Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Enforcement

Eyes on the Street: Idiots Continue to Park in the Oak Street Bike Lane

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 17, 2015 | 49 Comments

Looks like some tickets are in order. Even with planted protective barriers alongside the Oak Street bike lane, some drivers haven’t got the message and continue to park or stop in it. It’s not clear if the violations are happening less often, and it’s still early in the learning curve, but the hope had been that the planters […]

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Wiener to SFMTA: Don’t Warn Double-Parkers, Cite Them

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 13, 2015 | 41 Comments

Typo correction: The SFMTA says commercial vehicles are only allowed to double park when there is no legal parking space nearby. At a hearing this week on the prevalence of double-parking in SF, Supervisor Scott Wiener said parking control officers shouldn’t give double-parked drivers a chance to move before receiving a citation. “If the worst thing […]

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Police Ticket Cyclists Who Fail to Navigate Market and Octavia’s Bad Design

By Aaron Bialick | Mar 5, 2015 | 51 Comments

Police were seen ticketing people on bikes navigating a poorly-designed junction at the dangerous Market Street and Octavia Boulevard intersection yesterday in the latest “People Behaving Badly” segment from KRON 4’s Stanley Roberts. The bike lane’s design is so flawed, in fact, that the only bike commuter Roberts showed navigating it properly happened to be one of the […]

New SFPD Traffic Chief Ann Mannix Hesitant to “Focus on the Five”

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 27, 2015 | 22 Comments

SFPD Traffic Company Commander Mikail Ali has been replaced by Northern Station Captain Ann Mannix, the SF Chronicle reported today. Ali, who held the position for two-and-a half years, has repeatedly promised that the SFPD is committed to its “Focus on the Five” enforcement campaign. But under his tenure, only one station has come close […]

SFMTA to Push for Speed Camera Enforcement Through State Legislation

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 6, 2015 | 96 Comments

The SFMTA wants to legalize life-saving speed enforcement cameras, and plans to campaign for a state law that would enable San Francisco to install them, the agency’s director of government affairs, Kate Breen, said today. California currently has no law to allow and regulate the use of speed enforcement cameras, though red-light enforcement cameras are allowed. Speed cameras […]

Only One SFPD Station is “Focused on the Five” for Safer Streets: Richmond

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 18, 2014 | 20 Comments

Nearly two years after SFPD announced its “Focus on the Five” program, only one of the 10 police stations is actually meeting its goal of issuing at least 50 percent of traffic citations for the five most common violations that cause pedestrian injuries. Department-wide, that rate was an abysmal 24 percent in September, the latest month […]

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