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SFMTA Launches a Smarter Safe Streets Ad Campaign

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 17, 2014 | 32 Comments

The SFMTA has launched a new ad campaign called “Safe Streets SF” that takes the most thoughtful approach to addressing the causes of pedestrian injuries of any city campaign thus far. The ads have started rolling out on Muni buses. One depicts cars stopped in front of a busy, unmarked crosswalk, with the text, “It […]

Tow Truckers Pledge to Reduce Fell Bike Lane Parking, Thanks to Sup. Breed

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 4, 2014 | 25 Comments

Updated 9/5 with comment from the SFPD captain below. Ted & Al’s Towing company pledged to make a stronger effort to avoid parking its trucks in the Fell Street bike lane, an illegal practice that forces bike commuters to veer into heavy motor traffic. D5 Supervisor London Breed said that her staff came to an […]

SFPD Arrests Aunt for Leaving Two-Year-Old Mi’yana Gregory in Crosswalk

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 20, 2014 | 38 Comments

SF police have arrested 25-year-old Lorysha Gage for leaving two-year-old Mi’yana Gregory in the downtown crosswalk where she was run over and killed last Friday night. Even as police seek the driver who struck Gregory and fled the scene, Gage is set to be arraigned tomorrow on charges of “felony child endangerment, with an enhancement allegation […]

Watch: ABC 7 Talks With Officials, Advocates Supporting Vision Zero

By Aaron Bialick | Jul 23, 2014 | 5 Comments

ABC 7 news anchor Cheryl Jennings talked to some of San Francisco’s key city officials and advocates about Vision Zero, the campaign to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, on her show “Beyond the Headlines” Sunday. Pedestrian and bike safety was the theme of the half-hour show, during which Jennings interviewed SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin; the family of […]

ABC 7: Our Drivers Won’t Follow CA’s 3-Ft Bike Passing Law, So Why Bother?

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 10, 2014 | 18 Comments

ABC 7 is back with another blurry watercolor painting of street safety issues — this time, setting sights on California’s new 3-foot bicycle passing law. ABC reporter Dan Noyes went to great lengths to film real-world examples of the issue, setting up a camera to film passing bike commuters and drivers on Market Street, and drawing […]

Man on Bike, 51, Seriously Injured in Crash on Laguna Near Broadway

By Aaron Bialick | May 27, 2014 | 67 Comments

A 51-year-old man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after he collided his bike into an SUV whose driver was pulling into a mid-block garage, on Laguna Street near Broadway. SFPD reported that the man was headed in the downhill, northbound direction on Laguna, “and failed to stop at a stop sign” before crashing into the […]

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