Comments on: Instant Justice on the Streets of Sacramento

By: jombee

jombee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:52:32 +0000

This is great. I could watch this video 100 times.

By: matthew mckee

matthew mckee — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:36:02 +0000

we need this for crack in the tl. seriously.

By: davidk

davidk — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:12:20 +0000

Are you kidding? “intimate that the *operation* [italics mine] is a money-making scheme?” Did you see the drivers in this clip? That anyone makes it through this intersection on foot without serious injury is amazing to me. How dare you defend bicyclists against poor drivers and not pedestrians. Shame on you streetsblog.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:03:54 +0000

When I was in Spain (and not to get on the whole us vs. them tirade) the drivers came to a complete stop whenever a pedestrian went anywhere near the cross walk. In complete disbelief I cautiously crossed the street waiting to be run down but I made it across unscathed. It was truly a consistent practice around the country. Why hasn’t it caught on over here? Are their laws stricter and more readily enforced? I think a lot of drivers over here are just clueless that these laws are even on the books.

By: Bryan Goebel

Bryan Goebel — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:04:53 +0000

@Harold: They also do these pretty regularly in Taraval. From today’s SFPD Taraval Station report: “Taraval Officers Conduct Pedestrian “Sting” at Santiago and Sunset and Cite 14 Drivers for Violating the Pedestrian Right of Way.”

By: Harold

Harold — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:01:22 +0000

I sat in a parking space on Geary and watched SFPD ticket driver after driver after driver at an intersection in the Avenues. It felt both necessary and a money-making scheme. Seems like there could be a lot more of those kinds of schemes where public safety is concerned. I’m not a huge fan of red-light cameras, but seeing people blow through reds on a daily basis seems like it could increase the city’s coffers fairly easily.

By: Aaron Priven

Aaron Priven — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:35:17 +0000

I used to frequent this area when I attended the USC Sacramento Center on 18th St. and I St. While I don’t want to give the motorists a free pass, traffic engineering is what has really created this problem. J Street feels like a major thoroughfare because it is a large one-way street, part of a couplet (J and L streets). It would be better to reengineer the street so people drove more slowly.