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In the same spaces wander homeless people undeserving of private space, or the minimum comfort and security; right by the Google bus stop on Cesar Chavez Street immigrant men from Latin America stand waiting for employers in the building trade to scoop them up, or to be arrested and deported by the government. Both sides of the divide are bleak, and the middle way is hard to find.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That’s a lot of cultural freight for a bus to carry, and my editor didn’t say anything about that when we talked about the assignment. 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The other riders swiped their employee passes and settled into leather seats for the hourlong ride to the biotech company’s headquarters, about 30 miles away, in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some riders put in earbuds and nodded off. Others fired up their laptops to use the bus’s Wi-Fi to start ripping though work email. The morning bus was hushed; riders say the trip home in the afternoon is more lively, with people sharing snacks and laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he started riding the Genentech bus five years ago, Chris Blanchard had been driving alone from Novato to South San Francisco. “It was too much for me to handle, traveling all that way, across the bridge and through the city drinking numerous cups of coffee to stay awake. It was really exhausting,” Blanchard says. And he adds that without the bus service, he would have “probably taken another job closer to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-tech companies use the buses as a perk to recruit and retain talent. 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The morning bus was hushed; riders say the trip home in the afternoon is more lively, with people sharing snacks and laughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he started riding the Genentech bus five years ago, Chris Blanchard had been driving alone from Novato to South San Francisco. “It was too much for me to handle, traveling all that way, across the bridge and through the city drinking numerous cups of coffee to stay awake. It was really exhausting,” Blanchard says. And he adds that without the bus service, he would have “probably taken another job closer to home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-tech companies use the buses as a perk to recruit and retain talent. And the buses help spur productivity and spark spontaneous brainstorming among commuters. But none of that explains why Genentech got into the bus business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel McCoy started and still runs Genentech’s bus program. He recalls that the bus program really went big after South San Francisco required the company to add parking if it wanted to expand lab space at its headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not want to build a parking lot,” McCoy says. “We didn’t want to invest the real estate. We didn’t want to invest the capital expense. We thought buses would be a great win-win for the city. The city didn’t want the trips either—the traffic, congestion, the air-quality impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Better Than Free\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting employees to ride the bus was a challenge. “Anytime you are trying to get someone out of their car, you are competing with the drive-alone vehicle,” McCoy explains. “You want to provide interior and comfort that is equivalent to a nice BMW.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, Genentech took it up a notch, and on top of the comfy seats and sunroofs, it added Internet connectivity. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95212\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/bay-bridge-bolts/bridge/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95212\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95212\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Bridge-300x150.png\" alt=\"A graphic of the location of anchor bolts on the bridge. The faulty 2008 bolts are circled in white. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graphic of the location of anchor bolts on the bridge. The faulty 2008 bolts are circled in white. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Caltrans say they will replace or reinforce all 96 of the 2008 anchor bolts installed in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, not just the 30 that have failed so far. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Comedy-of-errors-led-to-bad-bridge-bolts-4428913.php\" target=\"_blank\">Those bolts snapped\u003c/a> within days of being tightened this March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Read more about the bolts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Caltrans-missed-chance-to-detect-bad-bolts-4439866.php\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans may have missed chance to detect bad bolts (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/10/broken-bolts-could-result-from-bay-bridge-design-flaw/\" target=\"_blank\">Rainwater may have damaged flawed bolts (KQED)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/03/more-bay-bridge-parts-to-be-examined/\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans investigates testing history of bridge bolts (KQED)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger also today unveiled two possible design solutions, down from three, to ensure the seismic safety of the bridge. But Heminger told members of the Bay Area Toll Authority that he couldn't give a timeline for a repair for another two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are plenty of other open questions, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those is what to do with 192 similar bolts installed on the bridge. This batch was manufactured in 2010 to the same specifications as the ones that gave way. So far none of the 2010 bolts have shown weakness and initial testing seems to suggest they are stronger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heminger told commissioners there are quite a few differences between the batches, \"but unfortunately quite a few similarities.\" For instance, both lots of bolts had the same manufacturer and were built with the same plans. 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The responsible party, and likely the one who will have to absorb the cost, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one local metallurgist, though, the answer is clear. Yun Chung, a retired Bechtel materials engineer, sent Bay Area transportation leaders a letter that seems to fault Caltrans and the process it used to determine whether the material would be service worthy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_23091957/more-steel-rods-bay-bridge-could-snap-retired\" target=\"_blank\">He told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> that more bolts could still fail if they are not replaced..\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It is very apparent that no one was paying attention to the possibility of hydrogen embrittlement when the rods were in service,\" said Chung, who retired 20 years ago and lives in the East Bay. \"Instead, they were focused on hydrogen in the production process. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heminger told commissioners there are quite a few differences between the batches, \"but unfortunately quite a few similarities.\" For instance, both lots of bolts had the same manufacturer and were built with the same plans. However, Heminger said the materials that went into the 2010 batch were more uniform.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95213\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/bay-bridge-bolts/embrittlement/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95213\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-95213 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Embrittlement-300x198.png\" alt=\"A careful look at the metal in the 2008 rods that show hydrogen embrittlement. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A careful look at the metal in the 2008 rods that show hydrogen embrittlement. (graphic: Bay Area Toll Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, today hydrogen embrittlement was definitively fingered as the cause of the breaking bolts. The responsible party, and likely the one who will have to absorb the cost, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one local metallurgist, though, the answer is clear. Yun Chung, a retired Bechtel materials engineer, sent Bay Area transportation leaders a letter that seems to fault Caltrans and the process it used to determine whether the material would be service worthy. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_23091957/more-steel-rods-bay-bridge-could-snap-retired\" target=\"_blank\">He told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a> that more bolts could still fail if they are not replaced..\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It is very apparent that no one was paying attention to the possibility of hydrogen embrittlement when the rods were in service,\" said Chung, who retired 20 years ago and lives in the East Bay. \"Instead, they were focused on hydrogen in the production process. From what I see in the documents, Dyson (the manufacturer) gave Caltrans what it asked for. Caltrans fell on its face.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>At today's meeting, MTC's Heminger did reiterate that safety prompted the building of the new span, and that's the singular priority. Officials said that the bridge is being \"designed to withstand the greatest ground motions expected over a 1,500-year period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is the letter from Yun Chung, the retired materials engineer ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: xx-small\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.docstoc.com/docs/154098403/boltstudy\">boltstudy\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject id=\"_ds_154098403\" width=\"630\" height=\"550\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" name=\"_ds_154098403\">\u003cparam name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"doc_id=154098403&mem_id=128122&showrelated=1&showotherdocs=1&doc_type=pdf&allowdownload=1\">\u003cparam name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\">\u003cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://viewer.docstoc.com/\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"doc_id=154098403&mem_id=128122&showrelated=1&showotherdocs=1&doc_type=pdf&allowdownload=1\">\u003cparam name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\">\u003cparam name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\">\u003cembed width=\"630\" height=\"550\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://viewer.docstoc.com/\" flashvars=\"doc_id=154098403&mem_id=128122&showrelated=1&showotherdocs=1&doc_type=pdf&allowdownload=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"_ds_154098403\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Warbler has come to earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested the 24-year-old tree sitter, whose real name is Amanda Senseman, on Tuesday morning, bringing an end to her two-month act of civil disobedience aimed at stopping a Highway 101 bypass construction near Willits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supporter said police arrested two other tree sitters as well, reportedly after firing a projectile at one who refused to let go of his tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More protesters reportedly remained in other trees on the site at noon, with multiple California Highway Patrol officers in the area.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nThis video posted by \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/EmeraldTriangleNews\">Emerald Triangle News\u003c/a> appears to show a demonstrator shot with a rubber bullet.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>.\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/VX5RGqMICIc?rel=0&end=06\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement operation included cutting down the ponderosa pine where Warbler had been living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers also arrested two people, Sara Grusky, 56, and William Parrish, 31, on the ground, said officer Steve Krul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the protesters said the CHP used cherry pickers to remove Warbler, and began approaching other tree sitters. \"It's a really tense situation here,\" Kelly Larson, a local electrician told KQED's Polly Stryker. \"I'm really worried for everyone's safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/willits-tree-sitter-warbler-removed-and-arrested-in-highway-101-bypass-protest/willits-bypass-treesitters-being-extracted/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-93120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Willits-bypass-treesitters-being-extracted-699x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Police reportedly used a cherry picker to arrest tree sitters. (Kelly Larson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"937\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police reportedly used a cherry picker to arrest tree sitters. (Kelly Larson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two protesters strung lines between trees and suspended themselves in the middle of the lines, where CHP officers in cranes were pointing guns at them, said Larson, who was on site to join the protest. \"It's really crazy.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later officers began cutting the line, forcing the protesters to retreat to a tree where the officers caught them, said Larson. Krul, who said he would not comment on tactics used to remove the protesters, could not be reached later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other protesters are screened off from the construction site by fences, with about 50 officers \"in full riot gear\" on guard, Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93121\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/willits-tree-sitter-warbler-removed-and-arrested-in-highway-101-bypass-protest/will-arrested-in-warbler-willits-protest/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93121\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-93121\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/will-arrested-in-warbler-willits-protest-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Police take William Parrish and Sara Grusky into custody. (Steve Berhard/The Willits News)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police take William Parrish and Sara Grusky into custody. (Steve Berhard/The Willits News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Krul said the CHP gave the tree sitters multiple warnings before deciding to remove them. Warbler, a farmer, demanded that the work halt while Caltrans negotiated an alternative to the bypass. On Thursday she began a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/after-two-months-camped-in-a-tree-warbler-goes-on-hunger-strike/\">hunger strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pine where Warbler lived was located on the southern outskirts of Willits in Mendocino County and overlooks Highway 101. She, along with the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Save Our Little Lake Valley\u003c/a>, are trying to block the construction of a four-lane, six-mile, $290 million highway bypass around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans has planned the bypass since 1988 and says it's necessary to allow through traffic to avoid the bottleneck of downtown Willits, where U.S. 101 narrows to two lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Phil Frisbie said the trees were in the path of the planned bypass and had to be removed for the project to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently traffic slows while passing through Willits, resulting in daily delays of 15 to 20 minutes that can stretch to two hours at busy times, said Frisbie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson said that the opponents had suggested multiple alternatives to the project which will disrupt farms, ranches and wetlands. \"There's a huge amount of environmental destruction that's going on,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisbie responded that the agency had \u003ca href=\"http://willitsbypass.wordpress.com/\">exhausted the other possibilities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We investigated and eliminated over 30 potential alternatives for this project,\" he said. \"If there was a better, less expensive alternative as these people propose, then we would have gone with that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93123\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/willits-tree-sitter-warbler-removed-and-arrested-in-highway-101-bypass-protest/protester-on-the-ground-willits/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93123\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-93123\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/protester-on-the-ground-willits-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"protester on the ground willits\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester lay on the ground after his arrest. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Warbler has come to earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested the 24-year-old tree sitter, whose real name is Amanda Senseman, on Tuesday morning, bringing an end to her two-month act of civil disobedience aimed at stopping a Highway 101 bypass construction near Willits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supporter said police arrested two other tree sitters as well, reportedly after firing a projectile at one who refused to let go of his tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More protesters reportedly remained in other trees on the site at noon, with multiple California Highway Patrol officers in the area.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nThis video posted by \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/user/EmeraldTriangleNews\">Emerald Triangle News\u003c/a> appears to show a demonstrator shot with a rubber bullet.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>.\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/VX5RGqMICIc?rel=0&end=06\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law enforcement operation included cutting down the ponderosa pine where Warbler had been living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers also arrested two people, Sara Grusky, 56, and William Parrish, 31, on the ground, said officer Steve Krul.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the protesters said the CHP used cherry pickers to remove Warbler, and began approaching other tree sitters. \"It's a really tense situation here,\" Kelly Larson, a local electrician told KQED's Polly Stryker. \"I'm really worried for everyone's safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/willits-tree-sitter-warbler-removed-and-arrested-in-highway-101-bypass-protest/willits-bypass-treesitters-being-extracted/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93120\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-93120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Willits-bypass-treesitters-being-extracted-699x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Police reportedly used a cherry picker to arrest tree sitters. (Kelly Larson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"937\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police reportedly used a cherry picker to arrest tree sitters. (Kelly Larson)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Two protesters strung lines between trees and suspended themselves in the middle of the lines, where CHP officers in cranes were pointing guns at them, said Larson, who was on site to join the protest. \"It's really crazy.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later officers began cutting the line, forcing the protesters to retreat to a tree where the officers caught them, said Larson. Krul, who said he would not comment on tactics used to remove the protesters, could not be reached later in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other protesters are screened off from the construction site by fences, with about 50 officers \"in full riot gear\" on guard, Larson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93121\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/willits-tree-sitter-warbler-removed-and-arrested-in-highway-101-bypass-protest/will-arrested-in-warbler-willits-protest/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93121\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-93121\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/will-arrested-in-warbler-willits-protest-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Police take William Parrish and Sara Grusky into custody. (Steve Berhard/The Willits News)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police take William Parrish and Sara Grusky into custody. (Steve Berhard/The Willits News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Krul said the CHP gave the tree sitters multiple warnings before deciding to remove them. Warbler, a farmer, demanded that the work halt while Caltrans negotiated an alternative to the bypass. On Thursday she began a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/after-two-months-camped-in-a-tree-warbler-goes-on-hunger-strike/\">hunger strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pine where Warbler lived was located on the southern outskirts of Willits in Mendocino County and overlooks Highway 101. She, along with the group \u003ca href=\"http://www.savelittlelakevalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Save Our Little Lake Valley\u003c/a>, are trying to block the construction of a four-lane, six-mile, $290 million highway bypass around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans has planned the bypass since 1988 and says it's necessary to allow through traffic to avoid the bottleneck of downtown Willits, where U.S. 101 narrows to two lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Phil Frisbie said the trees were in the path of the planned bypass and had to be removed for the project to go forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently traffic slows while passing through Willits, resulting in daily delays of 15 to 20 minutes that can stretch to two hours at busy times, said Frisbie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larson said that the opponents had suggested multiple alternatives to the project which will disrupt farms, ranches and wetlands. \"There's a huge amount of environmental destruction that's going on,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frisbie responded that the agency had \u003ca href=\"http://willitsbypass.wordpress.com/\">exhausted the other possibilities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We investigated and eliminated over 30 potential alternatives for this project,\" he said. \"If there was a better, less expensive alternative as these people propose, then we would have gone with that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93123\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/02/willits-tree-sitter-warbler-removed-and-arrested-in-highway-101-bypass-protest/protester-on-the-ground-willits/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93123\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-93123\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/protester-on-the-ground-willits-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"protester on the ground willits\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester lay on the ground after his arrest. (Steve Eberhart/The Willits News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to speeding traffic, the project will reduce air pollution from diesel trucks which emit more particulates in stop-and-go traffic, Frisbie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since February the CHP has made 16 arrests in the project, said Krul, sometimes arresting the same protester more than once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers charged most, including Warbler, with trespassing, a misdemeanor. Often people arrested on that charge are released the same days as their arrest, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he was not sure what happened to Warbler after officers took her to the Mendocino County jail.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>“Light and sound” were going to “play on the graceful glass structure” of the \u003ca href=\"http://transbaycenter.org/project/transit-center\">Transbay Terminal \u003c/a>being rebuilt in downtown San Francisco, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtc.ca.gov/library/transbay/transbay.pdf\">original plans\u003c/a>. Artists’ renderings show an undulating glass shell over the planned transit hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92935\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/transbay-terminal-design-may-change/transbay-terminal-glass-from-natoma/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92935\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/transbay-terminal-glass-from-natoma-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"The originally planned glass exterior of the Transbay Terminal. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority) \" width=\"240\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The originally planned glass exterior of the Transbay Terminal. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this week, as project organizers celebrated the groundbreaking for a neighboring glass tower, they also confirmed that the terminal itself may not be covered in glass after all — instead the shell will most likely be made of perforated metal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of this change prompted a chorus of raspberries when San Francisco Chronicle urban design critic John King in the San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2013/03/16/say-goodbye-to-all-glass-transbay-terminal/?plckItemsPerPage=50&plckSort=TimeStampDescending\">reported it\u003c/a> earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, cool. Drippy, dirty mesh,” said one commentator on King’s blog post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bait and switch —promise one thing to get people interested and then back out giving some lame excuse,” said another. “It’s one reason that government and developers can’t be trusted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Transbay Joint Powers Authority is contemplating the change because in the final design stages it became clear that, well, glass breaks. And and earthquake or a bomb blast could create the mother of all messes.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92937\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/transbay-terminal-design-may-change/transbay-terminal-perforated-side-view/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92937\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92937 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/transbay-terminal-perforated-side-view-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"An artist's conception of the possible perforated metal shell for the Transbay Terminal. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist’s conception of the possible perforated metal shell for the Transbay Terminal. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The second reason is cost,” explained Maria Ayerdi, executive director of the TJPA. “It was going to be very expensive to put in the appropriate fixtures to hold up the glass and make it as safe as we wanted to make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving from glass to metal could save $17.5 million out of a total budget for the project of about $1.7 or $1.8 billion she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction costs stayed close to budget for years because the recession lowered demand. Now that’s changed, with a couple of dozen cranes at work in San Francisco, said Ayerdi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The designers haven’t settled on a material yet. “We’re examining several different choices from a clear anodized aluminum epoxy painted finish to a stainless steel in a matte finish for the exterior skin of the station,” said Ayerdi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we’re looking at a number of different patterns from the worlds of science, math, engineering even art.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possibility: an “\u003ca href=\"http://euler.slu.edu/escher/index.php/Aperiodic_Tessellations\">aperiodic” pattern\u003c/a>invented by Roger Penrose in 1966. “We want to find a pattern that will be educational to the public when they come and visit the station,” said Ayerdi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92988\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/transbay-terminal-design-may-change/perforated-metal-close-up-transbay-terminal/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92988\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92988\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/perforated-metal-close-up-transbay-terminal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A rendering of a perforated metal design. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of a perforated metal design. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 40-acre project, \u003ca href=\"http://transbaycenter.org/project/program-overview/project-m\">bounded\u003c/a> by Mission Street, Main Street, Folsom Street and Second Street, will provide a nexus for 11 transit systems, including several bus lines from around the Bay Area, including the bullet train being built to Los Angeles, the existing Caltrain, a shuttle to Amtrak, paratransit and a “people mover” like a moving sidewalk connecting underground to a nearby BART station, Ayerdi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be tracks available for Amtrak to steam directly into the station, too, if it gets the money together for that, Ayerdi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/transbay-terminal-design-may-change/glass-close-up-transbay-terminal/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92989\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/glass-close-up-transbay-terminal-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The originally planned glass design. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The originally planned glass design. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And the terminal design still maintains one of its signature features, a 5.4-acre rooftop park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But none of that is what city leaders were celebrating when they dug their shovels into the dirt on Wednesday, however. It was the TJPA’s final sale of 101 First Street, a 50,000-square-foot parcel, to Hines and Boston Properties for $192 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the developer that plans to build a soaring monolithic glass tower on the site The 1,070-foot tower, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli architects, will be the highest west of the Mississippi, with 60 stories of commercial space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the tower and terminal are on track to be completed around the end of 2017, Ayerdi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The money from that sale and others are helping to finance the public transportation part of the project. And besides that, the tower is pretty, said Ayerdi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92938\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 187px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/transbay-terminal-design-may-change/transbay-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92938\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-92938\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/transbay-tower-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Transbay Transit Tower. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Transbay Transit Tower. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to grace and redefine our skyline for generations to come. It’s going to be a pearlescent luminescent color, a tall slender elegant tower that will anchor the Transbay Terminal station. It will anchor and mark the importance of transportation to the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area and the State of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fine words. And you’d expect such praise from the public face of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco Joel Karr, a principal at Weske & Associates San Francisco architecture firm says they’re not exaggerated. “It’s really a powerful architectural statement and I’m excited to see it built,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s not as upset as King’s peanut gallery about the switch from glass to metal on the terminal itself. “I feel they’ve made an effort to retain those elements of light,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist’s conception of the possible perforated metal shell for the Transbay Terminal. (Transbay Joint Powers Authority)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The second reason is cost,” explained Maria Ayerdi, executive director of the TJPA. “It was going to be very expensive to put in the appropriate fixtures to hold up the glass and make it as safe as we wanted to make it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moving from glass to metal could save $17.5 million out of a total budget for the project of about $1.7 or $1.8 billion she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Construction costs stayed close to budget for years because the recession lowered demand. 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