Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee Meeting
Agenda items include: SFPD/SFMTA updates, a brief goal-setting discussion, a draft resolution regarding SFPD enforcement budgeting, and an election for the vacant Chair position
ALSO ON STREETSBLOG
SFPD Captain Justifies Bike Crackdown By Misconstruing “Focus on the Five”
By Aaron Bialick |
SFPD Park Station Captain John Sanford is misconstruing the premise of his department’s “Focus on the Five” campaign to justify diverting precious traffic enforcement resources for his own campaign: getting people on bikes to always stop at stop signs, once and for all. Here’s a refresher on Focus on the Five, for those, like Sanford, who need it… […]
SFBC Finds What SFPD Didn’t: Video of Crash That Killed Amelie Le Moullac
By Aaron Bialick |
Soon after an SFPD sergeant harassed bicycle advocates at a rally for safer streets at the site where Amelie Le Moullac was killed, SF Bicycle Coalition Program Manager Marc Caswell found what SFPD investigators claimed they couldn’t: two surveillance cameras facing the street, one of which had footage showing the truck driver running over Le […]
SFPD Tickets Bike Commuters Trying to Get By Car Queue on Page Street
By Aaron Bialick |
Here’s today’s edition of egregious waste of SFPD resources used to harass people on bikes. SFPD officers were posted at the bottom of the hill on Page Street at Octavia Boulevard this morning ticketing bike commuters who squeezed to the left of stopped cars. Freeway-bound drivers routinely queue up to turn right, occupying several blocks of Page’s only eastbound traffic […]
SFPD Revises Deadly Driving Campaign to Target People Walking and Biking
By Aaron Bialick |
Updated on 8/3 at 5:35 p.m. with more comment from Walk SF. According to the San Francisco Police Department, bikes and people are now cars, and everyone is responsible for committing the five violations that kill and maim San Franciscans the most often. The SFPD has proclaimed that its data-driven “Focus on the Five” enforcement […]
In SF, Victims of Traffic Violence Don’t Have Equal Protection
By Aaron Bialick |
SF District Attorney George Gascón is set to bring felony vehicular manslaughter charges against Chris Bucchere later today for biking into 71-year-old Sutchi Hui in a crosswalk at Castro and Market Streets, killing him. Any traffic death on our streets deserves a thorough investigation with appropriate charges filed against the responsible party. But this high-profile case raises […]
A 2014 Resolution for Greg Suhr and SFPD: Stop Blaming Pedestrian Victims
By Aaron Bialick |
Despite the glimmer of hope brought by the arrest of two reckless drivers who killed pedestrians, the SFPD is still blaming people walking on the streets for getting hit by motorists. According to recent tweets and press statements from SF police, the reason San Franciscans are getting maimed and killed on the streets at an alarming […]