Sunset Tragedy

In April of this year, Assemblyman Leland Yee, (D-San Francisco) sponsored a bill making a a 5.1- mile stretch of Highway 1, including 19th Avenue and Park Presidio, a double-fine zone between Junipero Serra Boulevard near San Francisco State University and Lake Street in the Richmond District. It passed the Assembly that month, but it is expected to take a few months to go into effect.

SFist has lived along 19th for years, and has been driving on it for even longer. We can't even begin to tell you the number of near misses we have had on it, from sudden and unexplainable lane changes, to people who don't seem to believe that the stop lights apply to them, to the pedestrians with what can only be a death wish. The speed limit on 19th is 35, people! The lights are for you! And, seriously, SFPD, is it that hard to find the drivers of these cars who have accidentally killed people?

SFist asks all of you drivers to slow down for the yellow light, all of you pedestrians to wait a moment and look before crossing the street when the light changes, and everyone to be just a little more aware of surroundings. It's a scary world out there, folks. Be safe.