San Francisco supes Wong, Walton clash over push for Great Highway compromise

A SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISOR on Tuesday defended his opposition to a proposal at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting that would have placed a new measure on the ballot to decide the fate of the Great Highway that was recently turned into a coastal park along the western edge of the city. 

Supervisor Alan Wong, whose District 4 includes the Great Highway, made a failed attempt to get a measure on the June ballot that would reopen the Great Highway to cars on weekdays. He blamed, in part, Supervisor Shamann Walton, representing District 10 in the southeast part of the city, for its failure to get enough signatures from other supervisors in time for the Jan. 13 deadline.