Comments on: A Year After A Driver Killed Paul Lambert On Van Ness Avenue, Are Pedestrians Any Safer In SF?

By: Claire Lambert

Claire Lambert — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:30:00 +0000

I think that you should really re look at the sentencing on this case as the accused did not spend a year in county jail and was travelling faster than 48mph when this incident occured. The residential treatment program also allows this man to come and go as he pleases. I am devastated still every day that the reckless behaviour of this individual has stolen my one and only brother. Paul is such a special person but he has been taken away and as far as I am concerned, justice has not been served. It will never bring Paul back but is this enough to deter this man from doing the same thing again and putting another family through the rest of their lives in hell? I think not

By: Elizabeth Frantes

Elizabeth Frantes — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:32:00 +0000

Sweetiekins, you must have absolutely amazing perception, to be able to know what’s going on around a bus in the rain, and not only that, YOU KNOW WHAT THE PEDESTRIANS ARE THINKING! wOW. So you see all and know all? Amazing, such a marvel as you isn’t running the world.

By: Elizabeth Frantes

Elizabeth Frantes — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:30:00 +0000

Imagine the money we could make if every grid blocking, crosswalk blocking vehicle got a thousand dollar fine. I always pray that the ambulance, the cop cars, the fire trucks blocked by those lackwitted autonuts ] is heading to save their family. And why not a 10K fine for not getting out of the way of emergency vehicles? Because of urban hypertrophy the response time on ambulances is a crime, and don’t forget we lost what, half a dozen ERs and half the ward space we had 20 years ago. You know, those of us who live here and haven’t been killed off or forced out by economic cleansing liked things fine they way they were. ANd I’ve spoken to quite a few very disappointed tourists who liked things that way too and are disgusted by what a mess this town has become.

By: MichaelStrickland

MichaelStrickland — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:01:00 +0000

The other day, when it was finally raining again, I was on a 5 Fulton bus from Civic Center to the Financial District and the bus had to slam on the brakes at least half a dozen times because pedestrians simply walked into the middle of the street in front of the bus in some kind of distracted death wish. I commended the driver on her great skills in avoiding injury to anyone, and wondered how she did it every day. At rush hour the same evening, at 2nd and Mission, about sixty of us were trying to cross Mission Street via the crosswalk but somebody in a car was trying to make a left onto Mission but was pinned between two other cars on 2nd who wouldn’t let them through. Finally, the turning left car jammed on the gas pedal and zoomed through the crosswalk, hitting an oblivious middle-aged man two feet in front of me, who went flying over the hood and the top of the car while screaming, “No, f—, no!” The only answer is to be hyperaware out on the streets of San Francisco these days, because it’s crazy.

By: MichaelStrickland

MichaelStrickland — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:01:00 +0000

By: Facheux

Facheux — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 00:41:00 +0000

No, we are not safer, quite the opposite. No BS, I was twice in the last month almost run over by an Uber driver. Both times I was in the crosswalk and each time the Uber driver wasnt paying attention, ran the red light, and had to slam on the brakes, narrowly missing me and others. Their business is fatally flawed: Use phones to find clients, thusly distracting the drivers, causing extreme hazard. F**K Uber! I hope they get the s**t sued out of them and fail.