

Essentially, the park is only open during daylight hours and park staff can empty the park every night. Is Salesforce Park gondola open The Gondola The 20-passenger glass cabin carries passengers from the new Mission Square to the park and operates 8 a.m. The Joint Powers say one of the best ways of maintaining the park may be something as simple as enforcing the operating hours. "I mean, I hope that that works, it's just there are so many homeless people here," said Glover. Park users say they hope the park remains a destination for everyone. "We try to set expectations before people even come onto the park, by providing the rules and regulations because we want it to be a park for everyone and everyone to enjoy it." said Sansom. The Joint Powers Authority security chief says the aim is not to exclude homeless, but rather it's a focus on behavior. "Actually, when that happens it stops a public space from being public." "The Transbay Transit Center has reduced the amount of seating that is actually in that space to prevent homeless people from being there and sleeping in those spaces," said Lew. She argues that parks and public spaces are critical for the homeless to take care of bodily functions and hygiene and worries some of these private public spaces are designed to exclude the homeless.

Sam Lew works with the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness. "No it is not, and our ambassadors are here to help people connect with services, that's part of their training, but that's not part of our mission, to house homeless people," said Sansom. Head of Security Sidonie Sansom says the park has three levels of security from police to private security officers and ambassadors.īottom line, this is a park not a campground. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority runs the park and has posted rules for its use, including no tents or plastic tarps.
