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In the Door Zone: If You See Something, Should You Say Something?
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I ride my bike along Valencia Street nearly every day from my home to City Hall or some other assignment and I love the relatively slower pace of traffic that resulted from the bicycle green wave signal retiming last year (way to go Janel!). Without fail, however, my heart rate rises when I come upon […]
BREAKING NEWS: SFPD Hits Cyclist in Bike Lane
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This video just came in via the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and the San Francisco Bike Ride Crew. It’s truly nuts. An SFPD cruiser apparently parked in the right-turn pocket suddenly pulls out, swerves left and hits a cyclist. Streetsblog will post more information as it comes in, but apparently the cyclist is Tim Doyle, […]
Bicyclist Involved in SoMa Crash Dies
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A 25-year-old bicyclist who was involved in a crash with a delivery truck in SoMa yesterday has died from her injuries, the San Francisco Medical Examiner has confirmed. Nancy Ho of San Francisco was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital shortly before 11 last night. She is the first bicyclist to die from a […]
Survivors of Traffic Violence Remember
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Families urge city leaders to say "crash" not "accident" at this year's World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Are Muni Service Woes and Fare Hikes Pushing People to Bikes?
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Many San Francisco bicyclists got their start by apparently taking this sign’s message to heart. Flickr photo: mattymatt Could rounds of Muni service cuts and fare hikes push more people to start cycling in San Francisco? The MTA, which operates Muni, doesn’t have data on the phenomenon, but anecdotally, it’s already happening. For Christopher Janson, […]
Car Alarms: San Francisco’s Most Needless Nuisance
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You’ll have to forgive me if this post sounds cranky. I lost some sleep last night when I was woken at 3:30 a.m. by a car horn that continuously blared from my neighbor’s house for 20 minutes. It was probably triggered by debris blowing in the storm. Car alarms are not an uncommon sound in my […]