Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Safety

A Different Ride of Silence: Rich City RIDES

By Melanie Curry | May 26, 2016 | No Comments

Last Thursday, May 18, was the day of the International Ride of Silence. In many cities—26 Californian cities, according to the California Bicycle Coalition—bike riders gathered to commemorate bicyclists and pedestrians who have died in traffic crashes. San Francisco was one such city. So was Richmond. But that city’s Ride of Silence was about a […]

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SFSU Students Study How to Un-Suck Biking to BART

By Roger Rudick | May 25, 2016 | 18 Comments

Professor Jason Henderson’s “Bicycle Geographies” class wants the ride from Daily City BART to San Francisco State University’s campus to be comfortable and fun. And why shouldn’t it be? After all, it’s only a 1.6 mile trip that should take even a novice cyclist about 15 minutes. Given the proximity to BART, this should be a […]

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A Time to Remember

By Roger Rudick | May 23, 2016 | 3 Comments

Three years ago today, 21-year-old Dylan Mitchell was riding his bike east on 16th Street when a garbage truck traveling in the same direction turned on South Van Ness and collided with him. He died at the scene–a scene where flowers were left during Thursday night’s “Ride of Silence.” Mitchell was one of almost fifty […]

Police Chief Resigns: What Does it Mean for Livable Streets?

By Roger Rudick | May 20, 2016 | 13 Comments

As Streetsblog readers have surely heard, police Chief Greg Suhr was forced to resign Thursday after the shooting of an apparently unarmed woman by SFPD. The police shootings of Mario Woods in December and Luis Gongora in April both seemed to show a department where officers are failing to deescalate situations and are too quick […]

The Taraval Boarding Island Question: Q&A with Katy Tang

By Roger Rudick | May 17, 2016 | 33 Comments

Last week, Streetsblog brought you an editorial from Katy Tang about the issue of installing concrete boarding islands on Taraval as part of SFMTA’s Muni Forward project. This was in response to a headline in the SF Examiner, that declared “Supervisor Slams Brakes on L-Taraval Changes.” As Streetsblog readers may recall, business owners were pushing […]

SF Celebrates Bike to Work Day

By Roger Rudick | May 12, 2016 | 7 Comments

San Francisco has come a long way. That was the theme of a rousing speech delivered by Margaret McCarthy, Interim Executive Director of the SF Bicycle Coalition, at a ceremony this morning in front of San Francisco City Hall. “We’ve seen a 184 percent increase in cycling in the past decade,” she said with her […]

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