Just about every major and minor city in America has skate parks, and skaters in this city are starved for public skating opportunities. Our skate community hasn't organized in critical mass to get something done, but the enthusiasm in the S.F. Skate Park Coalition is unbelievable. Many of us are in our thirties now and are entering the political arena to get things done. The city makes so much money off of skateboarding -it's even a tourist attraction. I saw one commercial on San Francisco tourism, and they showed footage of people skating down at Pier 7.
People come here from all around the world to skate every day.
The city should have been fighting for this a long time ago. It's Saturday afternoon at Pier Seven in San Francisco and a couple of skateboarders are out enjoying the sunshine, skidding along the tops of the concrete blocks, watching other skaters perform tricks and just hanging out. The only thing it doesn't have is an easily accessible skateboard park. That question is on a lot of people's minds, ranging from the city supervisors to the professional skaters, older residents and parents whose kids skateboard regularly. The clamor for a skateboard park in the city has been sounded for more than 20 years.