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So, in the meantime, here are some important — and perhaps surprising — facts for cyclists, motorists and pedestrians to keep in mind on Bay Area streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Bicyclists \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21208.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">don’t have to ride in bike lanes\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21202.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even stay to the right\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, California law calls on cyclists to stay to the right and use bike lanes when available, but cyclists can ride elsewhere if they find it safer to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically cyclists can ride in the left part of a lane to make a left turn or on the left side of a multi-lane, one-way street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can move into the middle of the lane to avoid obstacles — including when cars are parked along the curb, because motorists often open car doors and can knock cyclists down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bicyclists also can move away from the right side of the lane near intersections where motorists might want to make right turns in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) Bicyclists are \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21201.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required to use a light and reflectors \u003c/a>at night. 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Bicyclists can’t go the wrong way on a one-way street either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5) Bicyclists can ride on sidewalks, but the rules vary from one community to another in California. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmta.com/cms/cmta/documents/6-1-10Item10.8bikesonsidewalks.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco\u003c/a>, you can’t ride on a sidewalk after you reach age 14. In \u003ca href=\"http://library.municode.com/HTML/16308/level2/TIT10VETR_CH10.16MITRCORE.html#TIT10VETR_CH10.16MITRCORE_10.16.150BIPREN\">Oakland\u003c/a>, you can ride on a sidewalk if your bicycle has wheels of less than 20 inches in diameter or a frame of less than 14 inches in length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How about Silicon Valley? Here’s what the \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2013/01/07/san-jose-sidewalks-become-places-of-contention-for-bicyclists-and-pedestrians/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a> found out in researching that question:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sidewalk cycling laws vary by jurisdiction in the South Bay. Riding on the sidewalk is legal everywhere in San Jose but illegal in other cities, including nearby Campbell. Other neighboring cities, like Sunnyvale and Gilroy, allow cyclists on sidewalks everywhere except business districts as defined by a city’s municipal code. Mountain View has the same restrictions, but in business districts as defined by the California Vehicular Code.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You have a week to bone up: bicycle groups are celebrating \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/?btwd\">Bike to Work Day\u003c/a> May 9 around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So, in the meantime, here are some important — and perhaps surprising — facts for cyclists, motorists and pedestrians to keep in mind on Bay Area streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) Bicyclists \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21208.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">don’t have to ride in bike lanes\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21202.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even stay to the right\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, California law calls on cyclists to stay to the right and use bike lanes when available, but cyclists can ride elsewhere if they find it safer to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically cyclists can ride in the left part of a lane to make a left turn or on the left side of a multi-lane, one-way street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can move into the middle of the lane to avoid obstacles — including when cars are parked along the curb, because motorists often open car doors and can knock cyclists down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bicyclists also can move away from the right side of the lane near intersections where motorists might want to make right turns in front of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) Bicyclists are \u003ca href=\"http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d11/vc21201.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">required to use a light and reflectors \u003c/a>at night. 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Now he comes alone, waving to friends as the service gets under way and singing along to the songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the way that things are going, the social hour after church that we used to have -- people stayed 20, 30 minutes and had little servings in here sometime,\" said Floyd, standing outside the church. \"But that’s all out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When services ended around 11:30, Jones headed to the church’s multipurpose room to catch up with friends over coffee and cookies. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones is part of a group of about 20 friends who gather in the church community room to exchange news about themselves and the neighborhood. Just about everyone here laments that the gatherings are getting smaller and not lasting as long. They blame Sunday parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LeVell McClain said congregants don’t stay around to socialize because they have to start feeding the meters outside the church at noon. It costs $1 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally this room would be full,\" McClain said. \"But everybody [has] to leave because of the meters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClain, a retired Muni operator who has attended the church for 25 years, said, “The fact that the church is kind of like the backbone of the average community – I would think the city could kind of back off a little bit on making you pay to come to church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">A lot of members are not coming because they are on fixed income and they don’t have the money to pay for parking.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency regulates the meters. Its spokesman, Paul Rose, said, \"In the 1940s when most of the businesses were closed on Sundays, Sundays may have been sacred. It’s not sacred at this point, as far as parking is concerned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose said the Sunday meters should generate around $2 million annually, but contended that the change is not driven by money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a need for better parking management on Sundays,\" Rose said. \"There were very few parking spaces available. There was a lot of congestion, due to people circling or looking for parking throughout the city. They say that 33 percent of all congestion in San Francisco is due to circling or double parking or looking for that perfect parking space. And this will help with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only a handful of other cities in the country enforce parking meters on Sundays, including Sausalito and Los Angeles. Just this week, Chicago backed away from enforcing parking meters in residential areas on Sundays following a public outcry. In announcing the return of free Sunday parking, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel quoted one resident who said, “You shouldn’t have to pay to go to church.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, businesses are split on the issue. A merchants' association in the Castro neighborhood says it’s bad for business. But the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce supports it, as does the San Francisco Council of District Merchants. The council’s president, Henry Karnilowicz, says it’s all about turnover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to be able to have turnover traffic, so we don’t have people coming over and they are parking for the whole day,\" Karnilowicz said. \"Going to some sort of event, some sort of party and all that. And in the meantime, people who want to come to their business don’t have nowhere to park because these folks are parked for the full day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sunday meters start ticking at noon. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/car-king-street-design-detriment-pedestrians-4441\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Jose Flores Miguel, 65, was killed in 2010 crossing a busy Concord boulevard, city officials took action: They scraped off the crosswalk where he took his last steps and installed a metal gate with a sign warning walkers not to cross there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t solve the problem. With the next crosswalk 460 feet away, people still cut across the five lanes of Clayton Road at Barbis Way, where Flores is remembered with a wooden cross decorated with rosaries and surrounded by yellow tulips. The draws are a bus stop and shopping center on the north side of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Center for Investigative Reporting video examines the prosecution of drivers who kill pedestrians:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJMKk6NmHM?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores’ daughter, Maria Banjos, said the city should have improved the crosswalk, perhaps with signs or lights, instead of getting rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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By one estimate, the Bay Area will add two million people by 2040, a 30 percent increase over today’s population of about seven million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More people means more housing and more traffic. But regional planning agencies have another target to contend with: by 2040, the Bay Area must cut its greenhouse gas emission by 15 percent. It’s part of SB 375, a state law requiring local communities to help meet California’s climate change goals through land use and transit planning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area’s effort is being coordinated with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a region wide development plan being put together by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a> (ABAG) and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mtc.ca.gov/\">Metropolitan Transportation Commission\u003c/a> (MTC).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have had a pattern in the past of extending our development and urban frontiers into our open space and green space,” says Miriam Chion, Planning and Research Director at ABAG. “And that resulted in a lot more driving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chion says the key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions is giving residents more options for public transit or walking. Plan Bay Area identifies “Priority Development Areas,” where 80 percent of new housing and 60 percent of new jobs would be located in walkable neighborhoods that are close to transit and series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This continues an existing trend, says Chion. “Many of our knowledge-base workers and businesses are choosing urban settings over traditional office park locations,” she says.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan also seeks to minimize sprawl by keeping future growth within existing urban boundaries. “That’s a huge statement,” says Stephanie Reyes of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.greenbelt.org/\">Greenbelt Alliance\u003c/a>. “No other region comes even close to achieving that level of in-fill development and open space protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meeting these goals will be up to cities and counties, however. “There’s good news and bad news,” says Reyes. “Here in the Bay Area, many communities, though not all, are supportive of protecting our iconic landscapes and open spaces and are generally looking to build inward instead of outward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That said, some communities are more willing and enthusiastic than others to actually do that work of planning for and building homes for folks at all income levels,” Reyes says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and counties rely on their own general plans to guide development. “What changes might be made over the next 10, 20, 30 years, that is going to be decided locally,” says Linda Jackson, planning manager Transportation Authority of Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planning process has raised concerns from some communities over how much growth is included in the plan. “To the extent that Plan Bay Area in their projections for 2040 is higher than what a general plan or a town is currently planning for, there is some concern and awareness of having to discuss that kind of increased growth for their community,” says Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local jurisdictions that adopt the plan’s goals will receive prioritized funding through the One Bay Area grant program. It provides $14 billion over the next several decades for transportation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, supporters of the plan say it’s brought about much-needed conversations about the Bay Area’s future growth. “While the law is not full of lots of sticks and punishments, it has really had an enormous effect on the dialogue and conversation about growth in the region,” Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/misc/open-town-hall.html\">public comment period\u003c/a> on the plan is open until May 16th. 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When it’s a luxury coach, complete with deep-tinted windows and sunroof and Wi-Fi and reserved for a sort of exclusive club: employees for high-tech firms in Silicon Valley and the Peninsula south of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple months, ago, San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit wrote \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a piece\u003c/a> for the London Review of Books that pointed to the “Google Bus”—her collective term for all the buses whisking high-tech workers to their company campuses—as one of the most visible symbols of the region’s high-tech boom and the troubles it’s inflicting on those not lucky enough to participate. Solnit describes the buses alternately as spaceships for “our alien overlords” and as vehicles carrying postmodern coal miners to endless toil in postmodern mines. Here’s how she ends the essay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” … There are ways in which technology is just another boom and the Bay Area is once again a boomtown, with transient populations, escalating housing costs, mass displacements and the casual erasure of what was here before. I think of it as frontierism, with all the frontier’s attitude and operational style, where people without a lot of attachments come and do things without a lot of concern for their impact, where money moves around pretty casually, and people are ground underfoot equally casually. Sometimes the Google Bus just seems like one face of Janus-headed capitalism; it contains the people too valuable even to use public transport or drive themselves. 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. Instead, my mission was to try to take my recording equipment and get on one of the buses run by Facebook, Google, Apple and the like, show a slice of life onboard, then give some idea where they fit into the bigger picture of the Bay Area transportation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the widespread curiosity about the buses, and last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://stamen.com/zero1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cool project by Stamen Designs\u003c/a> to document company bus routes and stops, neither Facebook nor Google was interested in having a reporter ride one of their services or even in talking about them. But Genentech, the South San Francisco biotech firm, was happy to have me aboard one of its “\u003ca href=\"http://www.gene.com/media/news-features/genentech-gride-program-achieves-landmark-milestone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gene buses\u003c/a>.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nGenentech was one of the first companies to build its own fleet of private commuter buses for workers. Since starting the service, which carries people from as far away as Vacaville to the headquarters campus, the company says it has saved 100 million driving miles for employees who no longer have to use their private cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All Aboard the ‘Gene Bus’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I climbed on a Genentech bus in Marin County one morning at 10 minutes to 7. About half a dozen workers got on at the Greenbrae park-and-ride lot. 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. 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. (And, by the way, when the Wi-Fi goes down, the engineers on board are handy at fixing it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price tag for this sweet fleet of buses? Genentech spends $10 million a year to run its coach service. That includes the stipend the company pays –$2 a day — to get employees to ride the bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76996\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 220px\">\u003ca href=\"http://zero1-images.s3.amazonaws.com/scaled2.0_final_web_trimmed.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-76996 \" title=\"stamen private shuttle map\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/stamen-private-shuttle-map-220x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map developed last year by Stamen Designs to show bus stops and routes used by high-tech company buses. \u003ca href=\"http://zero1-images.s3.amazonaws.com/scaled2.0_final_web_trimmed.gif\">Click here for the full photo\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No one’s got any hard numbers on the total number of people riding private buses to work, but it’s safe to say it’s in the thousands. \u003ca href=\"http://stamen.com/zero1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stamen’s attempt\u003c/a> to document the bus lines last year estimated that the buses are providing 14,000 rides a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Goodwin, spokesman for the MTC, says company bus lines are an important addition to traditional bus and train systems. Public buses and trains get many riders close to work, but not right to the front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what planners call the last-mile quandary,” Goodwin says. “And for companies that are not located right along or within a half-mile radius of the main transit lines, these private fleets can bridge that last mile gap in a way that’s cost-effective for those companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But are these private fleets an indication of a failed public transit system?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public transit can’t be all things to all people,” Goodwin says. He notes that, on average, people take 1.6 million rides on public transit in the Bay Area every day, and that number is expected to almost double over the next 25 years. Goodwin says he believes private bus service is a niche offering now and will remain that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the buses can change lives for those who have access to them. McCoy says numerous couples have met on the bus and later married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it eases up to her office building, Genentech employee Paige Wallace finds simpler pleasures with the bus as she gathers her bags at the end of the ride. She commuted solo for 12 years, and now she’s a bus devotee. The biggest revelation? The bus gives her a nudge to get out of work at a sane hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s great!” Wallace says. “I get home and it’s still light out. And I’m home to make dinner and have it. Which is astonishing.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. (And, by the way, when the Wi-Fi goes down, the engineers on board are handy at fixing it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price tag for this sweet fleet of buses? Genentech spends $10 million a year to run its coach service. 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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. 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. 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