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SFPD Arrests Driver for Manslaughter for Killing Man on Sunset Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 6, 2014 | 7 Comments

The SFPD has arrested, cited, and released a driver for killing 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon as he crossed Sunset Boulevard at Yorba Street in the Outer Sunset Tuesday at about 11 a.m. This is the third known instance of the SFPD arresting a driver who killed a pedestrian, and wasn’t drunk or fleeing the scene, since New […]

Who’s Parking in the Fell Street Bike Lane Today? Oh, It’s SFPD

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 23, 2014 | 18 Comments

You’d better have a pretty good reason to park a car in the heavily-used Fell Street bike lane during the evening rush hour, forcing commuters to squeeze by alongside three lanes of motor traffic. Police response to an emergency might qualify, but the two SFPD officers who returned to this cruiser from the adjacent Bank […]

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SFPD Commits to “Vision Zero” With Policy Reforms to Back Up the Rhetoric

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

[Editor’s note: Streetsblog will not be publishing Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.] The conversation is changing when it comes to the SFPD’s approach to traffic violence. That much was clear at a four-hour hearing at City Hall last night, where SFPD Chief Suhr and Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali pledged to […]

NYC Mayor de Blasio Pursues “Vision Zero” While Ed Lee Displays Zero Vision

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 15, 2014 | 11 Comments

“There is an epidemic of traffic fatalities and it can’t go on… Every one of us thinks: ‘What if that was my child?'” The mayor of a major American city said this today, announcing efforts to pursue Vision Zero, the goal of ending traffic deaths within ten years. Standing at the site where a child […]

More SFPD Pedestrian Victim-Blaming: Taraval Station’s Insane Flyer

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 10, 2014 | 52 Comments

If you’d like to make your voice heard by policymakers on the SFPD’s handling of bicycle and pedestrian safety issues, the Police Commission and the Board of Supervisors Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee will hold a joint hearing next Thursday, January 16, at 5 p.m. at City Hall in room 250. If you can make it […]

SFPD’s Traffic Chief Blames Some Ped Crashes on Confused Asian Immigrants

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 9, 2014 | 41 Comments

SFPD Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali offered a particularly bizarre explanation yesterday for why a significant number of pedestrians killed in the city are Asian seniors: They’re recent immigrants who are confused by our traffic patterns, he said. “I’m told that traffic patterns there, they flow differently than the grid type patterns that we have here, and […]

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