Let's talk about that compromise for a second.

What's being proposed isn't really a compromise at all. Reopening the road to cars — even just on weekdays — means ripping out the infrastructure, seating, and artwork that make the space a park in the first place. You can't have a car-free community space that's also a road five days a week. As one local put it bluntly: "Compromise here is the worst of all solutions. This 'for everyone' bullshit is totally disingenuous."

And then there's the money. San Francisco is staring down budget deficits that would make a venture capitalist blush, and the reversal effort would require spending significant city funds to undo something that's already built and working. One SF resident who visited on a recent Sunday described seeing "three different tents playing live music plus tons of kids on bikes having fun," adding: "Not to mention the insane amounts of money — that we don't have — that would be required to reverse course."

From a fiscal standpoint, this is a no-brainer. The city already spent the money to create the park. It's drawing people. It's activated a stretch of road that previously served as a forgettable commuter shortcut for a relatively small number of drivers. Tearing it up to restore car traffic would be the kind of wasteful, backwards-looking government spending we love to complain about.

Look, we get it — some Outer Sunset and Richmond residents feel like their commutes got longer. That's a real concern, and it deserves real transit solutions. But the answer isn't demolishing a popular public park that cost real money to build. It's finding better routes and better transit options.

Sunset Dunes is here. It works. The city should stop relitigating it and start focusing on problems it hasn't solved yet — trust us, there are plenty.