The Great Highway, once considered to be one of San Francisco’s most scenic drives, is now teeming with children, joggers and cyclists. In April, the former two-mile stretch of coastal highway reopened as the city’s newest park and was renamed Sunset Dunes. But the transformation — born out of the city’s pandemic-era efforts to carve out car-free spaces and approved by voters during the November 2024 elections — did not arrive without controversy.

To its critics, Sunset Dunes is another inconvenience for motorists in the city’s “war on cars” — so much so that one official is facing a recall effort over his support of the park, Benjamin Schneider reports. Today on CityLab: How a Highway Became San Francisco’s Newest Park

— Rthvika Suvarna 

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