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   > All you biking assholes who put cars on road diets thought you'd get away   
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   > Fuck you.  Laws apply to everyone including you bastards.   
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   It seems reports that the “bicycle crackdown” ended were   
   premature.   
      
   Enforcement targeting bike riders along the popular east-west   
   cycle route “The Wiggle” are back in force, bicyclists tell the   
   San Francisco Examiner.   
      
   Morgan Fitzgibbons, a cyclist and member of The City’s   
   Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee, said he’s seen enforcement   
   return. “It’s been almost weekly,” Fitzgibbons said.   
      
   Targeting cyclists with tickets was a renewed effort from the   
   summer, when Park Station Capt. John Sanford controversially   
   started a “crackdown” on cyclists who roll through stop signs or   
   run red lights began along the Panhandle.   
      
   Soon after, Supervisor John Avalos proposed a “bike yield law,”   
   that would make ticketing cyclists who roll through stop signs   
   safely a low enforcement priority for police. That law will be   
   reviewed in a Board of Supervisors committee next week.   
      
   When Sanford announced the end of the enforcement action in   
   August he told the community “we can revisit it at any time.”   
      
   At a police commission meeting Wednesday night, Sanford verified   
   the bike enforcement’s back. “It’s exactly what I said to the   
   community,” he said, “that we could resume enforcement at any   
   time.”   
      
   Bike advocates claim the enforcement actions target cyclists who   
   pose no physical danger to pedestrians or themselves. One of   
   those cyclists is Katrina Sostek.   
      
   Sostek said she was ticketed for rolling through a stop sign at   
   Church and Duboce streets Nov. 30, but was traveling slowly and   
   safely. She showed a photo of her ticket to the Examiner. The   
   officer wrote her speed was less than five miles per hour. “I   
   wasn’t endangering anyone,” she said. “I slowed down, looked   
   both ways, and went through the intersection cautiously.”   
      
   Sanford said he will task his officers with ticketing cyclists   
   when Park Station receives complaints of unsafe cyclists. He   
   also said only 1 percent of all traffic enforcement in The City   
   is of cyclists. According to the San Francisco Municipal   
   Transportation Agency, bicycling represents 4 percent of all   
   private trips locally.   
      
   Chris Cassidy, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition spokesperson,   
   said the San Francisco Police Department should focus   
   enforcement on autos, as they’re the source of the most   
   dangerous collisions.   
      
   Fitzgibbons favors SFPD bringing enforcement levels in line with   
   the number of cycling trips in The City, with a caveat.   
      
   “Please, only [ticket] the ones who are being dangerous on the   
   road,” he said, “Do not waste your time ticketing people being   
   perfectly safe.”   
      
   https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/bicycle-crackdown-continues-   
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