Stanley Roberts: Speeding Drivers In Golden Gate Park Are Behaving BadlySFPD officers examine a tagged speed cart in Golden Gate Park. (Screenshot: People Behaving Badly, KRON4)
Fiona Lee
Published on September 13, 2016

On a single evening in June, cyclists Katherine Slattery and Heather Miller were both killed in hit-and-run collisions. Slattery was hit at Howard and 7th in SoMa by a driver running a red light, while Miller was killed by a driver speeding through Golden Gate Park near 25th Avenue and John F. Kennedy Drive. 

Their deaths sparked an immediate reaction, both from bike advocates and from the city. But one thing is particularly difficult to change: driver behavior in Golden Gate Park itself, where motorists often cruise through at high speeds. 

Partnering with the SFPD, Stanley Roberts of KRON4's "People Behaving Badly" put his camera out for speeding drivers in Golden Gate Park. While the speed limit within the park is at 25mph, police officers caught drivers at speeds up to 37mph. (Nicky Garcia, the 19-year-old arrested for murder and vehicular manslaughter in the death of Heather Miller, was rumored to be going between 40-50mph when he hit her.)

People Behaving Badly: Golden Gate Park Speeders | STANLEY ROBERTS, KRON4

At the end of the segment, Roberts notes that one improvement is coming to the park's boulevards to slow down drivers: speed humps. As we reported last week, the city is hoping to install up to 10 of the traffic-slowing devices in the park, on JFK Drive between Transverse Drive and the Great Highway.