Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Safety

Advocates and city officials discussed the plight of the homeless on the Hairball last night in the Mission. Photo: SFBC

Bike Talk on Homeless and the Hairball

By Roger Rudick | | 2 Comments
Melodie, a woman in her late 50s who lives in a camper along one of the streets leading into the Hairball, pleaded with city officials and advocates to just give homeless people some sanctuary and peace. “There’s no where else to go,” she said to a group of some 40 bike and homeless advocates who […]
A photo of the guerrilla safety improvements put in over the weekend by SFMTrA where a senior citizen was killed. The safety posts were promptly removed by the city. Photo: Matt Brezina

City Removes Safety Measures where Senior Was Killed

By Roger Rudick | | 26 Comments
Over the weekend, the guerrilla safety group, SFMTrA, installed safe-hit posts and painted bulb-outs at the intersection of Fell and Baker, on a crosswalk where David Grinberg, a 90-year-old man, was killed on Wednesday, Oct. 4. The city, which apparently has no immediate plans to improve the crosswalk that connects the Mercy Terrace senior-living apartments […]
An example from a nearby intersection of the type of flashing light that Berkeley wants to install at Dwight and California--except that it means cyclist will still have no legal right of way. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

Flashing Beacons are the Wrong Way to Make a Bike Way

By Roger Rudick | | 1 Comment
Berkeley bike advocates are pushing back against the use of “Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFBs or flashers)” in the city’s bicycle visioning plan. The idea is to use them where ‘bike boulevards’ cross heavily trafficked streets. In an op-ed this week in Berkeleyside, bike advocate Charles Siegel makes a compelling plea for the city to […]
SFMTA crews improving crosswalk viability. Photo: SFMTA.

SPUR Talk: Checking in on Vision Zero

By Roger Rudick | | 29 Comments
“Every year, 360 people are killed in the Bay Area as a result of traffic crashes,” said Jenn Fox, with the Vision Zero Network. “Each of these tragedies is a person–a family member, a community member … we must get over our complacency.” Fox gave these morbid statistics as part of a review of the […]
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