Aaron Bialick
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
Recent Posts
Sunday Streets: The Excelsior
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From Sunday Streets: The Excelsior has many hidden gems to explore, so strap on those skates or walking shoes and get ready to hit the street. From Avalon to Geneva, you are sure to find something along Mission Street that excites you on this route. Each year, Sunday Streets collaborates with the Excelsior Festival to bring a day […]
SFPD Park Station Community Meeting
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From SFBC: Come to the San Francisco Police Department Park Station’s monthly community meeting. These meetings, run by Captain John Sanford, give the community a chance to ask questions and raise concerns directly. Read more here at the SFPD Park Station website. Last month, the SFPD Park Station announced they would be targeting people on […]
Help Streetsblog Shine a Light on SFPD’s Bike Crackdown — Submit Your Video
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Streetsblog needs you and your devices to provide eyes and ears on the Wiggle, Page Street, and wherever the SFPD is lurking to ticket bicycle riders who harmlessly roll stop signs. It’s been clear from the start that Park Station’s bike crackdown is a huge waste of resources. But there are things that video can help […]
I Put My Foot Down at a Stop Sign and Nearly Got Run Over
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I was extra law-abiding yesterday as I biked down Page Street: I put my foot down at every stop sign. As a result, an Uber driver nearly ran me over, specifically because I had come to a complete stop. I was trying to avoid getting snared by SFPD’s new bike ticket blitz, which is based on […]
SFPD Park Station Begins Pointless Harassment of Bike Commuters
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Cops ticketing a cyclist for rolling a stop on The Wiggle. Subject of last week’s protest: http://t.co/xq1euSM4QQ pic.twitter.com/rTovDhLp5d — Kale Williams (@sfkale) August 5, 2015 SFPD Park Station Captain John Sanford has made good on his promise: Officers were out this morning ticketing bike commuters who failed to comply with a strict application of the […]
SFCTA to Test Variable Road Pricing on Treasure Island
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Treasure Island will serve as San Francisco’s proving grounds for road pricing that adjusts in response to traffic conditions, as the city looks to minimize Bay Bridge car congestion generated by residents expected to move to the development site. When the first housing units on the artificial mid-bay island, formerly owned by the Navy, are occupied in 2019, the SF County Transportation […]
City-Approved Flyers Shame Pedestrians on Mission Sidewalks
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Flyers warning people not to walk across the street while looking at their phones, or against traffic signals, were recently posted on corners along Mission Street in the Mission District. The flyers, which sport the official “Vision Zero SF” logo, feature messages like, “Attention pedestrian: Look up from your phone. Your text can wait.” Another reads (in Spanish), “Careful. Stop. Crossing […]
SFPD Revises Deadly Driving Campaign to Target People Walking and Biking
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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 […]
Full Bike Compliance With the Stop Sign Law: An Effective Spectacle
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Countless bike commuters queued up for over a block yesterday to make a completely legal left turn on the Wiggle. As predicted, the demonstration showed the absurdity of how full compliance with the impractical stop sign law — which makes no distinction between bikes and cars — would actually play out. The Wiggle “stop-in” was a […]
Eyes on the Street: Twitter’s Alley-Turned-Plaza Bustles Near Civic Center
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A plaza is bustling with life several months after its creation on a segment of the Stevenson Street alleyway at 10th Street, next to the Twitter offices. The “Market Square” plaza is a privately-owned public open space built as part of Twitter’s office construction and renovations. That intersection of the mid-Market, SoMa, and Civic Center areas was relatively dead just a few […]
Mayor Lee on Bike Demo: “I Won’t Bend to Interests Who Disregard Safety”
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Contrasting with Supervisor London Breed’s sensible position on the demonstration planned in response to the SFPD’s impending bike crackdown, we bring you a dispatch from the hidebound side of City Hall — Room 200. Mayor Ed Lee weighed in today on the plan from bike commuters on the Wiggle to fully comply with the stop sign law en masse this […]
Sup. Breed Backs Idaho’s Common-Sense Law: Let Bikes Yield at Stop Signs
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Updated at 1:04 p.m. with comments from Dave Snyder of the California Bicycle Coalition. Supervisor London Breed has come out as the first known elected official in San Francisco to publicly support a sensible change to California traffic law: allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs. Breed voiced her position today in today’s […]