Overview
- The CHP and SFPD operation, which unfolded Saturday, stopped a large group of cyclists before they reached the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
- Officers detained and cited 85 people for riding a bicycle onto a freeway, seized 85 bikes, and released everyone after processing.
- Police tracked the group through SFPD’s real-time investigations center and used helicopter updates to set a containment plan on the Harrison Street off-ramp.
- Footage released by the agencies shows riders weaving through downtown traffic and cars inching past cyclists as they pedaled the wrong way up the off-ramp.
- CHP Capt. Tim McCollister called the behavior dangerous and said officers will keep enforcing laws that bar bikes from freeways, a stance shaped by past rideouts that have snarled Bay Bridge traffic.