SF News Oakland Is About to Get Speed Cameras Like SF Has to Catch Scofflaw Drivers San Francisco has had 33 speed cameras catching drivers going too fast for nearly a year now, and Oakland is about to get 18 of their own speed cameras to be put up at their most notorious corners for traffic collisions.
SF News SFMTA to Install Speed Reduction Devices at 141 Sites as It Begins Fulfilling Backlog of Requests After pausing new requests through its popular Residential Traffic Calming Program in June, SFMTA will begin fulfilling its blacklog next week with the installation of speed humps and other traffic-calming measures at 141 locations, a large portion on the city’s westside.
SF News Which SF Speed Camera Captures the Most Speeders? Hint: It's on Bryant Now a few months into the speed-camera era of San Francisco traffic enforcement, the most notorious block for speeding covered by the cameras is at Third and Bryant streets, which accounts for nearly 25% of all SF speed camera tickets.
SF News Saturday Links: CHP Arrests BMW Driver Who Posted Alleged 170 MPH Joyride Videos Online Over 20 nations are now condemning Israel's expansion plans; Giants pitcher Kai-Wei Teng dedicated the first win of his career last night to his dad; and a man was arrested after posting videos of his BMW M4 speeding at 170 mph.
SF News No More Warnings: SF Speed Cameras Will Start Issuing Fines, Starting Tuesday Don’t say you weren’t warned, as those new speed-monitoring cameras up all over San Francisco will stop cutting slack and start hitting speeding drivers with fines of at least $50, beginning this Tuesday, August 5.
SF News Sunday Links: Young Black Riders Take the Reins at Historic Bill Pickett Rodeo in Castro Valley Around 300 teens wreaked havoc on a Brentwood mall in the East Bay; a paraglider was rescued after they lost control and crash-landed at Daly City's Mussel Rock Park; and the national Bill Pickett Rodeo honors Black cowboy culture in the East Bay.
SF News All SF Speed Cameras Now Working, They’ll Start Issuing Fines on August 5 Every one of those 33 speed-limit enforcement cameras is now up and running across San Francisco, and while they’re still just issuing warnings, they’ll start slapping speeders with fines of $50 and up come August 5.
SF News Those New SF Speed Cameras Are Catching 1,000 Speeders Every Day, Most on Fulton Street They’re still just giving out warnings for lead-foot drivers who are caught by those new speed-detecting cameras, but data from the first month of the program shows that a stunning 44% of all citations citywide were issued to drivers on Fulton Street.
SF News Motorist Flips $400,000 Lamborghini on State Route 9 Near Santa Cruz While the passengers suffered only minor injuries, the driver may be looking at a massive financial setback, as excessive speed appears to have been a factor in the totaling of a $400,000 Lamborghini Sunday near Santa Cruz.
SF News Slow Down! Those Speed Cameras Are Now Up in SF, Starting Today Effective right now, San Francisco is the first city in California to have speed-monitoring cameras that will snap pictures of any vehicle going 11 mph over the speed limit. Though the fines won’t kick in for another 60 days.
SF News SF’s Speed Cameras Are Now Coming In March, But Ad Campaign For Them Already Gearing Up The new San Francisco speed monitoring cameras have been in the works for about a year and a half, and they’re supposedly going to finally arrive in March, with a billboard and online ad campaign going live now to announce their arrival.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Speed Cameras to Go Live In February SF's 33 new speeding-detection cameras will begin issuing warnings in February, tickets in April; more details emerge about the mother and son found dead in Antioch; and a new Costco just opened in Napa.
SF News Pedestrian Injured After Being Struck by Car While Waiting for Bus in San Francisco's Richmond District A week after a family of four was tragically killed in a car crash at an SF bus station, another vehicle hit a pedestrian at a stop near Golden Gate Park, prompting calls for better speeding laws.
SF News Speed Limit Cameras Proposed For SF, Oakland, San Jose, Other California Cities The latest proposal to roll out speed-limit detection cameras in the largest California cities is picking up the pace in the state legislature, and drivers in Oakland, SF, and San Jose could get automated speeding tickets for going 11 or more miles per hour over the speed limit.
SF News Video: Toyota Camry Clocked Going 130mph After Evading Traffic Stop In Rohnert Park, Two Arrested Two men in a Toyota Camry led CPH officers on a high-speed chase through three counties early Tuesday morning, reaching speeds of up to 130 miles per hour before ultimately being apprehended.
SF News CHP Tells Bay Area Drivers to Slow Down Amid Uptick in 100-mph Speeders On Empty Highways Set aside those dreams of joyriding on an empty highway and testing the limits of your car without consequence during shelter-in-place orders. The CHP wants you to know they're writing a lot of tickets.
SF News Witness: Cab Driver Was On Phone As He Slammed Into Market Street Shoe Shine Stand The driver of a cab who jumped a Market Street curb and struck two bystanders might have been on the phone at the time of the collision, one witness says — but in a
SF News Updated Uber App Will Track Driver Behavior, Send Alerts To Speeders And Phone Clutchers Your complaints about speeding and reckless Uber drivers might soon be silenced, the company says, as they have developed software within their app to track negative driver behavior. Ha ha, who am I
SF News Will SF Ever Get Speeder-Busting Cameras? Nearly six months after the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced that they'd be working toward installing "life-saving speed enforcement cameras," they've finally gotten around to crafting a proposal for the cameras' use
SF News Drivers, Beware: Western Fulton Street Is Now One Big Speed Trap Blessed with less traffic and fewer intersections than parallel east to west thoroughfares like California, Geary, or even Lincoln, Fulton Street is a west-side driver's secret passage when trying to get to or
SF News Frank Ocean Busted Twice For Speeding, Pot Possession Near Nevada Border Not to get all up in your Frank Ocean news today, but the noted "Sierra Leone" crooner was stopped twice for doing over 90 mph on remote highways in the Eastern Sierra Nevada
SF News SFPD Sgt. Joyrides Through Broadway Tunnel at 100 MPH, Posts Video On Facebook: 'Plus We Were All Drunk' [Updates] SFPD Sergeant Carl T, formerly known as Sgt. Carl Tennenbaum, has posted a Facebook video of himself apparently blasting through the Broadway Tunnel in a Lamborghini at speeds he claims were up to
SF News Bay Bridge Speeding Crackdown In an effort to get motorists to slow down on the Bay Bridge, CHP officers had a "crackdown" in the bridge yesterday. CBS 5 reported that officers "issued 34 citations for speeding and
SF News UPDATE: Raw Footage of Muni Train Crash KTVU has some choice footage of last Saturday's Muni crash over on King Street near AT&T Park. Since major news networks inexplicably don't believe in the religion of Embedded Code, we
SF News Muni Driver May Have Felt the Need, the Need for Speed Last Saturday's T-Third meets N-Judah collision might be, according to to investigators, might have been the result of a speeding Muni driver and/or someone chatting on their cell phone. KCBS reports: Investigators
