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SFFD Not Sure What Delays Responses: “There Might Just Be More Cars”
An official from the SF Fire Department explained SFFD's position on bulb-outs and road diets last week to the SF Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee. According to Assistant Deputy Chief Ken Lombardi, the department's main concern isn't about curb extensions, but raised "hardscape" structures like planters or railings that can prevent a fire truck from mounting them.
January 21, 2014
Dismissing SFFD’s Irrational Protests, SFMTA Approves Bulb-Outs at School
The SF Fire Department continues to make increasingly bizarre claims in opposition to sidewalk bulb-outs and narrower roadways. Last week, the SFMTA Board of Directors dismissed SFFD's protests against six-foot bulb-outs at E.R. Taylor Elementary School in the Portola neighborhood. According to SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin, one of SFFD's claims was that fire truck drivers would be ticketed by the SFPD for entering an oncoming traffic lane to make a wide turn.
January 13, 2014
SFFD Responds to “Special Interest Group Allegations” on Street Safety
The SF Fire Department has issued a statement on what it calls "allegations being made by special interest groups" regarding the department's resistance to sidewalk bulb-outs and other safety improvements. We can only assume the groups SFFD is referring to are Walk SF (which penned an op-ed in the SF Examiner yesterday), Supervisor Scott Wiener, and Streetsblog.
December 19, 2013