Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Pedestrians

Speeding Driver Arrested for Killing Pedestrian, Walking Away on Van Ness

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 12, 2014 | 9 Comments

SFPD has arrested 27-year-old Mageb Hussain of Emeryville for hitting and killing an unidentified pedestrian on Van Ness at Pacific Avenue at about 1 a.m. last night. Hussain was reportedly driving a rental car and attempted to walk away from the scene of the crash. Police said Hussain faces felony vehicular manslaughter and felony hit and […]

The Chron Still a Podium for Willie Brown’s Anti-Bike, Pro-Freeway Garbage

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 10, 2014 | 30 Comments

Willie Brown’s successors don’t look so bad when reading the former mayor’s windshield perspective drivel in his latest Chronicle column. It’s hard to imagine San Franciscans once again electing a mayor who responds to a spate of pedestrian injuries by lambasting everything but the primary cause: reckless driving. But according to yesterday’s column from the increasingly out-of-touch Brown, […]

SFPD Arrests Driver for Manslaughter for Killing Man on Sunset Boulevard

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 6, 2014 | 7 Comments

The SFPD has arrested, cited, and released a driver for killing 78-year-old Isaak Berenzon as he crossed Sunset Boulevard at Yorba Street in the Outer Sunset Tuesday at about 11 a.m. This is the third known instance of the SFPD arresting a driver who killed a pedestrian, and wasn’t drunk or fleeing the scene, since New […]

Chuck Nevius: People Who Don’t Walk in Fear Are Part of a “Militant Cult”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 30, 2014 | 51 Comments

When KQED asked Jason Henderson in a recent interview whether distracted pedestrians are contributing to a rise in traffic injuries and fatalities, he countered the nonsense. “Well, let’s think of it this way,” said Henderson, the author of Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco. “A pedestrian talking on the phone that bumps into […]

“Pissed-Off Voters” to Mayor: “Be Nice, Look Twice” an Insult to Victims

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 24, 2014 | 7 Comments

The League of Pissed-Off Voters is, well, pissed off about Mayor Ed Lee’s lighthearted tone in his “Be Nice, Look Twice” campaign — his answer to the maiming and killing of San Franciscans by reckless drivers. In an open letter to Mayor Lee, titled “Don’t be a Zero: We need public service, not lip service,” the […]

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SFPD Commits to “Vision Zero” With Policy Reforms to Back Up the Rhetoric

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

[Editor’s note: Streetsblog will not be publishing Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.] The conversation is changing when it comes to the SFPD’s approach to traffic violence. That much was clear at a four-hour hearing at City Hall last night, where SFPD Chief Suhr and Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali pledged to […]

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