San Francisco’s surprisingly difficult quest to turn a century-old highway into a park

Grist
By Matt SimonOct 31, 2024, 4:45 am166 pts
On a chilly weekend in mid-September, the wind-blasted dunes of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach loomed over the Great Highway — two lanes that run along the Pacific coast in either direction separated by a median of sand and ice plant succulents. In a section of the southbound lanes, the Autumn Moon Festival…

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