Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bicycle Safety

SRTS Conference 2011: NYC Student Activist Inspires National Audience

By Carolyn Szczepanski | Aug 19, 2011 | No Comments

Only two speakers at this week’s Safe Routes to School National Conference in Minneapolis earned a standing ovation. For former Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar the crowd stood out of honor and gratitude. For Kimberly White, the audience shot out of their seats with sheer awe and inspiration. A resident of Flatbush, Brooklyn, and a sophomore […]

Mayor, SFMTA, Walk SF Announce First 15 MPH School Zone

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 18, 2011 | 16 Comments

San Francisco became the first large California city to implement a 15 mph speed zone around a school this morning, as SFMTA workers installed one of four signs that will go up around George Peabody Elementary School on 7th Avenue in the Richmond District. It’s part of a groundbreaking citywide initiative pushed by walking advocates […]

New Designs to Be Presented for Eastern Cesar Chavez Street

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 17, 2011 | 9 Comments

New designs have been drawn up for eastern Cesar Chavez Street and will be presented to the community next week, nearly two months after a contentious meeting in which attendees were told, just days before the striping of new bike lanes, that plans for a road diet were being scrapped by the Mayor’s Office and […]

Nancy Ho, Bicyclist Killed in SoMa, Remembered by Family, Friends

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 12, 2011 | 10 Comments

The family and friends of Nancy Ho, the 25-year-old woman who was killed by a delivery truck driver while riding her bicycle on Mission Street in SoMa last month, came together recently to honor her life. Ho’s relatives and closest friends have been too grief-stricken to talk to us, but a college friend recently sent […]

Pedestrian Hit By Bicyclist Last Month on the Embarcadero Dies

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 11, 2011 | 90 Comments

A 67-year-old Washington D.C. woman who was hit by a bicyclist on the Embarcadero at Mission Street last month has succumbed to her injuries. Dionette Cherney, a real estate expert who had been visiting San Francisco with her husband, was pronounced dead at 5:20 this morning, said SFPD Sgt. Mark Sullivan of the department’s hit-and-run […]

Dramatic Rise in SFPD Citations to Drivers Without Licenses

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 9, 2011 | 2 Comments

San Francisco police officers issued twice as many tickets to drivers operating without a license between January and May this year than they did for all of 2010, according to data from the SF Police Department (SFPD). The spike contrasts with an overall drop in traffic violations. “I think it’s important to feel like there […]

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