Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Enforcement

Camera Enforcement for Illegal Turns at Market/Octavia Gets Green Light

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 7, 2013 | 26 Comments

Dangerous, illegal right turns from Market Street onto the freeway at the intersection with Octavia Boulevard — the location with the most pedestrian and bicycle crashes in the city — may become less frequent after a long-awaited state decision that allows the city to use camera enforcement. The decision was announced by California Attorney General Kamala Harris last […]

Deadly Holiday Season: Two Peds, One Passenger Killed In Two Weeks

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 2, 2013 | 29 Comments

Two pedestrians and one vehicle passenger lost their lives in separate car crashes in the last two weeks, marking the last of 19 pedestrian deaths in 2012, and the first two traffic fatalities of 2013. Yesterday at approximately 8 a.m., 19-year-old driver David Morales of San Francisco was fleeing from police when he crashed into a […]

Lacking Details, Officials Tout Upcoming SF Ped Action Strategy

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 19, 2012 | 3 Comments

While there’s no concrete Pedestrian Action Strategy (formerly the “Action Plan”) for San Franciscans to read over yet, city officials went ahead and held a press conference today to tell the public the document is coming next month. Mayor Ed Lee, SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin, and other officials gathered on the Powell Street Promenade […]

San Francisco Gets a Long, Ugly Look at SFPD Windshield Perspective

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 14, 2012 | 21 Comments

Video via SFist.A video of an off-duty SF police officer allegedly speeding through the Broadway Tunnel at 100 mph, possibly drunk, has sparked an outcry from street safety advocates. SFPD Sergeant Carl T (that’s his full legal name) posted the video on his Facebook page in September, eliciting comments from fellow officers who joked and reminisced […]

A Reality Check for the DA’s New Traffic Safety Campaign

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 10, 2012 | 37 Comments

For a district attorney who wants to save lives on the streets, using data to target the most dangerous traffic behaviors should be a no-brainer. But the new traffic safety ad campaign announced today by San Francisco DA George Gascón seems to use little application of crash data collected by his own former police department. The three versions of the ad, which […]

SFDPH Interactive Map Highlights SF’s Most Dangerous Streets for Walking

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 16, 2012 | 44 Comments

View Larger Map How dangerous is it to cross the street outside your door? A new interactive, corner-by-corner map created by the SF Department of Public Health shows the location of all pedestrian injuries and deaths from 2005 to 2010, highlighting the corridors that see the bulk of the city’s crashes. By providing better access to […]

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