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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's worth noting that Apple Maps does a fair job rendering San Francisco landmarks in 3D. The app, which comes with the latest software upgrade for Apple's iPhones and iPads, has been criticized for displaying \u003ca href=\"http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/\">warped images\u003c/a>. Here is downtown San Francisco as seen from the Bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/downtown.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76698\" title=\"downtown\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/downtown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden Gate Bridge (we're not sure what's up with the water):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/ggbridge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76699\" title=\"ggbridge\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/ggbridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>The Bay Bridge and AT&T Park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/baybridge.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76700\" title=\"baybridge\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/baybridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>And Candlestick Park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/candlestick.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76701\" title=\"candlestick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/candlestick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>Apple Maps seems to also do a decent job rendering the Mountain View headquarters of the company's \u003cdel>arch-nemesis\u003c/del> competitor, Google:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/google.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76702\" title=\"google\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, reaction to Apple Maps continues to be mixed. Earlier today we asked our \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=365109000230170&set=a.117611171646622.21467.107786349295771&type=1\">Facebook followers\u003c/a> what they thought of the app. The \u003ca href=\"http://storify.com/kqednews/what-do-you-think-of-apple-maps\">Storify\u003c/a> below includes their reaction, other reviews of the app and a few of the better Apple Maps jokes we've seen around the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have you seen a distorted Apple Maps image of a Bay Area landmark? What do you think of the app? Leave a comment at the bottom of this post and let us know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>http://storify.com/kqednews/what-do-you-think-of-apple-maps\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/google-car-zooms-toward-legal-status/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-76647\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>When veteran legislative staffer Howard Posner began working on a bill that would allow driverless, computer-controlled cars to roam California’s highways, he figured lawmakers would find the idea alarming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Eventually, you might be on the freeway, and someone might not be behind the wheel,” said Posner, a consultant to the Assembly Transportation Committee, in an unusual moment of candor for a legislative staff member. “By the time this thing rolls out, people will probably be more comfortable. But today they’re not, and I assumed the legislators would have the same feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation pushed by Google, which makes the autonomous car technology, passed 37-0 in the Senate and 74-2 in the Assembly. It is now awaiting action by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nIn this video, a Google engineer makes a case for the driverless car.\u003c/strong>\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=147006012\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\nIn voting for the legislation, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said they believed the technology would make the roads safer and keep California at the forefront of innovation.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The easy passage of the bill, which was sponsored by state Sen. 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It also gave $25,900 each to Brown and his unsuccessful Republican rival, Meg Whitman. The company has not reported making any campaign contributions during the current election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s bill, SB 1298, would allow companies to test self-driven cars on public roads and require the DMV to draft rules governing use of the vehicles by the public. The measure also would define a car’s “operator” as the person sitting in the driver’s seat, or if there’s no one in the driver’s seat, the person who “causes the autonomous technology to engage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar law won approval in Nevada last year, and Google is lobbying other states to follow suit. The company reported spending $8.95 million during the first half of 2012 to lobby federal officials on numerous issues, including the driverless car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla, who has a mechanical engineering degree from MIT, promoted the legislation in March at a press conference on the front steps of the state Capitol after arriving in a Google car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The vast majority of traffic fatalities and injuries are caused by human error,\" Padilla said at the time. \"Can we utilize and incorporate state-of-the-art technology to make our vehicles and therefore our roads and society safer?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, California has no prohibition against operating the so-called autonomous cars on public roads. The car uses video cameras, radar and lasers to drive in traffic and GPS to navigate. Google has driven its cars 300,000 miles without an accident while in self-driving mode, a Google spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that the vehicle code should be updated explicitly to permit the testing and operation of autonomous vehicles in accordance with specific safety requirements, to ensure that any use of autonomous vehicles on California roads is conducted in a safe manner,” said Google spokesman Jay Nancarrow in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers gushed over the new technology as they cast their votes for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a really cool thing that we’re going to have autonomous vehicles in California,” Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-San Fernando Valley, said on the Assembly floor last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working out the details of the bill, however, was not so simple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Automakers were worried about their liability in the event that the computer driving a car malfunctioned. Privacy advocates worried about how Google would use the vast amount of travel data it would collect on each car. Some legislators initially wanted Google to come back for separate legislation to authorize driverless operation after more testing was done. The California Highway Patrol and DMV were uncertain about the new technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behind the scenes it was a real struggle,” said Posner, the committee consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time the bill reached the Assembly Transportation Committee in late June, the Highway Patrol’s concerns, including who would write the rules of the road for self-driving cars, had been resolved, Padilla told the committee. But representatives for the California Highway Patrol, who would normally attend such a hearing, were not in the room at the time, Posner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their conspicuous absence sent a message to everyone: “They've been silenced by the governor's office,” Posner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol declined to comment. A spokesman for the governor’s office didn’t return an email seeking comment. Padilla declined a request for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its final form, the bill would give the DMV authority to reject the use of driverless cars that did not meet its standards. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/muni-issues-accurate-time-report/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in more than a decade, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency released a report on the on-time arrival rate of its buses and trains without inflating the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76149\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/Muni10_Henry_Web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-76149\" title=\"Muni10_Henry_Web\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/Muni10_Henry_Web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Henry for the Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muni’s vehicles were on time 57.2 percent of the time in August, leaving passengers waiting, and waiting, at bus stops and train stations, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/documents/muni-time-report/\">report\u003c/a> released Friday. 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The San Jose Mercury-News has more \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_21464636/\">details\u003c/a> on the shooting that shut down the highway on Tuesday, including the name and condition of the CHP officer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Officer Kenyon Youngstrom was shot through the neck after pulling over a Jeep Wrangler on the shoulder of the freeway, police said. Moments later, a second CHP officer who had pulled up behind the jeep shot the man in his vehicle and aided the injured officer until emergency medical crews arrived, said Contra Costa sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youngstrom, a 37-year-old married father of four, was taken to John Muir Medical Center and was listed in critical condition as of Tuesday night with what KGO-TV described as a severed spinal cord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flowers were placed outside the two-story home of the officer in Cordelia, near Fairfield, as CHP colleagues came by to support the family. A man who answered the door at his home declined to be interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officer’s family “asked for everyone’s prayers as Officer Youngstrom fights for his life,” Paul Fontana, assistant chief of the CHP, said in a brief statement Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youngstrom graduated from the academy in 2005 and worked mostly in the Martinez regional office, having been assigned to the Contra Costa office immediately after graduation. 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Highway 24 remains open and Caltrans will decide later Tuesday if both tunnels will remain open for the Tuesday evening commute. 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(Zusha Elinson/Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lyft drivers pull up with a giant pink mustache on their front bumper and offer passengers a fist bump when they get in. The mustaches, according to founder John Zimmer, are supposed to make people smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For both Lyft and Sidecar, drivers use their own cars and suggested donations replace set fares. The companies take a 20 percent cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are part of the new “sharing economy” – companies that help people make money by sharing their possessions. Airbnb, a popular website where people rent out their apartments, is now used all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really cool to see us come back to this borrowing sugar from your neighbor and also make a little money from it,” said Jay Sublett, marketing manager for Sidecar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is feeling warm and fuzzy. Lawyers and insurance experts say that the companies’ insurance requirements at Lyft and Sidecar won’t adequately protect drivers and passengers in the event of a car wreck. San Francisco taxi drivers consider them illegal taxi services and want the city to shut them down. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which regulates taxis, is considering whether to take action. The California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates limos, is reviewing the operations of the two companies, according to spokesman Chris Chow. The PUC has also been looking into Uber, a slightly older company that lets people hail private car service through an app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, which reports that it has 100 drivers, and Sidecar, which says it has given more than 10,000 rides, say drivers must have their own personal car insurance. But the state minimum coverage for auto insurance – $15,000 for injury or death of one person, $30,000 for more than one person and $5,000 for property damage – is a small fraction of what taxis and limos must carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, taxis are required to have $1 million in coverage. The California Public Utilities Commission requires that limo drivers with vehicles that carry fewer than seven people have $750,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Lyft and Sidecar drivers use their own cars and suggested donations replace set fares. The companies take a 20 percent cut.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s very troubling that you have vehicles that are doing the amount of roadwork that taxis are but not having the minimum level insurance that is required by the PUC,” said Khaldoun Baghdadi, a partner at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, a well-known San Francisco personal injury law firm. “They’re getting a lot of the benefit without a lot of the burden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of that, insurers are unlikely to cover accidents if drivers with regular policies use their cars to make money, said Pete Moraga, a spokesman for the Insurance Information Network of California, a nonprofit trade association. Even though Lyft and Sidecar call the payments donations, he said insurers won’t see it that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re opening yourself up to a lot of risk if there’s an accident,” Moraga said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimmer, the co-founder of Zimride, which launched the Lyft app, said that “each driver is recommended to check with their insurer about their coverage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers are screened to make sure they have clean criminal and driving records, Zimmer said, and they receive two hours of training. Riders and drivers also rate each other on the app after the ride, which he maintains increases safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft and Sidecar representatives argue that because rides are prearranged and paid for with a donation, they don’t have to be regulated like taxi or limo companies. They also say that they’re just providing technology to connect drivers and riders. In terms of service that users agree to before using the app, Lyft says it is “NOT A TRANSPORTATION CARRIER.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s taxi drivers – who must have city-issued permits, commercial insurance, and either own or use a taxi medallion that goes for $300,000 – beg to differ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re hustlers,” said Ed Healey, a veteran cab driver. “It’s kind of a neo capitalist thing: They’re not paying anybody any benefits, but they’re going out of their way to have no responsibility whatsoever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansu Kim, president of DeSoto Cab, said the city should take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are illegal operations the city needs to enforce and shut these down,” Kim said. “Picking up the public requires proper licensing and insurance. If they don’t have that, everyone suffers in the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Rose, a spokesman for the SFMTA, which regulates cabs, said the city is still figuring out what to do. 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The PUC has also been looking into Uber, a slightly older company that lets people hail private car service through an app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyft, which reports that it has 100 drivers, and Sidecar, which says it has given more than 10,000 rides, say drivers must have their own personal car insurance. But the state minimum coverage for auto insurance – $15,000 for injury or death of one person, $30,000 for more than one person and $5,000 for property damage – is a small fraction of what taxis and limos must carry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, taxis are required to have $1 million in coverage. The California Public Utilities Commission requires that limo drivers with vehicles that carry fewer than seven people have $750,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cp>Lyft and Sidecar drivers use their own cars and suggested donations replace set fares. 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"description": "by Zusha Elinson and La Toya Tooles, The Bay Citizen With dense, lively neighborhoods, San Francisco is often ranked as one of the top U.S. cities for walking. But a new Bay Citizen survey shows that many pedestrians don't feel safe crossing the streets. The city scored an average of 4.6 on a scale of 1 to 10 for pedestrian safety, according to the online poll. The Bay Citizen conducted the unscientific survey after reporting the city was on pace to have more pedestrian fatalities this year than each of the previous two years. The survey was conducted using the",
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BART, which typically prohibits bikes in commute directions during rush hour, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/03/riders-support-bikes-on-bart-during-commute/\">is experimenting by making an exception on Fridays for the month of August\u003c/a>. And changes are coming to Muni policies that are expected \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Babies-in-strollers-on-board-Muni-but-when-3690632.php\">to allow more unfolded strollers on buses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/04/14/baby-on-board-dont-expect-kindness-on-board-muni/\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight reported\u003c/a> that she took her pregnant sister on crowded Muni buses around San Francisco to find out how many riders would be polite and chivalrous enough to give up their seat. She didn’t find many:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A woman with her purse sitting on an empty seat next to her looked right at [my sister] Beth and did nothing. Several other people looked straight at her belly and then straight at the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the driver of the 45 Union-Stockton headed toward the Marina seemed to think he was actually participating in the Indy 500, a woman put her hands up so Beth, who lost her footing, wouldn’t fall on her. And then the woman remained in her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the 8-Bayshore headed back downtown, two hippy-dippy women had a long discussion about rainwater collection, volcanoes and the glory of Mother Earth. That wonder certainly didn’t apply to actual mothers-to-be, as they pretended there wasn’t one standing right above them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Final tally? One well-mannered rider out of several dozen who had seats. I asked Beth to describe the attitude of her fellow Muni riders. “Mostly indifferent to mildly annoyed,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Giving up your seat to a pregnant woman may seem obvious to some. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Lance Williams and Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bart-vendor-pushed-boost-job-numbers-meet-stimulus-promises-17531\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73348\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BART.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73348\" title=\"BART\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BART.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART train (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 exchange, a BART supplier received a disapproving email after he said no jobs were created with a $4.8 million stimulus grant BART used to buy auxiliary power supply equipment for transit cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supplier, rail manufacturing firm Bombardier Transportation, simply hadn’t hired any new employees to build the units for BART, a Bombardier executive reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zero was a bad number, replied BART project’s manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Feds gave BART $4 million of stimulus money to purchase” power supply units, wrote Jim LaGuardia, a consultant hired by BART to manage the project.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep saying the stimulus money never achieved any of the stimulus goals, what makes you think we will get more stimulus money for the option APSEs,” he wrote, using an acronym for auxiliary power supply equipment. “BART is in phase two of obtaining stimulus money (more Bombardier APSEs) and it is not going to look good if we keep reporting zero!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scolding apparently did the trick. The Bombardier executive came back with a number – the stimulus money had funded 196 work hours that quarter, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, BART reported that stimulus money for the power unit contract had funded 24,103 work hours at Bombardier, records show. That’s about 11.5 full-time jobs over a two-year period, said BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost. The project also created work for 4.83 full-time mechanics at BART, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART did receive more stimulus money for the project. After the initial grant, the funding was increased to $11.2 million in 2010, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queried about the emails, Trost said BART’s consultant “was just doing his job and just trying to get the numbers that needed to be reported to the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryanne Roberts, spokeswoman for Bombardier, wrote in an email that the company had felt “no pressure” from BART – “just some initial confusion as to what/how to report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts who have studied the $787 billion stimulus program say that in the early going, reported jobs numbers were “soft, as you can imagine,” as Robert Maitner, a Washington, D.C., consultant, put it. He studied the issue of the accuracy of stimulus jobs reporting for an academic journal, the Journal of Government Financial Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genuine confusion over how to report the jobs data mingled with the impulse to pump up the numbers for political or other concerns, Maitner said. The process has always been “somewhat of a PR exercise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, nine months into the program, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the Government Accountability Office found that stimulus jobs reports were riddled with “erroneous or questionable data.” The GAO noted thousands of exaggerated or questionable reports posted on the government’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recovery.gov\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the criticism and improve the accuracy of the numbers, in December 2009, the White House stopped asking stimulus recipients to report how many jobs they had created. Instead, they were asked to make quarterly reports of how many jobs had been paid for with stimulus funds. The change was made Dec. 18, a day after LaGuardia scolded Bombardier in the email exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the new method, the numbers shouldn’t be taken as gospel, said Craig Jennings of the watchdog group \u003ca href=\"http://www.ombwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OMB Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers aren’t really good enough for scientific reporting,” Jennings said. “But they do give a guideline of what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 publication titled “\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/docs/RTC_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report to Congress\u003c/a>,” BART said it hoped the $92 million in stimulus funds would be only the first installment. The initial funds paid for projects such as upgrading electrical service in BART stations ($20 million), building a rail track crossover in Pleasant Hill ($13 million) and replacing the auxiliary power supply equipment on 70 BART cars ($11.2 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Lance Williams and Zusha Elinson, California Watch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 exchange, a BART supplier received a disapproving email after he said no jobs were created with a $4.8 million stimulus grant BART used to buy auxiliary power supply equipment for transit cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supplier, rail manufacturing firm Bombardier Transportation, simply hadn’t hired any new employees to build the units for BART, a Bombardier executive reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zero was a bad number, replied BART project’s manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Feds gave BART $4 million of stimulus money to purchase” power supply units, wrote Jim LaGuardia, a consultant hired by BART to manage the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep saying the stimulus money never achieved any of the stimulus goals, what makes you think we will get more stimulus money for the option APSEs,” he wrote, using an acronym for auxiliary power supply equipment. “BART is in phase two of obtaining stimulus money (more Bombardier APSEs) and it is not going to look good if we keep reporting zero!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scolding apparently did the trick. The Bombardier executive came back with a number – the stimulus money had funded 196 work hours that quarter, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, BART reported that stimulus money for the power unit contract had funded 24,103 work hours at Bombardier, records show. That’s about 11.5 full-time jobs over a two-year period, said BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost. The project also created work for 4.83 full-time mechanics at BART, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART did receive more stimulus money for the project. After the initial grant, the funding was increased to $11.2 million in 2010, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queried about the emails, Trost said BART’s consultant “was just doing his job and just trying to get the numbers that needed to be reported to the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryanne Roberts, spokeswoman for Bombardier, wrote in an email that the company had felt “no pressure” from BART – “just some initial confusion as to what/how to report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts who have studied the $787 billion stimulus program say that in the early going, reported jobs numbers were “soft, as you can imagine,” as Robert Maitner, a Washington, D.C., consultant, put it. He studied the issue of the accuracy of stimulus jobs reporting for an academic journal, the Journal of Government Financial Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genuine confusion over how to report the jobs data mingled with the impulse to pump up the numbers for political or other concerns, Maitner said. The process has always been “somewhat of a PR exercise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its report to Congress, BART promised the spending would have a big economic impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these stimulus projects will generate more than 2,000 jobs – helping to assure that the BART system continues to contribute to the Bay Area economy,” BART wrote in the report, signed by James Fang, then president of its board of directors, and then-General Manager Dorothy Dugger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2009, BART had awarded the contract for the auxiliary power supplies to Bombardier, a Canadian company that this year won the bid to build BART’s fleet of new train cars. The units were built at Bombardier’s plant near Pittsburgh, Pa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2009, LaGuardia, the BART consultant, emailed Bombardier executive Luke Mazurkiewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please provide the number of direct, on-project jobs created or sustained by the ARRA funds,” LaGuardia wrote, using the acronym for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the law behind the stimulus program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the Bombardier executive couldn’t help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BT has no on-site employees hired specifically for this project,” Mazurkiewicz responded. “In fact, no jobs were created by this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insofar as ‘sustained’ jobs are concerned, that is a very subjective description.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BT did not ‘sustain’ any jobs due to this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After LaGuardia chided him, Mazurkiewicz came back with some numbers: 46 job hours for November and 150 for December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please indicate if this is what you are looking for?” Mazurkiewicz asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes it is,” LaGuardia replied.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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