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"content": "\u003cp>What could go wrong with a tech company’s plan to place hundreds or perhaps thousands of shared bikes around San Francisco, the nation’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.bicycling.com/culture/news/the-50-best-bike-cities-of-2016/slide/2\">second-most-bike-friendly city\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>China-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.bluegogo.com/us/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluegogo\u003c/a>, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/18/sf-supervisors-bluegogo-bike-sharing.html\">has reportedly\u003c/a> scooped up $34 million in startup funds, appears ready to begin deploying its blue aluminum bikes in popular neighborhoods around San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the Bay Area’s public bike-share system — which \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/01/18/sf-supervisors-bluegogo-bike-sharing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to begin expanding this year\u003c/a> from 700 to 7,000 bikes — Bluegogo’s bikes don’t need docking stations. Bluegogo says it will place its bikes only where bicycles may be legally parked and that users will be instructed to do the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco city officials, led by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, have painted a scenario in which abandoned Bluegogo bikes could wind up piled on city sidewalks and other public spaces. At a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/akrazia/status/821793340861489152\">City Hall press conference on Wednesday\u003c/a>, blow-up photos showing \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/17/chinese-discard-hundreds-of-cycles-for-hire-in-giant-pile\">a mess of abandoned shared bikes\u003c/a> in China were displayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bluegogo is just another example of the tech arrogance that has gotten everybody from Airbnb to Uber in trouble,” said Peskin. “San Francisco has historically been known for its welcome mat, but in recent years we’ve let ourselves become a doormat. It’s time to put the public’s interests first, even if that means disrupting the disrupters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, joined by Supervisor Mark Farrell and Brian Wiedenmeier, the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, vowed to introduce legislation “prohibiting the unpermitted use of the public realm as a distribution platform for private bike-share corporations and other unregulated ‘sharing economy’ schemes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Jan. 16 letter to Bluegogo from Ed Reiskin, head of the Municipal Transportation Agency, and Mohammed Nuru, director of Public Works, asked the company to provide its business plan, show it has obtained a city business license, and confirm that its operations would not interfere with the city’s exclusive contract with Bay Area Motivate LLC, which operates Bay Area BikeShare, soon to become Ford GoBike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exclusive bike-share contract contains just three exceptions: traditional bike-rental operations, electric scooter sharing, and automated round-trip bike sharing — systems that require users to return bicycles to the site where they’re rented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city letter warns that if Bluegogo’s business violated that contract provision, the city may withhold permits and could take legal action against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of equal concern, the letter said, was the company’s use of public sidewalks and streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To the extent that your shared bicycles will occupy the public right of way, we require they do so in compliance with local law and in a manner that does not constitute a public nuisance or public safety hazard,” the letter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Public Works, said the department has the authority to remove the bikes if they become a hazard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11276996\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11276996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-1020x532.png\" alt=\"Bluegogo insists its bikes will be placed only where its legal to park a bicycle, and that its users will be instructed to do the same.\" width=\"640\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-1020x532.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-800x417.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-1180x616.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-960x501.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-240x125.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-375x196.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM-520x271.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-19-at-10.24.04-AM.png 1221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluegogo’s bikes have locking clamps on the back wheels, and an alarm sounds when the bikes move without being unlocked. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Bluegogo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Ilya Movshovich, Bluegogo’s vice president of U.S. operations, said considering that San Francisco is “a bike city,” Bluegogo was shocked to see the pushback from city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re still happy to be cooperative and collaborative,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to SFMTA officials dated Jan. 2 and provided by Bluegogo, Movshovich wrote to Luis Montoya, the head of the SFMTA’s livable streets program. He inquired about what permits the company might need and shared some general information about the company’s planned operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that according to California law, we can’t drop our bikes in positions that would disrupt an adequate path for pedestrian traffic. We don’t intend to do that. We also have a system in place to monitor, review and reward/penalize users for bicycle placement behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Movshovich wrote that the company would charge a $99 deposit that “would hedge against damaged bikes or if the user is irresponsible with bike placement or any actions that would jeopardize the safety of others — they would get assessed a warning, and possibly a fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bluegogo says it plans to charge 99 cents for every 30 minutes, along with the $99 deposit. The cheapest Bay Area BikeShare membership is $9 for 24 hours, a charge that provides unlimited rides up to 30 minutes each; rides of 30 to 60 minutes incur a $4 overage fee; rides over 60 minutes cost $7 for each additional half-hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users can locate a bike with the Bluegogo app, reserve it and have about 15 minutes to pick it up before the reservation expires. The bikes weigh 33 pounds and come equipped with airless tires, so users don’t have to worry about flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty is the fact that we don’t have docking stations, which makes us special and unique in this market,” said Movshovich, who is also co-founder of the shared-parking startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.carmanation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CARMAnation\u003c/a>. “It’s more likely that people are going to be using the bikes when it’s a couple of steps from them as opposed to a couple of blocks. 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He inquired about what permits the company might need and shared some general information about the company’s planned operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that according to California law, we can’t drop our bikes in positions that would disrupt an adequate path for pedestrian traffic. We don’t intend to do that. We also have a system in place to monitor, review and reward/penalize users for bicycle placement behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Movshovich wrote that the company would charge a $99 deposit that “would hedge against damaged bikes or if the user is irresponsible with bike placement or any actions that would jeopardize the safety of others — they would get assessed a warning, and possibly a fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bluegogo says it plans to charge 99 cents for every 30 minutes, along with the $99 deposit. The cheapest Bay Area BikeShare membership is $9 for 24 hours, a charge that provides unlimited rides up to 30 minutes each; rides of 30 to 60 minutes incur a $4 overage fee; rides over 60 minutes cost $7 for each additional half-hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Users can locate a bike with the Bluegogo app, reserve it and have about 15 minutes to pick it up before the reservation expires. The bikes weigh 33 pounds and come equipped with airless tires, so users don’t have to worry about flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty is the fact that we don’t have docking stations, which makes us special and unique in this market,” said Movshovich, who is also co-founder of the shared-parking startup \u003ca href=\"https://www.carmanation.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CARMAnation\u003c/a>. “It’s more likely that people are going to be using the bikes when it’s a couple of steps from them as opposed to a couple of blocks. We bring easier access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Movshovich wouldn’t talk numbers, neither confirming the amount of funding the company has raised nor the number of bikes the company plans to deploy around the city. But he said it’s nowhere near 10,000 to 20,000, as some have speculated. The company can scale up or down depending on the demand, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIihzODbaOc&w=800&h=450]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Caltrans just made it official: The agency will open the final segment of \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/path\" target=\"_blank\">the Bay Bridge Trail\u003c/a>, the cycling and pedestrian path from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island, around noon on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The path will be open to a landing area at the island end of the bridge. From there, shuttles will be available to take people back and forth to Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles, which are set to operate every half hour from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on days the path is open, are designed to keep people off Hillcrest Road, which leads to Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Cassidy, communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, said transportation officials and cycling and pedestrian advocates consider the route exceptionally hazardous: steep, poorly paved, lacking sidewalks and an artery for traffic heading to and from the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've biked for a long time in and around San Francisco, and I'd take advocates' warnings very seriously about Hillcrest,\" Cassidy said Friday. \"We fought for these shuttles and strongly recommend you use them to access the remainder of the island.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shuttles are expected to accommodate eight to 12 passengers and be equipped with racks that can carry eight bikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 4:27 p.m Thursday:\u003c/strong> It's a decision seemingly \u003ca href=\"http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma\u003c/a>, but officials at Caltrans may have made up their minds to open the final leg of the Bay Bridge bike and pedestrian path to Yerba Buena Island this Sunday, Oct. 23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the agency on Thursday declined to discuss the opening date, though cycling advocates and others \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/11/bay-bridge-east-span-bike-path-its-done-just-not-open-yet/\" target=\"_blank\">have been suggesting\u003c/a> the bike path would open by the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Caltrans may have let the cat out of the bag by way of \u003ca href=\"http://www.baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/sfobb-bike-path-closure-calendarr4_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a bike-path calendar\u003c/a> for October and November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11138620\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11138620\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39.png\" alt=\"Bay Bridge bike path calendar for October and November. \" width=\"780\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39.png 780w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-160x122.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-240x184.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-375x287.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Screenshot-2016-10-20-15.32.39-520x398.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Bridge bike path calendar for October and November.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calendar says, in part, \"The Bay Bridge bike path will be open on the 2-mile long bridge this winter on weekends and holidays from Oakland to the YBI [Yerba Buena Island] landing from 7 a.m.-6 p.m.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunday, Oct. 23, is marked as a day the path will be open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, maybe that's a scoop -- OK, a mini-scoop -- maybe it's not. But there are a couple more things to note in the little bit of information divulged on the calendar:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the path will be open only to the \"landing\" area at its Yerba Buena Island end. Officials have described the area as a busy construction zone, and it's not clear whether cyclists would be allowed to proceed down an adjacent road and on to Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second, the calendar pointedly says there are \"no parking or pedestrian facilities on YBI.\" The takeaway from that: Those who want to walk the path need to park at the Oakland end and make the 2-mile-plus hike out to the island and back. (Eventually, the agencies involved in the Bay Bridge Trail project plan to set up shuttles to carry pedestrians and less experienced cyclists from the path down to Treasure Island and back. Work continues on a nearby vista point for cyclists and walkers, but that feature is not expected to open for several weeks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third, the calendar reinforces the current rather disappointing reality for eager cyclists and walkers: The path will be closed virtually every weekday between now and Thanksgiving because of demolition work on the old eastern span. On the other hand, the path is scheduled to be open every weekend in November, with a four-day opening on Thanksgiving weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there's one other major piece of Bay Bridge work to note this weekend: On Saturday, Caltrans will open a new, improved ramp from the bridge's eastern span to Yerba Buena Island. The new ramp switches the exit from the left to the right side of the roadway.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's top transportation official is conceding that dozens of \"new\" traffic safety initiatives -- measures Mayor Ed Lee announced amid \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/two-san-francisco-cyclists-killed-in-hit-and-run-crashes\" target=\"_blank\">demands for action\u003c/a> after two cyclists died in hit-and-run crashes last week -- are not so new after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Lee announced a “new listing” of 57 high-priority projects that will be initiated this year as part of the city's \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/vision-zero\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> program, which aims to end traffic deaths in San Francisco by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates jumped on the list almost immediately following its release, calling the mayor's statement \"misleading.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor should not be presenting existing work as new work, as if in response to these fatal collisions,” said Margaret McCarthy, the interim executive director of the San Francisco Bike Coalition. She was referring to two cyclists, Heather Miller and Kate Slattery, who were killed by hit-and-run motorists just hours apart on June 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a Friday appearance on KQED's \"Forum,\" city Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin took responsibility for the choice of words and clarified the intent behind the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This list is a short list of the many projects that we’re working on,” Reiskin said. “What was new was our commitment to reach the milestones that we identified on this list by the end of 2017.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy was among dozens of bicyclists and advocates who packed Thursday’s Vision Zero committee meeting at City Hall to share their frustration with what they see as a lack of action on the part of city officials to protect bicyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset District resident Elisabeth Snider told the committee she's worried about the safety of cycling in Golden Gate Park, where Heather Miller was killed last week and where Snider regularly rides with her three young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even on the marked bike routes, there’s no enforcement,” Snider said. “Cars speed, they do not give right of way where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/how-sfmta-invented-%E2%80%93-and-named-%E2%80%93-bike-sharrow\" target=\"_blank\">sharrows\u003c/a> are. It is extremely dangerous to bike through the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco, pointed out that more than a quarter of the way to Vision Zero’s 2024 goal of zero traffic deaths, there has been no reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTools/index.html?appid=38d13e08cd74492ea674cdf27343370a\" target=\"_blank\">City data show\u003c/a> there were 31 traffic fatalities in each of the past two calendar years since Vision Zero was announced and 19 deaths so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 81 total deaths recorded on city streets since the program started include 50 pedestrians, 11 motorcyclists, nine bicyclists, six motor vehicle passengers and five drivers. The tally doesn't include 16 deaths that have occurred on freeways in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s depressing, it’s really depressing,” Ferrara said. “It has to be also a call to action and re-initiate that sense of urgency because we know these crashes are preventable, and we know we can do something to change them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrara called for San Francisco to adopt automated speed enforcement -- better known as speed cameras -- which would allow the city to more effectively detect and cite speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current state law bans the cameras, and identifying state legislators who would back a statute allowing the devices is one of the 57 “high-priority projects” Mayor Lee announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Vision Zero meeting, Supervisor Jane Kim asked the SFMTA’s director of sustainable streets, Tom Maguire, if the city could implement speed cameras without waiting for state approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can we be creative about thinking about these cameras to change behavior because we know that SFMTA and SFPD just simply cannot be at all the high-injury corridors 24/7?” Kim asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire said that the SFMTA is working with the city attorney to investigate that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim mentioned San Francisco’s history of defying state laws when they come up against city values, such as same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just getting tired of waiting,” Kim said. “I feel like at a certain point we have to stand up and say we’re going to do this because it’s the right thing to do, and if the state is not ready to save lives in our city then we’re going to do it and challenge state law on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday's \"Forum,\" Reiskin said the city was working on state legislation that would authorize San Francisco to implement a limited automated speed enforcement program tailored to answer concerns that such systems invade motorist privacy and may be little more than a revenue grab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the program would focus on vehicle license plates, not drivers, with fines of no more than $100. Citations would not be issued unless a vehicle is traveling at least 10 mph above posted speed limits. And drivers would not be penalized with points on their driving records for the San Francisco speed citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hearing the concerns, trying to address them, trying to work with folks in the Legislature and other stakeholders to get this through,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protected bike lanes have been one of the biggest demands of bike advocates, and Maguire touted the 13 miles of protected bike lanes that have been built since 2010. He said the agency’s bike program is re-evaluating the $90 million set aside for bicycle improvements in the five-year capital plan to see if protected bike lanes are the best tool for increasing safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of the 57 high-priority projects involve protected bike lanes, but McCarthy said on \"Forum\" that it’s not enough. She specifically mentioned the lack of a planning for a protected bike lane on Golden Gate Park's John F. Kennedy Drive, where Miller was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying not to chase necessarily the last incident but to focus on the ones we know that are of the highest priority,” Reiskin said. He also cited engineering concerns and limited funding as other barriers to building more protected bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to infrastructure projects, the SFMTA is focusing on increased education and enforcement efforts to help reduce traffic deaths. These include “targeted local messaging” on speeding this summer, a major media push in September and 130 hours a week of targeted speeding enforcement by SFPD in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Norman Yee said Thursday he wants to hear more about education initiatives at the next Vision Zero committee meeting, and Supervisor John Avalos voiced concern that current education efforts aren’t cutting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[A successful] education program to me is going to be something that gets inside the consciousness of people whether they’re looking for it or not,” Avalos said, “and we haven’t gotten to that level of saturation yet.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This list is a short list of the many projects that we’re working on,” Reiskin said. “What was new was our commitment to reach the milestones that we identified on this list by the end of 2017.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarthy was among dozens of bicyclists and advocates who packed Thursday’s Vision Zero committee meeting at City Hall to share their frustration with what they see as a lack of action on the part of city officials to protect bicyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunset District resident Elisabeth Snider told the committee she's worried about the safety of cycling in Golden Gate Park, where Heather Miller was killed last week and where Snider regularly rides with her three young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even on the marked bike routes, there’s no enforcement,” Snider said. “Cars speed, they do not give right of way where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/how-sfmta-invented-%E2%80%93-and-named-%E2%80%93-bike-sharrow\" target=\"_blank\">sharrows\u003c/a> are. It is extremely dangerous to bike through the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco, pointed out that more than a quarter of the way to Vision Zero’s 2024 goal of zero traffic deaths, there has been no reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapTools/index.html?appid=38d13e08cd74492ea674cdf27343370a\" target=\"_blank\">City data show\u003c/a> there were 31 traffic fatalities in each of the past two calendar years since Vision Zero was announced and 19 deaths so far this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 81 total deaths recorded on city streets since the program started include 50 pedestrians, 11 motorcyclists, nine bicyclists, six motor vehicle passengers and five drivers. The tally doesn't include 16 deaths that have occurred on freeways in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s depressing, it’s really depressing,” Ferrara said. “It has to be also a call to action and re-initiate that sense of urgency because we know these crashes are preventable, and we know we can do something to change them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferrara called for San Francisco to adopt automated speed enforcement -- better known as speed cameras -- which would allow the city to more effectively detect and cite speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current state law bans the cameras, and identifying state legislators who would back a statute allowing the devices is one of the 57 “high-priority projects” Mayor Lee announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Vision Zero meeting, Supervisor Jane Kim asked the SFMTA’s director of sustainable streets, Tom Maguire, if the city could implement speed cameras without waiting for state approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can we be creative about thinking about these cameras to change behavior because we know that SFMTA and SFPD just simply cannot be at all the high-injury corridors 24/7?” Kim asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire said that the SFMTA is working with the city attorney to investigate that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim mentioned San Francisco’s history of defying state laws when they come up against city values, such as same-sex marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m just getting tired of waiting,” Kim said. “I feel like at a certain point we have to stand up and say we’re going to do this because it’s the right thing to do, and if the state is not ready to save lives in our city then we’re going to do it and challenge state law on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday's \"Forum,\" Reiskin said the city was working on state legislation that would authorize San Francisco to implement a limited automated speed enforcement program tailored to answer concerns that such systems invade motorist privacy and may be little more than a revenue grab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the program would focus on vehicle license plates, not drivers, with fines of no more than $100. Citations would not be issued unless a vehicle is traveling at least 10 mph above posted speed limits. And drivers would not be penalized with points on their driving records for the San Francisco speed citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hearing the concerns, trying to address them, trying to work with folks in the Legislature and other stakeholders to get this through,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protected bike lanes have been one of the biggest demands of bike advocates, and Maguire touted the 13 miles of protected bike lanes that have been built since 2010. He said the agency’s bike program is re-evaluating the $90 million set aside for bicycle improvements in the five-year capital plan to see if protected bike lanes are the best tool for increasing safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of the 57 high-priority projects involve protected bike lanes, but McCarthy said on \"Forum\" that it’s not enough. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee expressed anger about \"illegal, irresponsible, outrageous\" motorist behavior that resulted in the hit-and-run deaths of two cyclists on city streets Wednesday evening -- a statement bicycle safety advocates criticized as \"hollow words\" that aren't being backed up with effective action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two women killed Wednesday -- \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/improving-our-cities/a-list-of-people-killed-while-riding-a-bicycle-in-san-francisco-1456bbd017d9#.wum4jo542\" target=\"_blank\">listed unofficially\u003c/a> as the 14th and 15th cyclists to be struck and killed on San Francisco streets since 2011 -- died in collisions in Golden Gate Park and South of Market. In the second case, passers-by reportedly detained the driver believed to be involved in the crash. (More details on the fatalities \u003ca href=\"#hitrundeaths\">below\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Park victim was identified as Heather Miller, 41. The woman killed at Seventh and Howard was Katherine Slattery, 26. Both were San Francisco residents. Here's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Two-bicyclists-killed-in-separate-SF-hit-and-run-8321105.php\" target=\"_blank\">the San Francisco Chronicle's account\u003c/a> of how the fatal episodes unfolded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Miller was killed around 6 p.m. Wednesday while bicycling east on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park. Police said a man driving a stolen white Honda in the westbound direction hit her when he veered into the opposite lane while attempting to speed around slower cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver of the Honda fled the scene, officials said. The vehicle was later found abandoned at the Anglers Lodge in Golden Gate Park. Authorities said the car had been reported stolen and that they are in communication with the registered owner. They were still searching for the suspect Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 8:30 p.m., Slattery was killed when a man in a black BMW SUV headed west on Howard Street sped through a red light and struck her as she was pedaling north on Seventh Street, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That driver continued on to a gas station at Ninth and Howard streets, where he hit a parked vehicle and stopped, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A citizen spotted the driver and made him to stay at the scene until police arrived and took him into custody. Officials do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved. The driver ... was arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police have identified the driver as Farrukh Mushtaq, 32, of San Francisco. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Thursday morning press conference at San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency headquarters, Lee called the incidents \"the consequences of total irresponsibility. We cannot have that in our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city's \u003ca href=\"http://visionzerosf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> program to eliminate traffic deaths is showing progress and vowed to work along with groups representing pedestrians, cyclists and seniors to get the city to \"come together even stronger to reinforce the standards of using our streets appropriately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee returned repeatedly to the suggestion that individuals driving on city streets are not behaving responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As much as we are doing to educate the public, whether it's through signage, through education, we have to also do a level of enforcement to hold these individuals accountable and make sure that they are using our streets safely,\" Lee said. \"These are totally avoidable tragedies. Totally avoidable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Cassidy, the communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, called the Wednesday night fatalities \"an unprecedented night of tragedy for people biking in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that Lee's remarks fail to address the ongoing death toll, which \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/scorecards/traffic-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\">according to city statistics\u003c/a> includes 110 pedestrians killed in traffic collisions since July 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what we heard this morning from city leaders was hollow words without any detail,\" Cassidy said. \"The people of San Francisco deserve safer streets. That's the end of the discussion. They deserved them yesterday, and they deserve urgent steps and specific plans today by city leaders to deliver safer streets as soon as humanly possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike coalition noted that the sites of Wednesday fatalities, on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park and at Seventh and Howard streets South of Market, are located in high-injury corridors identified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The coalition and other street safety advocates have called for the creation of more protected bike lanes -- lanes that are physically separated from motorized traffic -- to help prevent collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to see protected bike lanes across San Francisco,\" Cassidy said. \"We need to see them on JFK Drive, where they could have prevented the fatality that occurred yesterday. We need to see them in SoMa, which is a neighborhood crisscrossed by high-injury corridors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition released a list of more than 60 streets identified as high-injury corridors that the city has no immediate plans to make safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin appeared at Lee's press conference and agreed that the city's most dangerous locations and the causes of most accidents are well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know why they're happening, we know where they're happening, and we know what things we can do to make them least likely to happen,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that change is coming to the most hazardous locales -- including Seventh and Howard, where one of Thursday's victims was killed by a driver who reportedly ran a red light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin said that crosswalks were recently upgraded to make pedestrians more visible to drivers and that traffic signals have been mounted on long arms across the intersection where motorists can see them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last night's episode showed design alone isn't sufficient if somebody is speeding through the streets and disobeying the laws,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"hitrundeaths\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police are investigating two hit-and-run collisions on Wednesday evening in which motorists struck and killed cyclists, then fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area reports details of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Female-Cyclist-Killed-in-Hit-and-Run-in-Golden-Gate-Park-384063951.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first incident\u003c/a>, which took place about 6 p.m. on John F. Kennedy Drive near 30th Avenue. A woman riding her bike there was struck by a white Honda Fit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Witnesses said the vehicle was traveling about 50-60 mph when it crossed over into oncoming traffic to pass another vehicle and hit the bicycle head-on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard an impact, and I look and see the woman who had just passed us fly up, and I saw the bike fly the other direction,\" said Timmory Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said the driver slowed momentarily after the impact then took off in a hurry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman, in her 20s, was not responsive at the scene, despite the efforts of emergency crews to revive her. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle, which had paper dealership plates, was found a few blocks away with a shattered windshield. Police said at least two people were in the vehicle, and they are searching for a second vehicle that may lead them to the person or persons responsible.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The second fatal collision occurred about 8:30 p.m. at Seventh and Howard streets in the SoMa neighborhood. In that incident, witnesses said, a driver ran a red light, struck a female cyclist, and drove on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say they were able to locate and arrest the driver, apparently after other cyclists spotted the male driver just blocks west of the collision scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/4pfjey/i_caught_a_driver_fleeing_a_hit_and_run_on_howard/\" target=\"_blank\">a post\u003c/a> on Reddit's San Francisco subreddit, the driver was seen trying to walk away from his vehicle after a second collision, this time with another vehicle:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I saw a man flee a car with airbags opened and signs of a fresh accident, as the car hit into another car. Called 911 and tried to get the attention of other driving passerbys that paused but kept going. As the guy tried to blend in with others on the street, I chased him down with another pedestrian and demanded he sit and wait for the police, he obliged. Definitely not sober. F'ing guy killed someone due to his recklessness. Witnesses said he blew through a red light when he struck the girl. His car told the same story.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Neither the woman killed in Golden Gate Park nor the one killed South of Market had been identified as of early Thursday. 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We cannot have that in our city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the city's \u003ca href=\"http://visionzerosf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> program to eliminate traffic deaths is showing progress and vowed to work along with groups representing pedestrians, cyclists and seniors to get the city to \"come together even stronger to reinforce the standards of using our streets appropriately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee returned repeatedly to the suggestion that individuals driving on city streets are not behaving responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As much as we are doing to educate the public, whether it's through signage, through education, we have to also do a level of enforcement to hold these individuals accountable and make sure that they are using our streets safely,\" Lee said. \"These are totally avoidable tragedies. Totally avoidable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Cassidy, the communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, called the Wednesday night fatalities \"an unprecedented night of tragedy for people biking in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that Lee's remarks fail to address the ongoing death toll, which \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/scorecards/traffic-fatalities\" target=\"_blank\">according to city statistics\u003c/a> includes 110 pedestrians killed in traffic collisions since July 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think what we heard this morning from city leaders was hollow words without any detail,\" Cassidy said. \"The people of San Francisco deserve safer streets. That's the end of the discussion. They deserved them yesterday, and they deserve urgent steps and specific plans today by city leaders to deliver safer streets as soon as humanly possible.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike coalition noted that the sites of Wednesday fatalities, on John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park and at Seventh and Howard streets South of Market, are located in high-injury corridors identified by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. The coalition and other street safety advocates have called for the creation of more protected bike lanes -- lanes that are physically separated from motorized traffic -- to help prevent collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to see protected bike lanes across San Francisco,\" Cassidy said. \"We need to see them on JFK Drive, where they could have prevented the fatality that occurred yesterday. We need to see them in SoMa, which is a neighborhood crisscrossed by high-injury corridors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition released a list of more than 60 streets identified as high-injury corridors that the city has no immediate plans to make safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin appeared at Lee's press conference and agreed that the city's most dangerous locations and the causes of most accidents are well known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know why they're happening, we know where they're happening, and we know what things we can do to make them least likely to happen,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that change is coming to the most hazardous locales -- including Seventh and Howard, where one of Thursday's victims was killed by a driver who reportedly ran a red light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin said that crosswalks were recently upgraded to make pedestrians more visible to drivers and that traffic signals have been mounted on long arms across the intersection where motorists can see them more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last night's episode showed design alone isn't sufficient if somebody is speeding through the streets and disobeying the laws,\" Reiskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"hitrundeaths\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nOriginal post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police are investigating two hit-and-run collisions on Wednesday evening in which motorists struck and killed cyclists, then fled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NBC Bay Area reports details of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Female-Cyclist-Killed-in-Hit-and-Run-in-Golden-Gate-Park-384063951.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first incident\u003c/a>, which took place about 6 p.m. on John F. 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"content": "\u003cp>Brenda Kett refuses to believe her son is to blame for his own death. Mark Heryer had ridden a bike for most of his life and was skilled at navigating mountain trails and chaotic city streets. But three weeks ago, the 47-year-old cyclist was struck and killed by a Muni bus on Market Street -- a collision police say he caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard so many conflicting things, and you know, it’s not making sense to me,” says Kett, a 75-year-old clothing designer with short silver-gray hair and sharp blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the dining room of the Mission District apartment where she has lived for 33 years, she gazes over at a table where Heryer had been standing the day of his death. He had his bike under an arm, with a helmet and cycling shoes on, ready to ride off to meet friends. It's an image she can't stop seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232638800\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heryer, who lived in Berkeley with his wife and 8-year-old daughter, was riding westbound up Market Street just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, when police say he encountered a particularly dangerous piece of street infrastructure that both the city and cycling advocates warn about but which many cyclists say is all but impossible to avoid: Muni's streetcar tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco police officer who investigated the incident said in his report that Heryer’s bike got caught in the tracks and he was “thrown to the ground.” A long, articulated 38-Geary bus traveling in the lane to his right ran over him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there are lots of unanswered questions about the tragedy, Kett says she's certain her son’s death could have been prevented had the city done more to ensure the safety of growing numbers of bicyclists on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think he would have taken unnecessary risks because he was well aware of how inadequate the structure of the city’s streets are, in terms of taking care of the needs of bicyclists,” Kett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants the city to act immediately to make the busy lower stretch of Market Street safer for bicyclists -- a sentiment shared by cycling advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Market St. from Sutter to Battery is shut down as police investigate a fatal collision between a bus and a bicyclist \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/qR336eT6kz\">pic.twitter.com/qR336eT6kz\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/svqjournalist/status/653341447257587712\">October 11, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What is most startling about the investigation to Heryer's family, friends and a lawyer representing the family is that police faulted him for causing the crash, citing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_content_en/dmv/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c1/a4/21208\" target=\"_blank\">section of the vehicle code\u003c/a> that says he should have been riding in a bike lane. However, there are no bike lanes on that stretch of Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three westbound lanes: two marked with sharrows, indicating bicycles and motor vehicles are to share the lane and, to the left, an unmarked transit lane with the streetcar tracks. Kett says a police inspector told Heryer’s wife it appeared he was trying to pass the bus because it had been moving slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni buses pick up passengers on center boarding islands and curbside, so they use all lanes on Market Street. The SFMTA displays ads on the rear of buses advising cyclists to always pass a bus on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's streetcar tracks are another well-known hazard. Both the SFMTA and \u003ca href=\"http://sfbike.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> advise cyclists to pay special attention to the tracks and surrounding pavement and to cross at a 90-degree angle if possible. In a 2006 guide, the SFBC cautions, \"It is easy to lose control as your wheel slides into a parallel track groove, and you will fall quickly and hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the collision, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/berkeley-cyclist-killed-in-market-street-collision-with-s-f-muni-bus\" target=\"_blank\">media reports\u003c/a> quoted police and transportation officials as saying Heryer “lost control and collided with the bus.” The police report says investigators came to their conclusions about the cause of the crash based on the account of one witness -- the bus driver -- and video evidence that has not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes several grim details, including the discovery of a handprint near the front of the Muni bus that may have been left by Heryer as he fell. One set of the vehicle's wheels on the driver's side came to rest on Heryer, who died of trauma to the head and body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report identifies the Muni driver as Douglas Bonilla, 46, of Tracy. It said he was “visibly upset” after the crash and was treated by a medic at the scene. However, the report does not disclose what the driver told police about the collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla started driving for Muni in March, according to SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose. He said drivers are required to complete nine weeks of training. The program includes a partnership with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition that instructs drivers how to operate buses alongside cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most telling evidence from that day could be video from the Muni bus and two other coaches that may have been in the vicinity when the collision happened. But so far the family’s lawyer has not been able to get the video from either the SFMTA or San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Experienced Cyclist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10738854\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Family and friends say Mark Heryer was a skilled cyclist who would have never put himself in harm's way. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family and friends say Mark Heryer was a skilled cyclist who would have never put himself in harm's way. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Dawson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Mark Heryer was 8 years old, and the family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brenda Kett had no hesitation about letting him ride his bicycle into the traffic chaos of Harvard Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you that back in the '70s, that traffic was pure anarchy,” she remembers. “Most parents, particularly helicopter parents, wouldn’t go anywhere near that. He was capable of doing that as an 8-year-old. He was a competent bike rider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heryer was born in San Francisco but didn’t live there until he was a teenager. Trained as a chef, he had a deep passion for food and was funny, opinionated and talkative, says Kett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would have given you anything you wanted if you needed it,” says Kett. “He was a very generous, wonderful person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Skilbeck, a friend of the family who used to rent a room from Kett, is a former cycling journalist who first met Heryer when he moved to San Francisco in 1997. When Heryer found out Skilbeck was a cyclist, he took him on a tour of the Marin Headlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a warm, interesting, enjoyable person, and everybody is really devastated that he’s gone, that’s he’s not going to be around anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skilbeck, who worked as a bike messenger in London, said Heryer had urban bicycling skills comparable to a messenger. \"That's the scary thing about it,\" he said. \"That somebody with his level of experience can fall victim.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10742483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10742483 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-1440x1061.jpg\" alt='Brenda Kett looks at photos of her late son. \"I had no idea how many people he influenced until we lost him,\" she said. ' width=\"640\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-1440x1061.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-400x295.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-1180x869.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-960x707.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Kett looks at photos of her late son. 'I had no idea how many people he influenced until we lost him,' she said. \u003ccite>((Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Mistakes in Earlier Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police have a troubling history investigating collisions that injure people who bike and walk, according to safe streets advocates. But after a series of blunders \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/13/no-charges-for-driver-in-death-of-bicyclist-amelie-le-moullac\" target=\"_blank\">in the case of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a>, who was killed when she was hit by a truck at Sixth and Folsom streets in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr pledged to reform the department's investigations. He also made it policy to stop referring to collisions as “accidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the attorneys who represented Le Moullac's family, Anthony Label, now represents the Heryer family. He helped win a $4 million \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">judgment against the driver\u003c/a> who killed Le Moullac for negligence, along with the company he worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial police report in the Le Moullac case concluded the cyclist was at fault, but police reversed that finding and blamed the driver after a bike advocate uncovered surveillance video of the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine-page traffic collision report in Heryer’s case, Label says, doesn't contain much detail. The report says investigators canvassed the area for witnesses and video, and left a phone message for a potential witness but were \"unable to make contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Label is particularly concerned about what he says appears to be a clear misinterpretation of the vehicle code that applies to marked bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Police Department is going to document and officially memorialize the cause of a cyclist’s death as being the fault of the cyclist for violating the law, at a minimum they should get it right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, Inspector Lori Cadigan, who signed off on the report, would not comment, and referred calls to the department’s public affairs spokespeople. So far, they have not returned our phone calls and emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Board of Supervisors' Bicycle Advisory Committee, Label suggested looking into having the California Highway Patrol investigate collisions where a Muni vehicle is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would essentially involve an independent agency that isn't a police department investigating a co-worker, essentially, a Muni driver, whose employer is also the city and county of San Francisco,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safer Market Street \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10742484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10742484 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclist wobbles over streetcar rails at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in the Financial District. Bike advocates say city officials need to immediately make this stretch of Market safer for bicyclists.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclist wobbles over streetcar rails at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in the Financial District. Bike advocates say city officials need to immediately make this stretch of Market safer for bicyclists. \u003ccite>((Alan Toth/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials have been working to improve safety on Market Street, most recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-motley-Market-Street-tamed-so-far-by-6585427.php\" target=\"_blank\">restricting private autos\u003c/a> from turning onto the city's main thoroughfare, identified as a high-injury corridor under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/06/sf-takes-step-toward-goal-of-zero-traffic-deaths-in-10-years/\">the Vision Zero program\u003c/a>. SFMTA officials are also planning to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/19/san-francisco-gets-ready-for-its-first-raised-bikeway\" target=\"_blank\">test a raised bike lane\u003c/a>, which is now being built on Market just west of Van Ness Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a permanent safety fix is still years away. City agencies have been working on a long-term vision known as the Better Market Street plan, but construction is not expected to begin until sometime in 2018. A final design has not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates have long been calling for a continuous protected bike lane from Octavia Boulevard to the Embarcadero, a distance of about 2.25 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Continued inaction by city officials towards that goal on our city's most biked corridor looks increasingly irresponsible,\" said Chris Cassidy, the bike coalition's communications director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other \u003ca href=\"http://bettermarketstreetsf.org/about-reports-docs.html#design-options\" target=\"_blank\">designs being considered \u003c/a>include a shared lane and building a bikeway on Mission Street, instead of Market, from South Van Ness Avenue to the Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the SFMTA and Department of Public Works, which is overseeing the long-term vision, say they are not planning any interim measures on Market in the wake of Heryer’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Kett and the bike coalition say they plan to continue pressing for immediate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe it takes a serious or fatal accident close to home to change people’s minds,” Kett said in a statement to the Bicycle Advisory Committee. “I know if I could wind back the clock, I would have been advocating for safe streets long go, and I urge other families not to wait until one of their loved ones becomes a victim.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Brenda Kett refuses to believe her son is to blame for his own death. Mark Heryer had ridden a bike for most of his life and was skilled at navigating mountain trails and chaotic city streets. But three weeks ago, the 47-year-old cyclist was struck and killed by a Muni bus on Market Street -- a collision police say he caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve heard so many conflicting things, and you know, it’s not making sense to me,” says Kett, a 75-year-old clothing designer with short silver-gray hair and sharp blue eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in the dining room of the Mission District apartment where she has lived for 33 years, she gazes over at a table where Heryer had been standing the day of his death. He had his bike under an arm, with a helmet and cycling shoes on, ready to ride off to meet friends. It's an image she can't stop seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232638800&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232638800'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heryer, who lived in Berkeley with his wife and 8-year-old daughter, was riding westbound up Market Street just after 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 11, when police say he encountered a particularly dangerous piece of street infrastructure that both the city and cycling advocates warn about but which many cyclists say is all but impossible to avoid: Muni's streetcar tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco police officer who investigated the incident said in his report that Heryer’s bike got caught in the tracks and he was “thrown to the ground.” A long, articulated 38-Geary bus traveling in the lane to his right ran over him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although there are lots of unanswered questions about the tragedy, Kett says she's certain her son’s death could have been prevented had the city done more to ensure the safety of growing numbers of bicyclists on Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think he would have taken unnecessary risks because he was well aware of how inadequate the structure of the city’s streets are, in terms of taking care of the needs of bicyclists,” Kett says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wants the city to act immediately to make the busy lower stretch of Market Street safer for bicyclists -- a sentiment shared by cycling advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Market St. from Sutter to Battery is shut down as police investigate a fatal collision between a bus and a bicyclist \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/qR336eT6kz\">pic.twitter.com/qR336eT6kz\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/svqjournalist/status/653341447257587712\">October 11, 2015\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What is most startling about the investigation to Heryer's family, friends and a lawyer representing the family is that police faulted him for causing the crash, citing a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/?1dmy&urile=wcm:path:/dmv_content_en/dmv/pubs/vctop/vc/d11/c1/a4/21208\" target=\"_blank\">section of the vehicle code\u003c/a> that says he should have been riding in a bike lane. However, there are no bike lanes on that stretch of Market Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are three westbound lanes: two marked with sharrows, indicating bicycles and motor vehicles are to share the lane and, to the left, an unmarked transit lane with the streetcar tracks. Kett says a police inspector told Heryer’s wife it appeared he was trying to pass the bus because it had been moving slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni buses pick up passengers on center boarding islands and curbside, so they use all lanes on Market Street. The SFMTA displays ads on the rear of buses advising cyclists to always pass a bus on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's streetcar tracks are another well-known hazard. Both the SFMTA and \u003ca href=\"http://sfbike.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition\u003c/a> advise cyclists to pay special attention to the tracks and surrounding pavement and to cross at a 90-degree angle if possible. In a 2006 guide, the SFBC cautions, \"It is easy to lose control as your wheel slides into a parallel track groove, and you will fall quickly and hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the collision, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/12/berkeley-cyclist-killed-in-market-street-collision-with-s-f-muni-bus\" target=\"_blank\">media reports\u003c/a> quoted police and transportation officials as saying Heryer “lost control and collided with the bus.” The police report says investigators came to their conclusions about the cause of the crash based on the account of one witness -- the bus driver -- and video evidence that has not been released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report includes several grim details, including the discovery of a handprint near the front of the Muni bus that may have been left by Heryer as he fell. One set of the vehicle's wheels on the driver's side came to rest on Heryer, who died of trauma to the head and body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report identifies the Muni driver as Douglas Bonilla, 46, of Tracy. It said he was “visibly upset” after the crash and was treated by a medic at the scene. However, the report does not disclose what the driver told police about the collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonilla started driving for Muni in March, according to SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose. He said drivers are required to complete nine weeks of training. The program includes a partnership with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition that instructs drivers how to operate buses alongside cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most telling evidence from that day could be video from the Muni bus and two other coaches that may have been in the vicinity when the collision happened. But so far the family’s lawyer has not been able to get the video from either the SFMTA or San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Experienced Cyclist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738854\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10738854\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Family and friends say Mark Heryer was a skilled cyclist who would have never put himself in harm's way. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/P1000474-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family and friends say Mark Heryer was a skilled cyclist who would have never put himself in harm's way. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Dawson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Mark Heryer was 8 years old, and the family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brenda Kett had no hesitation about letting him ride his bicycle into the traffic chaos of Harvard Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you that back in the '70s, that traffic was pure anarchy,” she remembers. “Most parents, particularly helicopter parents, wouldn’t go anywhere near that. He was capable of doing that as an 8-year-old. He was a competent bike rider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heryer was born in San Francisco but didn’t live there until he was a teenager. Trained as a chef, he had a deep passion for food and was funny, opinionated and talkative, says Kett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would have given you anything you wanted if you needed it,” says Kett. “He was a very generous, wonderful person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Skilbeck, a friend of the family who used to rent a room from Kett, is a former cycling journalist who first met Heryer when he moved to San Francisco in 1997. When Heryer found out Skilbeck was a cyclist, he took him on a tour of the Marin Headlands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just a warm, interesting, enjoyable person, and everybody is really devastated that he’s gone, that’s he’s not going to be around anymore,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skilbeck, who worked as a bike messenger in London, said Heryer had urban bicycling skills comparable to a messenger. \"That's the scary thing about it,\" he said. \"That somebody with his level of experience can fall victim.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10742483\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10742483 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-1440x1061.jpg\" alt='Brenda Kett looks at photos of her late son. \"I had no idea how many people he influenced until we lost him,\" she said. ' width=\"640\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-1440x1061.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-400x295.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-800x589.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-1180x869.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17224_IMG_9370.JPG-qut-960x707.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Kett looks at photos of her late son. 'I had no idea how many people he influenced until we lost him,' she said. \u003ccite>((Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Mistakes in Earlier Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police have a troubling history investigating collisions that injure people who bike and walk, according to safe streets advocates. But after a series of blunders \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/13/no-charges-for-driver-in-death-of-bicyclist-amelie-le-moullac\" target=\"_blank\">in the case of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a>, who was killed when she was hit by a truck at Sixth and Folsom streets in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr pledged to reform the department's investigations. He also made it policy to stop referring to collisions as “accidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the attorneys who represented Le Moullac's family, Anthony Label, now represents the Heryer family. He helped win a $4 million \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">judgment against the driver\u003c/a> who killed Le Moullac for negligence, along with the company he worked for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial police report in the Le Moullac case concluded the cyclist was at fault, but police reversed that finding and blamed the driver after a bike advocate uncovered surveillance video of the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nine-page traffic collision report in Heryer’s case, Label says, doesn't contain much detail. The report says investigators canvassed the area for witnesses and video, and left a phone message for a potential witness but were \"unable to make contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Label is particularly concerned about what he says appears to be a clear misinterpretation of the vehicle code that applies to marked bike lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Police Department is going to document and officially memorialize the cause of a cyclist’s death as being the fault of the cyclist for violating the law, at a minimum they should get it right,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reached by phone, Inspector Lori Cadigan, who signed off on the report, would not comment, and referred calls to the department’s public affairs spokespeople. So far, they have not returned our phone calls and emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent meeting of the Board of Supervisors' Bicycle Advisory Committee, Label suggested looking into having the California Highway Patrol investigate collisions where a Muni vehicle is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That would essentially involve an independent agency that isn't a police department investigating a co-worker, essentially, a Muni driver, whose employer is also the city and county of San Francisco,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Safer Market Street \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10742484\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10742484 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Cyclist wobbles over streetcar rails at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in the Financial District. Bike advocates say city officials need to immediately make this stretch of Market safer for bicyclists.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RS17120_102015_bus_cyclist_6-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclist wobbles over streetcar rails at the corner of Market and Sutter streets in the Financial District. Bike advocates say city officials need to immediately make this stretch of Market safer for bicyclists. \u003ccite>((Alan Toth/KQED))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials have been working to improve safety on Market Street, most recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-s-motley-Market-Street-tamed-so-far-by-6585427.php\" target=\"_blank\">restricting private autos\u003c/a> from turning onto the city's main thoroughfare, identified as a high-injury corridor under \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/06/sf-takes-step-toward-goal-of-zero-traffic-deaths-in-10-years/\">the Vision Zero program\u003c/a>. SFMTA officials are also planning to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/19/san-francisco-gets-ready-for-its-first-raised-bikeway\" target=\"_blank\">test a raised bike lane\u003c/a>, which is now being built on Market just west of Van Ness Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a permanent safety fix is still years away. City agencies have been working on a long-term vision known as the Better Market Street plan, but construction is not expected to begin until sometime in 2018. A final design has not been determined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates have long been calling for a continuous protected bike lane from Octavia Boulevard to the Embarcadero, a distance of about 2.25 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Continued inaction by city officials towards that goal on our city's most biked corridor looks increasingly irresponsible,\" said Chris Cassidy, the bike coalition's communications director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other \u003ca href=\"http://bettermarketstreetsf.org/about-reports-docs.html#design-options\" target=\"_blank\">designs being considered \u003c/a>include a shared lane and building a bikeway on Mission Street, instead of Market, from South Van Ness Avenue to the Embarcadero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the SFMTA and Department of Public Works, which is overseeing the long-term vision, say they are not planning any interim measures on Market in the wake of Heryer’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Kett and the bike coalition say they plan to continue pressing for immediate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Wednesday Sept. 9:\u003c/strong> A bicyclist who allegedly attacked a Zipcar with his bike lock during August's Critical Mass bike ride was charged with four felonies on Wednesday, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ian Hespelt, 39, of San Francisco, has been charged with assault, false imprisonment, vandalism and throwing dangerous objects at a vehicle, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday Sept. 7:\u003c/strong> San Francisco police have made an arrest in the attack on a driver's car by a cyclist during the last Critical Mass bike ride on Friday night, Aug. 28. The cyclist was part of a group that was going the wrong way on Marina Boulevard in San Francisco. The incident was \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYAapAQ1urI\" target=\"_blank\">captured on video\u003c/a> and, naturally, went viral. Bay City News reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Officers arrested Ian Hespelt, 39, of San Francisco, for allegedly striking a vehicle with a U-lock bicycle lock at about 8:16 p.m. Aug. 28, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video shows Hespelt and other cyclists crossing Marina Boulevard near Lyon Street into the path of a dark blue Zip Car vehicle, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video shows Hespelt blocking the path of the vehicle with his bike and striking the vehicle several times with the lock as the vehicle is leaving the area, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle sustained about $2,000 in damage, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers on patrol Saturday near the intersection of Third Street and Terry Francois Boulevard saw a person on a bicycle matching the description of the suspect in the video, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers also said the suspect was riding a bike similar to the one in the video of last month's incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers detained the suspect and based on evidence booked him on felony offenses of false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and maliciously and willfully throwing a substance at a vehicle, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers also booked Hespelt for a misdemeanor offense of inciting a riot.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYAapAQ1urI&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post on Friday, Aug. 28:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bicyclist and Zipcar driver clashed Friday night in San Francisco's Marina District toward the end of Critical Mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://As%20long%20as%20CM%20operates%20this%20way%20(the%20way%20I%20have%20always%20seen%20it%20to%20be),%20then%20we%20will%20always%20face%20an%20incredibly%20hard%20uphill%20battle%20to%20get%20anything%20done%20like%20yield%20laws%20etc%20..\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube video\u003c/a> shows at least a dozen boisterous bicyclists riding westbound on Marina Boulevard. Suddenly, they decide to cross into oncoming traffic. One bicyclist heads directly for a blue Zipcar station wagon, forcing the driver to stop. It appears that the driver then nudges the bicyclist, who erupts in rage and eventually attacks the vehicle with his U-Lock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hey, stop that,\" the bicyclist roars. \"No, no, no, no, no, no, no.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there's a shout that makes the driver's situation very clear: \"You ain't going nowhere!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cyclists surround the driver. \"You f------ pushed my bike!\" The driver, predictably, doesn't see it that way but is outnumbered. \"Your f------ bumper is up against my bike!\" the first cyclist screams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver backs up and then tries to move forward, veering to the right, but cyclists block the car and one of them raises his bicycle wheel to impede the vehicle. Another smashes the car a few times with his U-Lock before the motorist escapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, the San Francisco Police Department did not plan to investigate because no police report was filed, Officer Albie Esparza, SFPD spokesman, told KQED. However, early Monday evening he said the department had decided to pursue the case after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be assigned to an investigator and we will reach out to Zipcar to attempt to locate a party involved,\" Esparza wrote in an email. \"With that being said, we are hoping to speak with both parties involved to obtain a full picture of what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said San Francisco police facilitate the rides of Critical Mass, which began in the city in 1992 and has spread around the world. It takes place on the last Friday night of every month. Over the years, many skirmishes have occurred between drivers and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said officers typically show up at the beginning of the ride, in downtown San Francisco and South of Market, and don't stay with it until the very end. It was \"unusual,\" he said, for bicyclists to end up in the Marina and that it looked like a splinter group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for his reaction to the video, Esparza said, \"Two wrongs don't make a right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYAapAQ1urI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident violated some of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcriticalmass.org/2009/10/27/critical-mass-dos-donts/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Do's and Don'ts\"\u003c/a> of Critical Mass, such as not riding \"into oncoming traffic on the wrong side of the road\" and picking \"fights with motorists, even (especially) if they're itching for one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell, whose district includes the Marina, issued a statement. “The actions by the cyclists caught on video this past Friday evening participating in Critical Mass are disturbing and should never be tolerated in our City -- especially the one cyclist seen attacking the vehicle with a bicycle lock repeated times,\" he said. \"… I have already been in contact with our police department to evaluate how best to prevent similar future incidents from happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Chris Cassidy, communications director for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, had no comment on the incident and said the organization is not affiliated with Critical Mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\"Over 5,000 people took one of our safety education classes last year,\" Cassidy said. \"We always encourage folks to follow \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/resources/bicycle-law/rules-of-the-road/\" target=\"_blank\">the rules of the road\u003c/a> and bike politely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Hundreds of other people, however, had a lot to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Facebook page of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/SanFranciscoBikeRideCrew/permalink/875534572542607/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bike Ride Crew\u003c/a> is a good place to start. Judging by many of the comments, Critical Mass sounded more like Criticized Mass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">For example: \"As long as CM operates this way (the way I have always seen it to be), then we will always face an incredibly hard uphill battle to get anything done like yield laws etc.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Comments on YouTube were equally unsympathetic to Critical Mass: \"Only one person hit the car, but all of you supported him in doing so. You're just as guilty as the rest of them.\" … \"I hope you get run over by a truck.\" … \"As a San Francisco cyclist, i'd like to say that Critical Mass do not represent many cyclists in SF. It's very clear the cyclists were in the wrong. 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However, early Monday evening he said the department had decided to pursue the case after all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be assigned to an investigator and we will reach out to Zipcar to attempt to locate a party involved,\" Esparza wrote in an email. \"With that being said, we are hoping to speak with both parties involved to obtain a full picture of what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said San Francisco police facilitate the rides of Critical Mass, which began in the city in 1992 and has spread around the world. It takes place on the last Friday night of every month. Over the years, many skirmishes have occurred between drivers and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said officers typically show up at the beginning of the ride, in downtown San Francisco and South of Market, and don't stay with it until the very end. 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