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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>\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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Deborah Svoboda\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92912\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/after-two-months-camped-in-a-tree-warbler-goes-on-hunger-strike/warbler-begins-hunger-strike/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92912\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92912\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/warbler-begins-hunger-strike-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Warbler announces a hunger strike. (Deborah Svobada/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warbler announces a hunger strike. (Deborah Svobada/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After camping out in a ponderosa pine 71 feet above the ground for two months, \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/12/the-bird-vs-the-bypass-tree-sitter-fights-mendocino-highway-project/\">Warbler\u003c/a>\" has not achieved her goal of blocking a Highway 101 bypass around the Mendocino County town of Willits. Now she is trying a hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday the 24-year-old, whose real name is Amanda Senseman, lowered her remaining bags of food to a waiting police officer who searched the bags and then gave them to protesters at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warbler said she will drink broth for the next two days and then move on to a water-only diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, she has gained company in the nearby foliage. Two other protesters climbed up into separate trees last week in eastern Willits, and third climbed a tree across the highway from Warbler's late Wednesday night.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the ground, four protesters were arrested on Tuesday for trespassing and blocking work by sitting on a loader, according to Capt. Jim Epperson of the California Highway Patrol in Ukiah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HmC7gu-92so\">video\u003c/a> shows a CHP helicopter circling the tree where Warbler is camped.\u003c/strong>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/HmC7gu-92so\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week 40 to 50 CHP officers took over the area where Warbler has been living. Warbler said they cut her off from activists and supporters, while a local contractor began to remove nearby ground cover and oak trees and started building fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92914\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/after-two-months-camped-in-a-tree-warbler-goes-on-hunger-strike/warbler-lowers-down-a-bucket/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92914\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92914\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/warbler-lowers-down-a-bucket-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Warbler lowers her food in a bucket. (Deborah Svoboda)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warbler lowers her food in a bucket. (Deborah Svoboda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the arrests of eight people last week, a CHP helicopter circled Warbler's tree at the level of her platform. She believed they were taking photos to prepare to force her to come down. \"They were so close, I could have thrown a stone at them,\" Warbler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\"I'm just angry and exhausted from the emotion of it all,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She still has no intention of coming down and said she believes that the CHP is “aiding and abetting Caltrans in a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She listed three demands:\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Cease all construction on Caltrans' current Willits Bypass immediately, pending legal resolution.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Allow the public and press to enter the destroyed and disturbed areas to document said destruction and violations of law, nature and common sense.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Adopt the least harmful alternatives and appropriately scaled transportation solutions for Willits and the Little Lake Valley.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>Epperson said only Caltrans could make such concessions. In the meantime, the police aren't trying to force Warbler out of her tree. \"There's a lot of things we could do, but our plan right now is to keep up negotiations with her,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92917\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/after-two-months-camped-in-a-tree-warbler-goes-on-hunger-strike/warblers-bucket-received/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92917\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92917\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/warblers-bucket-received-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patarol officer receives Warbler's food bucket. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California Highway Patarol officer receives Warbler's food bucket. (Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Phil Frisbie said the demands have \"all been addressed many times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He referred readers to \u003ca href=\"http://willitsbypass.wordpress.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans' blog \u003c/a>about the project. “We are continuing to press on because of the cost to taxpayers and we believe that we have a project that has been developed lawfully,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree sitters can descend anytime without fear of prosecution, Frisbie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pine that Warbler lives in is 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\">SOLLV\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 for decades 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>Warbler took to the ponderosa pine to protest potential environmental damage to the area, including tree removal and disruptions to migratory birds. Wetlands will need to be filled in order to build the bypass, which could have an impact on spawning streams for endangered coho salmon and steelhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans claims that mitigation work funded by the project will more than compensate for any environmental damage.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Warbler said they cut her off from activists and supporters, while a local contractor began to remove nearby ground cover and oak trees and started building fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92914\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/29/after-two-months-camped-in-a-tree-warbler-goes-on-hunger-strike/warbler-lowers-down-a-bucket/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92914\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-92914\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/warbler-lowers-down-a-bucket-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Warbler lowers her food in a bucket. (Deborah Svoboda)\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warbler lowers her food in a bucket. (Deborah Svoboda)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Following the arrests of eight people last week, a CHP helicopter circled Warbler's tree at the level of her platform. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92874\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/Prop8.jpg\" alt=\"Prop8\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Crowds of people outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C protest the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/doma-oral-arguments-explained/\">Defense of Marriage Act\u003c/a> on Wednesday, March 27. (Jacob Fenston/KQED)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130329rainbowflag\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">On Tuesday March 26, the rainbow flag was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/03/26/berkeley-marks-supreme-court-cases-with-rainbow-flag/\">raised over Berkeley City Hall\u003c/a> to mark arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court on Proposition 8. It also flew the following day, during arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act. (Lance Knobel/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92877\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/PhotoWeek130329devilsslide.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130329devilsslide\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">The Devil's Slide Tunnels south of Pacifica and north of Half Moon Bay are\u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/2013/03/25/at-last-devils-slide-tunnels-open/\"> finally open \u003c/a>after decades of environmental battles and years of construction. The tunnels are meant to solve the safety and erosion problems that have plagued that notorious stretch of Highway 1 since it was built. They consist of two bores each about 4,200 feet long and each with one lane and wide shoulder. 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(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Referring to other problems that have affected the lengthy construction process for building the new $6.4 billion span, MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger said, \"We have surmounted far greater engineering challenges than this one and we're confident that we'll get through this one as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toll bridge program manager Tony Anziano told MTC board members at their meeting today that that 32 bolts ranging from 9 to 17 feet in length have popped out several inches since they were tightened several weeks ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anziano said the rods went through quality control testing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would have been tested at a laboratory on a sampling basis before they were installed,” Anziano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Anziano says metal testing suggests hydrogen was present when the rods were manufactured, and that can make them brittle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He gave no estimate on a cost or timeline for the repair. He said there's no guarantee, but they're still planning to open the bridge by Labor Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE:\u003c/strong> Caltrans officials discussed next steps for East Span construction this morning after discovering that one-third of the steel rods put under tension broke. Tony Anziano, the toll bridge program manager for Caltrans, explained that when the vertical rods snapped, it forced the bolts attached to the rods upward. There was no failure in the bolts themselves. The rods are part of the bridge's seismic stability design and are not responsible for holding the weight of the bridge. They are meant to prevent the bridge's deck from jolting upward and disconnecting from the massive pillars that support it in the event of a major earthquake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questionable rods were discovered on a pillar close to Treasure Island, but only 96 of the potentially 277 affected rods are accessible to work crews. Others are embedded in concrete. That means Caltrans won't be able to replace all the rods and is considering other design options for seismic stability. One possibility is a collar to prevent upward movement of the deck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials refused to discuss how much changing course would cost, but did say their budget includes room for setbacks like this one. They don't expect it to delay completion of the project. KQED's Rachel Dornhelm will be on a boat tour of the bridge construction this afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BAY CITY NEWS -- Thirty-two large bolts on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge have been discovered to be faulty, a Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman said this morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_92618\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-92618 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/bay-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"The Bay Bridge is set to open in September, but has had several setbacks in the ten years of its construction. (Rik Panganiban/Flickr)\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bay Bridge is set to open in September. The construction has lasted over ten years and has had several setbacks. (Rik Panganiban/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bolts, ranging from 9 to 17 feet in length, are located near where the new span's self-anchored suspension span meets its skyway, MTC spokesman John Goodwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 288 anchoring bolts that tie the road decks down to a supporting pier below, and 32 have popped out a couple of inches since they were tightened, Goodwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the past month, the batch of bolts, which were manufacture\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>d in 2008, have failed to tighten properly due to excessive hydrogen in the steel, which causes embrittlement, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not common, but it does happen,\" Goodwin said, noting that the fault may have occurred during the manufacturing or galvanizing process in Ohio, where the bolts were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on preliminary estimates, the error might cost an extra $1 million to $5 million to correct because the giant bolts will need to be remanufactured specifically for the project, Goodwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We won't be able to swing by Orchard Hardware,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commissioners will get a full briefing on the situation at a meeting at 9:30 a.m. at 101 Eighth St. in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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