Supervisor Alan Wong Fails to Get His Ballot Measure to Bring Cars Back to the Great Highway

"District 4's new supervisor Alan Wong was appointed to the job on November 30, and he purposefully made his first, big right-out-of-the-gate public fight his scheme to bring cars back to the Great Highway. SF voters, of course, approved banning cars from the Great Highway by a 55%-45% margin with 2024's Prop K vote. But angry Sunset residents promptly recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio over his spearheading of that drive to transform the highway into a pedestrian park we now call Sunset Dunes."

"So just this past Thursday (January 8), Wong declared he was initiating a June 2 ballot measure to bring cars back to the Great Highway. But Wong getting that ballot measure would require him to have the signatures of at least four members of the SF Board of Supervisors, and he needed those signatures by 5 pm today (January 13) to make the June 2 ballot. Well, 5 pm on Tuesday, January 13 just passed."

Alan Wong, appointed District 4 supervisor on November 30, announced a push to place a June 2 ballot measure to reopen the Great Highway to cars. San Francisco voters approved a car ban on the highway in 2024's Prop K, and opponents previously recalled Supervisor Joel Engardio over that change to create the pedestrian Sunset Dunes. Wong declared his do-over effort on January 8 and needed signatures from at least four Board of Supervisors members by 5 pm on January 13. Wong secured Supervisor Connie Chan's signature but failed to gather the four required signatures by the deadline, so the June measure will not appear.

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