State Sen. Scott Wiener was among those who celebrated the new "park" in a rally Saturday: "This has been a contentious issue, but I am confident that years from now, we will all look back and say, 'Why was this even controversial?'...People are going to love this park so much, so let's keep moving forward."
Maybe that's true, some day, "years from now," when San Francisco has vastly improved public transit on the West side, so nobody needs a car, and Donald Trump is long gone, and the nation and the state and the city have reduced economic inequality by taxing the rich to pay for things like nice new parks.
But for now ... it's not happening. Despite the campaign promises, there isn't going to be a fancy new park along Ocean Beach any time in the foreseeable future.
Prop. K didn't include any funding for improvements of any sort, from infrastructure to road replacement. The city's maxed out its bond capacity, and as far as I can tell, there's no extra money in the Rec-Park bond fund.
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