June 4, 20101 Comment on SF bike rampage arrest
The San Francisco Police Department announced an arrest has been made in the Wednesday night bike rampage, in which a driver allegedly target cyclists with his Nissan Rogue crossover SUV before he wrecked and fled the scene. (more…)
June 3, 20104 Comments on SF driver targets cyclists in overnight rampage
I’m hearing news reports this morning that a maniac driving a car in San Francisco deliberately targeted and hit several cyclists.
From SFist:
Police say that a driver targeting cyclists injured four people in the Mission and Potrero districts on Wednesday night. A male driver allegedly went after cyclists in four different locations in San Francisco: “in the 2700 block of Harrison Street, the 2800 block of 24th Street, at the intersection of 23rd and Pennsylvania streets, and at 17th and Missouri street.”
The motorist is still at large, but he wrecked his vehicle (a Nissan Rogue of all things) and apparently left his wallet behind in the vehicle. Sports radio talk show host Tony Kornheiser, who once advocated running cyclists down as a joke, could not be reached for comment. The injured cyclists were treated for their injuries and all are expected to recover.
SFist has more with links out to other news sources and photos. Watch Streetsblog SF for more coverage of this today.
The SF Chronicle story on this maniac has the usual idiot user comments, but I like this one from user trencherman:
The comments by certain drivers here betray the sadly common lack of empathy and sense of community of many California drivers these days. I commute every day on 280. At least four times a week I see people
– speeding up to prevent someone from passing them (literally)
– merging with only a few feet of space
– streaking across several lanes to an exit
– dialing or texting on their phonesIt’s as though being in a car confers some kind of perceived immunity to being part of a society. Courtesy, patience and just plain awareness of others are absent. Driving is not a competition.
April 28, 20102 Comments on Bill Cunningham and the SF International Film Festival
81 year old New York Times style photographer Bill Cunningham gets around his city by bike. Filmmaker Richard Press and producer Philip Gefter followed Cunningham to create “Bill Cunningham New York,” an 88 minute documentary that will show at the San Francisco International Film Festival that began April 22 and continues through May 6. Cunningham will appear at the movie showing at the Kabuki this weekend on May 2.
April 20, 20102 Comments on San Francisco bike fashion show
Thursday, May. 13 | 6-10pm, The Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell St. Those legs and that bike in the poster belong to friend of Cyclelicous Meli of Bikes and the City. The photographer, Dustin, recently moved away from San Francisco all the way to the Santa Cruz Mountains. I’m told he lives off grid in a yurt about two valleys away from my home.
April 2, 2010Leave a Comment
Happy Friday, everybody.
A flock of seagulls supposedly knocked out power in San Mateo County this morning. Highway 101 on the Peninsula was closed near Highway 92 during the lunch hour so PG&E could repair the damaged power lines, sending lunchtime freeway traffic onto local streets. And so I ran. I ran so far away.
March 29, 20101 Comment on SF Police Chief Gascon rides a bicycle
San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón (wearing tight and shiny athlete clothes) rides a bicycle with Andy Thornley of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (in the long spy jacket), SF Streetsblog Editor Bryan Goebbel (with the red Nutcase helmet), and Streetfilms director Clarance Eckerson Jr (behind the camera).
According to Streetsblog and the SFBC, this is the first time a San Francisco police chief has ever been on a bike ride in the city.
More Streetfilms.