Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Enforcement

Victims Share Tales of SFPD Anti-Bike Bias and Hostility at City Hall

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 8, 2013 | 93 Comments

When Sarah Harling was hospitalized by a minivan driver who made a left turn into her at a stop sign intersection, she says the SFPD officer who filed the police report included a fabricated statement from her claiming that she “approached the stop sign without stopping.” Harling said she tried to submit a response to […]

The Sorry State of Double-Parking Enforcement on SF Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 2, 2013 | 59 Comments

There’s no question: Double-parking in San Francisco is rampant, and it routinely causes danger for people on bicycles and delays for Muni riders. Just a day after Supervisor Scott Wiener held a hearing on the issue at City Hall at the beginning of the week, a Muni bus driver and car driver collided on Mission at […]

Menlo Park Expands Red Light Photo Enforcement Program

By Andrew Boone | Sep 4, 2013 | 43 Comments

Last week, the Menlo Park City Council voted to extend its red light photo enforcement program for an additional five years and add a fifth red light camera at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Chilco Street, where 20 collisions have resulted in 14 injuries and one fatality since 2008. A temporary test camera installed […]

In Case SFPD Doesn’t Ask for Crash Footage, New Website Can Help Find It

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 26, 2013 | 8 Comments

A new online platform called CommunityCam provides a crowdsourced map of surveillance cameras on the streets that could help investigators and the public find video footage that may prove useful after a traffic crash. As we saw last week, San Franciscans can’t rely on the SFPD to do their jobs when a pedestrian or bicyclist […]

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Watch: “People Behaving Badly” Consults Streetsblog on Bike Lane Safety

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 21, 2013 | 23 Comments

Stanley Roberts asked me to come out yesterday for one of his “People Behaving Badly” segments and help explain how drivers should legally make a right-turn, since CBS 5 didn’t get it quite right. Roberts still didn’t touch on the point that CBS got wrong — drivers can’t just jump in front of people on […]

Gascón’s “Message” Evolves, But Motorists’ Victims Still Await Justice

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 16, 2013 | 26 Comments

At the press conference held yesterday for the sentencing of Chris Bucchere, it was clear that District Attorney George Gascón’s rhetoric concerning traffic safety has evolved somewhat, toward a more accurate reflection of the dangers on city streets. In a departure from the “message to cyclists” that was his focus last month, Gascón emphasized that “traffic safety […]

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