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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. 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. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco's Tenderloin is a dense working-class neighborhood whose residents -- including the city's largest concentration of families -- mostly don't own cars. Yet its grid of fast one-way streets is among the city's meanest, resulting in a high rate of traffic deaths and injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't even know how many people I've met that have been hit by a vehicle,\" said Baljeet Heyer, the community organizer at the Central City SRO Collaborative. \"My friends that are on bikes, and people that we work with, have been severely injured.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the city's Vision Zero program to end all traffic deaths by 2024, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has approved a traffic-calming plan on one busy and challenging street: Golden Gate Avenue. It was born out of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfcta.org/transportation-planning-and-studies/neighborhood-transportation-planning/tenderloinlittle-saigon\" target=\"_blank\">neighborhood transportation plan\u003c/a> envisioned in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the next few months, the agency will begin installing safety improvements, including what will become the Tenderloin's first east-west bike lane, on Golden Gate between Polk and Market streets. The five-block bike lane, which will feature a 3-foot buffer between cars and bikes, was approved Tuesday by the SFMTA board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once \u003ca href=\"http://www.beyondchron.org/reassessing-san-franciscos-tenderloin/\" target=\"_blank\">a lively commercial district\u003c/a>, Golden Gate Avenue is home to a number of social service organizations, schools and senior centers. Homelessness, crime and drug use are still a reality on the sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most drivers use the street as a way to cut across the city, and many zoom by at dangerous speeds, sometimes veering unsafely into crosswalks, say those who live and work nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At times, it seems like a drag strip,\" said Greg Moore, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://sflivingroom.org/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Francis Living Room\u003c/a>, a program serving low-income and homeless seniors. \"You add that with general unsafe behaviors of the motorists to a neighborhood where you have a lot of elderly, handicapped and people under the influence of something or another and not aware of their surroundings, and it's a situation just ripe for injury.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA says that, on average, a pedestrian or cyclist is hit by a car every 38 days on the six-block stretch of Golden Gate between Van Ness Avenue and Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10960722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 895px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10960722\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-19-at-10.09.27-AM.png\" alt=\"Most streets in the Tenderloin have been identified as high-injury corridors (marked in red) under the city's Vision Zero program. 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Click \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=fa37f1274b4446f1bdddd7bdf9e708ff\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to see the full map. \u003ccite>(SFMTA )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safe streets advocates say the improvements are long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a neighborhood that really desperately needs to be unburdened of the traffic violence that it experiences every day,\" said Chema Hernández Gil, political coordinator of the progressive group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Rising\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The improvements, say transportation officials and advocates, attempt to take into account the unpredictable: that people walking in the neighborhood sometimes cross the street unexpectedly, preferring to take the most direct path outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street will be reduced from three to two travel lanes along five blocks -- a \"\u003ca href=\"http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets/\" target=\"_blank\">road diet\u003c/a>\" intended to make the street safer by slowing traffic. The bike lane, along with a buffer between parked cars and traffic on the opposite side of the street, will create some safe distance for pedestrians trying to cross midblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, painted safety zones will force drivers turning onto cross streets to face the crosswalks, giving pedestrians more visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The project will make some key changes that really embrace the concept of Vision Zero, and that is that we must build a transportation system that assumes humans are going to make mistakes, and that it will be easier for humans to avoid serious and deadly crashes,\" said Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike lane will also help to keep riders off the sidewalk, which Ferrera said is a common complaint among residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an overlooked corner of our city by the folks that are supposed to be in charge of delivering safe streets,\" said Chris Cassidy of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. \"And while it's unfortunate that it has taken this long, it's good to see that there are folks realizing that there's work to be done in the Tenderloin, and that the Tenderloin deserves safe streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10960795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10960795 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-1920x1051.jpg\" alt=\"A street captain and crossing guard from the Tenderloin Safe Passage program stationed on Golden Gave Avenue and Leavenworth.\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-400x219.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-800x438.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-1180x646.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-960x526.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street captain and crossing guard from the Tenderloin Safe Passage program stationed on Golden Gave Avenue and Leavenworth Street. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials did consider installing a \u003ca href=\"http://nacto.org/publication/urban-bikeway-design-guide/cycle-tracks/one-way-protected-cycle-tracks/\" target=\"_blank\">parking-protected bike lane\u003c/a>. However, there was pushback from some residents and people who work in the neighborhood who felt it would attract what they call \"unwanted behavior\" -- drug dealing and other types of crime. They were also worried about how it would be kept clean and free of debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern was that the unwanted behavior would be hidden from view by parked cars. A few years ago, city officials removed parking \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Banning-parking-on-Tenderloin-block-drives-5208612.php\" target=\"_blank\">from a notorious block of Turk Street\u003c/a>, hoping that the open view would deter crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police capt. Teresa Ewins, who oversees the Tenderloin police district, said combined with enforcement, the parking removal on Turk has been a success. She said drug dealing and violence are especially a concern on Golden Gate Avenue around Leavenworth Street, an area listed as one of the \"action zones\" for improvements under the city's \u003ca href=\"http://investsf.org/neighborhoods/central-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Market/Tenderloin Strategy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've really concentrated on making a safe passage for people coming and going on Leavenworth, kids coming from school and people trying to get to the programs there,\" said Ewins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A street monitor who is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://tenderloinsafepassage.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Tenderloin Safe Passage\u003c/a> program is regularly stationed at that intersection, which is near the De Marillac Academy and other organizations that serve youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ewins said she hopes the street improvements will \"slow people down\" and that vehicles will no longer race through the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking removal was not considered for this plan on Golden Gate, according to an SFMTA official, partly because the project was meant to be \"quick and effective.\" But a grander plan for Golden Gate is expected to be considered in the future, along with improvements west of Van Ness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the Tenderloin, told the SFMTA's board that Golden Gate Avenue is experiencing a transformation, with new businesses and nonprofits. On Thursday, 826 Valencia -- the youth organization started by author Dave Eggers -- was set to open \u003ca href=\"http://826valencia.org/our-programs/tenderloin-center/\" target=\"_blank\">a new youth writing center\u003c/a> at the former site of what Kim has called \"one of the worst liquor stores in the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To be complemented with a bike lane and pedestrian safety improvements will really just help to reactivate this street,\" said Kim.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Click here to see the full map. \" width=\"895\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-19-at-10.09.27-AM.png 895w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-19-at-10.09.27-AM-400x286.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-19-at-10.09.27-AM-800x572.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 895px) 100vw, 895px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most streets in the Tenderloin have been identified as high-injury corridors under the city's Vision Zero program. Click \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=fa37f1274b4446f1bdddd7bdf9e708ff\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to see the full map. \u003ccite>(SFMTA )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safe streets advocates say the improvements are long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a neighborhood that really desperately needs to be unburdened of the traffic violence that it experiences every day,\" said Chema Hernández Gil, political coordinator of the progressive group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfrising.org/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Rising\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The improvements, say transportation officials and advocates, attempt to take into account the unpredictable: that people walking in the neighborhood sometimes cross the street unexpectedly, preferring to take the most direct path outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The street will be reduced from three to two travel lanes along five blocks -- a \"\u003ca href=\"http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets/\" target=\"_blank\">road diet\u003c/a>\" intended to make the street safer by slowing traffic. The bike lane, along with a buffer between parked cars and traffic on the opposite side of the street, will create some safe distance for pedestrians trying to cross midblock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, painted safety zones will force drivers turning onto cross streets to face the crosswalks, giving pedestrians more visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The project will make some key changes that really embrace the concept of Vision Zero, and that is that we must build a transportation system that assumes humans are going to make mistakes, and that it will be easier for humans to avoid serious and deadly crashes,\" said Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bike lane will also help to keep riders off the sidewalk, which Ferrera said is a common complaint among residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an overlooked corner of our city by the folks that are supposed to be in charge of delivering safe streets,\" said Chris Cassidy of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. \"And while it's unfortunate that it has taken this long, it's good to see that there are folks realizing that there's work to be done in the Tenderloin, and that the Tenderloin deserves safe streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10960795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10960795 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-1920x1051.jpg\" alt=\"A street captain and crossing guard from the Tenderloin Safe Passage program stationed on Golden Gave Avenue and Leavenworth.\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-400x219.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-800x438.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-1180x646.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Golden-Gate@Leavenworth-1-1-960x526.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street captain and crossing guard from the Tenderloin Safe Passage program stationed on Golden Gave Avenue and Leavenworth Street. \u003ccite>(Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials did consider installing a \u003ca href=\"http://nacto.org/publication/urban-bikeway-design-guide/cycle-tracks/one-way-protected-cycle-tracks/\" target=\"_blank\">parking-protected bike lane\u003c/a>. However, there was pushback from some residents and people who work in the neighborhood who felt it would attract what they call \"unwanted behavior\" -- drug dealing and other types of crime. They were also worried about how it would be kept clean and free of debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern was that the unwanted behavior would be hidden from view by parked cars. A few years ago, city officials removed parking \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Banning-parking-on-Tenderloin-block-drives-5208612.php\" target=\"_blank\">from a notorious block of Turk Street\u003c/a>, hoping that the open view would deter crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police capt. Teresa Ewins, who oversees the Tenderloin police district, said combined with enforcement, the parking removal on Turk has been a success. She said drug dealing and violence are especially a concern on Golden Gate Avenue around Leavenworth Street, an area listed as one of the \"action zones\" for improvements under the city's \u003ca href=\"http://investsf.org/neighborhoods/central-market/\" target=\"_blank\">Central Market/Tenderloin Strategy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've really concentrated on making a safe passage for people coming and going on Leavenworth, kids coming from school and people trying to get to the programs there,\" said Ewins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A street monitor who is part of the \u003ca href=\"http://tenderloinsafepassage.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Tenderloin Safe Passage\u003c/a> program is regularly stationed at that intersection, which is near the De Marillac Academy and other organizations that serve youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ewins said she hopes the street improvements will \"slow people down\" and that vehicles will no longer race through the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking removal was not considered for this plan on Golden Gate, according to an SFMTA official, partly because the project was meant to be \"quick and effective.\" But a grander plan for Golden Gate is expected to be considered in the future, along with improvements west of Van Ness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the Tenderloin, told the SFMTA's board that Golden Gate Avenue is experiencing a transformation, with new businesses and nonprofits. 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"content": "\u003cp>Being a conductor on San Francisco's cable cars is physically demanding, but it shouldn't be so dangerous, city authorities said Tuesday as they announced a plan to keep operators of the iconic vehicles safer as they contend with traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-cable-car-operators-call-for-safety-reforms-in-wake-of-devastating-injuries/\" target=\"_blank\">change comes two months\u003c/a> after cable car operator Reynaldo Morante was hit by a motorcycle rider who faces \u003ca href=\"http://kron4.com/2015/06/19/drunk-motorcyclist-pleads-not-guilty-to-critically-injuring-cable-car-operator/\" target=\"_blank\">drunken driving charges\u003c/a> and four months after operator Santiago Montoya was hit by a car. Both vehicles were passing the cable cars illegally when they hit the operators, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and police unveiled several safety improvements, including large \"Do Not Pass\" signs on the backs of cable cars, hand-held stop signs for operators who often try to slow or stop traffic for off-boarding passengers and stepped-up traffic enforcement courtesy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, change only comes by the way of human sacrifice,\" said Eric Williams, a former cable car operator and president of Transport Workers Union Local 250-A. \"This is not a joke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said Montoya just finished his first stretch of physical rehabilitation and \"his life will never be the same.\" Morante, who was not expected to survive, is \"fighting for his life,\" Williams said, declining to go into further details about the operator's injuries per their families' wishes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After an incident, after an accident, everything is reactive,\" Williams said. \"There was no proactive program in place, at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr said officers had written more than a dozen $238 tickets for illegally passing cable cars in the last week. He said it is \"absolutely crazy-unsafe to pass a street car.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is so dangerous,\" Suhr said. \"We don't take any pleasure in writing a ticket, but there will be no quarter given. Stop a reasonable distance behind street cars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin tied the issue of operator safety to the city's broader \u003ca href=\"http://visionzerosf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vision Zero\u003c/a> goal of eliminating traffic-related fatalities by 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city’s saying enough is enough,\" Reiskin said. \"People shouldn’t be dying in our streets. People shouldn’t be getting seriously injured in our streets just trying to get around town, and that extends to our own employees and the people who ride the cable cars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pedestrian traffic fatalities in San Francisco decreased last year, from 21 to 17. But pedestrian safety group Walk SF \u003ca href=\"http://walksf.org/street-score-2015-report-card-highlights-citys-progress-on-40-safety-goals/\" target=\"_blank\">notes\u003c/a> the 96 traffic-related fatalities and serious injuries to pedestrians last year soared past the city's goal of 82.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The captain of the San Francisco Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=832\">Park Station\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/clamping-down-on-cyclists-police-and-bike-riders-clash-over-new-enforcement-near-panhandle/\">planning a crackdown\u003c/a> on bike riders who roll through stop signs on some of the city's most popular bike routes, saying \"protection of life\" is his top priority. But bike advocates say police should focus traffic enforcement on the greatest threat to lives: dangerous behavior by drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments by Capt. John Sanford were made at a community meeting Tuesday night, according to \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2015/06/rule-breaking-cyclists-top-agenda-at-sfpd-park-station-community-meeting\">Hoodline\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Traffic enforcement teams will consist of bicycle officers and marked police vehicles, said Sanford, who reported that district officers have given 38 traffic citations to cyclists between January and May. \"I am not too shy to say that it is a problem,\" said Sanford, who encouraged attendees to spread the word that a crackdown is in the works. \"Tell your friends to slow, stop and obey,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SFPD spokesman Albie Esparza confirms the department is planning targeted enforcement against people who bike in the Park police district, which includes The Wiggle, Panhandle and Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to drivers, \"we do see a large number of pedestrians and bicyclists who are also committing violations, and we cannot simply turn a blind eye and just ignore that,\" Esparza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But bike advocates say SFPD s\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">hould focus on the top five traffic violations by drivers that cause the most deaths and injuries on the streets. Police pledged to have those violations account for 50 percent of all citations, as part of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/06/sf-takes-step-toward-goal-of-zero-traffic-deaths-in-10-years/\">the city's Vision Zero goal \u003c/a>to end all traffic deaths by 2024. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/news/sfpds-park-station-diverting-resources-away-from-vision-zero/\"> \u003c/a>enforcement resources away from the most troublesome driving behaviors is dangerous in itself, says Chris Cassidy, communications director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, we're concerned about people living in, and going through The Wiggle, Golden Gate Park and Inner Sunset if there's any diversion of traffic resources away from Vision Zero,\" says Cassidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/projects/2015/vision-zero-san-francisco.pdf\">study by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> found drivers at fault in two-thirds of severe and fatal traffic collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza says the department does plan to stay focused on the five most dangerous driving violations: speeding, running red lights, failing to yield to pedestrians, failing to yield while making turns and ignoring stop signs. But he says the department will continue to do targeted enforcement against bicyclists just like it does against people who drive and walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This portion is going to be educating enforcement of bicycle laws to make sure we have people educated, and also enforce the laws to change behaviors, so we can see safer roadways,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassidy says the crackdown would be a change in tactics by Park Station. After receiving complaints, the previous captain would alert the bike coalition so it could increase \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/our-work/safety-education/\">education efforts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD has been fantastic citywide at increasing their focus on the five deadliest traffic behaviors,\" says Cassidy. \"Recent comments from the Park Station are really an aberration from SFPD's work towards eliminating traffic deaths.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassidy says the SFBC encourages bicyclists to follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/resources/bicycle-law/rules-of-the-road/\">rules of the road\u003c/a>. But\u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/16/new-sfpd-park-station-captains-bike-crackdown-wont-make-streets-safer/\"> Streetsblog San Francisco\u003c/a> points out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The stop sign law in every state \u003ca href=\"http://bikeportland.org/2009/01/14/idaho-stop-law-faq-13387\">except Idaho\u003c/a> assumes that \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/07/20/bikes-are-not-cars-why-california-needs-an-idaho-stop-law/\">bicycles are just like cars\u003c/a>, creating the unrealistic expectation that someone on a bike should make a full stop at every stop sign, even when they are clearly not violating anybody else’s right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter of the law leads to an unproductive fixation on the way that people naturally negotiate stop signs on a bike: by slowing, checking for traffic, and being prepared to yield to others.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza did not indicate when the crackdown would begin.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The captain of the San Francisco Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=832\">Park Station\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/clamping-down-on-cyclists-police-and-bike-riders-clash-over-new-enforcement-near-panhandle/\">planning a crackdown\u003c/a> on bike riders who roll through stop signs on some of the city's most popular bike routes, saying \"protection of life\" is his top priority. But bike advocates say police should focus traffic enforcement on the greatest threat to lives: dangerous behavior by drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments by Capt. John Sanford were made at a community meeting Tuesday night, according to \u003ca href=\"http://hoodline.com/2015/06/rule-breaking-cyclists-top-agenda-at-sfpd-park-station-community-meeting\">Hoodline\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Traffic enforcement teams will consist of bicycle officers and marked police vehicles, said Sanford, who reported that district officers have given 38 traffic citations to cyclists between January and May. \"I am not too shy to say that it is a problem,\" said Sanford, who encouraged attendees to spread the word that a crackdown is in the works. \"Tell your friends to slow, stop and obey,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>SFPD spokesman Albie Esparza confirms the department is planning targeted enforcement against people who bike in the Park police district, which includes The Wiggle, Panhandle and Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to drivers, \"we do see a large number of pedestrians and bicyclists who are also committing violations, and we cannot simply turn a blind eye and just ignore that,\" Esparza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But bike advocates say SFPD s\u003cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5\">hould focus on the top five traffic violations by drivers that cause the most deaths and injuries on the streets. Police pledged to have those violations account for 50 percent of all citations, as part of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/06/sf-takes-step-toward-goal-of-zero-traffic-deaths-in-10-years/\">the city's Vision Zero goal \u003c/a>to end all traffic deaths by 2024. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taking\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/news/sfpds-park-station-diverting-resources-away-from-vision-zero/\"> \u003c/a>enforcement resources away from the most troublesome driving behaviors is dangerous in itself, says Chris Cassidy, communications director for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, we're concerned about people living in, and going through The Wiggle, Golden Gate Park and Inner Sunset if there's any diversion of traffic resources away from Vision Zero,\" says Cassidy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/projects/2015/vision-zero-san-francisco.pdf\">study by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> found drivers at fault in two-thirds of severe and fatal traffic collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza says the department does plan to stay focused on the five most dangerous driving violations: speeding, running red lights, failing to yield to pedestrians, failing to yield while making turns and ignoring stop signs. But he says the department will continue to do targeted enforcement against bicyclists just like it does against people who drive and walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This portion is going to be educating enforcement of bicycle laws to make sure we have people educated, and also enforce the laws to change behaviors, so we can see safer roadways,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassidy says the crackdown would be a change in tactics by Park Station. After receiving complaints, the previous captain would alert the bike coalition so it could increase \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/our-work/safety-education/\">education efforts.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD has been fantastic citywide at increasing their focus on the five deadliest traffic behaviors,\" says Cassidy. \"Recent comments from the Park Station are really an aberration from SFPD's work towards eliminating traffic deaths.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cassidy says the SFBC encourages bicyclists to follow the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/resources/bicycle-law/rules-of-the-road/\">rules of the road\u003c/a>. But\u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/16/new-sfpd-park-station-captains-bike-crackdown-wont-make-streets-safer/\"> Streetsblog San Francisco\u003c/a> points out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The stop sign law in every state \u003ca href=\"http://bikeportland.org/2009/01/14/idaho-stop-law-faq-13387\">except Idaho\u003c/a> assumes that \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/07/20/bikes-are-not-cars-why-california-needs-an-idaho-stop-law/\">bicycles are just like cars\u003c/a>, creating the unrealistic expectation that someone on a bike should make a full stop at every stop sign, even when they are clearly not violating anybody else’s right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter of the law leads to an unproductive fixation on the way that people naturally negotiate stop signs on a bike: by slowing, checking for traffic, and being prepared to yield to others.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza did not indicate when the crackdown would begin.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206463348\" 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>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday evening, as part of the annual Ride of Silence to honor bicyclists who have been killed on San Francisco streets, he plans to visit the intersection for the first time since Vinson's death.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\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/206463348&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/206463348'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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