San Francisco park-naming contest goes hilariously wrong

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A program to inquire the nationalist to sanction a parkland being created from the partial closure of a road has backfired, with suggestions including “This is stupid. Let’s not bash it” and “Really anserine park”.

Nearly 4,300 entries were submitted to San Francisco Recreation and Parks' “Great Park Naming Contest” aft 2 miles of the Great Highway was permanently closed to make it, KRON4 reported.

With the parkland task receiving 54 percent enactment successful a nationalist vote, galore person utilized the naming contention to vent their frustration.

Opponents accidental the parkland rangers person overstepped the authorization of the authorities and should not determine however roads are used. They besides accidental the plans bash not code biology concerns.

Meanwhile, supporters accidental postulation volition beryllium moved connected to under-utilized roads successful the neighborhood, with abstraction freed up for leisure.

District 4 supervisor Joel Engardio played a large relation successful the “Proposition K” nationalist park, which volition officially unfastened connected 12 April.

“Many of them person told maine they didn’t consciousness heard successful their objection to it being connected the ballot,” Engardio said. “I instrumentality this feedback to bosom due to the fact that it’s important to maine that everyone is heard.”

Now the citizens' vexation has dispersed to the database of names submitted.

Here’s a fewer of immoderate of the submissions:

Park name	Reason for projected name
Parky McParkface	“In the large civilization and past of the Internet, this is the lone due name.”
This Is Stupid, Let’s Not Do It	“I person to find different mode to commute to work. So let’s not adjacent this road. Like my justification SF?”
Really Stupid Park	“It’s a road!!!!”
No One Who Lives Here Voted for This Park	“It seems similar lone radical who unrecorded obscurity adjacent the large road privation this to beryllium a parkland and everyone who uses it oregon lives adjacent it wants a road.”