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Help Streetsblog Shine a Light on SFPD’s Bike Crackdown — Submit Your Video

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 7, 2015 | 18 Comments

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

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 6, 2015 | 44 Comments

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

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 5, 2015 | 138 Comments

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 […]

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SFPD Revises Deadly Driving Campaign to Target People Walking and Biking

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 31, 2015 | 154 Comments

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

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 30, 2015 | 48 Comments

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 […]

Mayor Lee on Bike Demo: “I Won’t Bend to Interests Who Disregard Safety”

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 29, 2015 | 138 Comments

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 […]

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