Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Fix Masonic

Candlelight Vigil Pays Tribute to Bicyclist Killed by Drunken Driver in SF

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 26, 2010 | 9 Comments

More than a hundred people gathered to remember Nils Yannick Linke. Pictured (far left) is Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and (far right) SFMTA Board member Cheryl Brinkman. Photos by Kirk Moore More than a hundred people turned out last night to remember a man most of them never knew. His abrupt and violent death at the […]

Advocates Call on SFMTA to Take Immediate Steps to Fix Masonic Avenue

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 20, 2010 | 10 Comments

A ghost bike at Masonic and Turk in memory 21-year-old Nils Linke, who was killed by a drunk driver one week ago. Photo: Michael Helquist of BIKE NOPA. A week after a 21-year-old German tourist on a bicycle was killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver on Masonic Avenue, the first death of a bicyclist in […]

Driver Who Killed Bicyclist on Masonic Facing Manslaughter, DUI Charges

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 16, 2010 | 62 Comments

What remained of Nils Linke’s bicycle. Photo: CBS5. A 37-year-old Oakland man has been identified as the driver of a 1989 Mercedes-Benz who allegedly killed 22-year-old Nils Linke of Germany while he was riding his bicycle Friday night on Masonic Avenue near Turk Street, a tragic reminder that the SFMTA needs to act quickly to […]

Drivers Are Running the Red Light at Fell/Masonic, Imperiling Cyclists

By Matthew Roth | Jan 21, 2009 | 30 Comments

Bicycle hit by a car at Fell and Masonic on December 13th, 2008 Last September, San Francisco’s city attorney asked Judge Peter Busch to allow an exemption to the long-standing bicycle injunction so the MTA could improve the city’s second most dangerous intersection for cyclists, where Fell Street meets Masonic Street. Even after the MTA […]