Congratulations to all of these cities for stepping up and giving the youth, and not so youth of today, a place to hang out and skate. San Francisco on the other hand, home to one of the most innovative and progressive skate scenes in the world, doesn't even have a couple pieces of plywood in a park that resembles a rickety launch ramp let alone several beautiful concrete skate parks filled with rails, ramps, hips, and pools.
Nobody really knows, but to say that it's a tragedy is an understatement.
Skaters in the city are constantly having run ins with San Francisco's finest, most of whom are equally as jaded about the situation as the skaters. But neighbors complain and every once in a while a tourist gets a board to the shin, so it's their job to enforce the law. Thankfully, the hills aren't going anywhere, but most of the spots that have made the city such a Mecca for skating are being bulldozed or covered with anti skate hardware. The Embarcadero is gone for the most part. The only section that lived through the bulldozer's wrath is a couple hundred-foot slabs of concrete with a few ledges that on any given Saturday resemble an overcrowded WW II battlefield more than a skate spot.