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San Francisco’s Great Highway Fills With Homemade Signs of Hope as Election Looms

The main message couldn’t be clearer: ‘Your vote matters’

A sign on the Great Highway. Photo: Matt Charnock

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Recently, pedestrians walking, running, and cycling along San Francisco’s Great Highway along Ocean Beach —one of our favorite car-free streets in SF — have been greeted with some new scenery: an array of homemade signs (and one large piece of installed public art) encouraging everyone to get out and vote.

Now, with just 15 days until the most important election of our lives, it’s a message the masses need to especially heed.

“We first noticed them last Sunday on a walk with ourdogs [two border collies],” Colleen and Ethan Morris told me Monday morning while I was out on a run before I gawked and fawned over their adorable fur babies. “This is one of our favorite car-free streets in the city, and there’s always something new along with it.”