Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Traffic Enforcement

ABC 7: Our Drivers Won’t Follow CA’s 3-Ft Bike Passing Law, So Why Bother?

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 10, 2014 | 18 Comments

ABC 7 is back with another blurry watercolor painting of street safety issues — this time, setting sights on California’s new 3-foot bicycle passing law. ABC reporter Dan Noyes went to great lengths to film real-world examples of the issue, setting up a camera to film passing bike commuters and drivers on Market Street, and drawing […]

SFMTA to Change “Unclear” Sidewalk Parking Guidelines on Website

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 4, 2014 | 25 Comments

The SFMTA web page that provides guidance on “how to park legally” currently tells drivers that “you may park in your own driveway as long as no portion of your vehicle extends over the sidewalk.” The text is accompanied by a photo of someone walking a bike past cars parked in “driveways,” but with their rear […]

Legal System Fails Again: No Charges for Trucker Who Killed Amelie

By Aaron Bialick | May 14, 2014 | 27 Comments

Note: Amelie Le Moullac’s mother, Jessie Jewitt, and other Bay Area musicians will perform at a benefit concert on Friday in Palo Alto at 7:30 p.m. Proceeds will go to Amélie’s Angels, “a fund dedicated to bringing the gifts of education, food, clothing, toys, and most importantly love and laughter, to the children of Haiti.” The truck […]

SFPD Tickets to Peds, Cyclists, Grow 7X Faster Than “Focus on the Five”

By Aaron Bialick | May 9, 2014 | 27 Comments

The SFPD may be working towards its “Focus on the Five” goals — focusing traffic enforcement on the five most dangerous violations, all by drivers — but meanwhile, it’s really ratcheting up its ticket enforcement against those walking and bicycling. This counterproductive use of limited enforcement resources was highlighted at a Police Commission hearing this […]

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Six Months for Killing Hanren Chang: Even Drunk Drivers Get Off Easy

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 10, 2014 | 16 Comments

It’s hard to imagine a more egregiously clear-cut case where a driver deserves a harsh prison term than when drunk driver Kieran Brewer ran over and killed a minor inside a crosswalk. Surely, unlike other cases where sober drivers killed pedestrians and faced few consequences, these circumstances would spur the judicial system into action. Yet Brewer was sentenced […]

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Mapping San Francisco’s Most Speeding-Plagued Streets

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 9, 2014 | 5 Comments

A new online map begins to show which San Francisco streets have the worst speeding problems, according to data from SFMTA engineering and traffic surveys. The map was created by Stephanie May, who works for the SF-based organization Urban Mapping and teaches cartography at SF State University and history at Stanford, according to her Twitter […]

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