Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Cell Phones

When You Just Gotta Get Your Streetsblog No Matter Where You Are

By Matthew Roth | Aug 25, 2009 | 4 Comments

We’re very happy to announce that all you brilliant and dedicated Streetsblog readers can now take your favorite blog with you almost anywhere, even when your service is a bit dodgier than you’d prefer. Introducing the beta Streetsblog Mobile for your handheld, a stripped down version of the blog for your phone’s browser, one we […]

Government Still Taking Hands-Off Approach to Cell Phoning While Driving

By Elana Schor | Jul 21, 2009 | 1 Comment

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was prepared six years ago to seek broad limits on cell phone use by drivers — with or without a hands-free device — but shelved its plans for fear of alienating Congress and chat-loving voters, the New York Times reported today. (Photo: textually.org) The story suggests that senior […]

Muni Reissues Notice Reminding Its Drivers of Cell Phone Ban

By Bryan Goebel | Jun 5, 2009 | 7 Comments

A Muni driver on the 24 spotted yapping on a cell phone just this week. Flickr photo: peephole We’re not sure exactly what sparked this bulletin — other than recent crashes around the country involving transit drivers using cell phones — but Muni sent a reminder to its drivers this morning that they are not […]

Would Chron Find Walking and Chewing Gum “Argh” Hard, Too?

By Matthew Roth | Jun 3, 2009 | 13 Comments

The biggest menace to motoring since pedestrians. Photo: Matthew Roth Dear San Francisco Chronicle: Your story today on SFPark is a new low, infantilizing a parking management pilot that is the envy of municipalities across the country and has the attention of cities as far-flung as Tokyo, Japan. For an agency that is getting more […]

Drivers Are Running the Red Light at Fell/Masonic, Imperiling Cyclists

By Matthew Roth | Jan 21, 2009 | 30 Comments

Bicycle hit by a car at Fell and Masonic on December 13th, 2008 Last September, San Francisco’s city attorney asked Judge Peter Busch to allow an exemption to the long-standing bicycle injunction so the MTA could improve the city’s second most dangerous intersection for cyclists, where Fell Street meets Masonic Street. Even after the MTA […]

California’s Toothless Cell Phone Law

By Cheryl Brinkman | Jan 21, 2009 | 8 Comments

You see them everywhere. Drivers yakking on their handheld cell phones despite a California law that’s been on the books for more than six months now that makes it illegal. So, is anyone getting ticketed? Yes, but unfortunately it’s a toothless law. Drivers who use handheld phones can be pulled over for violating the law. […]