Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Walk SF

Supes, SFPD, SFMTA Stand With Crash Victims and Advocates at City Hall

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 13, 2014 | 18 Comments

SFPD officials, transportation department heads, and three supervisors stood outside City Hall this morning alongside safe streets advocates and people whose lives have been affected by traffic violence. The press conference served as a call to action and a memorial for victims of traffic violence in the past year, with participants holding Valentines featuring names of […]

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Imagine No Deaths: Supes, Safe Streets Advocates Call for “Vision Zero”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 14, 2014 | 14 Comments

A coalition of safe streets advocates, community organizations, and city supervisors have launched a campaign for San Francisco to join leading cities in adopting a “Vision Zero” goal — an end to traffic deaths on city streets within ten years. “We need a culture shift in San Francisco, and it has to start from the […]

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With WalkFirst, SF Takes a Data-Driven Approach to Pedestrian Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 19, 2013 | 2 Comments

The city recently launched the WalkFirst program to lay a data-driven, participatory foundation for the effort to attain the main goal of its Pedestrian Strategy — cutting pedestrian injuries in half by 2021. In the coming months, staff from the SFMTA, the Planning Department, the Controller’s Office, and the Department of Public Health will field public input […]

Man in Wheelchair Killed by Freeway-Bound Driver at Market and Octavia

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 4, 2013 | 12 Comments

A man in a wheelchair, reportedly in his 20s, was killed by a driver at Market Street and Octavia Boulevard around midnight last night. SFPD spokesperson Albie Esparza said the crash is still under investigation, but that driver appears to have been heading south on Octavia at the entrance of the Central Freeway, where witnesses […]

Han Cheng Li, 62, Killed by Driver at 16th and Potrero

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 28, 2013 | 16 Comments

Han Cheng Li, 62, was struck and killed by a driver on 16th Street at Potrero Avenue in the Mission at about 11:38 p.m. Saturday night, according to reports. Police have not released details about how the crash occurred or the name of the driver, but he has been identified as a 54-year-old man. Li […]

Adorable Scenes From a Record-Breaking Walk and Roll to School Day

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 10, 2013 | 1 Comment

A record-breaking 13,000 students at 76 SF schools reportedly participated in International Walk and Roll to School Day yesterday, including over a hundred little ones who formed a “walking school bus” at E.R. Taylor Elementary, where city officials held a press event. At E.R. Taylor, which holds walking buses every week as part of the […]

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