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Act Now to Stop the Rape of Golden Gate Park!
Reclaim The Music Concourse and the Historic Pedestrian Tunnels!!
Rather than wait for Superior Court Judge James Warren to rule on the legality of his garage project, Republican financier and Wells-Fargo heir, Warren Hellman and the Trustees of the Big deYoung Museum began demolishing this historic tunnel on April 22nd - Earth Day.
Hellman promised the Court of Appeals to avoid doing any irreversible damage to the Music Concourse. They illegally fenced off OUR PARK and chain sawed mature Japanese cherry trees that were a gift to San Francisco from Japan. They demolished the 108-year-old northeast pedestrian tunnel in about five days. They didnt even have a legal DPT permit to close the concourse roads on the days they did the most destruction. One was fraudulently issued retroactively.
Now they threaten to destroy the southeastern tunnel beginning Monday, June 14th. The southern perimeter of the Music Concourse, including the southwest and the SouthEast Tunnels, the two closest to the Academy of Sciences, will be completely vulnerable to drilling and demolition activities. The court may not act in time to stop this. But maybe you can.
It is highly likely that only a civil direct action and occupation of the tunnels could stop their destruction in the event the court does not rule in time. There is a real need to build a public presence of concerned citizens in the Park, at the JFK Bridge near 10th Avenue, just inside the northern edge of the Park off of Fulton, beginning Monday at 8 AM.
Warren Hellman and the various City agencies involved, do not want any publicity, but we need to highlight their continued destruction of the Music Concourse, as well as their lack of funds for restoration when they lose in court. How do they plan on undoing the existing damage??
Contact Mayor Newsom at (415) 554-6141, and ask him to protect the Music Concourse while Judge Warren takes the time needed to rule in the matter. Call your Supervisor for the same.
Write: Mayor Gavin Newsom / 1Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Request that they stop Hellman's wave of destruction and protect the Commons until the Superior Court rules.
Demand equal access to the Courts. Take Back The Park!
Save Golden Gate Park! P.O. Box 170051 San Francisco, CA 94117 621-3090
* Save Golden Gate Park! is the legal defense committee created to support litigation filed by the Alliance for Golden Gate Park to stop the illegal garage. Our campaign has been endorsed by the San Francisco Green Party and the San Francisco Group of the Sierra Club.
Hellman promised the Court of Appeals to avoid doing any irreversible damage to the Music Concourse. They illegally fenced off OUR PARK and chain sawed mature Japanese cherry trees that were a gift to San Francisco from Japan. They demolished the 108-year-old northeast pedestrian tunnel in about five days. They didnt even have a legal DPT permit to close the concourse roads on the days they did the most destruction. One was fraudulently issued retroactively.
Now they threaten to destroy the southeastern tunnel beginning Monday, June 14th. The southern perimeter of the Music Concourse, including the southwest and the SouthEast Tunnels, the two closest to the Academy of Sciences, will be completely vulnerable to drilling and demolition activities. The court may not act in time to stop this. But maybe you can.
It is highly likely that only a civil direct action and occupation of the tunnels could stop their destruction in the event the court does not rule in time. There is a real need to build a public presence of concerned citizens in the Park, at the JFK Bridge near 10th Avenue, just inside the northern edge of the Park off of Fulton, beginning Monday at 8 AM.
Warren Hellman and the various City agencies involved, do not want any publicity, but we need to highlight their continued destruction of the Music Concourse, as well as their lack of funds for restoration when they lose in court. How do they plan on undoing the existing damage??
Contact Mayor Newsom at (415) 554-6141, and ask him to protect the Music Concourse while Judge Warren takes the time needed to rule in the matter. Call your Supervisor for the same.
Write: Mayor Gavin Newsom / 1Dr. Carleton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
Request that they stop Hellman's wave of destruction and protect the Commons until the Superior Court rules.
Demand equal access to the Courts. Take Back The Park!
Save Golden Gate Park! P.O. Box 170051 San Francisco, CA 94117 621-3090
* Save Golden Gate Park! is the legal defense committee created to support litigation filed by the Alliance for Golden Gate Park to stop the illegal garage. Our campaign has been endorsed by the San Francisco Green Party and the San Francisco Group of the Sierra Club.
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Honestly, why do you want to save the tunnels other than the fact that they are "historic"? Crossing the streets that they cross is easy (even at rush hour it's easy to cross JFK with all the stop signs). Here are some good reasons to remove them:
1 - They prevent women from enjoying the park late at night. Whether it's rational or not, I know some single women who are afraid to run on the South side of JFK at night because of the dark tunnel there. Shouldn't our park be open to all without fear?
2 - They require additional police resources that could be spent doing better things (like catching corporate criminals). A police officer in a cruiser can't see the inside of the tunnels - it requires foot patrols or an officer to stop and get out to periodically check that all is well. We can spend our scare resources better.
3 - They require maintenance. Keeping that sort of structure up to seismic code (remember those shakes'n'bakes we have around here?) is quite expensive. Again, our scare resources can be better spent somewhere else.
To back up my credentials on this - I live 1/2 a block from GGP, I bike to work every day, and I jog the park every other day. I don't own a car and I love the park just as much as anybody else. I just think the time has come to invest our city resources in the future rather than preserving a tunnel that is neither architecutrally distinguished nor particularly functional.
It strikes me that anybody who is for preserving the tunnels is inherently conservative - they seek to keep things the same even though times have changed.
From Merriam-Webster:
Conservate: .. 3 a : tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions
1 - They prevent women from enjoying the park late at night. Whether it's rational or not, I know some single women who are afraid to run on the South side of JFK at night because of the dark tunnel there. Shouldn't our park be open to all without fear?
2 - They require additional police resources that could be spent doing better things (like catching corporate criminals). A police officer in a cruiser can't see the inside of the tunnels - it requires foot patrols or an officer to stop and get out to periodically check that all is well. We can spend our scare resources better.
3 - They require maintenance. Keeping that sort of structure up to seismic code (remember those shakes'n'bakes we have around here?) is quite expensive. Again, our scare resources can be better spent somewhere else.
To back up my credentials on this - I live 1/2 a block from GGP, I bike to work every day, and I jog the park every other day. I don't own a car and I love the park just as much as anybody else. I just think the time has come to invest our city resources in the future rather than preserving a tunnel that is neither architecutrally distinguished nor particularly functional.
It strikes me that anybody who is for preserving the tunnels is inherently conservative - they seek to keep things the same even though times have changed.
From Merriam-Webster:
Conservate: .. 3 a : tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions
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