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Authorities told KQED that all additional charges against Asberry -- resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and a felony parole violation -- were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabel Angell has obtained the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017843-bart-police-event-record-for-robert-james-ashberry.html\">official \"event record\u003c/a>\" from BART of the Jan. 29 incident. At 10:05 that night, an anonymous caller reported that an African-American man was drunk and harassing customers on the platform at the 24th Street BART station. According to the report, the train was stopped at San Bruno Station, where a BART police officer boarded the train and confronted the suspect. The report identifies the man, who was subsequently arrested after being shot by an officer with a taser gun, as Pittsburg resident Robert James Asberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/13/126281/asberry-robert/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126355\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126355 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/asberry-robert-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is investigating an incident from the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, in which a transit police officer was videotaped using a taser to take an African-American man into custody. KQED's Isabel Angell reports that BART authorities expect their investigation to take six months, and that the officer involved in the incident has not been reprimanded or placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which is credited to Rahul Gondalia, runs just over 13 minutes, and shows a passenger who appears to be docile at first but grows increasingly agitated after BART officers use a stun gun on him. Six police officers can be seen in the video. The passenger, lying on the floor of the BART train close to a door, curses repeatedly and tells the officers that they wouldn't have done anything if he had been white. He mentions Rodney King at least three times and says, \"I didn't do nothing … Everybody, put your cameras on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>According to the police log of the incident:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1/29/14 2205 hours\u003cbr>\nAn officer responded to a report of a man who was drunk and harassing patrons on a Millbrae bound train. Upon detention, the suspect (became) resistive and a TASER had to be used to take him into custody. A warrant check on the suspect revealed an outstanding no-bail arrest warrant out of the California Department of Corrections for parole violation. The train was held for 18 minutes. A sergeant arrived at the scene to approve the arrest and conduct the use of force investigation. The suspect was taken to Peninsula Hospital for clearance prior to being booked for resisting arrest, the warrant, and public intoxication.1401-4266 L12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, per policy and protocol BART Police has initiated the proper investigation into this incident. The link to the video on the internet was also forwarded to BART's independent police auditor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Angell reports that the person who called police to complain about the man they arrested was not on the train but rather standing on a platform in a BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bart-officer-repeatedly-tases-black-man-bart-without-clear-and-present-danger-life\">post published by AlterNet\u003c/a>, Vidya Kaipa, a woman passenger on the train who was sitting next to the man arrested by police, says he was not harassing her. She says that police initiated the arrest even though she told them, \"It’s fine. He’s not bothering me. It’s OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa adds: “It went from being about me to being about the police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa's \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/race-class/385564bd9e8b\">full account\u003c/a> of the incident appears on \"Medium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest incident between BART police and an African-American man is certain to reignite the controversy surrounding the Oscar Grant case, which is currently being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/oscar-grant-mehserle-lawsuit/\">litigated\u003c/a> in the courts. That case, in which Grant was killed by a BART officer, formed the basis for the film \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/12/fruitvale-station-oscar-grant\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are excerpts from Kaipa’s written account of her 20-minute BART ride with Robert Asberry:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tonight, I caught the 9:56 pm Millbrae-bound BART from Civic Center. I usually work late, but I rarely feel threatened — there are always plenty of riders at that time, plus I’m good at putting up defenses. I’m small, but (or maybe because of that) I’m street-smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it didn’t bother me when a few stops later, an extremely drunk black man — whose name I later overheard by the police cuffing him to be Robert — crashed onto the seat next to me. I was near the entrance, in a seating area where four seats faced one another, and the train was relatively packed, so I didn’t feel particularly isolated or targeted. He smelled of booze and his words were slurred, but he asked me about the book I was reading and I could tell that he was harmless. This is an opinion I have maintained and have repeated countless times to several police throughout the whole ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was from East Oakland but that he was going to Richmond, where his sister would pick him up. I suggested he get onto the opposite platform, since this train was headed to Millbrae. He politely asked if he was bothering me and said that he would leave me alone, but that he wanted to keep sitting next to me because I was a beautiful and good person. I assured him that he wasn’t a problem—I have a bizarrely high tolerance for friendly drunk/drugged out randos …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I was \u003cem>never\u003c/em> concerned about my safety. If I really felt worried, I would have moved, or I could have indicated my discomfort by at the very least moving my backpack and phone away from him. Not only did I do neither of these things, I continued to engage, smile, laugh, and generally go along with the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I was just as surprised as Robert was when a BART policeman boarded the train at San Bruno and (in his defense) politely asked him to disembark so that he could ask a few questions. I didn’t realize until a few minutes later that someone had specifically called the police, reporting Robert for some unknown reason. Robert didn’t want to go, understandably, and asked why he should get up. I vouched for Robert — I told the cop that he wasn’t bothering me, and that it was totally okay with me if he wanted to continue on. The cop repeated (again, in his defense, in a friendly tone) that he just wanted to ask a few questions, that it wouldn’t take too long, and that Robert would be free to get onto the next train. Robert said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few relatively civil back-and-forths, the cop lightly touched his shoulder, saying “come on, let’s just talk on the platform.” Robert shook him off. This continued for a bit. Eventually, it escalated to the point where the cop was physically pulling him up from the seat with two hands, and Robert was pushing the cop off him. When both men were standing, Robert cornered by the door to the next carriage and the cop standing in the path to the main entrance, Robert asked again and again why the cop wanted him to get off the train, and that he hadn’t done anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…At one point, Robert got very aggravated and tried to sit down again, or maybe it was that he was just shouting and the cop got tired of trying to peacefully usher Robert out of the train. So he pulled out his taser and told Robert that if he didn’t disembark the train, he would tase him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… He \u003cem>literally didn’t do anything\u003c/em>, and on top of that, he was a genuinely nice guy. We were having an admittedly uncomfortable conversation, but only because I was tired and didn’t want to talk to anyone, not because I didn’t want to talk to \u003cem>him. \u003c/em>So he was completely in the right to ask for what reason the cop wanted him off the train, and to not get off until that question was answered. Unfortunately for him, he ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the cop’s credit, he didn’t pull the trigger right away. He gave ample warning, enough so that the man on the diagonal seating (next to where Robert was standing, backed against the doors to the next carriage) had bodily covered the woman next to him in anticipation of the scene that was seconds from occuring. Robert moved around the carriage, at one point sitting next to me again. At this point, I genuinely feared being accidentally tased myself; the taser points a red laser beam at its target, and I saw that target slip to me for a split-second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Robert didn’t “cooperate,” and the cop shot him. Watching someone get tased is one of the worst things I have ever seen—I can’t imagine actually \u003cem>being \u003c/em>tased. Robert limply fell over onto the seats in front of me, crying and twitching, and the cop leaned over to lift him outside. Robert tried to get up again, and the cop threatened to tase him a second time. Finding that he was too heavy, the cop ended up dragging him to the entrance. (The soundtrack of this memory will always be the man diagonal incredulously breathing, “oh my god… oh my god.”) The cop called for backup, and a few others came in time for Robert to regain some control and start resisting again. As the cops cuffed him and held him down, Robert tearfully shouted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, that everyone on the train saw, that we take videos and pictures and prevent another Rodney King incident. Despite the two other officers physically restraining Robert, the initial officer tased him a second time, with a sickening five-second shock that was both excessive and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… To their credit, the cops that came afterwards were as compassionate as they could be in the situation. He was kicking around (understandably), but they were gentle and nicely told him they wanted him to stop kicking them so that he could sit up on a bench and drink some water. He wouldn’t, eventually breaking down crying uncontrollably and repeating that he hadn’t done anything. Watching him get strapped into a body-binding contraption so that they could move him, while he plaintively cried his innocence, might have broken the last intact piece of my heart. … An officer asked if I would give a statement, and I immediately stepped off the train in compliance\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m hesitant to jump to the “police brutality” conclusion, because the aggression wasn’t totally unprovoked. Yes, the cop definitely shouldn’t have used the taser, but at the same time, Robert shouldn’t have resisted the cop for so long. That being said, Robert should have never been stopped in the first place, because he wasn’t posing a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So really — what’s the best-case scenario? There is none, and that’s what makes this so awful and heartbreaking and outrageous. A man sits next to a woman on public transit, is asked to leave the train, doesn’t, then gets tased, dragged, cuffed, forcibly bound, and carried out. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Tuttle of \u003ca href=\"http://store.taser.com/self-defense-products-c84.aspx\">Taser International\u003c/a> reviewed the video for KQED News. He confirmed via email that the weapon that had struck Robert Asberry was manufactured by his company and is called an X26: \"The first X26 deployment at 33 seconds appears quite effective and of note you will notice it’s 'quiet.' At the 3 minute mark the X26 is actuated but the unit is 'loud' appearing to have no effect. This is usually indicative of a probe being pulled away from the body or a wire was broken. (The probes have to be attached to skin or if attached to clothing they must be no less than an inch away from the skin.) When you hear loud electrical pulses the energy is arcing in the air and the current is not received by the suspect. A TASER weapon delivers these 19 pulses per second for a 5-second cycle but when it’s loud like this it has zero effect. It’s all or nothing with a TASER device and is actually very quiet when the circuit is completed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12:40 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Isabel Angell reports that Robert Asberry has been released from jail in Redwood City after serving 15 days of a 30-day sentence after not contesting charges of being drunk and disorderly on the night of Jan. 29, when BART police shot him with a stun gun during his arrest on a train in the San Bruno station. Authorities told KQED that all additional charges against Asberry -- resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and a felony parole violation -- were dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 11 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Isabel Angell has obtained the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017843-bart-police-event-record-for-robert-james-ashberry.html\">official \"event record\u003c/a>\" from BART of the Jan. 29 incident. At 10:05 that night, an anonymous caller reported that an African-American man was drunk and harassing customers on the platform at the 24th Street BART station. According to the report, the train was stopped at San Bruno Station, where a BART police officer boarded the train and confronted the suspect. The report identifies the man, who was subsequently arrested after being shot by an officer with a taser gun, as Pittsburg resident Robert James Asberry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126355\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/13/126281/asberry-robert/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126355\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-126355 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/asberry-robert-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Asberry's booking photo. (Courtesy of San Mateo Sheriff's Office)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original Post:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is investigating an incident from the night of Wednesday, Jan. 29, in which a transit police officer was videotaped using a taser to take an African-American man into custody. KQED's Isabel Angell reports that BART authorities expect their investigation to take six months, and that the officer involved in the incident has not been reprimanded or placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video, which is credited to Rahul Gondalia, runs just over 13 minutes, and shows a passenger who appears to be docile at first but grows increasingly agitated after BART officers use a stun gun on him. Six police officers can be seen in the video. The passenger, lying on the floor of the BART train close to a door, curses repeatedly and tells the officers that they wouldn't have done anything if he had been white. He mentions Rodney King at least three times and says, \"I didn't do nothing … Everybody, put your cameras on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>According to the police log of the incident:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>1/29/14 2205 hours\u003cbr>\nAn officer responded to a report of a man who was drunk and harassing patrons on a Millbrae bound train. Upon detention, the suspect (became) resistive and a TASER had to be used to take him into custody. A warrant check on the suspect revealed an outstanding no-bail arrest warrant out of the California Department of Corrections for parole violation. The train was held for 18 minutes. A sergeant arrived at the scene to approve the arrest and conduct the use of force investigation. The suspect was taken to Peninsula Hospital for clearance prior to being booked for resisting arrest, the warrant, and public intoxication.1401-4266 L12\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, per policy and protocol BART Police has initiated the proper investigation into this incident. The link to the video on the internet was also forwarded to BART's independent police auditor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Angell reports that the person who called police to complain about the man they arrested was not on the train but rather standing on a platform in a BART station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/bart-officer-repeatedly-tases-black-man-bart-without-clear-and-present-danger-life\">post published by AlterNet\u003c/a>, Vidya Kaipa, a woman passenger on the train who was sitting next to the man arrested by police, says he was not harassing her. She says that police initiated the arrest even though she told them, \"It’s fine. He’s not bothering me. It’s OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa adds: “It went from being about me to being about the police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaipa's \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/race-class/385564bd9e8b\">full account\u003c/a> of the incident appears on \"Medium.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest incident between BART police and an African-American man is certain to reignite the controversy surrounding the Oscar Grant case, which is currently being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/30/oscar-grant-mehserle-lawsuit/\">litigated\u003c/a> in the courts. That case, in which Grant was killed by a BART officer, formed the basis for the film \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/12/fruitvale-station-oscar-grant\">Fruitvale Station\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are excerpts from Kaipa’s written account of her 20-minute BART ride with Robert Asberry:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Tonight, I caught the 9:56 pm Millbrae-bound BART from Civic Center. I usually work late, but I rarely feel threatened — there are always plenty of riders at that time, plus I’m good at putting up defenses. I’m small, but (or maybe because of that) I’m street-smart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it didn’t bother me when a few stops later, an extremely drunk black man — whose name I later overheard by the police cuffing him to be Robert — crashed onto the seat next to me. I was near the entrance, in a seating area where four seats faced one another, and the train was relatively packed, so I didn’t feel particularly isolated or targeted. He smelled of booze and his words were slurred, but he asked me about the book I was reading and I could tell that he was harmless. This is an opinion I have maintained and have repeated countless times to several police throughout the whole ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I asked him where he was headed, and he told me he was from East Oakland but that he was going to Richmond, where his sister would pick him up. I suggested he get onto the opposite platform, since this train was headed to Millbrae. He politely asked if he was bothering me and said that he would leave me alone, but that he wanted to keep sitting next to me because I was a beautiful and good person. I assured him that he wasn’t a problem—I have a bizarrely high tolerance for friendly drunk/drugged out randos …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… I was \u003cem>never\u003c/em> concerned about my safety. If I really felt worried, I would have moved, or I could have indicated my discomfort by at the very least moving my backpack and phone away from him. Not only did I do neither of these things, I continued to engage, smile, laugh, and generally go along with the conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I was just as surprised as Robert was when a BART policeman boarded the train at San Bruno and (in his defense) politely asked him to disembark so that he could ask a few questions. I didn’t realize until a few minutes later that someone had specifically called the police, reporting Robert for some unknown reason. Robert didn’t want to go, understandably, and asked why he should get up. I vouched for Robert — I told the cop that he wasn’t bothering me, and that it was totally okay with me if he wanted to continue on. The cop repeated (again, in his defense, in a friendly tone) that he just wanted to ask a few questions, that it wouldn’t take too long, and that Robert would be free to get onto the next train. Robert said no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few relatively civil back-and-forths, the cop lightly touched his shoulder, saying “come on, let’s just talk on the platform.” Robert shook him off. This continued for a bit. Eventually, it escalated to the point where the cop was physically pulling him up from the seat with two hands, and Robert was pushing the cop off him. When both men were standing, Robert cornered by the door to the next carriage and the cop standing in the path to the main entrance, Robert asked again and again why the cop wanted him to get off the train, and that he hadn’t done anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>…At one point, Robert got very aggravated and tried to sit down again, or maybe it was that he was just shouting and the cop got tired of trying to peacefully usher Robert out of the train. So he pulled out his taser and told Robert that if he didn’t disembark the train, he would tase him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… He \u003cem>literally didn’t do anything\u003c/em>, and on top of that, he was a genuinely nice guy. We were having an admittedly uncomfortable conversation, but only because I was tired and didn’t want to talk to anyone, not because I didn’t want to talk to \u003cem>him. \u003c/em>So he was completely in the right to ask for what reason the cop wanted him off the train, and to not get off until that question was answered. Unfortunately for him, he ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the cop’s credit, he didn’t pull the trigger right away. He gave ample warning, enough so that the man on the diagonal seating (next to where Robert was standing, backed against the doors to the next carriage) had bodily covered the woman next to him in anticipation of the scene that was seconds from occuring. Robert moved around the carriage, at one point sitting next to me again. At this point, I genuinely feared being accidentally tased myself; the taser points a red laser beam at its target, and I saw that target slip to me for a split-second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, Robert didn’t “cooperate,” and the cop shot him. Watching someone get tased is one of the worst things I have ever seen—I can’t imagine actually \u003cem>being \u003c/em>tased. Robert limply fell over onto the seats in front of me, crying and twitching, and the cop leaned over to lift him outside. Robert tried to get up again, and the cop threatened to tase him a second time. Finding that he was too heavy, the cop ended up dragging him to the entrance. (The soundtrack of this memory will always be the man diagonal incredulously breathing, “oh my god… oh my god.”) The cop called for backup, and a few others came in time for Robert to regain some control and start resisting again. As the cops cuffed him and held him down, Robert tearfully shouted that he hadn’t done anything wrong, that everyone on the train saw, that we take videos and pictures and prevent another Rodney King incident. Despite the two other officers physically restraining Robert, the initial officer tased him a second time, with a sickening five-second shock that was both excessive and unnecessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… To their credit, the cops that came afterwards were as compassionate as they could be in the situation. 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An $8 toll?!” response, followed by a few expletives, and finally, some questions like, “Why do they need so much more money if the bridge is already built?” or “When will the increase take effect?” For those of you have reached the questioning phase of your reaction, here a few things to keep in mind when considering the ultimate $8 price tag:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1) Wednesday is the Final Day of the Public Comment Period\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speak now or forever hold your peace. Interested parties and persons have until \u003cstrong>8 p.m. tonight\u003c/strong> to \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/TollIncreaseProposal2014.php#comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submit a comment\u003c/a> on what fare increase they prefer. The formal public comment meeting is also tonight at 7 p.m. in San Rafael. And by “tonight,” yes, we mean Feb. 12, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those seeking alternatives to a Golden Gate Bridge toll increase of two bucks over the next five years seem to be pretty much out of luck. The options listed on the \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/TollIncreaseProposal2014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District website\u003c/a> suggest that the options are pretty much six of one, half a dozen of the other. The four options the district wants feedback on all add up to a $2 increase. It’s simply a matter of how quickly that increase is implemented — all at once or bit by bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2) The Golden Gate Bridge District Manages Much More Than a Bridge\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, the agency that manages the bridge, is “basically a transit agency,” according to its general manager and CEO Denis Mulligan. “We spend over half of our tolls on subsidizing bus and ferry service,” Mulligan said on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402100930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s “Forum\u003c/a>“. “We carry 25 percent of all trips from the North Bay into the city on our buses and ferries during commute periods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3) Currently No Sidewalk Toll Is on the Table\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402100930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During “Forum’s” discussion\u003c/a>, several listeners inquired about charging pedestrians and cyclists who use the bridge. Mulligan made it clear that a sidewalk fee will not defer the proposed auto toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When (the board) put forward the proposals they did not include a sidewalk toll, so at this juncture they could not approve a sidewalk as part of the toll increase.” said Mulligan. “That having been said – they have the discretion to impose a sidewalk toll. There were turnstiles up until 1971 where people dropped a dime in to get on the bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan said that the bridge sees about 10,000 pedestrians a day during the summer and about 6,000 cyclists daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4) The Bridge District Receives No Local Tax Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and opponents of the toll increase repeatedly pointed out the bridge’s lack of tax support during “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402100930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum’s” discussion\u003c/a>. Mulligan used the fact to support the higher toll: “We do not receive sales tax measure money or property tax measure money from San Francisco or Marin counties, so tolls are the source of our principal subsidy for bus and ferry service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/TollIncreaseProposal2014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The district’s website\u003c/a> lists “transit fares, grants, and advertising/concessions” as other sources of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Deluxe, a Marin-based activist and opponent of the toll hike, views the lack of tax support as one reason to reform how the bridge is managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marin has to man-up and find a different way to fund public transit,” said Deluxe. “It’s totally unsustainable. It’s not the Golden Fleece Bridge, it’s not the Cash Cow Bridge, and Marin County and San Francisco — the largest percentage of riders across the bridge are from those two counties – they’re not ATM machines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drew comparisons to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District\u003c/a>. According to Deluxe, “Property tax is their biggest source of funding, 29 percent of their budget comes from property tax, county sales tax contributes 8 percent, the fare box another 17 percent. So it’s not rocket science — this is how other counties do it and we need to do it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5) The Bridge District Has Been Criticized for Overpaying Its Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Deluxe’s other complaints against the bridge district is that it is top-heavy with too many managers, who earn too much money. And a user who identified himself by the name “JonMW72” left this comment on “Forum’s” website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salaries of management are a bit outrageous if you look at the publicly available database. What is the deputy GM of the bridge doing making $176,000 a year? Deputy GM of the bus division makes $323,000 a year. A ‘paint superintendent’ makes $118,000 …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan responded to the criticism by citing measures to control staff costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken a variety of steps to reduce the cost of staff, both those staff that are still here, through changes in medical coverage, contributions from employees, employees paying part of their pension, but also (by) reducing the number of employees. We have 25 percent fewer employees than we had a decade ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6) Bridge Traffic Numbers Are Stalled\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says that its costs are rising while bridge traffic and thus, toll revenue, is staying the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/TollIncreaseProposal2014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citing the district’s website\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fuel for the buses and ferries and steel and paint for the bridge are more expensive today than in 2008 when tolls were last increased. At the same time, toll revenues have remained flat as traffic volumes have not grown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan mentioned on “Forum” that “ferry ridership is up 7 percent compared to a year earlier, and our regional bus service is up 3 percent.” He did not elaborate on how those increases are helping, if at all, to recover rising operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7) Improvements and Maintenance Projects Are Planned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “Forum” listener asked Mulligan to explain what the public will get in return for the increased tolls. His response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We have growing capital needs on the bridge. The bridge is 76 years old, and we also have growing capital needs on our 40-year-old bus and ferry facilities. So we have an array of projects coming up, and one of the most visible ones is later this year we’ll install a movable median barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge. Those things cost money.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mulligan also mentioned the district’s $75 million commitment to the Doyle Drive retrofit, as well as improving ramps and gangways on ferry terminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We go to Washington, D.C., and we go to Sacramento to get other people’s money, but we need some toll dollars to match those. Over the next 10 years, our capital costs are anticipated to be $1.4 billion. And we anticipate we’ll need about $370 million of tolls to maximize the amount of federal and state grants we can get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8) Some People Want to Do Away with the Bridge District Altogether\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to shift the conversation of the debate to restructuring, sunsetting, reorganizing — whatever word you want to use — the Golden Gate Bridge District,” said Deluxe. “It’s just not relevant anymore and it’s become an obstacle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see the (\u003ca href=\"http://www.mtc.ca.gov/\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a>) really study this issue,” said Deluxe. “That’s where it needs to land — is have them do a serious study to see what it would take to restructure the bridge district — whether Caltrans runs the bridge — I mean the bridge makes money — or whether it remains a stand-alone special district if that still makes sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marin has been trying to reform and get rid of the Golden Gate Bridge District since 1988, when we passed an advisory ordinance calling for a toll-increase moratorium until the 19-member board was at least appointed.”said Deluxe. “That passed by 72 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you fall into the camp of those you want to absolve the bridge district, your comments might be directed to your state representatives rather than the bridge district’s current comment process.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Mulligan made it clear that a sidewalk fee will not defer the proposed auto toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When (the board) put forward the proposals they did not include a sidewalk toll, so at this juncture they could not approve a sidewalk as part of the toll increase.” said Mulligan. “That having been said – they have the discretion to impose a sidewalk toll. There were turnstiles up until 1971 where people dropped a dime in to get on the bridge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan said that the bridge sees about 10,000 pedestrians a day during the summer and about 6,000 cyclists daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4) The Bridge District Receives No Local Tax Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters and opponents of the toll increase repeatedly pointed out the bridge’s lack of tax support during “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402100930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum’s” discussion\u003c/a>. Mulligan used the fact to support the higher toll: “We do not receive sales tax measure money or property tax measure money from San Francisco or Marin counties, so tolls are the source of our principal subsidy for bus and ferry service.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/TollIncreaseProposal2014.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The district’s website\u003c/a> lists “transit fares, grants, and advertising/concessions” as other sources of revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Deluxe, a Marin-based activist and opponent of the toll hike, views the lack of tax support as one reason to reform how the bridge is managed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marin has to man-up and find a different way to fund public transit,” said Deluxe. “It’s totally unsustainable. It’s not the Golden Fleece Bridge, it’s not the Cash Cow Bridge, and Marin County and San Francisco — the largest percentage of riders across the bridge are from those two counties – they’re not ATM machines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drew comparisons to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District\u003c/a>. According to Deluxe, “Property tax is their biggest source of funding, 29 percent of their budget comes from property tax, county sales tax contributes 8 percent, the fare box another 17 percent. So it’s not rocket science — this is how other counties do it and we need to do it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5) The Bridge District Has Been Criticized for Overpaying Its Leaders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Deluxe’s other complaints against the bridge district is that it is top-heavy with too many managers, who earn too much money. And a user who identified himself by the name “JonMW72” left this comment on “Forum’s” website:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The salaries of management are a bit outrageous if you look at the publicly available database. What is the deputy GM of the bridge doing making $176,000 a year? Deputy GM of the bus division makes $323,000 a year. A ‘paint superintendent’ makes $118,000 …”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan responded to the criticism by citing measures to control staff costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve taken a variety of steps to reduce the cost of staff, both those staff that are still here, through changes in medical coverage, contributions from employees, employees paying part of their pension, but also (by) reducing the number of employees. 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At the same time, toll revenues have remained flat as traffic volumes have not grown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan mentioned on “Forum” that “ferry ridership is up 7 percent compared to a year earlier, and our regional bus service is up 3 percent.” He did not elaborate on how those increases are helping, if at all, to recover rising operating costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7) Improvements and Maintenance Projects Are Planned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A “Forum” listener asked Mulligan to explain what the public will get in return for the increased tolls. His response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“We have growing capital needs on the bridge. The bridge is 76 years old, and we also have growing capital needs on our 40-year-old bus and ferry facilities. So we have an array of projects coming up, and one of the most visible ones is later this year we’ll install a movable median barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Dan Brekke and Bryan Goebel\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126015\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126015 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8637_IMG_1261-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses with the sign now bearing his name. (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor and California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown poses with the sign now bearing his name. (Mark Andrew Boyer / KQED) \u003ccite>(Mark Andrew Boyer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s official, kind of: In a ceremony today, the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was renamed after former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. We say it’s “kind of” official not to detract from the solemnity of the occasion but to acknowledge that: 1) many locals still don’t like the idea; 2) very few people use the last “official” new name hung on the bridge (more on that in the post below); and, 3) can anyone really doubt the span should be named after Emperor Norton, the person who first proposed it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Brown himself was proud of the honor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is frankly an incredible achievement,” Brown told a crowd of more than 500 state and local officials during a ceremony on Treasure Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, two green bridge signs were placed on both sides of the western span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really an honor for African-Americans and for the African-American community,” Brown told reporters before the ceremony. “There’s nothing in the nation except the King holiday that has the universality of this bridge in terms of its carrying the name of an African American, nothing even close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the Legislature approved a resolution by Assemblyman Isadore Hall to rename the bridge despite opposition from Governor Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents said that under state rules, people must be dead before infrastructure projects are named after them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall fired back at opponents, praising Brown’s legacy as a civil rights activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need not think of this as a bridge named after Willie Brown. Anyone who knows him knows that Willie Brown Jr. is the bridge that makes the ends connect,” Hall said. “Is he alive? Yes he is. Is he well and kicking? Yes he is. Is he deserving of this bridge? Yes, he is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown told reporters he wanted his case to serve as an example of how to thank people while they are still alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say `thank you’ after they’re dead is a little bizarre,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked by a reporter how he wanted to respond to his enemies, who might look down on this day, Brown said: “I don’t really have any enemies. You know, in my world of politics an enemy is potentially a friend, if you play ‘em right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter: “What do you say to the naysayers who’ve been very critical, that you were the reason for the cost overruns, the delays…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown: “No, that’s the wrong part of the bridge. My bridge doesn’t have any leaks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So how did the name come to be?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve written about the naming before. It was accomplished last year through a legislative resolution that Gov. Jerry Brown, who did not like the idea, could not veto. Here’s some of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/13/bay-bridge-renamed-for-willie-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a September post\u003c/a> on the issue:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Well, one San Franciscan \u003cem>loves \u003c/em>the renaming of the Bay Bridge’s western span for Willie Brown, former Assembly speaker, former mayor, newspaper pundit and best connected of lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state Senate passed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140ACR65\">the renaming resolution\u003c/a> yesterday, reporters asked Brown if he was happy with the change. “You kidding me? You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ ” He said just thinking about driving across the renamed bridge is “a wonderful experience,” but he added that naming the bridge after him will have a wider meaning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it will be a guidepost for lots of young people in the state of California,” Brown said. “After all, this is the only thing that any of us know of any real significance universal that’s named after a person of color. There is nothing else universal. There are schools, there are roadways, there are a whole lot of other things. But this is California, and to have an African American adorn any instrument in California for the first time in the history of this state is unusually significant.” \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> You no longer can call me Willie. You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. Virtually no one had a good word to say for the idea, and after the show, a show intern was busy policing some of the nastier comments that listeners had posted to the “Forum” site. ..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… Still unknown: Whether the renaming will ever take practical effect. Some are suggesting that Gov. Brown could somehow stop Caltrans from spending money to put up signs for Speaker/Mayor Brown on the bridge (it seems like you’d need an electron microscope to find that line item in the Caltrans budget). And some are actually taking action to stop the renaming from going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco disability rights activist and good government advocate Bob Planthold has gone to court to keep the Bay Bridge the Bay Bridge. The suit (appended at the end of this post), which names the state and a host of legislative committees and individual lawmakers, essentially says the Legislature rammed through the renaming resolution against the will of local residents, violating their due process rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Planthold’s suit also notes the bridge has already been renamed once: in 1986, for Mayor James “Sunny Jim” Rolph (though weirdly, the lawsuit refers to the late mayor as “James ‘Sunny’ Rudolph”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lawsuit brings up an alternative idea for renaming the bridge — one proposed a while back and which, ironically, is gaining new support because of the whole Willie Brown Bridge stink. “There is … an active effort to re-designate the Bay Bridge for Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton … widely credited as first conceiving of the Bay Bridge in a series of proclamations in 1872.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s more on that “active effort”: \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/petitions/re-name-the-bay-bridge-the-emperor-norton-bay-bridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Change.org petition\u003c/a> to the state. Several thousand people have signed up so far.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here’s Planthold’s lawsuit:\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 title=\"View Bob Planthold v. State of California et al., San Francisco, Jerry Brown, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Scribd\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/167951607/Bob-Planthold-v-State-of-California-et-al-San-Francisco-Jerry-Brown-San-Francisco-Oakland-Bay-Bridge\">Bob Planthold v. 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You’ve got to call me ‘The Bridge!’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That’s Brown’s take, but so far, he doesn’t have a lot of company (outside of the legislators who hatched the plan) in cheering for the Willie Brown Bridge. Gov. Jerry Brown let the Legislature know earlier in the week he didn’t like the idea (though he couldn’t stop it since the renaming was a resolution, not a proposed law). The San Francisco Chronicle, which runs Willie Brown’s Sunday column, editorialized against it. Some members of the city’s Board of Supervisors, past and present, turned thumbs-down on the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you think that’s just a bunch of local politicos and establishment types leveraging their collective envy or resentment against Willie Brown, check out KQED’s “Forum.” The show ran \u003ca href=\"www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201309120930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a half-hour segment\u003c/a> yesterday asking whether the bridge should be renamed for the former mayor. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The ride-service company Lyft on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"http://blog.lyft.com/post/75739276230/introducing-the-p2p-rideshare-insurance-coalition\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> it is offering additional insurance coverage to augment a $1 million excess liability policy mandated by the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Lyft Blog:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(W)e have worked with leading insurance carriers to now provide additional insurance solutions for drivers on the Lyft platform. Today, we’re excited to be the first company to announce three additional excess coverages now live:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Collision ($2,500 deductible and $50,000 maximum applicable to drivers who have purchased collision coverage on their personal policy)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Uninsured motorists ($1M limit covering drivers if they are hit by an uninsured motorist that is at fault)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Underinsured motorists ($1M limit covering drivers if they are hit by an underinsured motorist that is at fault)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Two weeks ago, Kara Cross, general counsel for the Personal Insurance Federation of California, told us the lack of uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage was one of the defects in TNC insurance. Cross said that drivers injured while on a TNC call could only draw on the TNC coverage if the TNC driver was judged to be at fault. Lyft's new insurance coverage seems intended to address that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the new coverage, Lyft said it is taking part in a new group called the Peer-to-Peer Rideshare Insurance Coalition, which will address \"how the insurance industry can continue evolving to support the growing peer-to-peer economy.\" Lyft said the group is made up of \"transportation companies, regulators, insurance providers, and other stakeholders,\" as well as the CPUC. The first meeting is scheduled for this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Noyes, a spokesman for UberX, which has been luring Lyft drivers away with bonuses, said in an email that the company has offered uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage since December. 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The insurance industry says the policies won’t provide any coverage.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The insurance industry says TNC drivers will have to buy commercial insurance to be covered when they’re driving for hire and maybe even when they’re not.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>We also talked to multiple drivers who have \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/ride-sharing-insurance-lyft-uberx-sidecar/\" target=\"_blank\">not told their insurance companies\u003c/a> about their TNC work because they are fearful their personal policies will be cancelled. At least two cancellations have been documented, including one in January, when a driver on a Lyft Facebook page posted a Geico cancellation notice she received for \"commercial use of your 2012 Toyota Prius.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The posting sparked a long online discussion among Lyft drivers. Wrote one fellow Lyft driver:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one, I mean no one told me my insurance would have a problem with it. What’s Lyft’s response to the fact that serving for them may end up with us losing insurance and possibly our livelihood?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft's announcement today would not seem to solve that issue. On the Lyft Lounge, a posting of the announcement was greeted with a mixture of enthusiasm, skepticism, and questioning. Two comments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>I still think before we jump onto the Good Ship Lollypop, we should get specific answers to specific questions. What we have now is a great first step, but we need to fully understand what we have here. So while this has calmed the troubled waters for now, it needs to be fully explained....unless of course, someone in the general community can do so.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>This is NOT a solution! It's still an excess insurance policy. In the event of an accident, you must still file a claim with your personal insurance company, and the excess policy will only kick in once your claim has been rejected. 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