Thread by @ClaraJeffery

1/ Some asshole, having blocked the box in a pedestrian scramble and then backing up without looking, just hit me. And then starting flipping off me and the other people yelling at him...

2/ ...he finally rolls down his window. “You hit me! And then you flip ME off!” I scream. “I didn’t know why you were banging on my window.” “Did you not feel your car hit me? “No I didn’t!” “Pay attention asshole!”

My adrenaline levels are a bit high. (Otherwise I’m fine.)

3/ but hardly a week goes by where I don’t witness some egregious and life threatening traffic violations. And very little evidence of enforcement. @LondonBreed #VisionZero

4/ here is a @hknightsf story on San Francisco’s pitiful traffic enforcement sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heathe…

5/ “One major factor is a dramatic drop in tickets issued to drivers by San Francisco police — a neglect that could be explained by too many unfilled vacancies in the department’s traffic division and ever-changing leadership of the crucial unit.”

6/ San Francisco has a mystifying lack of traffic cops. And also cops walking the beat. In 18 years of living in the Mission, I've seen a beat walker maybe 3 times. All squad cars. Put the cops on bikes and I bet the bike lanes would get built.

7/ And more camera enforcement of red-light blowers and box blockers please. These folks make bad traffic worse and more dangerous for everybody. Make the fines count.

8/ Also a surcharge on rideshares that goes to traffic enforcement and calming measures, including protected bike lanes seems like a no-brainer.

9/ Aaron Peskin has proposed a rideshare surcharge. Other cities have executed. It's good, progressive policy: kron4.com/news/bay-area/…

10/ Here's proof that traffic cameras work, and other great ideas for making SF traffic safer:

https://twitter.com/rhprocter/status/1176568798524035072

11/ As a person hit by a car today, who also watched someone massively blow a light in another intersection today, I'd like to know why we hear a lot more about turnstile jumpers than drivers who break the law and are not punished or even fined.

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