[B’ Spokes: While this is in San Francisco this seems to be almost a universal problem. ]
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Excerpts from SF Streets Blog by Bryan Goebel
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“I can’t imagine a situation where a citation would be more blatantly called for, you know what I mean? Somebody lying under the sign [No Right Turns] and a car there at an angle, obviously just made the turn, you know?”
But there was no citation issued. “Impairment is not suspected. No citation issued at this time,” a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. Michael Andraychak, wrote in an email to Streetsblog. He described the collision itself in cop talk that seems forgiving of the driver, with no mention that the turn was prohibited.
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Lax Enforcement
As this latest case illustrates, drivers routinely get away with causing collisions and injuring bicyclists and pedestrians at Market and Octavia without so much as a slap on the wrist.
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https://sf.streetsblog.org/2011/08/25/city-planner-hurt-by-driver-making-illegal-right-turn-at-market-and-octavia/oldId.20110829004049639
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