn \u2018Great Highway\u2019 into Sunset Dunes Park<\/a>: a \u201cNo\u201d vote protects the park. It means \u201cNo\u201d to destroying Sunset Dunes and turning it back into a highway.<\/p>\n

That might be slightly confusing, since \u201cNo\u201d means, in effect, \u201cYes\u201d to keeping the park.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, people who want to bring back cars to the area formerly known as the \u201cUpper Great Highway<\/a>\u201d are leaning into that potential confusion to deceive voters.<\/p>\n

Their claim, at least in the past, was that Sunset Dunes and the loss of four north-south traffic lanes is causing undue driver delay across the west side of San Francisco, despite all evidence to the contrary<\/a>. So rather than producing posters, flyers, and lawn signs that show, say, free-moving traffic on the Great Highway before the park was created, they\u2019ve put out this malarkey:<\/p>\n

\"\"This is the poster for a campaign that wants to reconstitute the Great Highway for cars?<\/p>\n

A pedestrian crossing symbol and \u201cSafe Streets & Great Parks\u201d? Again, Prop. G, if it passes, will destroy a park. And adding more traffic lanes doesn\u2019t make safer streets. Why doesn\u2019t it say \u201cBring back the Great Highway,\u201d since that\u2019s what a \u201cYes\u201d vote would actually do?<\/p>\n

For reference, here\u2019s the poster they produced in 2024 when they were the ones trying to preserve the status quo:<\/p>\n

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Of course, the closure of the Great Highway did result in a park and \u201cSan Franciscans love the park, so Yes on G\u2019s branding is intentionally very misleading. They\u2019re trying to confuse voters so they don\u2019t know which side is in favor of\u00a0saving\u00a0the park,\u201d said Catie Stewart with Friends of Sunset Dunes. <\/p>\n

By contrast, here is the \u201cNo on G\u201d campaign\u2019s sign:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

One might disagree with the goal, but it\u2019s absolutely straightforward, simple, and factual. When Prop. K passed in 2024<\/a>, a park was legally created in the space that was once occupied by Great Highway. It was renamed \u201cSunset Dunes Park\u201d. Prop. G is attempting to reverse that. So a \u201cNo\u201d on G is about saving Sunset Dunes Park, as the poster says. About the only thing dishonest about the \u201cNo\u201d campaign\u2019s poster is that plovers don\u2019t ride skateboards.<\/p>\n

As to the \u201cYes on G\/Bring Back the Highway and Destroy the Park\u201d campaign, their \u201c\u2026sign and logo is designed to trick people into closing Sunset Dunes and reopening a failed, crumbling road. The truth is, traffic crashes in the Sunset have gone down since the park opened, and now families all over the city have a safe place to bike and walk and enjoy our coast,\u201d added Stewart.<\/p>\n

If you support Sunset Dunes (or even if you just hate deceptive campaigns and want to help clear up the confusion), here is a list of upcoming campaign events:<\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 2<\/p>\n

Thursday, September 3<\/p>\n

Saturday, September 5<\/p>\n

Sunday, September 6<\/p>\n

Monday, September 7<\/p>\n

You can also subscribe to their Luma calendar<\/a>. Find more info about training and other volunteer opportunities here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First, let\u2019s clarify something on Proposition G, an upcoming re-vote of the 2024 decision to turn \u2018Great Highway\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109921,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-449307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-promoted","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}