Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrians

The Dangerous Design of San Francisco’s High-Speed “Arterial” Streets

By Aaron Bialick | May 24, 2011 | 8 Comments

It’s no secret that San Francisco could do a lot more to make its streets safer, but a new national report on pedestrian safety issued today highlights a glaring pattern where the bulk of preventable pedestrian crashes with motor vehicles occur: on poorly designed, high-speed “arterial” roads. San Francisco is renowned for being a walkable […]

Dangerous By Design: How the U.S. Builds Roads That Kill Pedestrians

By Tanya Snyder | May 24, 2011 | No Comments

If you had to cross this road on your walk to work, wouldn’t you rather drive? Millions of Americans live in communities without safe places to walk. And so they either don’t walk, adding to traffic congestion with every trip, or they do walk, risking joining the ranks of the 47,700 pedestrians killed and 688,000 […]

Sheriff’s Cadet Charged in Fatal Pedestrian Crash Pleads Not Guilty

By Bryan Goebel | May 18, 2011 | 4 Comments

A 23-year-old sheriff’s cadet accused of gross vehicular manslaughter, drunk driving and hit-and-run in the death of a 61-year-old pedestrian on Masonic Avenue and Turk Street earlier this month pleaded not guilty to multiple felony counts in a San Francisco courtroom this morning. Jose Jimenez, handcuffed and wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, kept his head […]

SFMTA “Daylights” Crosswalks to Improve Pedestrian Visibility

By Aaron Bialick | May 16, 2011 | 22 Comments

Making eye contact with a driver while walking across an intersection is important, but what if a driver’s line of vision is obscured by cars parked within a few feet of a crosswalk? “There have been times when people make the turn really quickly and they don’t see you and don’t have enough time to […]

Drunk Driver Accused of Killing Pedestrian on Masonic Ave Appears in Court

By Bryan Goebel | May 10, 2011 | No Comments

A 23-year-old San Francisco man accused of killing a pedestrian crossing Masonic Avenue at Turk Street early Friday morning while driving intoxicated made his first court appearance today but did not enter a plea. Jose Jimenez, a San Francisco County Sheriff’s cadet, held his head down and wept as he was escorted into the courtroom […]

How Many Deaths Will It Take to Fix Masonic Avenue?

By Bryan Goebel | May 6, 2011 | 19 Comments

An alleged drunk driver traveling more than double the speed limit on southbound Masonic Avenue at Turk Street struck and killed 61-year-old James Hudson of San Francisco in the crosswalk early this morning. The driver then continued his destructive path for another 13 blocks, according to police, damaging four parked cars along the way before […]

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