Bay Area/ San Francisco

Wiggle Crackdown?

Published on July 18, 2012
Wiggle Crackdown?
Heads up, bike commuters, the SFPD has been issuing a string of tickets and warnings along the wiggle.

We saw a tip from twitterer Mark Dawson that the fuzz were issuing warnings on the wiggle today.
This is continuing a trend of recent upticks in bicycle ticketing. Yesterday, SFist posted a video from KRON wherein cops issue 13 $300 tickets in two hours at one intersection on the wiggle. For anyone doing the math, that's almost $4000. The Uptown Almanac recently posted a video of a few bicycle cops on Haight Street rolling through stop signs, if you want to get ragey. But considering the trend, you might not want to bank on talking your way out of a ticket with a "spirit of the law" argument. You might be better off stopping at the stop signs for now. Do you commute? Have you gotten any tickets?