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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/muniyard060214a-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-137748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/muniyard060214a-1-of-1-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"Idle buses at Muni’s Potrero Division yard during Monday’s driver sickout. (Olivia Allen-Price)\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idle buses at Muni’s Potrero Division yard during Monday’s driver sickout. (Olivia Allen-Price)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The Great Muni Sickout of 2014 has ended. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is telling riders that all vehicles, including cable cars, will be following their regular routes this morning. The return to transit normalcy comes after a three-day sickout by operators that appeared to be the result of an ongoing contract dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA site: \"Muni service availability has steadily improved over the past few days, and is expected to provide approximately 90 percent of this morning's service based on pre-service data. Muni operated at 54 percent, 61 percent, and 80 percent of total service on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, this week respectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said that buses, trolley coaches, cable cars, the Muni Metro and the F-Market & Wharves historic streetcar line will all be back to business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera \u003ca href=\"http://sfcityattorney.org/index.aspx?page=597\" target=\"_blank\">filed unfair labor practice charges\u003c/a> with the state's Public Employment Relations Board in an attempt to end the sickout. Although the union denies any involvement in the sickout, the charges allege that Transport Workers Union Local 250-A was flouting contract and City Charter provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint maintains that the sickout is illegal under state law as well as the existing contract with Muni workers. Given the union's rejection of the SFMTA's offer, the complaint says, a neutral three-member arbitration board should resolve the impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-city-attorney-files-legal-charges-to-halt-5527895.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that an arbitrator is scheduled to meet with negotiators from labor and management on Saturday, but that a spokesman for the city attorney's office said the union's lawyer sent a letter saying the union wouldn't attend. The story also reported that transit workers voted 1,198-47 against the proposed contract, according to union officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Here's Muni's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/news/press-releases/sfmta-updates-muni-service-plan-wednesday-morning\" target=\"_blank\">updated service plan for Wednesday morning\u003c/a>. Again, the agency says about 440 of its normal fleet of 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars are operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is saying that things are looking better than the past couple of mornings. The agency is putting about 70 percent of its fleet on the street as some bus drivers and rail operators continue a job action fueled by anger over a city contract proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's count of vehicles on the road this morning is about 440 of the normal 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars. Significant \"gaps and delays\" are expected again throughout the system, though Muni is restoring service where it can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service will return on all bus lines, including Muni's express (X) and limited (L) lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muni Metro light-rail service will operate two-car trains.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>F-Line streetcars will run between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building but not on Market Street.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cable cars continue to be shut down. Some limited shuttle bus service is available along the car routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART will continue to honor Muni fares and transfers between the Daly City and Embarcadero stations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin says things are looking up for tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We are starting to see a little bit of turnaround in terms of attendance coming back,\" Reiskin said. \"I’m cautiously optimistic that tomorrow should be much better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously for a resolution calling on workers to return to their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be very strong and clear as elected representatives of the people of San Francisco that it is not OK to debilitate the Muni system,\" said Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA is also telling the Muni operators' union that it will seek damages for the sickout by operators. Transport Workers Union Local 250-A President Eric Williams said that the union had nothing to do with the sickout but that \"it's understandable, given the frustration over how the men and women are being treated by the city and the agency.\" In a letter, Williams also called on workers to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Already worrying about the evening commute? The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency just released new bus and light-rail schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning at 3 p.m., the J, L, M and N will now operate on short routes with limited bus shuttles to the terminals. Also, note that we've heard from several riders who were able to ride buses listed as not in operation today. Cable cars are still not in operation, and their lines are covered by limited bus shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Metro\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>J-Church — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 30th Street. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 30th Street and Balboa Park Station. Customers traveling between Balboa Park Station and 30th are encouraged to use BART or Mission Street routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>K-Ingleside — Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>L-Taraval — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 22nd Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 22nd Avenue and the Zoo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>M-Ocean View — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and S.F. State. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Holloway and Balboa Park Station.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>N-Judah — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 19th Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Ocean Beach. T-Third trains will provide service from Embarcadero to Caltrain at Fourth and King.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>T-Third— Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Bus Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>No limited-stop service on the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L and 71L routes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The following routes will not operate:\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>16X, 88\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3-Jackson – The majority of stops on this route are covered by the 2-Clement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>8AX-Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Muni officials announced that an arbitration hearing on the contract dispute is scheduled to take place Saturday. But Eric Williams, president of the local transport workers union, said he wants to resume contract talks before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137875 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n-300x300.jpg\" alt='Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni \"sickout.\" (Courtesy Ian Sherr)' width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni sickout. (Courtesy Ian Sherr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, we are ready and prepared to go back to the table with the agency,\" Williams said. \"We just want to assure the public that we're here to offer up the services that we're supposed to. We're here. We're just asking to be treated fairly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has played no role in the sickout, and was surprised when it happened. Williams apologized to residents of San Francisco, but blamed the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I apologize,\" he said. \"But actually it's on the city. For 30 years there was a system in place that helped negotiate or navigate these issues through negotiations. That's been taken away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee criticized the 300 or so drivers who have called in sick over the last two days, and called on them to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> It's Day Two of the Great Muni Sickout of 2014. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is reporting that bus and rail operators have again called in sick in large numbers, meaning that just a fraction of normal service is available for the Tuesday morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni reported Tuesday that about 300 of the usual fleet of 600 vehicles rolled out this morning. Transit delays are reported on most lines in the city, and the agency says commuters should expect big crowds and delays of up to an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, which represents Muni operators staging a sickout, released a statement Tuesday morning on its contract negotiations with the city. The statement said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SFMTA managers had told workers throughout the bargaining process that any shift from the city’s pension contributions to a plan funded by individuals would be offset by wage increases and would be “cost neutral.” However, even with wage increases of more than 8.05 percent proposed by SFMTA, drivers would experience a cut in their take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three years, drivers received no wage increases and are currently paid less than their counterparts in Seattle, Santa Clara, and other comparable public transit systems. Rather than improving wages and benefits, under the transit agency’s proposal, the vast majority of drivers would be paid less in real wages over the life of the agreement than they make now. MUNI workers are the only public employees in the City of San Francisco being targeted for a reduction in earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a great city, but a very difficult place to operate a bus, streetcar or cable car,” said TWU 250-A President Eric Williams. “This also is a very expensive city and while SFMTA’s ridership and revenues are on rising, the agency seeks to cut wages and benefits and convert full-time positions to part time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TWU 250-A has offered to return to the bargaining table -- but that offer has been rejected. Rather than bargain in good faith, management hopes that an arbitrator will shift pension costs, reduce wages and allow the replacement of full-time experienced drivers with part-time drivers paid at rates far below the full-timers. The transit agency also seeks to establish a 5-year wage progression schedule that would create two classes of workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency says its light-rail lines — the J-Church, K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, M-Ocean View, N-Judah and T-Third — are all running. To maximize capacity, each train is operating with just two cars. The F-Line streetcars are operating only between the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf — no service is being offered up Market Street to the Castro. The city's cable car lines are shut down for a second straight day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday bus service details, per Muni:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 8AX Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes. There will be no limited-stop service (affects the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L). And the following routes will not operate: 1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX, 16X, 88, 3-Jackson (the majority of stops on the 3 are covered by the 2-Clement).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The SFMTA \u003ca href=\"#memo\">sent a memo to workers\u003c/a> today stating that the agency will not pay workers without a doctor's note or other verification. Chief of Staff Alicia John-Baptiste also reminded workers that they are forbidden to strike under their contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The union that represents Muni operators has overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposal made by SFMTA. The proposal would have given Muni drivers an 11.25 percent raise over two years and required that they contribute 7.5 percent to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d134f0359725d385e10f4eedab35370b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of Muni bus, light rail and cable car operations remain offline, and there are widespread delays across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think I’ve been here 15 minutes,\" said Ernestine Jensen, a retired San Francisco resident waiting for an F-line historic streetcar at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue. After she learned that only two of 20 trains were running, she left. \"I’ll do my shopping another day,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:25 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Muni is scrambling to patch together service as bus and rail operators follow through with a threatened sickout this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via Twitter (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">@sfmta_muni\u003c/a>), the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it's seeing \"major delays\" throughout the city. Agency spokesman Paul Rose says that 400 of the 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars that would normally be on the streets have been idled because of driver absences. The sickout is in response to widespread anger over a city contract proposal (see original post below for details).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni urged riders to take alternate service Monday if possible and announced that BART will honor Muni passes and transfers between Daly City and downtown San Francisco stops today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited service is rolling, Muni says, but all express buses will operate as local runs. F-Line streetcar service has been hit by long delays and is being supplemented with shuttle bus service. No cable car service will operate until at least noon, the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've called in as many operators as we could to help fill service,\" Rose told KQED's Ted Goldberg, \"and they account for the 200 vehicles we were able to put out this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Muni is trying to make plans to deal with a second day of operator absences. He said the agency is contacting other transit providers in the region that might be able to supplement Muni's severely curtailed service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that today is the only day this will impact our riders,\" Rose said. \"We're certainly hoping for the best but planning for the worst.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137767\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137767 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/waiting-640x460.jpg\" alt=\"Riders faced long waits at Muni stops. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"230\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders faced long waits at Muni stops. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night): \u003c/strong>A Muni spokesman said Sunday night that a higher-than-normal number of bus and light-rail operators have called in ill for Monday morning, increasing the chance that union members unhappy with a city contract proposal will stage a sickout on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it appears the majority of our transit operators will be on the job tomorrow, early attendance reports indicate that service could be impacted,” said San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Paul Rose. “We will be working through the night and morning to balance service the best we can across the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Muni is urging riders to leave early in the morning and follow updates on Twitter — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">@sfmta_Muni\u003c/a> — and to sign up for email and text alerts on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SFMTA’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rumored sickout, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/muni_drivers_voting_on_union_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">first reported Friday by SF Weekly\u003c/a>, came on the same day that Muni's 2,200 operators and mechanics began voting on a contract that Eric Williams, president of Transit Workers Local 250-A, \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/PresidentsCorner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">said was full of “unreasonable takeaways in wages and benefits\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal dispute between Muni and the operators — who, like other municipal workers, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdhr.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=15396\" target=\"_blank\">barred from striking\u003c/a> by the City Charter — revolves around two monetary issues: pay raises in the new two-year contract and a requirement for new pension contributions by union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/Portals/21/PDFs/9163_CBA_Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">summary of the contract\u003c/a> posted by Local 250-A shows that operators hired before July 1, 2011, will get a 5.05 percent \"base wage increase\" starting next month, plus another 3 percent. In exchange, the contract requires operators to pay a 7.5 percent pension contribution that until now was paid by Muni. The second year of the contract includes a raise of between 2.25 and 3.25 percent, depending on inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 250-A voted on the contract Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/muni_drivers_voting_on_union_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">members predicting it would be voted down\u003c/a>. No results had been announced by late Sunday. If operators reject the contract, the dispute will be submitted to arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"memo\">\u003c/a>SFMTA Memo to Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View SFMTA Memo to 'Sick-out' Transit Operators on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/227718786/SFMTA-Memo-to-Sick-out-Transit-Operators?secret_password=Q3cnZHf3fhUj43FJXslf\">SFMTA Memo to 'Sick-out' Transit Operators\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View KQED News's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/KQED_News\">KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_92153\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/227718786/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-QefEWhJkjFLrvMkLVMhG&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nKQED's Dan Brekke, Olivia Allen-Price, Lisa Pickoff-White, Bryan Goebel, Isabel Angell, Guy Marzorati and Ted Goldberg contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137748\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/muniyard060214a-1-of-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-137748\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/muniyard060214a-1-of-1-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"Idle buses at Muni’s Potrero Division yard during Monday’s driver sickout. (Olivia Allen-Price)\" width=\"640\" height=\"429\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idle buses at Muni’s Potrero Division yard during Monday’s driver sickout. (Olivia Allen-Price)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The Great Muni Sickout of 2014 has ended. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is telling riders that all vehicles, including cable cars, will be following their regular routes this morning. The return to transit normalcy comes after a three-day sickout by operators that appeared to be the result of an ongoing contract dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the SFMTA site: \"Muni service availability has steadily improved over the past few days, and is expected to provide approximately 90 percent of this morning's service based on pre-service data. Muni operated at 54 percent, 61 percent, and 80 percent of total service on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, this week respectively.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said that buses, trolley coaches, cable cars, the Muni Metro and the F-Market & Wharves historic streetcar line will all be back to business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera \u003ca href=\"http://sfcityattorney.org/index.aspx?page=597\" target=\"_blank\">filed unfair labor practice charges\u003c/a> with the state's Public Employment Relations Board in an attempt to end the sickout. Although the union denies any involvement in the sickout, the charges allege that Transport Workers Union Local 250-A was flouting contract and City Charter provisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint maintains that the sickout is illegal under state law as well as the existing contract with Muni workers. Given the union's rejection of the SFMTA's offer, the complaint says, a neutral three-member arbitration board should resolve the impasse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/S-F-city-attorney-files-legal-charges-to-halt-5527895.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> that an arbitrator is scheduled to meet with negotiators from labor and management on Saturday, but that a spokesman for the city attorney's office said the union's lawyer sent a letter saying the union wouldn't attend. The story also reported that transit workers voted 1,198-47 against the proposed contract, according to union officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Wednesday: \u003c/strong>Here's Muni's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/news/press-releases/sfmta-updates-muni-service-plan-wednesday-morning\" target=\"_blank\">updated service plan for Wednesday morning\u003c/a>. Again, the agency says about 440 of its normal fleet of 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars are operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is saying that things are looking better than the past couple of mornings. The agency is putting about 70 percent of its fleet on the street as some bus drivers and rail operators continue a job action fueled by anger over a city contract proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni's count of vehicles on the road this morning is about 440 of the normal 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars. Significant \"gaps and delays\" are expected again throughout the system, though Muni is restoring service where it can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Service will return on all bus lines, including Muni's express (X) and limited (L) lines.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Muni Metro light-rail service will operate two-car trains.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>F-Line streetcars will run between Fisherman's Wharf and the Ferry Building but not on Market Street.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cable cars continue to be shut down. Some limited shuttle bus service is available along the car routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART will continue to honor Muni fares and transfers between the Daly City and Embarcadero stations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin says things are looking up for tomorrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“We are starting to see a little bit of turnaround in terms of attendance coming back,\" Reiskin said. \"I’m cautiously optimistic that tomorrow should be much better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously for a resolution calling on workers to return to their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to be very strong and clear as elected representatives of the people of San Francisco that it is not OK to debilitate the Muni system,\" said Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA is also telling the Muni operators' union that it will seek damages for the sickout by operators. Transport Workers Union Local 250-A President Eric Williams said that the union had nothing to do with the sickout but that \"it's understandable, given the frustration over how the men and women are being treated by the city and the agency.\" In a letter, Williams also called on workers to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Already worrying about the evening commute? The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency just released new bus and light-rail schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning at 3 p.m., the J, L, M and N will now operate on short routes with limited bus shuttles to the terminals. Also, note that we've heard from several riders who were able to ride buses listed as not in operation today. Cable cars are still not in operation, and their lines are covered by limited bus shuttles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Metro\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>J-Church — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 30th Street. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 30th Street and Balboa Park Station. Customers traveling between Balboa Park Station and 30th are encouraged to use BART or Mission Street routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>K-Ingleside — Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>L-Taraval — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 22nd Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 22nd Avenue and the Zoo.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>M-Ocean View — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and S.F. State. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Holloway and Balboa Park Station.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>N-Judah — Will operate between Embarcadero Station and 19th Avenue. Limited bus shuttle service will be provided between 19th Avenue and Ocean Beach. T-Third trains will provide service from Embarcadero to Caltrain at Fourth and King.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>T-Third— Will operate on its regular route\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muni Bus Service\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>No limited-stop service on the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L and 71L routes\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The following routes will not operate:\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>16X, 88\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>3-Jackson – The majority of stops on this route are covered by the 2-Clement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>8AX-Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Muni officials announced that an arbitration hearing on the contract dispute is scheduled to take place Saturday. But Eric Williams, president of the local transport workers union, said he wants to resume contract talks before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137875\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137875 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/10432108_10101294004865738_5079752475817251047_n-300x300.jpg\" alt='Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni \"sickout.\" (Courtesy Ian Sherr)' width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Sherr caught a nearly empty 1AX bus Tuesday morning despite the Muni sickout. (Courtesy Ian Sherr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, we are ready and prepared to go back to the table with the agency,\" Williams said. \"We just want to assure the public that we're here to offer up the services that we're supposed to. We're here. We're just asking to be treated fairly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union has played no role in the sickout, and was surprised when it happened. Williams apologized to residents of San Francisco, but blamed the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I apologize,\" he said. \"But actually it's on the city. For 30 years there was a system in place that helped negotiate or navigate these issues through negotiations. That's been taken away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee criticized the 300 or so drivers who have called in sick over the last two days, and called on them to return to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> It's Day Two of the Great Muni Sickout of 2014. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is reporting that bus and rail operators have again called in sick in large numbers, meaning that just a fraction of normal service is available for the Tuesday morning commute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni reported Tuesday that about 300 of the usual fleet of 600 vehicles rolled out this morning. Transit delays are reported on most lines in the city, and the agency says commuters should expect big crowds and delays of up to an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, which represents Muni operators staging a sickout, released a statement Tuesday morning on its contract negotiations with the city. The statement said in part:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>SFMTA managers had told workers throughout the bargaining process that any shift from the city’s pension contributions to a plan funded by individuals would be offset by wage increases and would be “cost neutral.” However, even with wage increases of more than 8.05 percent proposed by SFMTA, drivers would experience a cut in their take-home pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three years, drivers received no wage increases and are currently paid less than their counterparts in Seattle, Santa Clara, and other comparable public transit systems. Rather than improving wages and benefits, under the transit agency’s proposal, the vast majority of drivers would be paid less in real wages over the life of the agreement than they make now. MUNI workers are the only public employees in the City of San Francisco being targeted for a reduction in earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a great city, but a very difficult place to operate a bus, streetcar or cable car,” said TWU 250-A President Eric Williams. “This also is a very expensive city and while SFMTA’s ridership and revenues are on rising, the agency seeks to cut wages and benefits and convert full-time positions to part time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TWU 250-A has offered to return to the bargaining table -- but that offer has been rejected. Rather than bargain in good faith, management hopes that an arbitrator will shift pension costs, reduce wages and allow the replacement of full-time experienced drivers with part-time drivers paid at rates far below the full-timers. The transit agency also seeks to establish a 5-year wage progression schedule that would create two classes of workers.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency says its light-rail lines — the J-Church, K-Ingleside, L-Taraval, M-Ocean View, N-Judah and T-Third — are all running. To maximize capacity, each train is operating with just two cars. The F-Line streetcars are operating only between the Ferry Building and Fisherman's Wharf — no service is being offered up Market Street to the Castro. The city's cable car lines are shut down for a second straight day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday bus service details, per Muni:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 8AX Bayshore Express and 8BX will operate without changes. There will be no limited-stop service (affects the 5L, 9L, 14L, 28L, 38L). And the following routes will not operate: 1AX/BX, 31AX/BX, 38AX/BX, 16X, 88, 3-Jackson (the majority of stops on the 3 are covered by the 2-Clement).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The SFMTA \u003ca href=\"#memo\">sent a memo to workers\u003c/a> today stating that the agency will not pay workers without a doctor's note or other verification. Chief of Staff Alicia John-Baptiste also reminded workers that they are forbidden to strike under their contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The union that represents Muni operators has overwhelmingly rejected a contract proposal made by SFMTA. The proposal would have given Muni drivers an 11.25 percent raise over two years and required that they contribute 7.5 percent to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of Muni bus, light rail and cable car operations remain offline, and there are widespread delays across the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">“I think I’ve been here 15 minutes,\" said Ernestine Jensen, a retired San Francisco resident waiting for an F-line historic streetcar at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue. After she learned that only two of 20 trains were running, she left. \"I’ll do my shopping another day,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:25 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Muni is scrambling to patch together service as bus and rail operators follow through with a threatened sickout this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Via Twitter (\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">@sfmta_muni\u003c/a>), the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said it's seeing \"major delays\" throughout the city. Agency spokesman Paul Rose says that 400 of the 600 buses, light-rail vehicles, streetcars and cable cars that would normally be on the streets have been idled because of driver absences. The sickout is in response to widespread anger over a city contract proposal (see original post below for details).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni urged riders to take alternate service Monday if possible and announced that BART will honor Muni passes and transfers between Daly City and downtown San Francisco stops today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limited service is rolling, Muni says, but all express buses will operate as local runs. F-Line streetcar service has been hit by long delays and is being supplemented with shuttle bus service. No cable car service will operate until at least noon, the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've called in as many operators as we could to help fill service,\" Rose told KQED's Ted Goldberg, \"and they account for the 200 vehicles we were able to put out this morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Muni is trying to make plans to deal with a second day of operator absences. He said the agency is contacting other transit providers in the region that might be able to supplement Muni's severely curtailed service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that today is the only day this will impact our riders,\" Rose said. \"We're certainly hoping for the best but planning for the worst.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_137767\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-137767 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/06/waiting-640x460.jpg\" alt=\"Riders faced long waits at Muni stops. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"230\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders faced long waits at Muni stops. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night): \u003c/strong>A Muni spokesman said Sunday night that a higher-than-normal number of bus and light-rail operators have called in ill for Monday morning, increasing the chance that union members unhappy with a city contract proposal will stage a sickout on Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While it appears the majority of our transit operators will be on the job tomorrow, early attendance reports indicate that service could be impacted,” said San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman Paul Rose. “We will be working through the night and morning to balance service the best we can across the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said Muni is urging riders to leave early in the morning and follow updates on Twitter — \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">@sfmta_Muni\u003c/a> — and to sign up for email and text alerts on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/\" target=\"_blank\">SFMTA’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rumored sickout, \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/muni_drivers_voting_on_union_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">first reported Friday by SF Weekly\u003c/a>, came on the same day that Muni's 2,200 operators and mechanics began voting on a contract that Eric Williams, president of Transit Workers Local 250-A, \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/PresidentsCorner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">said was full of “unreasonable takeaways in wages and benefits\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The principal dispute between Muni and the operators — who, like other municipal workers, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdhr.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=15396\" target=\"_blank\">barred from striking\u003c/a> by the City Charter — revolves around two monetary issues: pay raises in the new two-year contract and a requirement for new pension contributions by union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.twusf.org/Portals/21/PDFs/9163_CBA_Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">summary of the contract\u003c/a> posted by Local 250-A shows that operators hired before July 1, 2011, will get a 5.05 percent \"base wage increase\" starting next month, plus another 3 percent. In exchange, the contract requires operators to pay a 7.5 percent pension contribution that until now was paid by Muni. The second year of the contract includes a raise of between 2.25 and 3.25 percent, depending on inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local 250-A voted on the contract Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/05/muni_drivers_voting_on_union_c.php\" target=\"_blank\">members predicting it would be voted down\u003c/a>. No results had been announced by late Sunday. If operators reject the contract, the dispute will be submitted to arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"memo\">\u003c/a>SFMTA Memo to Workers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto;font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: normal\">\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View SFMTA Memo to 'Sick-out' Transit Operators on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/227718786/SFMTA-Memo-to-Sick-out-Transit-Operators?secret_password=Q3cnZHf3fhUj43FJXslf\">SFMTA Memo to 'Sick-out' Transit Operators\u003c/a> by \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline\" title=\"View KQED News's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/KQED_News\">KQED News\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Commuters in San Francisco are scrambling to find alternative transportation or enduring the sometimes hour-long wait for a bus as this morning's operator sickout \u003ca href=\"http://http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/01/san-francisco-muni-operators-may-stage-monday-sick-out\" target=\"_blank\">drags on into the evening\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two-thirds of San Francisco's Muni fleet, or about 400 vehicles, remain sidelined tonight, as bus and rail operators show their anger over the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's proposed labor contract. Muni has some 700,000 boardings per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni is barred from striking, but Michael LeRoy, professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign, says sickouts effectively have the same effect as strikes. He spoke with KQED’s Mina Kim on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They function very much like a strike,” LeRoy said. “It is a withdrawal of labor by workers, and it’s meant to put pressure on the employers. In that sense it’s a de facto strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA will \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/01/san-francisco-muni-operators-may-stage-monday-sick-out#memo\" target=\"_blank\">deny pay to operators\u003c/a> who called in sick on Monday if they cannot prove they were ill. But LeRoy says management can take additional action against them if they can’t prove they were ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the current agreement, which is expiring this month, there is a provision for management to count an absent-without-leave as a disciplinary event, and that would result in a two-day suspension,” LeRoy said. “A second violation within an eight-month period would have a 10-day suspension.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"aba6eaa1e096b29a0cd150c689a7c81c\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if management wants to fight fire with fire, they have the tools at their disposal within the contract to do it,” LeRoy said. “The question is: Would they want to take it that far, because given the number of people who are allegedly engaged in the sickout – you could be looking at essentially putting a majority of your workforce on a fast track toward termination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeRoy said it appears this case will move to arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the parties don’t conclude an agreement in the near future, the contract will expire and then 'interest arbitration' is provided,” LeRoy said. “That term means that an arbitrator writes new terms of the contract. That arbitrator doesn’t write from whole cloth. The arbitrator is presented with an argument from the union, an argument from the employer and typically the arbitrator picks one offer over the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni workers are not happy with a proposed contract that would give an 11.25 percent raise over two years, but requires them to contribute 7.5 percent into their pensions, which are paid by the SFMTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeRoy said today’s walkout raises the same kind of issues that arose during the BART strikes and in other public sector labor disputes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“States don’t have money. Municipal governments don’t have money to fund pension benefits,” LeRoy said. “So from the workers’ perspective, the pay raise is essentially going in one pocket and out the other to fund their pension, and in their view they’re not getting a raise, they’re just simply being asked to absorb the cost of their retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the employer perspective, they can’t afford it. So these are going to being enduring kinds of issues, and there’s no real relief in sight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to the full interview below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/152531203\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest of the Discourtesy Top 5: Atlanta, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Boston. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The casual statistician in me doesn’t put a lot of stock in these rankings. I would guess that the sample size — 2,500 drivers across the entire United States — might allow one to come to general conclusions about national trends but would be unlikely to provide much really meaningful information about each of the 25 cities the report says were surveyed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although, yes, I have a little swelling of pride when I read that my native \u003ca href=\"http://www.autovantage.com/Road-Rage/Chicago.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago is ninth least courteous\u003c/a>, with drivers there being the most likely to curse or shake their fists at other drivers, the findings for San Francisco — \u003cem>drivers least likely to have talked on the phone while at the wheel\u003c/em> — just don’t seem to jibe with what I see every day on the streets. Which is, in short, all sorts of \u003ca href=\"http://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences/cutting_off\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the kind of jerky behavior\u003c/a> that I assume goes along with driving a car anywhere. I plead occasionally guilty to the above-named offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that these are relative findings: Fewer San Francisco drivers say they talk on the phone while driving compared to Houston, for instance (a finding that may reveal Houston as a capital of honesty and self-knowledge). I’m not driving in all those other cities, so maybe San Francisco really is more courteous. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But courtesy in this case doesn’t equate with safety. And we’ve got the numbers to back that up, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/07/san-francisco-records-seventh-pedestrian-fatality-of-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least seven pedestrians killed\u003c/a> by vehicles so far this year. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108651\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/27/108647/amelie-le-moullac/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108651\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-108651\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Amelie-Le-Moullac-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Amelie Le Moullac was killed while riding her bicycle on Folsom Street. Photo from Voce Communications via Streetsblog SF\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amelie Le Moullac was killed while riding her bicycle on Folsom Street. Photo from Voce Communications via Streetsblog SF \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Voce Communications )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco prosecutors have declined to file a vehicular manslaughter charge against a big-rig driver who allegedly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/27/108647/\" target=\"_blank\">hit and killed a 24-year-old woman riding her bicycle\u003c/a> to work in SoMa last summer — a case that led to an apology and promise of reform from Police Chief Greg Suhr after a sloppy investigation initially blamed the victim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amelie Le Moullac was pedaling eastbound on Folsom Street just before Sixth Street on the morning of Aug. 14, 2013 when the right-turning truck driven by Gilberto Alcantar struck her. Police faulted Le Moullac for her death until a San Francisco Bike Coalition staffer \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/23/sfbc-finds-what-sfpd-didnt-video-of-crash-that-killed-amelie-le-moullac/\" target=\"_blank\">discovered surveillance video of the crash\u003c/a> at a nearby auto shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After watching the video, investigators concluded Alcantar was to blame for making \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc22107.htm\" target=\"_blank\">an unsafe turn\u003c/a> into the bike lane, killing the young public relations professional. Despite that key piece of evidence, prosecutors ultimately felt it wasn’t enough to convince a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, with the evidence presented, we are unable to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt,” said Alex Bastian, a spokesman for San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Micha Liberty, an attorney for the Le Moullac family, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Alcantar and Milipitas-based distributor Daylight Foods. She said the family was disappointed and heartbroken that charges aren’t being filed, and that Alcantar wasn’t issued a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After reviewing the evidence that we have, looking at the video of the incident, it’s really hard for this grieving family to understand how a driver can do what he did without receiving even a slap on the wrist for a minor violation of the vehicle code,” Liberty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ec70dcc5fec6e795fd2d1bf2ba05262b\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Anderson, a Denver-based attorney representing Alcantar and Daylight Foods, said he could not comment on the case because of the lawsuit, but “our sincere sympathies go out to Ms. Le Moullac’s family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike and pedestrian advocates say the missteps in the Le Moullac case are typical of police investigations into collisions involving drivers who kill or injure bicyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That troubling trend, advocates say, was also exposed when SFPD Sgt. Richard Ernst \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/21/at-safe-streets-rally-sfpd-blocks-bike-lane-to-make-point-of-victim-blaming/\" target=\"_blank\">showed up at the crash site during during a memorial\u003c/a> and safe streets rally for Le Moullac a week after her death. According to the bike coalition, Ernst blamed Le Moullac for the crash. He parked his unit in the bike lane and said he was there to prove a point — that bicyclists need to go to the left of right-turning vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/01/17/sfpd-commits-to-vision-zero-with-policy-reforms-to-back-up-the-rhetoric/\" target=\"_blank\">a City Hall hearing early this year\u003c/a>, Suhr acknowledged mistakes were made and apologized for Ernst's remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the Le Moullac case is par for the course when it comes to the combined lack of follow-up and serious attention bicycle cases are handled with by the S.F. Police Department and District Attorney’s Office,” said Leah Shahum, executive director of the San Francisco Bike Coalition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is serious cause for concern that no charges were filed in any of the four cases of people being hit and killed while biking last year,” Shahum added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview, Gascón would not discuss the Le Moullac case but said decisions about whether to charge in these kinds of fatal collisions are predicated on the investigations. The police department decides whether to present a case to the DA’s office for prosecution based on probable cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a total of 25 pedestrians and bicyclists were hit and killed by drivers, the highest number since 2007. The police department presented nine vehicular manslaughter cases to the DA's office. Of those, six drivers were charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the driver was the one at fault and there is a death, then we have a prosecutable case and we look at the evidence and whether we can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt,” Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it can get complicated, he explained, because there are often many pieces of evidence that are sometimes contradictory. That’s one reason why \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Pointing-fingers-in-the-mayhem-on-S-F-s-roadways-5468662.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gascón wants to create a new vehicular manslaughter unit\u003c/a> to take on these types of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are incidents that increasingly require very specialized understanding of the law as well as a very specialized understanding of the evidence,” Gascón said. The unit would include a paralegal and investigator who can work with police “to round out the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149383864\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr, meanwhile, said he’s working with his officers to improve evidence-gathering, including video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, video is very important, and there’s a lot of it these days,\" Suhr said. \"So, we want to make sure we get it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike and pedestrian advocates say the police department needs to make a cultural shift, and there are some signs that’s happening. Both Suhr and Gascón back Vision Zero, the city's goal to achieve zero traffic deaths within 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has changed the department’s policy of not citing drivers in fatal cases. Now, if the district attorney doesn’t prosecute a case where a driver is found to be at fault, Suhr said his department will go back and issue a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just want to get it right,” Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language that police use is also changing. In the past, police often classified pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities as tragic accidents, which implied they could not have been prevented. Now it’s official SFPD policy to call them collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s all a start, according to advocates, that they hope will lead to better investigations and justice for victims like Amelie Le Moullac.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Richard Ernst \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/21/at-safe-streets-rally-sfpd-blocks-bike-lane-to-make-point-of-victim-blaming/\" target=\"_blank\">showed up at the crash site during during a memorial\u003c/a> and safe streets rally for Le Moullac a week after her death. According to the bike coalition, Ernst blamed Le Moullac for the crash. He parked his unit in the bike lane and said he was there to prove a point — that bicyclists need to go to the left of right-turning vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/01/17/sfpd-commits-to-vision-zero-with-policy-reforms-to-back-up-the-rhetoric/\" target=\"_blank\">a City Hall hearing early this year\u003c/a>, Suhr acknowledged mistakes were made and apologized for Ernst's remarks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, the Le Moullac case is par for the course when it comes to the combined lack of follow-up and serious attention bicycle cases are handled with by the S.F. 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City officials say that fee would raise about $1.5 million over the 18 months of the pilot, enough to defray the cost of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community and housing activists were quick to criticize the tech bus pilot project. They \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/20/activists-appeal-san-francisco-tech-bus-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed to the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> to block the program, a request\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/01/google-bus-San-Francisco-Supervisors/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the board rejected\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s suit argues that the scope of private commuter bus service in San Francisco, estimated at 35,000 boardings a day on 350 or so buses, requires that the city’s pilot shuttle program undergo a formal review under the California Environmental Quality Act. The complaint also says the pilot program should be blocked because it improperly allows the use of public bus stops for private purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit warns that the pilot project could have a wide range of negative effects, including air pollution, increased cancer risks, displacement of low- and moderate-income workers and impacts on pedestrian and cyclist safety. Tech companies and other proponents of the shuttles say that by giving workers an alternative to driving, the buses reduce traffic congestion and pollution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs include a group calling itself the Coalition for Fair, Legal and Environmental Transit, SEIU Local 1021, and two individuals: Elizabeth “Alysabeth” Alexander, a vice president of Local 1021, and Sara Shortt of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco. 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