Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrian Safety

The last Sunday Streets of the Year, on Mission Street in the Excelsior. All photos Streetsblog/Rudick

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Last Sunday Streets of the Year, Excelsior

By Roger Rudick | Oct 2, 2017 | No Comments

Thousands of people, including lots of kids, came out to the Excelsior neighborhood yesterday morning and afternoon to enjoy a bright and sunny Sunday Streets on Mission Street. This one ran from Avalon/Theresa to Geneva Streets, and marks the final Sunday Streets event of 2017. As the city’s best-known open-streets event, it was also an opportunity for checking […]

The entrance to the Posey Tube. Cars transitioning from the tube to I-880 turn Oakland's Chinatown into a traffic sewer. Image: Alameda County Transportation Commission

Oakland Alameda Access Project Kicks Off With a Car-First Focus

By Roger Rudick | Sep 29, 2017 | 39 Comments

Thanks to I-880 and its complex of on and offramps, walking or bike riding through Oakland’s Chinatown, downtown, or on routes to Jack London Square and the estuary, can be pretty awful. That’s why a series of projects, some official, some grass-roots, including Walk this Way and Connect Oakland, are trying to fix some of the damage […]

Drop offs and pickups almost continually block the bike lanes on Valencia during the peak hour. Photo: Streetsblog.

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Supervisor Shocked to Hear Uber and Lyft Violate Bike and Transit Lanes

By Roger Rudick | Sep 26, 2017 | 94 Comments

Some two-thirds of citations for driving in transit lanes and bike lanes, failing to yield to pedestrians, and other motor vehicle violations, are issued to Transportation Network Company (TNC) cars such as Uber and Lyft--this according to a study from the police department of violations in downtown San Francisco.

Policy makers say they want protected bike lanes to be the new normal, but street-level workers aren't getting the memo, as seen at MacArthur BART. Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick

The Cultural Lag on Safety at DOTs

By Roger Rudick | Sep 22, 2017 | 1 Comment

Will protected bike lane policy directives ever get absorbed by street-level crews?

A protected intersection in Chicago. Photo: Chicago Department of Transportation (Bike Program)/Brian Almdale

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SPUR Talk: Protected Bike Lanes Must Become the New Normal

By Roger Rudick | Sep 19, 2017 | 23 Comments

Urban planners, at least when it comes to bikeway design, are still trying to undo the damage caused by vehicular cyclists in the 1970s and 80s, explained Bill Schultheiss, a traffic engineer who specializes in bike design and a member of the Bicycle Technical Committee and the Pedestrian Task Force of the National Committee on Uniform […]

Caltrans is boasting about its truly tasteless public service announcements. Photo: Caltrans

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And the Victim Blaming Continues

By Roger Rudick | Sep 18, 2017 | 22 Comments

There was a bit of a dust-up late Friday on Twitter when the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition called out Caltrans over “public service” announcements that blame our most vulnerable road users for their own deaths and injuries. .@caltranshq, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for this counterproductive victim-blaming. https://t.co/0RGSYmUGds — SF Bicycle Coalition (@sfbike) […]

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