Future of San Francisco’s Great Highway in Jeopardy

Athletes race down the north end of the Great Highway during the bike portion of the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2007. Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images

Commentary

John Adams observed: “Public business must always be done by somebody. It will be done by somebody or other: If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.” Someone else proclaimed: “Nothing intoxicates some people like a sip of authority.”