Bike & Pedestrian Safety Crackdown Planned In A Peninsula City

BURLINGAME, CA — Police will conduct a specialized safety-enforcement operation on Wednesday, Sept. 11 in Burlingame, focusing on bike riders and pedestrians, according to authorities.

Officers from the Burlingame Police Department will spread out over various locations, deemed as high-risk areas for collisions, as they hold their "Bike & Pedestrian Safety Enforcement Operations," with the goal of stemming crashes, injuries and deaths that involve motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.

"Extra officers will be on duty patrolling areas where bike and pedestrian traffic and crashes occur in an effort to lower deaths and injuries," the department said.

Officers will be on the lookout for speeding drivers, motorists making illegal turns, failing to stop for signs and signals or pedestrians in crosswalks, along with violations of pedestrians illegally crossing streets, not at crosswalks or corners, or failing to yield to drivers with the right of way, plus cyclists not following laws or, for those under 18 years old, for failure to wear helmets.

Bicycle and pedestrian fatalities are rising in California, the agency said, adding that in 2018, there were more than 689 pedestrian fatalities in California.

Funding for the operation is provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the department said.

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