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San Jose to Adopt Vision Zero But No Target Date to End Traffic Deaths
The San Jose City Council is expected to adopt a Vision Zero plan [PDF] tomorrow, making it the third major city in the Bay Area and the tenth in the nation to commit to ending traffic deaths. But San Jose isn't setting a timeline to achieve this goal.
May 11, 2015
Walk SF Gives City a Mixed Score on Street Safety Progress
Walk SF today released its second annual Street Score Report Card [PDF], which it bills as the "only comprehensive review of the City’s progress towards improving pedestrian safety and walkability." The report is the first thorough attempt to assess how well the city has followed through on the mayor's 2013 Pedestrian Strategy.
May 6, 2015
Tomorrow: Support a Safer Upper Market With Protected Bike Lanes
The SFMTA will hold an open house tomorrow on bike and pedestrian safety upgrades along upper Market Street, which could include bulb-outs to calm the street's wide, dangerous intersections and protected bike lanes on some segments.
May 4, 2015
SFPD: Car Was Reported Stolen After Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Caught on Video
The car used in a pedestrian hit-and-run caught on video was reported stolen by its registered owner the morning after the crash, according to the SFPD.
May 1, 2015
Parking-Free Marina Path Plan Could Be Delayed By Boaters’ Parking Proposal
Updated at 11:38 p.m. with further response from the Recreation and Parks Department below.
April 30, 2015
Drivers Hit Two Seniors in Two Days at Castro and 19th Crosswalk
Two seniors were injured by drivers in a crosswalk at 19th and Castro Streets in separate crashes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Bryan Goebel, Streetsblog SF's first editor, and his neighbor Hank Cancel happened upon the aftermath of the crashes.
April 30, 2015
Video Emerges of Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Crash at Second and Howard
A disturbing video has emerged of a pedestrian hit-and-run crash at Second and Howard Streets in SoMa. Warning: It's not for the faint-of-heart.
April 29, 2015
Daly City Police’s Idea of Vision Zero: Ticketing “Jaywalkers” at BART
Daly City police officers recently targeted people crossing against the walk signal on John Daly Boulevard to reach the Daly City BART Station, just south of the San Francisco border, as seen in a KRON 4 "People Behaving Badly" segment last week.
April 28, 2015
Abisai May Dzul, 24, Victim of the “Alemany Maze” Highway Tangle
Abisai May Dzul, 24, was killed while walking on an off-ramp in the “Alemany Maze," the forbidding tangle of freeway ramps where Highways 101 and 280 intersect in the southeast city. The crash occurred on Sunday at about 9 p.m., according to media reports.
April 22, 2015
Taxi Driver Kills High School Senior Seana Canavan at Pine and Larkin
Seana Canavan, who would have turned 18 today, was killed by a taxi driver at Pine and Larkin Streets Saturday night at 10:28 p.m., the SF Chronicle reported.
April 20, 2015