Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Bike Lanes

SFBC Finds What SFPD Didn’t: Video of Crash That Killed Amelie Le Moullac

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 23, 2013 | 124 Comments

Soon after an SFPD sergeant harassed bicycle advocates at a rally for safer streets at the site where Amelie Le Moullac was killed, SF Bicycle Coalition Program Manager Marc Caswell found what SFPD investigators claimed they couldn’t: two surveillance cameras facing the street, one of which had footage showing the truck driver running over Le […]

At Safe Streets Rally, SFPD Blocks Bike Lane to Make Point of Victim-Blaming

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2013 | 172 Comments

Update: Shahum reported that SFBC staffer Marc Caswell found a surveillance camera at an auto body shop which has footage of Le Moullac’s crash, even though SFPD has said no such footage could be found. More on that story later as it develops. San Francisco Police Sergeant Richard Ernst apparently decided that the best way to […]

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Watch: “People Behaving Badly” Consults Streetsblog on Bike Lane Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2013 | 23 Comments

Stanley Roberts asked me to come out yesterday for one of his “People Behaving Badly” segments and help explain how drivers should legally make a right-turn, since CBS 5 didn’t get it quite right. Roberts still didn’t touch on the point that CBS got wrong — drivers can’t just jump in front of people on […]

CBS 5 Exacerbates Deadly Confusion About Bike Lane Right-of-Way

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 16, 2013 | 86 Comments

A clear understanding of California’s right-of-way laws is crucial if drivers are to avoid colliding with people using San Francisco’s bike lanes. As we saw this week, a “right-hook,” in which a driver turns right into the path of a bike rider, can be fatal. But when CBS 5 reporter Linda Yee sought to clarify […]

Folsom Truck Victim Identified as 24-Year-Old Amelie Le Moullac

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 15, 2013 | 100 Comments

The woman killed on her bike by a truck driver at Sixth and Folsom Streets yesterday morning has been identified as 24-year-old Amelie Le Moullac, SF Weekly reported this morning. Le Moullac was run over by a truck driver making a right turn from Folsom on to Sixth at about 7:07 a.m., and although SFPD […]

Chronicle Op-Ed: Make Polk Street More Like Paris, Less Like Detroit

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 9, 2013 | 42 Comments

We’ve gotta spotlight this op-ed that appeared in today’s edition of the SF Chronicle calling upon the SFMTA and city leaders to make Polk Street more like “a Paris street, where people saunter and stay for hours, not just one errand.” “For that to happen, it has to be engineered away from the Detroit model […]

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