Sunday, February 10, 2008

notes on cycling in San Francisco

My usual early morning ride the USF koret pool takes me from Bay Street down Polk, cutting west on Jackson up and over into Pacific Heights past the schools; I head south at Presidio, turning west again on Sacramento to Parker. Here there was chaotic congestion of cars and trucks; I breezed left and crossed California as the light turned green. On over the speed bumps on Parker to Geary and across Geary. I hesitated at the median strip and finished crossing Geary where upon I'm told to pull over by the SF PD, an officer Jon Rodriquez gets out and informs me that I crossed a red light.

Hmmm. Did I?

 This opened a dialogue of approximately 20 minutes. At times I was getting a ticket, at times he was letting me off with a warning.