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
SFPD Tickets Bike Commuters Trying to Get By Car Queue on Page Street
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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 […]
Wiggle Riders to Show Folly of Stop Sign Law By Complying With It
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What if everyone on a bike followed the letter of the law and made a complete stop at every stop sign, as if they were driving a car? “It would have disastrous effects to traffic patterns,” say the organizers of a “Wiggle Stop-In” demonstration planned for Wednesday evening. “That’s what we intend to show.” Organizers at the […]
Wiggle Stop-In Demonstration
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Via Facebook: We think it’s ludicrous that SFPD Park Station is diverting precious resources towards trying to make sure every cyclist comes to a full and complete stop at every stop sign. Not only should those resources be directed toward curbing behavior that is actually dangerous (like people driving 2,000 lb cars rolling every single […]
SFBC Golden Wheel Awards 2015
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From SFBC: The Golden Wheel Awards honor those individuals and groups who are making a difference in transforming San Francisco into a more people and bike-friendly place. Keynote Speaker Peter Norton, University of Virginia, author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City Honorees San Francisco Yellow Bike Project SF2G […]
Rec and Parks Open House on Panhandle Path Improvements
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From SFBC: The plans to improve the southern pedestrian path are moving forward! Come to this outdoor open house hosted by the SF Recreation and Park Department to learn more about the proposals to make the pathways more comfortable for all users. We recently posted a blog with more information about this project. Learn more […]
SFBC Bike Ride: How Does Getting Rid of Freeways Change Our Community?
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From SFBC: Come join our Golden Wheel keynote speaker Peter Norton, local Streetfight author Jason Henderson, and Livable City Director Tom Radulovich to talk about the impacts of freeway teardowns and traffic shrinkage on the way we all live, work, and play. We’ll be taking a leisurely bike ride around the city, looking at some […]
SFMTA Public Engineering Hearing
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Agenda Written opinions may also be transmitted by email to sustainable.streets@sfmta.com with subject line “Public Hearing.”
SFPD Captain Justifies Bike Crackdown By Misconstruing “Focus on the Five”
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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… […]
McAllister Street Set to Get Two Traffic Circles Instead of Signals
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McAllister Street, a popular bike route where SFMTA’s Muni Forward planners want to speed up the 5-Fulton, would have stop signs replaced by traffic circles at two intersections under the agency’s latest proposal. Under the plan [PDF], which must be approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors, McAllister would become the first street to get traffic circles […]
SoMa Freeway Ramp Mistake Fixed at Nearly Twice the Estimated Cost
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SF agencies opened a newly re-aligned freeway ramp yesterday that lands on Fremont at Folsom Street. The ramp fix came in at a cost of $5,274,000, nearly twice the original estimate of $2,883,900. The design of the original Highway 80 off-ramp, installed after the removal of the Embarcadero Freeway to whisk drivers from the Bay […]
SFPD Charges Trucker Who Killed Rose Kelly, 61, in Richmond Crosswalk
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Updated 6/22 with the name of the driver. The SFPD has filed misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charges against the truck driver who killed 61-year-old Rose Kelly in a crosswalk in the Outer Richmond yesterday afternoon. It’s now up to District Attorney George Gascón to follow through with the prosecution. Kelly was walking east in a crosswalk on Cabrillo Street at […]
SFBC Survey Ride: “Andy’s Audits” in Civic Center
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From SFBC: How’s the SF Bike Network doing, as a real, living thing? Andy’s Audits are a series of “whole trip” evaluations of actual San Francisco bicycle trips, from Point A to Point B, connecting some real world dots by bicycle and measuring where a bit more bike love could make the network light up […]