Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrians

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Tomorrow: Rally for Vision Zero Action After Spate of Traffic Violence

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 6, 2014 | 1 Comment

A coalition of street safety advocates will hold a rally on the steps of City Hall tomorrow morning at 10 a.m., calling upon city leaders and agencies to step up the action on Vision Zero. The event will also serve as a memorial to victims of traffic violence. Just in the last two weeks, six people […]

SFPD to Cite Driver Who Hospitalized Woman While Backing Up

By Aaron Bialick | Nov 5, 2014 | 3 Comments

SFPD said a ticket will be issued to a driver who hit a woman last Wednesday while backing up on 16th Street near Pond Street, next to the Eureka Valley Branch Library. In initial reports, police said the driver had not been cited: The woman was hit at about 3:40 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection […]

Woman Killed at City Hall’s Doorstep, Right After Ped Safety Ceremony

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 24, 2014 | 78 Comments

Priscila “Precy” Moreto, a 67-year-old employee in the City Controller’s Office, was run over and killed by a tour trolley driver within a wide, clearly-marked mid-block crosswalk on Polk Street, leading to the steps of City Hall, at about 11:30 a.m. yesterday. About 20 minutes earlier and just across the Civic Center Plaza, at McAllister […]

87-Year-Old Louis Van Velzen Killed by Driver on Deadly Sloat Blvd

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 20, 2014 | 17 Comments

Another life has been taken on Sloat Boulevard — the deadly, too-wide street slicing through SF’s southwestern Parkside and Sunset Districts past the San Francisco Zoo. Louis Van Velzen, an 87-year-old father, was killed by a driver while crossing Sloat at 43rd Avenue at 7:00 a.m. this morning, the SF Chronicle reported. Van Velzen was reportedly […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Killing Pui Fong Yim, 78, at Stockton and Sacramento

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 22, 2014 | 109 Comments

SFPD arrested an SUV driver, 40-year-old Calixto Dilinila, for killing 78-year-old Pui Fong Yim Lee in a crosswalk Saturday at Stockton and Sacramento Streets, outside the Stockton tunnel. Witnesses told CBS 5 that Dilinila was making a left turn from Sacramento onto Stockton when he ran Yim Lee over, as she made her way across Stockton during what […]

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Auto-Clogged Powell Street Could Be a Car-Free Haven

By Aaron Bialick | Sep 19, 2014 | 49 Comments

It’s a wonder that anyone drives a car on Powell Street in Union Square. Yet along the busiest pedestrian thoroughfare this side of the United States, you’ll typically see the perplexing scene of drivers, sitting in a line heading down the hill, all seemingly going nowhere in particular and certainly not very quickly. These private autos […]

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