SFPD Harasses Bike Commuters
SFPD Park Station Captain John Sanford has made good on his promise: Officers were out this morning ticketing bike commuters who failed to comply with a strict application of the stop sign law on Page Street and the Wiggle. One bike rider said police justified her ticket by adding their own fictional flourish to the law.
August 6, 2015
SF to Test Variable Road Pricing on Treasure Island
Treasure Island will serve as San Francisco's proving grounds for road pricing that adjusts in response to traffic conditions, as the city looks to minimize Bay Bridge car congestion generated by residents expected to move to the development site.
August 5, 2015
SFPD Revises Deadly Driving Campaign to Target People Walking and Biking
According to the San Francisco Police Department, bikes and people are now cars, and everyone is responsible for committing the five violations that kill and maim San Franciscans the most often.
August 3, 2015
Full Bike Compliance With the Stop Sign Law: An Effective Spectacle
Countless bike commuters queued up for over a block yesterday to make a completely legal left turn on the Wiggle. As predicted, the demonstration showed the absurdity of how full compliance with the impractical stop sign law -- which makes no distinction between bikes and cars -- would actually play out.
July 30, 2015
SF Mayor: “I Won’t Bend to Interests Who Disregard Safety”
Contrasting with Supervisor London Breed's sensible position on the demonstration planned in response to the SFPD's impending bike crackdown, we bring you a dispatch from the hidebound side of City Hall -- Room 200.
July 30, 2015
SF Supe Backs Idaho’s Common-Sense Law: Let Bikes Yield at Stop Signs
Supervisor London Breed has come out as the first known elected official in San Francisco to publicly support a sensible change to California traffic law: allowing people on bikes to treat stop signs as yield signs.
July 30, 2015
SFPD Tickets Bicyclists Trying to Get By Cars Queued Up for Freeway
Here's today's edition of egregious waste of SFPD resources used to harass people on bikes.
July 29, 2015
In SF, the Solution to Poor Bike Lanes: Just Get Rid of Them
The SFMTA wants to remove bike lanes and sharrows on King Street in SoMa's South Beach area to discourage bicycling on the truck-heavy street, Hoodline reports.
July 20, 2015
New SFPD Park Station Captain’s Bike Crackdown Won’t Make Streets Safer
In the name of "protecting life," SFPD Park Station Captain John Sanford has promised a crackdown on people on bikes rolling through stop signs.
July 17, 2015
Noe Valley Gets Sidewalk Extensions and Decorative Crosswalks on 24th
City officials celebrated new brick-trimmed crosswalks and sidewalk bulb-outs on 24th Street in Noe Valley at a ribbon-cutting ceremony today.
July 16, 2015