window.__IS_SSR__=true
window.__INITIAL_STATE__={
"attachmentsReducer": {
"audio_0": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_0",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background0.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_1": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_1",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background1.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_2": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_2",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background2.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_3": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_3",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background3.jpg"
}
}
},
"audio_4": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "audio_4",
"imgSizes": {
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/audio_bgs/background4.jpg"
}
}
},
"placeholder": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "placeholder",
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium_large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-768x512.jpg",
"width": 768,
"height": 512,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"height": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 533,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 107,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 680,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-1333x1333-1-160x160.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KQED-Default-Image-816638274-2000x1333-1.jpg",
"width": 2000,
"height": 1333
}
}
},
"news_11254007": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11254007",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11254007",
"found": true
},
"title": "Caltrain-San Jose",
"publishDate": 1483581291,
"status": "inherit",
"parent": 11250035,
"modified": 1746832544,
"caption": "Caltrain cars at San José's Diridon Station, December 2016.",
"credit": "Dan Brekke/KQED",
"altTag": "The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.",
"description": null,
"imgSizes": {
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-160x120.jpg",
"width": 160,
"height": 120,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-800x600.jpg",
"width": 800,
"height": 600,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"large": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-1020x765.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"height": 765,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-lrg": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-1920x1440.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-med": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-1180x885.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"height": 885,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"fd-sm": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-960x720.jpg",
"width": 960,
"height": 720,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"height": 372,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"height": 576,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xxsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-240x180.jpg",
"width": 240,
"height": 180,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xsmall": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-375x281.jpg",
"width": 375,
"height": 281,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"small": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-520x390.jpg",
"width": 520,
"height": 390,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"xlarge": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-1180x885.jpg",
"width": 1180,
"height": 885,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-1920x1440.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-32": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-32x32.jpg",
"width": 32,
"height": 32,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-50": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-50x50.jpg",
"width": 50,
"height": 50,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-64": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-64x64.jpg",
"width": 64,
"height": 64,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-96": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-96x96.jpg",
"width": 96,
"height": 96,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"guest-author-128": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-128x128.jpg",
"width": 128,
"height": 128,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"detail": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-150x150.jpg",
"width": 150,
"height": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"jmtc-small-thumb": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-280x150.jpg",
"width": 280,
"height": 150,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg"
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1440
}
},
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11826311": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11826311",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11826311",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11826287,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1080
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1020x574.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1122x1080.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-840x1080.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1832x1080.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1104x1080.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1536x864.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 864
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1472x1080.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1080
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS43817_McPartland3-qut-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1593193274,
"modified": 1593194563,
"caption": "BART board memnber John McPartland speaks during a public meeting held via videoconference on June 25, 2020.",
"description": "BART board memnber John McPartland speaks during a public meeting held via videoconference on June 25, 2020.",
"title": "John McPartland BART board of directors",
"credit": "Screenshot bart.gov",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11826282": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11826282",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11826282",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11826281,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1122x1280.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-840x1120.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1832x1280.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1104x1104.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"1536x1536": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1536x1024.jpg",
"width": 1536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1024
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1472x1280.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS41957_007_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6511-qut-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1593165023,
"modified": 1593211083,
"caption": "A BART train in March at San Francisco's nearly deserted Civic Center station. ",
"description": "A BART train in March at San Francisco's nearly deserted Civic Center station. ",
"title": "BART-Civic Center Station",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11824763": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11824763",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11824763",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11824758,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1122x1280.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-840x1120.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1832x1280.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1104x1104.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1472x1280.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1592359899,
"modified": 1592441387,
"caption": "Passengers wait for the 14-Mission on 4th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 6, 2020.",
"description": "Passengers wait for the 14-Mission on 4th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 6, 2020.",
"title": "RS42564_001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Muni_04062020-qut",
"credit": "Beth LaBerge/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11824922": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11824922",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11824922",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11824913,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1122x1280.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-840x1120.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1832x1280.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1104x1104.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1472x1280.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/amtrak-salinas190611a-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1592432264,
"modified": 1592438408,
"caption": "Amtrak's Coast Starlight during a stop in Salinas in June 2019. ",
"description": "Amtrak's Coast Starlight during a stop in Salinas in June 2019. ",
"title": "Amtrak-Coast Starlight-Salinas",
"credit": "Dan Brekke/KQED",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11824013": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11824013",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11824013",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11824004,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1044x783.png",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-470x470.png",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1038x576.png",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-160x113.png",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 113
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-672x372.png",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final.png",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1358
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-632x474.png",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1020x721.png",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 721
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-536x402.png",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1122x1358.png",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1358
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-800x566.png",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 566
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-354x472.png",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-840x1120.png",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1832x1358.png",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1358
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1104x1104.png",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-414x552.png",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1472x1358.png",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1358
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-687x916.png",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 916
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1920x1358.png",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1358
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-550x550.png",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-1376x1032.png",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sfpdmuni_061120_final-912x912.png",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1591907346,
"modified": 1591907383,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "sfpdmuni_061120_final",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11823816": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11823816",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11823816",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11823807,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-160x120.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 120
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2.jpg",
"width": 1900,
"height": 1425
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1020x765.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 765
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1122x1425.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1425
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-800x600.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 600
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-840x1120.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1832x1374.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1374
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1104x1104.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1472x1425.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1425
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/SFPDmuni2-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1591817242,
"modified": 1591822232,
"caption": "Police form a line near 4th and Bryant streets in San Francisco, in front of a Muni bus some officers rode to the protest on May 31.",
"description": "Police form a line near 4th and Bryant streets in San Francisco, in front of a Muni bus some officers rode to the protest on May 31.",
"title": "SFPDmuni2",
"credit": "Courtesy of Chris Arvin",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11812909": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11812909",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11812909",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11812863,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-1024x576.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-160x103.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 103
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg",
"width": 1024,
"height": 661
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-1020x658.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 658
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-800x516.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 516
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-840x661.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 661
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-687x661.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 661
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/GettyImages-1217248287-912x661.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 661
}
},
"publishDate": 1587158598,
"modified": 1590690538,
"caption": "San Francisco commuters wear masks as they wait for their bus on April 6, 2020.",
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco's Muni To Cut Majority Of Service During Coronavirus Shutdown",
"credit": "Justin Sullivan/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11820073": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11820073",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11820073",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11820003,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-160x106.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 106
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1268
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1020x674.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 674
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1122x1268.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1268
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-800x528.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 528
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-840x1120.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1832x1268.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1268
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1104x1104.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1472x1268.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1268
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1920x1268.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1268
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/baybridge200401-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1590104279,
"modified": 1590104410,
"caption": "The Bay Bridge on April 1, 2020, as traffic volumes plummeted due to the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-at-home orders. ",
"description": null,
"title": "Bay Bridge-No Traffic",
"credit": "Justin Sullivan/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11818947": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11818947",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11818947",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11818938,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1044x783.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-160x107.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 107
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1020x680.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 680
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1122x1280.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-800x533.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 533
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-840x1120.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1832x1280.jpg",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1104x1104.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1472x1280.jpg",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-687x916.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 916
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1920x1280.jpg",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1280
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-1376x1032.jpg",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/tesla200512-912x912.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1589784650,
"modified": 1589910871,
"caption": "An aerial view of Tesla's plant in Fremont on May 12, 2020, the day after CEO Elon Musk declared he had opened the facility \"against Alameda County rules\" that shut down production in late March. Local officials described the reopening as ramping up \"minimum basic operations.\" The company is expected to be in full production this week.",
"description": "An aerial view of Tesla's plant in Fremont on May 12, 2020, the day after CEO Elon Musk declared he had opened the facility \"against Alameda County rules\" that shut down production in late March. Local officials described the reopening as ramping up \"minimum basic operations.\" The company is expected to be in full production this week.",
"title": "Tesla-Fremont Plant",
"credit": "Justin Sullivan/Getty Images",
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11818785": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11818785",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11818785",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11818774,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1044x783.png",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 783
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-470x470.png",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1038x576.png",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-160x108.png",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 108
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-672x372.png",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final.png",
"width": 1920,
"height": 1295
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-632x474.png",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1020x688.png",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 688
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-536x402.png",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1122x1295.png",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1295
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-800x540.png",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 540
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-354x472.png",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-840x1120.png",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1120
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1832x1295.png",
"width": 1832,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1295
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1104x1104.png",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1104
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-414x552.png",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_square_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1472x1295.png",
"width": 1472,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1295
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-687x916.png",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 916
},
"full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1920x1295.png",
"width": 1920,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1295
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-550x550.png",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-1376x1032.png",
"width": 1376,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 1032
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/hardship_051520_final-912x912.png",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/png",
"height": 912
}
},
"publishDate": 1589586664,
"modified": 1589586698,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "hardship_051520_final",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
},
"news_11818779": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_11818779",
"meta": {
"index": "attachments_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11818779",
"found": true
},
"parent": 11818583,
"imgSizes": {
"apple_news_ca_landscape_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-1044x720.jpg",
"width": 1044,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-470x470.jpg",
"width": 470,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 470
},
"twentyfourteen-full-width": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-1038x576.jpg",
"width": 1038,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 576
},
"thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-160x90.jpg",
"width": 160,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 90
},
"post-thumbnail": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-672x372.jpg",
"width": 672,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 372
},
"kqedFullSize": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1.jpg",
"width": 1280,
"height": 720
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-632x474.jpg",
"width": 632,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 474
},
"large": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-1020x574.jpg",
"width": 1020,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 574
},
"apple_news_ca_landscape_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-536x402.jpg",
"width": 536,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 402
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_12_9": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-1122x720.jpg",
"width": 1122,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"medium": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-800x450.jpg",
"width": 800,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 450
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_0": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-354x472.jpg",
"width": 354,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 472
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-840x720.jpg",
"width": 840,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"apple_news_ca_square_9_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-1104x720.jpg",
"width": 1104,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-414x552.jpg",
"width": 414,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 552
},
"apple_news_ca_portrait_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-687x720.jpg",
"width": 687,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
},
"apple_news_ca_square_4_7": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-550x550.jpg",
"width": 550,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 550
},
"apple_news_ca_square_5_5": {
"file": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/729-MARQUEE-1-912x720.jpg",
"width": 912,
"mimeType": "image/jpeg",
"height": 720
}
},
"publishDate": 1589586302,
"modified": 1589586302,
"caption": null,
"description": null,
"title": "729 MARQUEE 1",
"credit": null,
"status": "inherit",
"isLoading": false,
"fetchFailed": false
}
},
"audioPlayerReducer": {
"postId": "stream_live",
"isPaused": true,
"isPlaying": false,
"pfsActive": false,
"pledgeModalIsOpen": true,
"playerDrawerIsOpen": false,
"liveAudioPlayStartedAt": 0,
"liveAudioPlayContext": ""
},
"authorsReducer": {
"danbrekke": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "222",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "222",
"found": true
},
"name": "Dan Brekke",
"firstName": "Dan",
"lastName": "Brekke",
"slug": "danbrekke",
"email": "dbrekke@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news",
"science"
],
"title": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"bio": "Dan Brekke is a reporter and editor for KQED News, responsible for coverage of topics ranging from California water issues to the Bay Area's transportation challenges. In a newsroom career that began in Chicago in 1972, Dan has worked for \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner,\u003c/em> Wired and TechTV and has been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Business 2.0, Salon and elsewhere.\r\n\r\nSince joining KQED in 2007, Dan has reported, edited and produced both radio and online features and breaking news pieces. He has shared as both editor and reporter in four Society of Professional Journalists Norcal Excellence in Journalism awards and one Edward R. Murrow regional award. He was chosen for a spring 2017 residency at the Mesa Refuge to advance his research on California salmon.\r\n\r\nEmail Dan at: \u003ca href=\"mailto:dbrekke@kqed.org\">dbrekke@kqed.org\u003c/a>\r\n\r\n\u003cstrong>Twitter:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>Facebook:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com/danbrekke\u003c/a>\r\n\u003cstrong>LinkedIn:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke\u003c/a>",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twitter": "danbrekke",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/dan.brekke/",
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbrekke/",
"sites": [
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"administrator",
"create_posts"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "quest",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "food",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "forum",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Dan Brekke | KQED",
"description": "KQED Editor and Reporter",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8f1f0d2a978fb3b23426c922c7e2af558fa36905b49c4ce76a97dc3c72d27226?s=600&d=mm&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/danbrekke"
},
"katrinaschwartz": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "234",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "234",
"found": true
},
"name": "Katrina Schwartz",
"firstName": "Katrina",
"lastName": "Schwartz",
"slug": "katrinaschwartz",
"email": "kschwartz@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Producer",
"bio": "Katrina Schwartz is a journalist based in San Francisco. She's worked at KPCC public radio in LA and has reported on air and online for KQED since 2010. She covered how teaching and learning is changing for MindShift between 2012 and 2020. She is the co-host of the MindShift podcast and now produces KQED's Bay Curious podcast.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "kschwart",
"bluesky": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "mindshift",
"roles": [
"administrator"
]
},
{
"site": "stateofhealth",
"roles": [
"author"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Katrina Schwartz | KQED",
"description": "Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edb4ee79070447a018538c9aae6eeecf28786515b8a0c30e43b6b7dce5aa44c8?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/katrinaschwartz"
},
"kqed": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "236",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "236",
"found": true
},
"name": "KQED News Staff",
"firstName": "KQED News Staff",
"lastName": null,
"slug": "kqed",
"email": "faq@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [],
"title": null,
"bio": null,
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": null,
"facebook": null,
"instagram": null,
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"author"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "KQED News Staff | KQED",
"description": null,
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ef0e801a68c4c54afa9180db14084167?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/kqed"
},
"markfiore": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "3236",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "3236",
"found": true
},
"name": "Mark Fiore",
"firstName": "Mark",
"lastName": "Fiore",
"slug": "markfiore",
"email": "mark@markfiore.com",
"display_author_email": false,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "KQED News Cartoonist",
"bio": "\u003ca href=\"http://www.MarkFiore.com\">MarkFiore.com\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/markfiore\">Follow on Twitter\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Fiore-Animated-Political-Cartoons/94451707396?ref=bookmarks\">Facebook\u003c/a> | \u003ca href=\"mailto:mark@markfiore.com\">email\u003c/a>\r\n\r\nPulitzer Prize-winner, Mark Fiore, who the Wall Street Journal has called “the undisputed guru of the form,” creates animated political cartoons in San Francisco, where his work has been featured regularly on the San Francisco Chronicle’s web site, SFGate.com. His work has appeared on Newsweek.com, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, MotherJones.com, DailyKos.com and NPR’s web site. Fiore’s political animation has appeared on CNN, Frontline, Bill Moyers Journal, Salon.com and cable and broadcast outlets across the globe.\r\n\r\nBeginning his professional life by drawing traditional political cartoons for newspapers, Fiore’s work appeared in publications ranging from the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times. In the late 1990s, he began to experiment with animating political cartoons and, after a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as their staff cartoonist, Fiore devoted all his energies to animation.\r\nGrowing up in California, Fiore also spent a good portion of his life in the backwoods of Idaho. It was this combination that shaped him politically. Mark majored in political science at Colorado College, where, in a perfect send-off for a cartoonist, he received his diploma in 1991 as commencement speaker Dick Cheney smiled approvingly.\r\nMark Fiore was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 2010, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2004 and has twice received an Online Journalism Award for commentary from the Online News Association (2002, 2008). Fiore has received two awards for his work in new media from the National Cartoonists Society (2001, 2002), and in 2006 received The James Madison Freedom of Information Award from The Society of Professional Journalists.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fc4e2a612b15b67bad0c6f0e1db4ca9b?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "MarkFiore",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/markfiore/?hl=en",
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"contributor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "futureofyou",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Mark Fiore | KQED",
"description": "KQED News Cartoonist",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fc4e2a612b15b67bad0c6f0e1db4ca9b?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fc4e2a612b15b67bad0c6f0e1db4ca9b?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/markfiore"
},
"jrodriguez": {
"type": "authors",
"id": "11690",
"meta": {
"index": "authors_1716337520",
"id": "11690",
"found": true
},
"name": "Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez",
"firstName": "Joe",
"lastName": "Fitzgerald Rodriguez",
"slug": "jrodriguez",
"email": "jrodriguez@kqed.org",
"display_author_email": true,
"staff_mastheads": [
"news"
],
"title": "Reporter and Producer",
"bio": "Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez is a reporter and digital producer for KQED covering politics. Joe most recently wrote for the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> as a political columnist covering The City. He was raised in San Francisco and has spent his reporting career in his beloved, foggy, city by the bay. Joe was 12-years-old when he conducted his first interview in journalism, grilling former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown for the Marina Middle School newspaper, \u003cem>The Penguin Press, \u003c/em>and he continues to report on the San Francisco Bay Area to this day.",
"avatar": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2247beb0564c1e9c62228d5649d2edac?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twitter": "FitztheReporter",
"facebook": null,
"instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/fitzthereporter/",
"linkedin": null,
"sites": [
{
"site": "",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "arts",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "news",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "science",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "elections",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
},
{
"site": "liveblog",
"roles": [
"editor"
]
}
],
"headData": {
"title": "Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez | KQED",
"description": "Reporter and Producer",
"ogImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2247beb0564c1e9c62228d5649d2edac?s=600&d=blank&r=g",
"twImgSrc": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2247beb0564c1e9c62228d5649d2edac?s=600&d=blank&r=g"
},
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/author/jrodriguez"
}
},
"pagesReducer": {
"news_category_transportation": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1397",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1397",
"score": 12.939901
},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1409,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"title": "Transportation",
"pageMeta": {
"site": "news",
"WpPageTemplate": "page-topic-editorial",
"currentPage": 36
},
"blocks": [
{
"blockName": "kqed/post-list",
"attrs": {
"layout": "cardArticle2",
"query": "posts/news?category=transportation",
"seeMore": false,
"paginated": true,
"page": 36
}
},
{
"blockName": "kqed/ad"
}
]
}
},
"pfsSessionReducer": {},
"postsReducer": {
"stream_live": {
"type": "live",
"id": "stream_live",
"audioUrl": "https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio",
"title": "Live Stream",
"excerpt": "Live Stream information currently unavailable.",
"link": "/radio",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "KQED Live",
"link": "/"
}
},
"stream_kqedNewscast": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "stream_kqedNewscast",
"audioUrl": "https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1",
"title": "KQED Newscast",
"featImg": "",
"label": {
"name": "88.5 FM",
"link": "/"
}
},
"news_11829125": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11829125",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11829125",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1594862599000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1594862599,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "Dispute Over Caltrain Management Threatens to Derail Planned Tax Measure",
"title": "Dispute Over Caltrain Management Threatens to Derail Planned Tax Measure",
"headTitle": "KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>A three-county sales tax ballot measure that Caltrain proponents say is critical to help the Peninsula rail service survive the coronavirus crisis and meet its future expansion goals has been derailed by a dispute over how the agency is governed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the controversy are two members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who argue that the city doesn't have enough of a say in how the rail agency is run despite contributing millions of dollars of operating support every year. The supervisors, Shamann Walton and Aaron Peskin, say a funding measure shouldn't go forward until that's fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain and its supporters, including 10 state legislators from the three counties the system serves, are warning that the rail agency may have to shut down and that plans to modernize the system could be sidetracked for years to come unless the proposed one-eighth cent sale tax is passed. They say that although the issue of how Caltrain is managed is a legitimate one, it can be addressed without blocking the tax measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton\"]'San Francisco voters and San Francisco leadership don't actually make decisions as to what happens with the railroad. But yet we pay millions of dollars into the railroad each year.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain is one of the transit operators hardest hit by the collapse of ridership during the shelter-at-home orders imposed in the Bay Area four months ago as the pandemic began to sweep across the region. Patronage on the system, which is heavily dependent on fare income and has no other dedicated source of funding, declined from about 65,000 riders a day to just 1,300, or 98%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain's crisis is occurring even as it's in the midst of a $2 billion project to electrify its system and replace its aging fleet of train cars. Funds for most of that work has already been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governance dispute highlights the complex structure under which Caltrain is managed and operated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a series of agreements dating back to 1991, the rail agency is operated by the San Mateo County Transit District, or SamTrans. That arrangement was made in part because SamTrans provided all of the local share of funding to purchase the Caltrain line from Southern Pacific — a contribution for which it has never been entirely repaid by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate body, the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, also plays a role in Caltrain management, setting policy and approving budgets. But the board, which includes three members from each Caltrain county, lacks basic authority, such as hiring and firing the rail system's CEO, and has no role in its day-to-day operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"transportation\"]Supervisor Walton, who is one of San Francisco's three representatives on the Joint Powers Board, cited that \"lopsided relationship\" in explaining why he decided not to introduce legislation Tuesday that would have begun the process of putting the tax measure on the ballot. He said other factors, such as the city's pandemic-fueled budget crisis and other taxes that may appear on the ballot, also influenced his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot support a one-eighth-cent tax for Caltrain here in San Francisco with these issues and due to the fact that San Francisco has no true voice on the Joint Powers Board,\" Walton said. \"This would be true taxation without representation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the current governance structure means that \"San Francisco voters and San Francisco leadership don't actually make decisions as to what happens with the railroad. But yet we pay millions of dollars into the railroad each year. This inequitable relationship has to change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said opposing the Caltrain tax \"was not a decision we came to lightly.\" He insisted that he and Walton \"continue to support Caltrain as a regional resource\" but are determined to \"move the governance model and the funding model into the 21st century\" by creating an independent agency to run the rail service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Board of Supervisors member Dave Pine, the chair of the Joint Powers Board, said while changes in governance need to be considered, he questions whether it makes sense to create what in essence would be a new transit agency while the region is in the beginning stages of trying to streamline and simplify its public transportation network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area has more than 20 different transit districts. There's a lot of discussion now about 'seamless Bay Area' and having fewer agencies instead of more,\" Pine said. \"It's no small thing to go and create a new transit agency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe two San Francisco supervisors drew intense criticism from rail advocates concerned that Caltrain could be on the brink of shutting down and from a group of 10 state legislators who sent a letter on Monday urging that officials in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties move quickly to place the sales tax measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Look, we can have a conversation about governance going forward and how we reform that,\" said Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-San Mateo, one of those who signed the letter. \"But we can't be holding the system and the passengers hostage for parochial reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener\"]'Without this funding we face the very real possibility of Caltrain failing. We can't afford that.'[/pullquote]State Sen. Scott Wiener, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who also signed the letter, said he shared board members' frustration with Caltrain governance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But the question before us is whether Caltrain is going to continue to exist as a regional rail system for the Bay Area,\" Wiener said. \"Without this funding we face the very real possibility of Caltrain failing. We can't afford that. Our transit systems are already struggling, they're already underfunded and we need to take every opportunity to inject new investment and support into the system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton's decision not to introduce the tax measure on Tuesday doesn't necessarily kill it. The Board of Supervisors could take it up as an emergency measure that would require a two-thirds majority — eight of the board's 11 members — to move forward. Under board rules, that action would have to be taken by July 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Board of Supervisors has not voted to reject anything,\" Wiener said. \"The board still has time to put this on the ballot, and I hope the board will do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "11829125 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11829125",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/07/15/dispute-over-caltrain-management-threatens-to-derail-planned-tax-measure/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 1110,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 22
},
"modified": 1594914812,
"excerpt": "The San Francisco Board of Supervisors failed to take action on a proposed sales tax supporters say is critical to ensuring the Peninsula rail agency survives the coronavirus crisis. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The San Francisco Board of Supervisors failed to take action on a proposed sales tax supporters say is critical to ensuring the Peninsula rail agency survives the coronavirus crisis. ",
"title": "Dispute Over Caltrain Management Threatens to Derail Planned Tax Measure | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Dispute Over Caltrain Management Threatens to Derail Planned Tax Measure",
"datePublished": "2020-07-15T18:23:19-07:00",
"dateModified": "2020-07-16T08:53:32-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "dispute-over-caltrain-management-threatens-to-derail-planned-tax-measure",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/11829125/dispute-over-caltrain-management-threatens-to-derail-planned-tax-measure",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A three-county sales tax ballot measure that Caltrain proponents say is critical to help the Peninsula rail service survive the coronavirus crisis and meet its future expansion goals has been derailed by a dispute over how the agency is governed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the center of the controversy are two members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who argue that the city doesn't have enough of a say in how the rail agency is run despite contributing millions of dollars of operating support every year. The supervisors, Shamann Walton and Aaron Peskin, say a funding measure shouldn't go forward until that's fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain and its supporters, including 10 state legislators from the three counties the system serves, are warning that the rail agency may have to shut down and that plans to modernize the system could be sidetracked for years to come unless the proposed one-eighth cent sale tax is passed. They say that although the issue of how Caltrain is managed is a legitimate one, it can be addressed without blocking the tax measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "'San Francisco voters and San Francisco leadership don't actually make decisions as to what happens with the railroad. But yet we pay millions of dollars into the railroad each year.'",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"align": "right",
"size": "medium",
"citation": "San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain is one of the transit operators hardest hit by the collapse of ridership during the shelter-at-home orders imposed in the Bay Area four months ago as the pandemic began to sweep across the region. Patronage on the system, which is heavily dependent on fare income and has no other dedicated source of funding, declined from about 65,000 riders a day to just 1,300, or 98%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain's crisis is occurring even as it's in the midst of a $2 billion project to electrify its system and replace its aging fleet of train cars. Funds for most of that work has already been secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governance dispute highlights the complex structure under which Caltrain is managed and operated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a series of agreements dating back to 1991, the rail agency is operated by the San Mateo County Transit District, or SamTrans. That arrangement was made in part because SamTrans provided all of the local share of funding to purchase the Caltrain line from Southern Pacific — a contribution for which it has never been entirely repaid by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate body, the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, also plays a role in Caltrain management, setting policy and approving budgets. But the board, which includes three members from each Caltrain county, lacks basic authority, such as hiring and firing the rail system's CEO, and has no role in its day-to-day operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "related coverage ",
"tag": "transportation"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Supervisor Walton, who is one of San Francisco's three representatives on the Joint Powers Board, cited that \"lopsided relationship\" in explaining why he decided not to introduce legislation Tuesday that would have begun the process of putting the tax measure on the ballot. He said other factors, such as the city's pandemic-fueled budget crisis and other taxes that may appear on the ballot, also influenced his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I cannot support a one-eighth-cent tax for Caltrain here in San Francisco with these issues and due to the fact that San Francisco has no true voice on the Joint Powers Board,\" Walton said. \"This would be true taxation without representation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the current governance structure means that \"San Francisco voters and San Francisco leadership don't actually make decisions as to what happens with the railroad. But yet we pay millions of dollars into the railroad each year. This inequitable relationship has to change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said opposing the Caltrain tax \"was not a decision we came to lightly.\" He insisted that he and Walton \"continue to support Caltrain as a regional resource\" but are determined to \"move the governance model and the funding model into the 21st century\" by creating an independent agency to run the rail service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Board of Supervisors member Dave Pine, the chair of the Joint Powers Board, said while changes in governance need to be considered, he questions whether it makes sense to create what in essence would be a new transit agency while the region is in the beginning stages of trying to streamline and simplify its public transportation network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Bay Area has more than 20 different transit districts. There's a lot of discussion now about 'seamless Bay Area' and having fewer agencies instead of more,\" Pine said. \"It's no small thing to go and create a new transit agency.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe two San Francisco supervisors drew intense criticism from rail advocates concerned that Caltrain could be on the brink of shutting down and from a group of 10 state legislators who sent a letter on Monday urging that officials in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties move quickly to place the sales tax measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Look, we can have a conversation about governance going forward and how we reform that,\" said Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D-San Mateo, one of those who signed the letter. \"But we can't be holding the system and the passengers hostage for parochial reasons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "'Without this funding we face the very real possibility of Caltrain failing. We can't afford that.'",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"align": "right",
"size": "medium",
"citation": "State Sen. Scott Wiener",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who also signed the letter, said he shared board members' frustration with Caltrain governance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But the question before us is whether Caltrain is going to continue to exist as a regional rail system for the Bay Area,\" Wiener said. \"Without this funding we face the very real possibility of Caltrain failing. We can't afford that. Our transit systems are already struggling, they're already underfunded and we need to take every opportunity to inject new investment and support into the system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walton's decision not to introduce the tax measure on Tuesday doesn't necessarily kill it. The Board of Supervisors could take it up as an emergency measure that would require a two-thirds majority — eight of the board's 11 members — to move forward. Under board rules, that action would have to be taken by July 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Board of Supervisors has not voted to reject anything,\" Wiener said. \"The board still has time to put this on the ballot, and I hope the board will do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11829125/dispute-over-caltrain-management-threatens-to-derail-planned-tax-measure",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_195",
"news_510",
"news_27350",
"news_27504",
"news_27626",
"news_1533",
"news_28121",
"news_2684",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_11254007",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11826287": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11826287",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11826287",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1593179487000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "bart-director-says-hes-distressed-by-villainization-of-police-and-of-robert-e-lee",
"title": "BART Director Says He's Distressed by 'Villainization' of Police — and of Robert E. Lee",
"publishDate": 1593179487,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "BART Director Says He’s Distressed by ‘Villainization’ of Police — and of Robert E. Lee | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>BART Director John McPartland leaped at the chance Thursday to support a potentially groundbreaking initiative that would steer the transit agency’s police officers away from dealing with people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or other issues that don’t require an armed response. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unlikely anyone monitoring the BART board meeting, a nearly six-hour marathon conducted via teleconference, anticipated that McPartland’s declaration of support for police reform would include a defense of the career and accomplishments of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Or that another director would coax McPartland to “walk back” his comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPartland, who represents an Alameda County district, seconded director Bevan Dufty’s police reform initiative. Dufty, whose district includes much of San Francisco, framed it as an effort not only to change the focus of policing on BART but to spare officers from having to deal with situations for which they’re not trained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPartland said he wanted to “jump on board” with Dufty’s idea, and started by saying past and current problems with police stem from training and policy problems, rather than with individual officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a retired Army officer who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, he said calls to defund police amount to the same kind of “villainization” he felt when he returned from wartime service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, as both he and Dufty said later, he “went off the rails.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no segue, McPartland launched into a critique of recent incidents in which statues of Confederate military figures and others have been pulled down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the statues that now face removal is one in Richmond, Virginia, celebrating Robert E. Lee, a slaveholder who betrayed his oath to defend the U.S. Constitution by resigning from the Army to lead Confederate forces in the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826288\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, in early June 2020. The state has announced its intention to remove the monument, one of a series of Richmond memorials to leading figures of the Confederacy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, in early June 2020. The state has announced its intention to remove the monument, one of a series of Richmond memorials to leading figures of the Confederacy. \u003ccite>(Ryan M. Kelly/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Robert E. Lee was an exemplary general who was a West Point graduate,” McPartland said. “The United States military tried to make him the commander in chief of the Army, and he turned them down, not because of racism, but because of family — the priorities that we have are God, family and country — and he ended up becoming a general that ended up simply doing his job, and he’s being villainized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the quality of Lee’s generalship is now widely questioned. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one recent critique\u003c/a> of Lee’s legacy summarized him this way: “Even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are Black. Lee’s elevation (to heroic status) is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPartland added: “If we continue to tear down monuments in the South, what we are doing is we are attacking the families and the belief system of the conservatives of this nation. … Instead of trying to unite and heal, the actions that are going on right now — instead of doing it in a legislative fashion, we’re doing it in a riotous fashion of tearing down monuments — what we’re doing is polarizing and galvanizing the opposition (and) that’s going to make it a lot tougher to unseat the existing president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"bart\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t the end of it. During a later discussion of steps the BART Police Department has already taken to improve practices and hold officers more accountable, Dufty asked McPartland to reconsider what he had said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love you a lot, and I would just be grateful if you could just take a moment and let’s walk back because I don’t think this is a time to think about statues or any of those things,” Dufty said. “And I think in your heart, I know you know that. So I apologize, I know this is a little untraditional at a BART meeting, but I just would like people to know the John McPartland that I’ve come to know.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exchange ended in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I need to walk that back,” McPartland said. “I’ve been very troubled and haven’t been sleeping well because of this. Part of it is because of the villainization of law enforcement and my personal experience coming back from the war.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to say his deepest concern is “the violence that’s going on and the division that continues to spread us apart.” He concluded by saying, “I went off the rails. I represented myself badly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And god bless you for being willing to say that, John,” Dufty said. “That’s all the moment requires is to say I made some mistakes here and I want to do better.” \u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Alameda County Director John McPartland declares support for police reform, then expresses concern about divisiveness he says is fostered by attacks on monuments dedicated to Confederates and others. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721155815,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 20,
"wordCount": 916
},
"headData": {
"title": "BART Director Says He's Distressed by 'Villainization' of Police — and of Robert E. Lee | KQED",
"description": "Alameda County Director John McPartland declares support for police reform, then expresses concern about divisiveness he says is fostered by attacks on monuments dedicated to Confederates and others. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "BART Director Says He's Distressed by 'Villainization' of Police — and of Robert E. Lee",
"datePublished": "2020-06-26T06:51:27-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T11:50:15-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/11826287/bart-director-says-hes-distressed-by-villainization-of-police-and-of-robert-e-lee",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>BART Director John McPartland leaped at the chance Thursday to support a potentially groundbreaking initiative that would steer the transit agency’s police officers away from dealing with people experiencing homelessness, mental illness or other issues that don’t require an armed response. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unlikely anyone monitoring the BART board meeting, a nearly six-hour marathon conducted via teleconference, anticipated that McPartland’s declaration of support for police reform would include a defense of the career and accomplishments of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Or that another director would coax McPartland to “walk back” his comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPartland, who represents an Alameda County district, seconded director Bevan Dufty’s police reform initiative. Dufty, whose district includes much of San Francisco, framed it as an effort not only to change the focus of policing on BART but to spare officers from having to deal with situations for which they’re not trained. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPartland said he wanted to “jump on board” with Dufty’s idea, and started by saying past and current problems with police stem from training and policy problems, rather than with individual officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as a retired Army officer who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, he said calls to defund police amount to the same kind of “villainization” he felt when he returned from wartime service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, as both he and Dufty said later, he “went off the rails.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With no segue, McPartland launched into a critique of recent incidents in which statues of Confederate military figures and others have been pulled down. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the statues that now face removal is one in Richmond, Virginia, celebrating Robert E. Lee, a slaveholder who betrayed his oath to defend the U.S. Constitution by resigning from the Army to lead Confederate forces in the Civil War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11826288\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11826288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, in early June 2020. The state has announced its intention to remove the monument, one of a series of Richmond memorials to leading figures of the Confederacy.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/leestatue.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, in early June 2020. The state has announced its intention to remove the monument, one of a series of Richmond memorials to leading figures of the Confederacy. \u003ccite>(Ryan M. Kelly/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Robert E. Lee was an exemplary general who was a West Point graduate,” McPartland said. “The United States military tried to make him the commander in chief of the Army, and he turned them down, not because of racism, but because of family — the priorities that we have are God, family and country — and he ended up becoming a general that ended up simply doing his job, and he’s being villainized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the quality of Lee’s generalship is now widely questioned. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">one recent critique\u003c/a> of Lee’s legacy summarized him this way: “Even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are Black. Lee’s elevation (to heroic status) is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPartland added: “If we continue to tear down monuments in the South, what we are doing is we are attacking the families and the belief system of the conservatives of this nation. … Instead of trying to unite and heal, the actions that are going on right now — instead of doing it in a legislative fashion, we’re doing it in a riotous fashion of tearing down monuments — what we’re doing is polarizing and galvanizing the opposition (and) that’s going to make it a lot tougher to unseat the existing president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"tag": "bart",
"label": "related coverage "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That wasn’t the end of it. During a later discussion of steps the BART Police Department has already taken to improve practices and hold officers more accountable, Dufty asked McPartland to reconsider what he had said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love you a lot, and I would just be grateful if you could just take a moment and let’s walk back because I don’t think this is a time to think about statues or any of those things,” Dufty said. “And I think in your heart, I know you know that. So I apologize, I know this is a little untraditional at a BART meeting, but I just would like people to know the John McPartland that I’ve come to know.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exchange ended in agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I need to walk that back,” McPartland said. “I’ve been very troubled and haven’t been sleeping well because of this. Part of it is because of the villainization of law enforcement and my personal experience coming back from the war.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to say his deepest concern is “the violence that’s going on and the division that continues to spread us apart.” He concluded by saying, “I went off the rails. I represented myself badly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And god bless you for being willing to say that, John,” Dufty said. “That’s all the moment requires is to say I made some mistakes here and I want to do better.” \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11826287/bart-director-says-hes-distressed-by-villainization-of-police-and-of-robert-e-lee",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_13",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_269",
"news_800"
],
"featImg": "news_11826311",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11826281": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11826281",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11826281",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1593166024000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1593166024,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "BART Board Passes Budget, Including Initiative to Refocus Police Force",
"title": "BART Board Passes Budget, Including Initiative to Refocus Police Force",
"headTitle": "KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>The BART board of directors has approved its first budget of the coronavirus era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency's spending plan tries to avoid layoffs while negotiating the vast uncertainty surrounding the economy and ridership in the wake of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spending blueprint — $915 million for day-to-day operations and $1.5 billion for long-term capital projects for the fiscal year beginning July 1 — includes a provision added during Thursday’s meeting that could lead to a major shift in how the transit agency polices its system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment, offered by San Francisco board member Bevan Dufty, commits the district \"to undertake a rigorous stakeholder process on new approaches that emphasize responding to homelessness, behavioral health and substance use without relying on armed police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That stakeholder process is to start immediately, with agency management and the board engaging with the community to develop police reform proposals that could be voted on as early as October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty said that the change needs to be part of the nationwide reassessment of institutional racism in the wake of the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment where we face two unprecedented challenges in our country — of a pandemic and really seeing how deep racism and racist practices are embedded in this nation,” Dufty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Francisco Supervisor said that while the words of his resolution may not line up completely with public calls to defund police forces, “the reality is we have made some grievous mistakes, and we have asked the men and women who are police officers to solve problems they don’t have any of the tools to solve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board passed the budget with Dufty’s amendment by a vote of 7-2, with Directors Debora Allen and Liz Ames voting no. That vote overrode two motions that each of the dissenting directors had made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ames had proposed directing management to come up with $100 million in bond funds and grants to expedite replacement of BART’s roughly 750 fare gates, a project designed to make it tougher to get on trains without paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen has complained for months that BART management has failed to adequately cut its budget to reflect the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in fare and tax revenue during the pandemic. She put forward a last-minute amendment to cut $51 million from the ‘20-21 operating budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen pointed out that despite the crisis and a projected 65% decline in fare receipts in the coming year, the $915 million operating budget actually represents an increase from this year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it’s just common sense and our fiduciary duty to look for ways to cut our operating expenses over this next year, to at least make some effort to bring our operating expenses down some to meet our substantial decrease in revenue,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen offered no specific suggestions about where she’d find the $51 million in cuts she proposed. Salary and benefits are by far the agency’s biggest single line item, representing about 70% of the operating budget. A deep cut would likely mean extensive layoffs or furloughs, a step BART management and the board majority have resisted as one that would damage the agency’s ability to restore service when passengers return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A presentation earlier in the meeting underlined just how much remains uncertain about when more riders will come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An email survey of previous BART riders conducted in May showed just 15% of customers were still using the system. Just 8% were riding three or more days per week. Those numbers square with the agency’s reported ridership numbers, which have rebounded from their mid-April nadir but remain nearly 90% below pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found fewer than half of those who stopped riding BART said they were “very likely” to ride again. Another 25% said they were “somewhat likely” to get back on trains. The main reasons cited for the reluctance to ride: a variety of concerns over a possible lack of social distancing, failure of other patrons to wear masks and the cleanliness of trains and stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also troubling for a district heavily dependent on fares to balance its budget is that survey respondents also indicate that even when they do start taking BART again, they won't ride the system as often as they have in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the large group who said they were not riding BART during shelter in place, 45% said they had used the system 5 days a week prior to the pandemic. Going forward, just 25% said they would use the trains that often, while 48% said they would ride just a day or two a week or even less frequently.\u003c/p>\n\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "11826281 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11826281",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/26/bart-board-passes-budget-including-initiative-to-refocus-police-force/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 823,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 21
},
"modified": 1593211087,
"excerpt": "The spending blueprint avoids layoffs as transit agency continues to deal with devastating loss of revenue. A last-minute amendment commits the district to develop police reform plans over the next 90 days. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "The spending blueprint avoids layoffs as transit agency continues to deal with devastating loss of revenue. A last-minute amendment commits the district to develop police reform plans over the next 90 days. ",
"title": "BART Board Passes Budget, Including Initiative to Refocus Police Force | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "BART Board Passes Budget, Including Initiative to Refocus Police Force",
"datePublished": "2020-06-26T03:07:04-07:00",
"dateModified": "2020-06-26T15:38:07-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "bart-board-passes-budget-including-initiative-to-refocus-police-force",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/11826281/bart-board-passes-budget-including-initiative-to-refocus-police-force",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The BART board of directors has approved its first budget of the coronavirus era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency's spending plan tries to avoid layoffs while negotiating the vast uncertainty surrounding the economy and ridership in the wake of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spending blueprint — $915 million for day-to-day operations and $1.5 billion for long-term capital projects for the fiscal year beginning July 1 — includes a provision added during Thursday’s meeting that could lead to a major shift in how the transit agency polices its system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment, offered by San Francisco board member Bevan Dufty, commits the district \"to undertake a rigorous stakeholder process on new approaches that emphasize responding to homelessness, behavioral health and substance use without relying on armed police.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That stakeholder process is to start immediately, with agency management and the board engaging with the community to develop police reform proposals that could be voted on as early as October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dufty said that the change needs to be part of the nationwide reassessment of institutional racism in the wake of the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment where we face two unprecedented challenges in our country — of a pandemic and really seeing how deep racism and racist practices are embedded in this nation,” Dufty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former San Francisco Supervisor said that while the words of his resolution may not line up completely with public calls to defund police forces, “the reality is we have made some grievous mistakes, and we have asked the men and women who are police officers to solve problems they don’t have any of the tools to solve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board passed the budget with Dufty’s amendment by a vote of 7-2, with Directors Debora Allen and Liz Ames voting no. That vote overrode two motions that each of the dissenting directors had made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ames had proposed directing management to come up with $100 million in bond funds and grants to expedite replacement of BART’s roughly 750 fare gates, a project designed to make it tougher to get on trains without paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen has complained for months that BART management has failed to adequately cut its budget to reflect the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in fare and tax revenue during the pandemic. She put forward a last-minute amendment to cut $51 million from the ‘20-21 operating budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen pointed out that despite the crisis and a projected 65% decline in fare receipts in the coming year, the $915 million operating budget actually represents an increase from this year’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me, it’s just common sense and our fiduciary duty to look for ways to cut our operating expenses over this next year, to at least make some effort to bring our operating expenses down some to meet our substantial decrease in revenue,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen offered no specific suggestions about where she’d find the $51 million in cuts she proposed. Salary and benefits are by far the agency’s biggest single line item, representing about 70% of the operating budget. A deep cut would likely mean extensive layoffs or furloughs, a step BART management and the board majority have resisted as one that would damage the agency’s ability to restore service when passengers return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A presentation earlier in the meeting underlined just how much remains uncertain about when more riders will come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An email survey of previous BART riders conducted in May showed just 15% of customers were still using the system. Just 8% were riding three or more days per week. Those numbers square with the agency’s reported ridership numbers, which have rebounded from their mid-April nadir but remain nearly 90% below pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found fewer than half of those who stopped riding BART said they were “very likely” to ride again. Another 25% said they were “somewhat likely” to get back on trains. The main reasons cited for the reluctance to ride: a variety of concerns over a possible lack of social distancing, failure of other patrons to wear masks and the cleanliness of trains and stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also troubling for a district heavily dependent on fares to balance its budget is that survey respondents also indicate that even when they do start taking BART again, they won't ride the system as often as they have in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the large group who said they were not riding BART during shelter in place, 45% said they had used the system 5 days a week prior to the pandemic. Going forward, just 25% said they would use the trains that often, while 48% said they would ride just a day or two a week or even less frequently.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11826281/bart-board-passes-budget-including-initiative-to-refocus-police-force",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_269",
"news_27504",
"news_116",
"news_2684"
],
"featImg": "news_11826282",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11824758": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11824758",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11824758",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1592492415000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1592492415,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "How COVID-19 Hit Bay Area Public Transit Hard — and What That Means for You",
"title": "How COVID-19 Hit Bay Area Public Transit Hard — and What That Means for You",
"headTitle": "KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Skip to the Bay Area public transit you use: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#muni\">San Francisco Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Ferry Service\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no other way to put it: Bay Area transit agencies are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit, many businesses told employees to work from home. Local public health authorities mandated that non-essential workers stay home, too. Ridership on all Bay Area public transit systems plummeted as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies have struggled to maintain basic service, keep riders and workers safe and avoid mass layoffs. An infusion of emergency aid from the federal government allowed transit systems to survive, but getting back to “normal” is still far in the future. “We are now facing the complete economic devastation that is the aftermath of this pandemic,” San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin said on Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101877803/how-covid-19-is-changing-public-transit\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Safety?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Transit operators have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue since shelter-at-home orders were imposed in March. One of the major challenges they face now is convincing patrons that it’s safe to ride again, even with the coronavirus pandemic still simmering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s some evidence that transit isn’t to blame for as much transmission of the coronavirus as authorities and the riding public might believe. Studies of outbreaks in various cities around the world have not detected infection clusters linked to public transportation. And a new article from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/fear-transit-bad-cities/612979/\">The Atlantic\u003c/a> notes that the incidence of COVID-19 has been low in one of the world’s most crowded, transit-reliant cities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If transit itself were a global super-spreader, then a large outbreak would have been expected in Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people dependent on a public transportation system that, before the pandemic, was carrying \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/transport.pdf\">12.9 million people a day\u003c/a>. Ridership there … fell considerably less than in other transit systems around the world. Yet Hong Kong has recorded only about \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html\">1,100 COVID-19 cases\u003c/a>, one-tenth the number in Kansas, which has fewer than half as many people. Replicating Hong Kong’s success may involve safety measures, such as mask wearing, that are not yet ingrained in the U.S., but the evidence only underscores that the coronavirus can spread outside of transit and dense urban environments—which are not inherently harmful.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for a status report on the Bay Area’s biggest public transit providers, and see how your local service is being impacted — whether that's\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"#muni\">SF Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Bay Area ferries\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> or \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've also got a look at \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#next\">what could be next\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"muni\">\u003c/a>San Francisco Muni\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus stops in front of the nightclub Bruno's, which has a sign that reads, 'Save Lives. Stay Home,' on Mission Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muni has suspended its cable cars, streetcars and subway and light-rail lines — in addition to canceling service on 70 of 89 bus routes. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/muni-service-changes-starting-june-13\">some service is returning\u003c/a>, with a total of 25 lines running. Tumlin says the current all-bus system is safer because vehicles can operate with windows open, which circulates fresh air and reduces the chance of virus transmission on vehicles. However, he says maintaining 6 feet of social distancing on buses translates into an unsustainable 80% reduction in system capacity that will limit the agency's ability to resume more service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Jeffrey Tumlin, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\"]'Our financial reality is that all of our sources of revenue are down by 30 to 100%, and many of those will not be coming back for a long time.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our financial reality is that all of our sources of revenue are down by 30 to 100%, and many of those will not be coming back for a long time,” Tumlin said. That means he doesn’t expect Muni will be able to restore all the lines it suspended for up to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the financial calamity that’s affecting so many households across the nation, and is also affecting every public agency,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Muni is doing everything it can to make buses safe to ride and to operate. Drivers have protective barriers, wear masks and keep the windows down to increase air circulation. Most buses have rear boarding to facilitate passengers spreading out. The buses are cleaned and sterilized at the end of every shift, about three times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And as far as we know, there are no cases of passengers having contracted COVID-19 on Muni,” Tumlin said. He added that there have been just 14 COVID-19 cases among the agency’s 6,000 employees, and all have recovered. None of those are believed to have contracted the virus in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='coronavirus']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has also revealed interesting equity patterns in ridership. Some lines, like those that run along Mission and out to Visitacion Valley have ridership levels almost at pre-pandemic levels. Muni has been adding service in those areas to reduce congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID has revealed the geography of essential workers,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin also noted that the SFMTA was not allowed to work on any street projects during shelter-in-place, which set the city back in terms of infrastructure to support biking and walking as alternatives to public transportation. However, the agency has closed streets like the Great Highway, Page, Shotwell and Sanchez to traffic — part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program\">Slow Streets program\u003c/a> — in order to make more safe spaces for residents to get outside and move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our next step is to try and knit those pilot projects together, filling in critical gaps, to allow most San Franciscans on their own steam, to get to work, to get groceries, etc,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Jeffrey Tumlin, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\"]'Our next step is to try and knit those pilot projects together, filling in critical gaps, to allow most San Franciscans on their own steam, to get to work, to get groceries, etc,.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA is considering a massive network of protected bike lanes that could help make many more San Franciscans feel safer getting around by bike, scooter or on foot. He said they are beginning the political process to get approval for such a plan, but noted similar efforts in the past have come up against stiff pushback from citizens that don’t like change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people wonder how agencies like Muni and BART will enforce safety protocols like mask-wearing. Tumlin acknowledges this is a delicate matter. Right now, most agencies do not want their frontline workers confronting passengers in order to make them wear masks. Tumlin says Muni drivers have even been assaulted when they tried to shame passengers into wearing masks. And the conversation about mask enforcement comes in the middle of a national reckoning with policing, making the matter even more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"bart\">\u003c/a>BART\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11806560 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on March 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART ridership, which averaged over 400,000 people per weekday in pre-pandemic times, dropped to the low 20,000s in April. It has inched up to about 40,000 now — but that's still 90% of its former level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the agency depends heavily on fare dollars for daily operations, BART, too, slashed service on both its weekday and weekend schedules. The system is currently open from 5 a.m. through 9 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. And instead of running trains every 15 minutes on each of its five lines, it cut service to once every 30 minutes, effectively cutting the number of trains it runs by half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, like others, is working hard to persuade riders it is safe to return to the trains. It has a \u003ca href=\"https://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/BOMAsf/attach/BART_15_StepWelcomeBackFactSheet.pdf\">15-point plan \u003c/a>to ensure the safety of passengers, including things like fogging the trains every night, sanitizing all touch points at the end of every run, using the longest trains possible so riders can spread out and requiring masks. Some “Forum” listeners commented, though, that they haven’t seen much enforcement of the mask requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one sign of recovery: BART responded to increased ridership on its “Yellow” line, from Antioch to San Francisco International Airport, and has added trains in both the morning and afternoon between Pleasant Hill and Daly City. The new trains restore the former 15-minute headways between Pleasant Hill and the West Bay from 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. and from 3:40 p.m. to 5:10 p.m. weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"actransit\">\u003c/a>AC Transit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-121589 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7039_AC_Transit_14oct2013_0217_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit bus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AC Transit has not suffered quite the ridership loss that Muni has experienced, with patronage falling a maximum of about 83% in April and rebounding to a 72% loss by the end of May. But like Muni, the East Bay operator is running an essentially free service, with riders required to board through rear doors to maintain physical distancing from drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is running a Sunday schedule on its East Bay lines and is operating just three of its nearly 30 transbay routes — the F from Berkeley and Emeryville, the O from Fruitvale BART and Alameda and the NL from East Oakland. Popular routes like the double-decker J line through Berkeley are sidelined indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ferry\">\u003c/a>Ferry Service\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765444 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-1200x858.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond ferry terminal at the Craneway Pavilion, July 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents say the ferries are their favorite mode of public transit, but a 98% to 99% loss in ridership has forced both San Francisco Bay Ferry and Golden Gate Transit to suspend some service and significantly cut runs that continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are starting to turn around. S.F. Bay Ferry has restored some runs on its popular Vallejo-San Francisco route, and it resumed service Monday on its Richmond-San Francisco route with five weekday runs each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One piece of good news on the ferry front is that more money may be on the way to help facilitate S.F. Bay Ferry’s planned expansion. Regional Measure 3, a 2018 bridge toll increase to raise funds for dozens of regional transportation projects, would provide $300 million for the system. A lawsuit challenging the measure — and blocking release of funds — lost in San Francisco Superior Court and is now on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"caltrain\">\u003c/a>Caltrain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11472079\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11472079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain locomotives at San Francisco's Fourth Street/Townsend station. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/8hnHZ\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Lappin\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltrain is in an even more precarious situation than other local transit agencies because it has no local tax revenue to help fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is discussion of a one-eighth cent sales tax in counties that Caltrain serves on the November ballot, which would help. However, during the pandemic Caltrain cut down to run fewer than 50 trains, about half of normal. Recently they’ve increased service to around 70 trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"next\">\u003c/a>So... What's Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 24th Street BART Station in San Francisco on March 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All the local transit agencies are appealing for more federal funds to get them through the next few years. Without it, most agencies won’t be able to afford to return to pre-pandemic levels of service, especially because new cleaning and distancing rules cost money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener from San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\">introduced legislation\u003c/a> that would allow local agencies with readily available funds to use them quickly, sidestepping the often cumbersome and drawn out California Environmental Quality Act process. That bill has only just begun to make its way through the legislative process, and wouldn’t produce change until September or October at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "11824758 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11824758",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/18/how-coronavirus-is-affecting-public-transit-and-what-that-means-for-you/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 2008,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 38
},
"modified": 1610569205,
"excerpt": "From BART and Muni to Caltrain and the ferry, COVID-19's impact on Bay Area public transit has been stark. What does that mean for you, and what's next? ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "From BART and Muni to Caltrain and the ferry, COVID-19's impact on Bay Area public transit has been stark. What does that mean for you, and what's next?",
"title": "How COVID-19 Hit Bay Area Public Transit Hard — and What That Means for You | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "How COVID-19 Hit Bay Area Public Transit Hard — and What That Means for You",
"datePublished": "2020-06-18T08:00:15-07:00",
"dateModified": "2021-01-13T12:20:05-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "how-coronavirus-is-affecting-public-transit-and-what-that-means-for-you",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/11824758/how-coronavirus-is-affecting-public-transit-and-what-that-means-for-you",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Skip to the Bay Area public transit you use: \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#muni\">San Francisco Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Ferry Service\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>There’s no other way to put it: Bay Area transit agencies are struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the coronavirus pandemic hit, many businesses told employees to work from home. Local public health authorities mandated that non-essential workers stay home, too. Ridership on all Bay Area public transit systems plummeted as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agencies have struggled to maintain basic service, keep riders and workers safe and avoid mass layoffs. An infusion of emergency aid from the federal government allowed transit systems to survive, but getting back to “normal” is still far in the future. “We are now facing the complete economic devastation that is the aftermath of this pandemic,” San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Director of Transportation Jeffrey Tumlin said on Tuesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101877803/how-covid-19-is-changing-public-transit\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What About Safety?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Transit operators have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue since shelter-at-home orders were imposed in March. One of the major challenges they face now is convincing patrons that it’s safe to ride again, even with the coronavirus pandemic still simmering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s some evidence that transit isn’t to blame for as much transmission of the coronavirus as authorities and the riding public might believe. Studies of outbreaks in various cities around the world have not detected infection clusters linked to public transportation. And a new article from \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/fear-transit-bad-cities/612979/\">The Atlantic\u003c/a> notes that the incidence of COVID-19 has been low in one of the world’s most crowded, transit-reliant cities:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If transit itself were a global super-spreader, then a large outbreak would have been expected in Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people dependent on a public transportation system that, before the pandemic, was carrying \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/transport.pdf\">12.9 million people a day\u003c/a>. Ridership there … fell considerably less than in other transit systems around the world. Yet Hong Kong has recorded only about \u003ca href=\"https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html\">1,100 COVID-19 cases\u003c/a>, one-tenth the number in Kansas, which has fewer than half as many people. Replicating Hong Kong’s success may involve safety measures, such as mask wearing, that are not yet ingrained in the U.S., but the evidence only underscores that the coronavirus can spread outside of transit and dense urban environments—which are not inherently harmful.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scroll down for a status report on the Bay Area’s biggest public transit providers, and see how your local service is being impacted — whether that's\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"#muni\">SF Muni\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#bart\">BART\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#actransit\">AC Transit\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#ferry\">Bay Area ferries\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> or \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#caltrain\">Caltrain\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We've also got a look at \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#next\">what could be next\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"muni\">\u003c/a>San Francisco Muni\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42247_009_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9551-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus stops in front of the nightclub Bruno's, which has a sign that reads, 'Save Lives. Stay Home,' on Mission Street in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muni has suspended its cable cars, streetcars and subway and light-rail lines — in addition to canceling service on 70 of 89 bus routes. Now, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/blog/muni-service-changes-starting-june-13\">some service is returning\u003c/a>, with a total of 25 lines running. Tumlin says the current all-bus system is safer because vehicles can operate with windows open, which circulates fresh air and reduces the chance of virus transmission on vehicles. However, he says maintaining 6 feet of social distancing on buses translates into an unsustainable 80% reduction in system capacity that will limit the agency's ability to resume more service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "'Our financial reality is that all of our sources of revenue are down by 30 to 100%, and many of those will not be coming back for a long time.'",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"size": "medium",
"align": "left",
"citation": "Jeffrey Tumlin, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our financial reality is that all of our sources of revenue are down by 30 to 100%, and many of those will not be coming back for a long time,” Tumlin said. That means he doesn’t expect Muni will be able to restore all the lines it suspended for up to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the financial calamity that’s affecting so many households across the nation, and is also affecting every public agency,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Muni is doing everything it can to make buses safe to ride and to operate. Drivers have protective barriers, wear masks and keep the windows down to increase air circulation. Most buses have rear boarding to facilitate passengers spreading out. The buses are cleaned and sterilized at the end of every shift, about three times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And as far as we know, there are no cases of passengers having contracted COVID-19 on Muni,” Tumlin said. He added that there have been just 14 COVID-19 cases among the agency’s 6,000 employees, and all have recovered. None of those are believed to have contracted the virus in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "Related Coverage ",
"tag": "coronavirus"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic has also revealed interesting equity patterns in ridership. Some lines, like those that run along Mission and out to Visitacion Valley have ridership levels almost at pre-pandemic levels. Muni has been adding service in those areas to reduce congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID has revealed the geography of essential workers,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin also noted that the SFMTA was not allowed to work on any street projects during shelter-in-place, which set the city back in terms of infrastructure to support biking and walking as alternatives to public transportation. However, the agency has closed streets like the Great Highway, Page, Shotwell and Sanchez to traffic — part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program\">Slow Streets program\u003c/a> — in order to make more safe spaces for residents to get outside and move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our next step is to try and knit those pilot projects together, filling in critical gaps, to allow most San Franciscans on their own steam, to get to work, to get groceries, etc,” Tumlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "'Our next step is to try and knit those pilot projects together, filling in critical gaps, to allow most San Franciscans on their own steam, to get to work, to get groceries, etc,.'",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"size": "medium",
"align": "left",
"citation": "Jeffrey Tumlin, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA is considering a massive network of protected bike lanes that could help make many more San Franciscans feel safer getting around by bike, scooter or on foot. He said they are beginning the political process to get approval for such a plan, but noted similar efforts in the past have come up against stiff pushback from citizens that don’t like change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people wonder how agencies like Muni and BART will enforce safety protocols like mask-wearing. Tumlin acknowledges this is a delicate matter. Right now, most agencies do not want their frontline workers confronting passengers in order to make them wear masks. Tumlin says Muni drivers have even been assaulted when they tried to shame passengers into wearing masks. And the conversation about mask enforcement comes in the middle of a national reckoning with policing, making the matter even more complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"bart\">\u003c/a>BART\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11806560\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11806560 size-full\" style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; color: #767676;\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2020.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS41952_002_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6485-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mostly empty BART train travels from Oakland to San Francisco on March 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART ridership, which averaged over 400,000 people per weekday in pre-pandemic times, dropped to the low 20,000s in April. It has inched up to about 40,000 now — but that's still 90% of its former level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the agency depends heavily on fare dollars for daily operations, BART, too, slashed service on both its weekday and weekend schedules. The system is currently open from 5 a.m. through 9 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. And instead of running trains every 15 minutes on each of its five lines, it cut service to once every 30 minutes, effectively cutting the number of trains it runs by half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, like others, is working hard to persuade riders it is safe to return to the trains. It has a \u003ca href=\"https://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/BOMAsf/attach/BART_15_StepWelcomeBackFactSheet.pdf\">15-point plan \u003c/a>to ensure the safety of passengers, including things like fogging the trains every night, sanitizing all touch points at the end of every run, using the longest trains possible so riders can spread out and requiring masks. Some “Forum” listeners commented, though, that they haven’t seen much enforcement of the mask requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one sign of recovery: BART responded to increased ridership on its “Yellow” line, from Antioch to San Francisco International Airport, and has added trains in both the morning and afternoon between Pleasant Hill and Daly City. The new trains restore the former 15-minute headways between Pleasant Hill and the West Bay from 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. and from 3:40 p.m. to 5:10 p.m. weekdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"actransit\">\u003c/a>AC Transit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-121589 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7039_AC_Transit_14oct2013_0217_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An AC Transit bus in downtown Oakland. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AC Transit has not suffered quite the ridership loss that Muni has experienced, with patronage falling a maximum of about 83% in April and rebounding to a 72% loss by the end of May. But like Muni, the East Bay operator is running an essentially free service, with riders required to board through rear doors to maintain physical distancing from drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is running a Sunday schedule on its East Bay lines and is operating just three of its nearly 30 transbay routes — the F from Berkeley and Emeryville, the O from Fruitvale BART and Alameda and the NL from East Oakland. Popular routes like the double-decker J line through Berkeley are sidelined indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"ferry\">\u003c/a>Ferry Service\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11765444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11765444 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-800x572.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-1020x729.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/richmondferry190729a-1200x858.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Richmond ferry terminal at the Craneway Pavilion, July 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents say the ferries are their favorite mode of public transit, but a 98% to 99% loss in ridership has forced both San Francisco Bay Ferry and Golden Gate Transit to suspend some service and significantly cut runs that continue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But things are starting to turn around. S.F. Bay Ferry has restored some runs on its popular Vallejo-San Francisco route, and it resumed service Monday on its Richmond-San Francisco route with five weekday runs each way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One piece of good news on the ferry front is that more money may be on the way to help facilitate S.F. Bay Ferry’s planned expansion. Regional Measure 3, a 2018 bridge toll increase to raise funds for dozens of regional transportation projects, would provide $300 million for the system. A lawsuit challenging the measure — and blocking release of funds — lost in San Francisco Superior Court and is now on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"caltrain\">\u003c/a>Caltrain\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11472079\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11472079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1.jpg 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/82410343_248ff2bc0e_o-1-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain locomotives at San Francisco's Fourth Street/Townsend station. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/8hnHZ\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Lappin\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caltrain is in an even more precarious situation than other local transit agencies because it has no local tax revenue to help fund it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is discussion of a one-eighth cent sales tax in counties that Caltrain serves on the November ballot, which would help. However, during the pandemic Caltrain cut down to run fewer than 50 trains, about half of normal. Recently they’ve increased service to around 70 trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"next\">\u003c/a>So... What's Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814270\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11814270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 24th Street BART Station in San Francisco on March 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All the local transit agencies are appealing for more federal funds to get them through the next few years. Without it, most agencies won’t be able to afford to return to pre-pandemic levels of service, especially because new cleaning and distancing rules cost money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener from San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\">introduced legislation\u003c/a> that would allow local agencies with readily available funds to use them quickly, sidestepping the often cumbersome and drawn out California Environmental Quality Act process. That bill has only just begun to make its way through the legislative process, and wouldn’t produce change until September or October at the earliest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11824758/how-coronavirus-is-affecting-public-transit-and-what-that-means-for-you",
"authors": [
"234",
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_2505",
"news_269",
"news_510",
"news_27350",
"news_29029",
"news_27504",
"news_27645",
"news_320",
"news_27808",
"news_20887"
],
"featImg": "news_11824763",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11824913": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11824913",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11824913",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1592436116000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "two-iconic-california-trains-face-schedule-cuts-as-pandemic-slows-long-distance-travel",
"title": "Two Iconic California Trains Face Schedule Cuts as Pandemic Slows Long-Distance Travel",
"publishDate": 1592436116,
"format": "image",
"headTitle": "Two Iconic California Trains Face Schedule Cuts as Pandemic Slows Long-Distance Travel | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and California Zephyr, favorites for generations of railfans and others traveling up and down the West Coast and across the country, will be cut to three days a week from its current daily schedule starting Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those service reductions — among many the national passenger rail service will impose in response to the loss of ridership during the coronavirus pandemic — were announced earlier this week in \u003ca href=\"https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/intercity/amtrak-slashing-service-will-it-be-permanent/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a memo to Amtrak employees\u003c/a> from one of the agency’s senior executives. The memo said the cuts are likely to result in layoffs or furloughs for workers on the long-distance trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other transportation services large and small, from airlines to ride-hailing services to rental car companies to public transit, Amtrak has suffered a devastating loss of ridership and revenue as Americans have curtailed travel during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Amtrak-Supplemental-FY21-Funding-Letter-to-Congress-Final-Signed-5.25.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter to congressional leaders\u003c/a> last month, Amtrak CEO William Flynn said overall ridership had fallen 95% across the agency’s rail network, resulting in a $1.7 billion decline in revenue compared to fiscal 2019 — the last full budget year without a pandemic. Flynn said the agency forecasts a 50% ridership decline nationwide, from 32 million to 16 million, during the 12 months starting Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the California Zephyr, which runs from Emeryville to Chicago, and Coast Starlight, which runs from Los Angeles to Seattle and has several Bay Area stops, the cuts will affect the Capitol Limited (Washington, D.C.-Chicago); the City of New Orleans (Chicago-New Orleans); Crescent (New York-Atlanta-New Orleans); Empire Builder (Chicago-Twin Cities-Seattle); Lake Shore Limited (New York-Chicago); Palmetto (New York-Savannah); Southwest Chief (Chicago-Los Angeles); and Texas Eagle (Chicago-San Antonio).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other long-distance trains, the Sunset Limited (New Orleans-Los Angeles) and Cardinal (New York-Cincinnati-Chicago) already operate three times a week. Amtrak said its Auto Train, which runs from the Washington, D.C., suburbs to the Orlando, Florida, area, is the only long-distance route that will continue to operate daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak has already suspended or reduced service on many state-supported regional routes, including California’s Capitol Corridor and San Joaquin trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the long-distance trains have continued to operate with only minimal changes since shelter-at-home orders began to be imposed across the nation in March. One exception: Service on the California Zephyr west of Denver was \u003ca href=\"https://evilleeye.com/news-commentary/amtrak-employees-positive-covid-19-diagnosis-temporarily-suspends-california-zephyr-service/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspended for two weeks\u003c/a> at the end of March after an Amtrak employee tested positive for the coronavirus and other workers on the line were required to go into self-quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said Wednesday that the service cuts will remain in place until at least the summer of 2021. Daily service on the long-distance routes could be restored if demand improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mathews, president and chief executive of the Rail Passengers Association advocacy group, said he thinks the cuts are shortsighted and will hurt long-term demand for these routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The long-distance services declined the least among Amtrak’s three business lines during the coronavirus-induced slowdown, and its services remain essential to the hundreds of small communities across the United States with fewer options than Philadelphia or Boston or New York City,” Mathews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said earlier this year it hoped to avoid layoffs. But this week’s memo, from Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer Roger Harris, and reported in Railway Age, signaled that workforce reductions are coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize these changes will impact our employees who support the Long-Distance Service Line,” Harris wrote. “… We still have work to do to determine how that will impact the employees who support this work. We are sensitive to the uncertainty that this announcement brings to our Long-Distance team. We will work quickly to determine what staffing reductions or furloughs will occur, and we will communicate these changes to you as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Amtrak announces that the Coast Starlight and California Zephyr, popular with generations of West Coast railfans, will run just three times a week instead of daily. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721125374,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 16,
"wordCount": 678
},
"headData": {
"title": "Two Iconic California Trains Face Schedule Cuts as Pandemic Slows Long-Distance Travel | KQED",
"description": "Amtrak announces that the Coast Starlight and California Zephyr, popular with generations of West Coast railfans, will run just three times a week instead of daily. ",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Two Iconic California Trains Face Schedule Cuts as Pandemic Slows Long-Distance Travel",
"datePublished": "2020-06-17T16:21:56-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T03:22:54-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/11824913/two-iconic-california-trains-face-schedule-cuts-as-pandemic-slows-long-distance-travel",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and California Zephyr, favorites for generations of railfans and others traveling up and down the West Coast and across the country, will be cut to three days a week from its current daily schedule starting Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those service reductions — among many the national passenger rail service will impose in response to the loss of ridership during the coronavirus pandemic — were announced earlier this week in \u003ca href=\"https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/intercity/amtrak-slashing-service-will-it-be-permanent/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a memo to Amtrak employees\u003c/a> from one of the agency’s senior executives. The memo said the cuts are likely to result in layoffs or furloughs for workers on the long-distance trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other transportation services large and small, from airlines to ride-hailing services to rental car companies to public transit, Amtrak has suffered a devastating loss of ridership and revenue as Americans have curtailed travel during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Amtrak-Supplemental-FY21-Funding-Letter-to-Congress-Final-Signed-5.25.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a letter to congressional leaders\u003c/a> last month, Amtrak CEO William Flynn said overall ridership had fallen 95% across the agency’s rail network, resulting in a $1.7 billion decline in revenue compared to fiscal 2019 — the last full budget year without a pandemic. Flynn said the agency forecasts a 50% ridership decline nationwide, from 32 million to 16 million, during the 12 months starting Oct. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the California Zephyr, which runs from Emeryville to Chicago, and Coast Starlight, which runs from Los Angeles to Seattle and has several Bay Area stops, the cuts will affect the Capitol Limited (Washington, D.C.-Chicago); the City of New Orleans (Chicago-New Orleans); Crescent (New York-Atlanta-New Orleans); Empire Builder (Chicago-Twin Cities-Seattle); Lake Shore Limited (New York-Chicago); Palmetto (New York-Savannah); Southwest Chief (Chicago-Los Angeles); and Texas Eagle (Chicago-San Antonio).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other long-distance trains, the Sunset Limited (New Orleans-Los Angeles) and Cardinal (New York-Cincinnati-Chicago) already operate three times a week. Amtrak said its Auto Train, which runs from the Washington, D.C., suburbs to the Orlando, Florida, area, is the only long-distance route that will continue to operate daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak has already suspended or reduced service on many state-supported regional routes, including California’s Capitol Corridor and San Joaquin trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the long-distance trains have continued to operate with only minimal changes since shelter-at-home orders began to be imposed across the nation in March. One exception: Service on the California Zephyr west of Denver was \u003ca href=\"https://evilleeye.com/news-commentary/amtrak-employees-positive-covid-19-diagnosis-temporarily-suspends-california-zephyr-service/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suspended for two weeks\u003c/a> at the end of March after an Amtrak employee tested positive for the coronavirus and other workers on the line were required to go into self-quarantine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods said Wednesday that the service cuts will remain in place until at least the summer of 2021. Daily service on the long-distance routes could be restored if demand improves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Mathews, president and chief executive of the Rail Passengers Association advocacy group, said he thinks the cuts are shortsighted and will hurt long-term demand for these routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The long-distance services declined the least among Amtrak’s three business lines during the coronavirus-induced slowdown, and its services remain essential to the hundreds of small communities across the United States with fewer options than Philadelphia or Boston or New York City,” Mathews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency said earlier this year it hoped to avoid layoffs. But this week’s memo, from Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer Roger Harris, and reported in Railway Age, signaled that workforce reductions are coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize these changes will impact our employees who support the Long-Distance Service Line,” Harris wrote. “… We still have work to do to determine how that will impact the employees who support this work. We are sensitive to the uncertainty that this announcement brings to our Long-Distance team. We will work quickly to determine what staffing reductions or furloughs will occur, and we will communicate these changes to you as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11824913/two-iconic-california-trains-face-schedule-cuts-as-pandemic-slows-long-distance-travel",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_1970",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_11824922",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11824004": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11824004",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11824004",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1591908044000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news",
"term": 18515
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1591908044,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "To Protect & Swerve",
"title": "To Protect & Swerve",
"headTitle": "Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>After it was announced that \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioresfpdmuni\">Muni will no longer take cops to anti-police brutality protests\u003c/a>, SFPD said, \"we've adjusted our transportation and operations accordingly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe they can just carpool next time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is jarring to see numerous tactically-attired officers carrying weapons pour out of a bus that in normal times carries regular ol' citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2019/01/1-29-19_item_6_cao_workshop_slide_presentation.pdf\">The People's Railway\u003c/a>\" shouldn't be hijacked for police purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "11824004 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11824004",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/06/11/to-protect-swerve/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 70,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 6
},
"modified": 1606777386,
"excerpt": "After it was announced that Muni will no longer take cops to anti-police brutality protests, SFPD said, 'we've adjusted our transportation and operations accordingly.'",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "After it was announced that Muni will no longer take cops to anti-police brutality protests, SFPD said, 'we've adjusted our transportation and operations accordingly.'",
"title": "To Protect & Swerve | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "To Protect & Swerve",
"datePublished": "2020-06-11T13:40:44-07:00",
"dateModified": "2020-11-30T15:03:06-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "to-protect-swerve",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/11824004/to-protect-swerve",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After it was announced that \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fioresfpdmuni\">Muni will no longer take cops to anti-police brutality protests\u003c/a>, SFPD said, \"we've adjusted our transportation and operations accordingly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe they can just carpool next time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is jarring to see numerous tactically-attired officers carrying weapons pour out of a bus that in normal times carries regular ol' citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2019/01/1-29-19_item_6_cao_workshop_slide_presentation.pdf\">The People's Railway\u003c/a>\" shouldn't be hijacked for police purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11824004/to-protect-swerve",
"authors": [
"3236"
],
"series": [
"news_18515"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_13",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_20949",
"news_28089",
"news_18046",
"news_1764",
"news_4096",
"news_545",
"news_1334",
"news_20331"
],
"featImg": "news_11824013",
"label": "news_18515"
},
"news_11823807": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11823807",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11823807",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1591820237000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "muni-will-no-longer-take-cops-to-anti-police-brutality-protests",
"title": "Muni Will No Longer Take Cops to Anti-Police Brutality Protests",
"publishDate": 1591820237,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Muni Will No Longer Take Cops to Anti-Police Brutality Protests | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>Two Saturdays ago, demonstrators marching in San Francisco viewed a peculiar sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some police, clad in full riot gear, did not arrive at Union Square in police cars, sirens blazing. Nor did they ride in on motorcycles, bicycles or even those armored vehicles — the Lenco BearCat — that have been ubiquitous in demonstrations across the United States. Instead, they arrived the way 720,000 people once traveled to work in San Francisco every day (before COVID-19, anyway) — by Muni bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a public outcry and a quieter, internal rebellion by San Francisco’s own transportation agency employees, the years-long practice will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni buses will no longer transport police to political demonstrations about “police brutality,” the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni/status/1270391482080358407\">announced on Twitter\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a small rebellion by a transit agency against local police, and particularly poignant after decades of mistrust between black Americans and public transportation agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on a bus, after all, that Rosa Parks was met with racist orders to yield a seat to a white passenger in 1955 — and it was on a BART platform where Oscar Grant was shot and killed by a transit police officer as he lay unarmed on the ground in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by Muni leadership came after turmoil both public and behind closed doors. And there are no rules in Muni’s books to prevent the practice in the future — yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Infuriating’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lateefah Simon, president of the BART Board of Directors, is also a lifelong Muni rider. Growing up in San Francisco, Muni was part of the fabric of life: going to school, going to work and, yes, part of being arrested after a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, a young, junior high school-aged Simon took a 38-Geary Muni bus from Presidio Middle School to an anti-Iraq war protest downtown. When she was arrested, police tossed her and other demonstrators on a Muni bus bound for juvenile hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They sure did put us on a Muni bus,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the intervening decades, a movement in the transit community has risen to bring public transit onto the side of protesters and racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the George Floyd protests in May, one New York City bus driver inspired many in the world’s transit community. When detainees from a demonstration were loaded by the New York Police Department onto a city bus, the driver walked off, refusing to transport the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowds at Barclays Center, where the protesters were arrested, wildly cheered for the driver. The video went viral, and was viewed more than 12.5 million times as of June 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/berniebromanny/status/1266528183454699521\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here in the Bay Area, transit-lovers skewered Muni after watching social media videos of police in riot gear emerge from Muni buses to counter protesters. The driver did not walk off, and on social media the agency was perceived as against protesters demanding the defense of black lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those self-described transit “geeks” against the practice is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_DaveSquare\">David Sorrell\u003c/a>, a UC Berkeley transit administrator. Sorrell, who is black, told KQED his industry is predominantly white, male and of an older generation. Sorrell grew up in Chicago without access to a car, so his love of buses and trains grew from a young age. He saw the world from the window of a train. In that light, Sorrell called Muni transporting police to a local protest “infuriating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From an optics standpoint, and from a personal standpoint, it’s disappointing that the one thing that is supposed to connect our communities together is being used as a tool to stifle our freedoms of speech and assembly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorrell was not the only one to express outrage online. Chris Arvin is a prominent figure in the world of local transit lovers, known for his cherubic happy-faced bus and train art which he sells as pins and shirts online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshaling his thousands of online followers, Arvin blasted Muni for transporting police to protests. He noted that the agency was once dubbed “The People’s Railway” when it began in 1912, and should remain for the people — not cops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/chrisarvinsf/status/1267692093754896384\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During Sunday’s peaceful protest in support of black lives, I saw a police officer aim a rubber bullet gun directly at a woman who had her hands up,” Arvin told KQED. He also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chrisarvinsf/status/1270060589612544000\">tweeted a photo\u003c/a> of that moment. “Public transit buses should be solely for the benefit of riders, serving their transit needs, not to aid another agency in bringing weapons to a peaceful event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even SFPD hasn’t kicked up a fuss about the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize we are all in the midst of a difficult, emotionally charged time as we come to terms with painful truths about the kind of policing that took George Floyd’s life in Minneapolis,” SFPD Sgt. Michael Andraychak said in a statement. “SFPD’s commitment to the safety and First Amendment rights of those we serve remains undiminished, of course, and we’ve adjusted our transportation and operations accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some are already praising the decision publicly, the decision is actually a reversal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Major U-turn\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Only one week ago, Muni leadership said the agency would continue to transport police to demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the SFMTA Board of Directors during their public meeting last Tuesday, Jeffrey Tumlin, director of SFMTA, said he was surprised to learn Muni buses were used to transport police, which he only learned after a photo of a bus transporting police was tweeted by this KQED reporter. Tumlin was swiftly met with criticism by Muni riders and his own staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two days ago, I learned from social media that our Muni buses are being used to transport police officers. This is apparently something the agency has been doing for many years,” Tumlin told the SFMTA board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1267202232472068097\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then detailed some legacy of public transit and racism, including San Francisco planners’ historical erasure of black neighborhoods, labeled as “blight,” to erect new freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So as I work to try to reform the horrific history within my own industry, I need to honor (SFPD) Chief Bill Scott’s leadership for structural change within his,” Tumlin added. “We’re a city department just like SFPD. SFPD officers are our colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Tumlin voiced his support for police, the outrage on social media against Muni had quieted. Protesters redirected their energies to police clashes in San Francisco and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internally, staffers from various SFMTA departments voiced their outrage to Tumlin. The relatively new SFMTA director had started his tenure in 2019 with bold promises to correct his agency’s historic injustices against the black community, and his new stance on police threatened to turn those words into mere lip service in the eyes of his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voices within the department began to organize. In just a few days, Tumlin threw his agency into reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Never Again? Not So Fast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Already, some in the city are rebuking the agency for its new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey Muni, lose our number next time you need officers for fare evasion enforcement or removing problem passengers from your buses and trains,” the San Francisco Police Officers Association \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SanFranciscoPOA/status/1270741418336645120?s=20\">wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should pressure mount from the police union to restore service, there is no regulation on SFMTA’s books preventing them from transporting police, only the promise of its director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent Muni from being used as police transport in the future, the city’s charter or SFMTA’s own policies may need to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may be some support for such an action at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents the historically black Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, told KQED “I am not sure why SFMTA would be participating in militarizing our streets in these times of unrest and high tensions between community and law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some appetite to make this a permanent change at the SFMTA Board of Directors, which sets policy for the agency. Jane Natoli is a nominee by Mayor London Breed for an empty seat on the board, and is awaiting final approval for her seat by the Board of Supervisors. She called it “confirmation limbo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, should the board appoint her, Natoli said she would work to enshrine a policy so Muni no longer transports police to city protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SanFranciscoPOA/status/1270741418336645120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is something that as soon as I saw, I was just shocked,” Natoli said. “I think that that shows that our values aren’t necessarily aligned with our actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should no local leaders act, bus drivers themselves may be the last line against the practice. They drive these special service buses on a volunteer basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Marenco, president of Muni’s union, the Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, said his members value police when they help with assaults on bus drivers and understands the police’s desire to maintain peace at protests when break-ins occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called it a “delicate line.” But Marenco also used to drive a bus himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An officer taking away somebody’s life, that person is never coming back to life, ever,” Marenco said. “It just seems like, ‘why are we not standing up in solidarity in terms of this movement that is occurring here due to the murder of George Floyd?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it were me?” Marenco said, he would refuse to drive that bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "After public outcry, San Francisco Muni buses will no longer transport police to political demonstrations about 'police brutality,' the SFMTA announced Tuesday. ",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721125238,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 45,
"wordCount": 1668
},
"headData": {
"title": "Muni Will No Longer Take Cops to Anti-Police Brutality Protests | KQED",
"description": "After public outcry, San Francisco Muni buses will no longer transport police to demonstrations about police brutality, the SFMTA announced Tuesday.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"socialDescription": "After public outcry, San Francisco Muni buses will no longer transport police to demonstrations about police brutality, the SFMTA announced Tuesday.",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Muni Will No Longer Take Cops to Anti-Police Brutality Protests",
"datePublished": "2020-06-10T13:17:17-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T03:20:38-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/11823807/muni-will-no-longer-take-cops-to-anti-police-brutality-protests",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two Saturdays ago, demonstrators marching in San Francisco viewed a peculiar sight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some police, clad in full riot gear, did not arrive at Union Square in police cars, sirens blazing. Nor did they ride in on motorcycles, bicycles or even those armored vehicles — the Lenco BearCat — that have been ubiquitous in demonstrations across the United States. Instead, they arrived the way 720,000 people once traveled to work in San Francisco every day (before COVID-19, anyway) — by Muni bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a public outcry and a quieter, internal rebellion by San Francisco’s own transportation agency employees, the years-long practice will end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni buses will no longer transport police to political demonstrations about “police brutality,” the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni/status/1270391482080358407\">announced on Twitter\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a small rebellion by a transit agency against local police, and particularly poignant after decades of mistrust between black Americans and public transportation agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was on a bus, after all, that Rosa Parks was met with racist orders to yield a seat to a white passenger in 1955 — and it was on a BART platform where Oscar Grant was shot and killed by a transit police officer as he lay unarmed on the ground in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision by Muni leadership came after turmoil both public and behind closed doors. And there are no rules in Muni’s books to prevent the practice in the future — yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Infuriating’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lateefah Simon, president of the BART Board of Directors, is also a lifelong Muni rider. Growing up in San Francisco, Muni was part of the fabric of life: going to school, going to work and, yes, part of being arrested after a protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, a young, junior high school-aged Simon took a 38-Geary Muni bus from Presidio Middle School to an anti-Iraq war protest downtown. When she was arrested, police tossed her and other demonstrators on a Muni bus bound for juvenile hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They sure did put us on a Muni bus,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the intervening decades, a movement in the transit community has risen to bring public transit onto the side of protesters and racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of the George Floyd protests in May, one New York City bus driver inspired many in the world’s transit community. When detainees from a demonstration were loaded by the New York Police Department onto a city bus, the driver walked off, refusing to transport the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crowds at Barclays Center, where the protesters were arrested, wildly cheered for the driver. The video went viral, and was viewed more than 12.5 million times as of June 10.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1266528183454699521"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>But here in the Bay Area, transit-lovers skewered Muni after watching social media videos of police in riot gear emerge from Muni buses to counter protesters. The driver did not walk off, and on social media the agency was perceived as against protesters demanding the defense of black lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those self-described transit “geeks” against the practice is \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/_DaveSquare\">David Sorrell\u003c/a>, a UC Berkeley transit administrator. Sorrell, who is black, told KQED his industry is predominantly white, male and of an older generation. Sorrell grew up in Chicago without access to a car, so his love of buses and trains grew from a young age. He saw the world from the window of a train. In that light, Sorrell called Muni transporting police to a local protest “infuriating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From an optics standpoint, and from a personal standpoint, it’s disappointing that the one thing that is supposed to connect our communities together is being used as a tool to stifle our freedoms of speech and assembly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorrell was not the only one to express outrage online. Chris Arvin is a prominent figure in the world of local transit lovers, known for his cherubic happy-faced bus and train art which he sells as pins and shirts online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshaling his thousands of online followers, Arvin blasted Muni for transporting police to protests. He noted that the agency was once dubbed “The People’s Railway” when it began in 1912, and should remain for the people — not cops.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1267692093754896384"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“During Sunday’s peaceful protest in support of black lives, I saw a police officer aim a rubber bullet gun directly at a woman who had her hands up,” Arvin told KQED. He also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/chrisarvinsf/status/1270060589612544000\">tweeted a photo\u003c/a> of that moment. “Public transit buses should be solely for the benefit of riders, serving their transit needs, not to aid another agency in bringing weapons to a peaceful event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even SFPD hasn’t kicked up a fuss about the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize we are all in the midst of a difficult, emotionally charged time as we come to terms with painful truths about the kind of policing that took George Floyd’s life in Minneapolis,” SFPD Sgt. Michael Andraychak said in a statement. “SFPD’s commitment to the safety and First Amendment rights of those we serve remains undiminished, of course, and we’ve adjusted our transportation and operations accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some are already praising the decision publicly, the decision is actually a reversal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Major U-turn\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Only one week ago, Muni leadership said the agency would continue to transport police to demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to the SFMTA Board of Directors during their public meeting last Tuesday, Jeffrey Tumlin, director of SFMTA, said he was surprised to learn Muni buses were used to transport police, which he only learned after a photo of a bus transporting police was tweeted by this KQED reporter. Tumlin was swiftly met with criticism by Muni riders and his own staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two days ago, I learned from social media that our Muni buses are being used to transport police officers. This is apparently something the agency has been doing for many years,” Tumlin told the SFMTA board.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1267202232472068097"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>He then detailed some legacy of public transit and racism, including San Francisco planners’ historical erasure of black neighborhoods, labeled as “blight,” to erect new freeways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So as I work to try to reform the horrific history within my own industry, I need to honor (SFPD) Chief Bill Scott’s leadership for structural change within his,” Tumlin added. “We’re a city department just like SFPD. SFPD officers are our colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Tumlin voiced his support for police, the outrage on social media against Muni had quieted. Protesters redirected their energies to police clashes in San Francisco and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But internally, staffers from various SFMTA departments voiced their outrage to Tumlin. The relatively new SFMTA director had started his tenure in 2019 with bold promises to correct his agency’s historic injustices against the black community, and his new stance on police threatened to turn those words into mere lip service in the eyes of his staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voices within the department began to organize. In just a few days, Tumlin threw his agency into reverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Never Again? Not So Fast\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Already, some in the city are rebuking the agency for its new policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey Muni, lose our number next time you need officers for fare evasion enforcement or removing problem passengers from your buses and trains,” the San Francisco Police Officers Association \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SanFranciscoPOA/status/1270741418336645120?s=20\">wrote on Twitter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should pressure mount from the police union to restore service, there is no regulation on SFMTA’s books preventing them from transporting police, only the promise of its director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To prevent Muni from being used as police transport in the future, the city’s charter or SFMTA’s own policies may need to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There may be some support for such an action at the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Shamann Walton, who represents the historically black Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, told KQED “I am not sure why SFMTA would be participating in militarizing our streets in these times of unrest and high tensions between community and law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some appetite to make this a permanent change at the SFMTA Board of Directors, which sets policy for the agency. Jane Natoli is a nominee by Mayor London Breed for an empty seat on the board, and is awaiting final approval for her seat by the Board of Supervisors. She called it “confirmation limbo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, should the board appoint her, Natoli said she would work to enshrine a policy so Muni no longer transports police to city protests.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1270741418336645120"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“This is something that as soon as I saw, I was just shocked,” Natoli said. “I think that that shows that our values aren’t necessarily aligned with our actions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should no local leaders act, bus drivers themselves may be the last line against the practice. They drive these special service buses on a volunteer basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roger Marenco, president of Muni’s union, the Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, said his members value police when they help with assaults on bus drivers and understands the police’s desire to maintain peace at protests when break-ins occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called it a “delicate line.” But Marenco also used to drive a bus himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An officer taking away somebody’s life, that person is never coming back to life, ever,” Marenco said. “It just seems like, ‘why are we not standing up in solidarity in terms of this movement that is occurring here due to the murder of George Floyd?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it were me?” Marenco said, he would refuse to drive that bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11823807/muni-will-no-longer-take-cops-to-anti-police-brutality-protests",
"authors": [
"11690"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_27626",
"news_28031",
"news_320",
"news_116",
"news_745",
"news_1334",
"news_20331",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_11823816",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11820991": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11820991",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11820991",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1591016449000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1591016449,
"format": "standard",
"title": "What Questions Do You Have About the Future of Transit in the Bay Area?",
"headTitle": "What Questions Do You Have About the Future of Transit in the Bay Area? | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area transit agencies have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Muni has eliminated all metro and light-rail service, and suspended service on close to 70 of its 89 bus routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART ridership is down 92%.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AC Transit is running a Sunday schedule all the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As stay-at home orders start to ease up, what do you want to know about how your commute will be impacted? Ask using the form below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll answer your questions on June 1 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>, and online at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/\">KQED.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/5663.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If our question form doesn’t show up above \u003ca href=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/5663/share\">find it here.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 113,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 7
},
"modified": 1700590665,
"excerpt": "Public transit agencies took a big hit because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now they face ongoing challenges. ",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Public transit agencies took a big hit because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now they face ongoing challenges. ",
"title": "What Questions Do You Have About the Future of Transit in the Bay Area? | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "What Questions Do You Have About the Future of Transit in the Bay Area?",
"datePublished": "2020-06-01T06:00:49-07:00",
"dateModified": "2023-11-21T10:17:45-08:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "what-questions-do-you-have-about-the-future-of-transit-in-the-bay-area",
"status": "publish",
"sourceUrl": "http://baycurious.org/",
"source": "Bay Curious",
"path": "/news/11820991/what-questions-do-you-have-about-the-future-of-transit-in-the-bay-area",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area transit agencies have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and resulting stay-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Muni has eliminated all metro and light-rail service, and suspended service on close to 70 of its 89 bus routes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART ridership is down 92%.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>AC Transit is running a Sunday schedule all the time.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As stay-at home orders start to ease up, what do you want to know about how your commute will be impacted? Ask using the form below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll answer your questions on June 1 on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>, and online at \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/\">KQED.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/5663.js\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If our question form doesn’t show up above \u003ca href=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/5663/share\">find it here.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11820991/what-questions-do-you-have-about-the-future-of-transit-in-the-bay-area",
"authors": [
"236"
],
"programs": [
"news_33523"
],
"series": [
"news_17986"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_33520",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_2505",
"news_269",
"news_27350",
"news_27504",
"news_320"
],
"featImg": "news_11812909",
"label": "source_news_11820991"
},
"news_11820003": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11820003",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11820003",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1590130890000
]
},
"parent": 0,
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"blocks": [],
"publishDate": 1590130890,
"format": "standard",
"disqusTitle": "CHARTS: Traffic Is Still Way Down Across the Bay Area — But It's Making a Comeback",
"title": "CHARTS: Traffic Is Still Way Down Across the Bay Area — But It's Making a Comeback",
"headTitle": "KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]ost traffic on streets and highways around the Bay Area — and around most of the rest of California, for that matter — vanished in a matter of days in early March as the coronavirus pandemic arrived here and health authorities imposed shelter-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But data on our travel habits bears out what we're seeing on traffic maps and on the streets around us: Slowly but surely, traffic is building again throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts have worked out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815037/six-ways-to-view-bay-area-compliance-with-coronavirus-shelter-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a variety of ways\u003c/a> to use location information captured by our mobile devices to watch travel patterns and assess the impact of the shelter orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One basic metric derived from the mobile data is the total number of vehicle miles traveled, or VMT, in communities across the country. San Francisco's StreetLight Data has partnered with another data firm, New York-based Cuebiq, and put together \u003ca href=\"https://www.streetlightdata.com/VMT-monitor-by-county/#emergency-map-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interactive map\u003c/a> tracking how VMT has changed during the pandemic compared to a January baseline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first chart below shows VMT for all nine Bay Area counties between Sunday, March 1, and Friday, May 15. Highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Traffic across the region in those first few days of March was at or above that recorded in January, which StreetLight is using as a baseline month.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As businesses began adopting telecommuting, travel dropped precipitously in the second week of the month.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Travel plummeted further on March 17 when shelter orders forced the closure of \"non-essential\" businesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All nine counties recorded their lowest traffic days between April 8 and April 12. Travel has begun a slow rebound since then.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Getting Off Of and Back Onto the Road\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-J62v0\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/J62v0/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chart below gives a snapshot of the extent to which Bay Area VMT has recovered since the April low point. The chart reports Friday traffic for five consecutive Fridays starting April 10. Highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Overall, traffic in the nine counties has surged 61% from its nadir.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>However, traffic in the nine counties is still 73% \u003cstrong>below\u003c/strong> its March 1 level.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The counties with the highest percentage increases since April 10: Contra Costa (85), Santa Clara (75) and Napa (66).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The counties with the lowest percentage increases since April 10: Sonoma (38), Alameda (43) and San Francisco (45).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Moving Out From Shelter at Home\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-TJ0Xo\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/TJ0Xo/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally: A look at per capita driving numbers across the region. Solano County has consistently recorded by far the highest numbers. San Francisco and Marin have had the lowest numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Bay Area Pandemic Traffic: Per Capita VMT\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-WPU6Z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WPU6Z/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"disqusIdentifier": "11820003 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11820003",
"disqusUrl": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/22/charts-traffic-is-still-way-down-across-the-bay-area-but-its-making-a-comeback/",
"stats": {
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"hasAudio": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"wordCount": 398,
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"paragraphCount": 12
},
"modified": 1590178369,
"excerpt": "Location data from mobile devices shows how Bay Area traffic volumes plummeted at the outset of coronavirus shelter-at-home orders — and documents how it's slowly but surely returning.",
"headData": {
"twImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twDescription": "",
"description": "Location data from mobile devices shows how Bay Area traffic volumes plummeted at the outset of coronavirus shelter-at-home orders — and documents how it's slowly but surely returning.",
"title": "CHARTS: Traffic Is Still Way Down Across the Bay Area — But It's Making a Comeback | KQED",
"ogDescription": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "CHARTS: Traffic Is Still Way Down Across the Bay Area — But It's Making a Comeback",
"datePublished": "2020-05-22T00:01:30-07:00",
"dateModified": "2020-05-22T13:12:49-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "charts-traffic-is-still-way-down-across-the-bay-area-but-its-making-a-comeback",
"status": "publish",
"path": "/news/11820003/charts-traffic-is-still-way-down-across-the-bay-area-but-its-making-a-comeback",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">M\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ost traffic on streets and highways around the Bay Area — and around most of the rest of California, for that matter — vanished in a matter of days in early March as the coronavirus pandemic arrived here and health authorities imposed shelter-at-home orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But data on our travel habits bears out what we're seeing on traffic maps and on the streets around us: Slowly but surely, traffic is building again throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analysts have worked out \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11815037/six-ways-to-view-bay-area-compliance-with-coronavirus-shelter-orders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a variety of ways\u003c/a> to use location information captured by our mobile devices to watch travel patterns and assess the impact of the shelter orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One basic metric derived from the mobile data is the total number of vehicle miles traveled, or VMT, in communities across the country. San Francisco's StreetLight Data has partnered with another data firm, New York-based Cuebiq, and put together \u003ca href=\"https://www.streetlightdata.com/VMT-monitor-by-county/#emergency-map-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interactive map\u003c/a> tracking how VMT has changed during the pandemic compared to a January baseline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first chart below shows VMT for all nine Bay Area counties between Sunday, March 1, and Friday, May 15. Highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Traffic across the region in those first few days of March was at or above that recorded in January, which StreetLight is using as a baseline month.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>As businesses began adopting telecommuting, travel dropped precipitously in the second week of the month.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Travel plummeted further on March 17 when shelter orders forced the closure of \"non-essential\" businesses.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All nine counties recorded their lowest traffic days between April 8 and April 12. Travel has begun a slow rebound since then.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Getting Off Of and Back Onto the Road\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-J62v0\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/J62v0/1/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"700\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chart below gives a snapshot of the extent to which Bay Area VMT has recovered since the April low point. The chart reports Friday traffic for five consecutive Fridays starting April 10. Highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Overall, traffic in the nine counties has surged 61% from its nadir.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>However, traffic in the nine counties is still 73% \u003cstrong>below\u003c/strong> its March 1 level.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The counties with the highest percentage increases since April 10: Contra Costa (85), Santa Clara (75) and Napa (66).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The counties with the lowest percentage increases since April 10: Sonoma (38), Alameda (43) and San Francisco (45).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Moving Out From Shelter at Home\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-TJ0Xo\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/TJ0Xo/4/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally: A look at per capita driving numbers across the region. Solano County has consistently recorded by far the highest numbers. San Francisco and Marin have had the lowest numbers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe title=\"Bay Area Pandemic Traffic: Per Capita VMT\" aria-label=\"Interactive line chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-WPU6Z\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/WPU6Z/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11820003/charts-traffic-is-still-way-down-across-the-bay-area-but-its-making-a-comeback",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_8",
"news_356",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_4090",
"news_27350",
"news_27504",
"news_92"
],
"featImg": "news_11820073",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11818938": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11818938",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11818938",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1589848815000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "tesla-reopens-but-battle-between-carmaker-and-alameda-county-isnt-over",
"title": "Tesla Reopens, But Battle Between Carmaker and Alameda County Isn't Over",
"publishDate": 1589848815,
"format": "image",
"headTitle": "Tesla Reopens, But Battle Between Carmaker and Alameda County Isn’t Over | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>A week after welcoming thousands of workers back to its electric car plant in Fremont in defiance of Alameda County health orders, Tesla is officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tesla-tells-employees-that-Fremont-factory-got-15276512.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">resuming full production\u003c/a> at the facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Alameda County joined other jurisdictions in the region Monday in taking the next step toward reopening businesses on a broader scale. With the number of new coronavirus cases and COVID-19 deaths leveling off, the county \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/577747/press%20release%202020.05.18.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">will allow\u003c/a> curbside retail along with manufacturing and warehouse firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the battle between the company and the county is not over, with \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887676/Tesla-v-Alameda-County.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a Tesla lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the health officials’ authority to shut down the plant during the coronavirus pandemic still pending in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics of Tesla CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his false and inflammatory statements about shelter-at-home orders, threats to move the company, personal insults to health officials and open contempt for directives intended to protect company workers remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Reich, UC Berkeley professor of public policy and former US secretary of labor\"]‘Who is calling the shots here? Public health authorities … who are there to protect people, or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/12/elon-musk-tesla-reopening-lockdown-timeline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has publicly questioned\u003c/a> the seriousness of the coronavirus threat ever since pandemic began. When six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley imposed the nation’s first shelter-at-home orders in mid-March, Musk told Tesla employees he intended to continue working. The Fremont plant shut down a week late and only after a public dispute involving the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s displeasure with the COVID-19 measures spilled out in a Tesla earnings call on April 29, when he noted that the Fremont factory’s continued closure posed a “serious risk” to the company’s financial performance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to describe the health orders, which had just been extended, as “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people’s freedom in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t finished. In answer to another question, he repeated his baseless claim that people were subject to arrest if they left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is fascist,” he said. “This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give the people back their goddamn freedom.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the week before last. In the midst of discussions between Alameda County and Tesla plant officials that appeared \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon-musk-tesla-california.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">headed toward an agreement\u003c/a> to open the Fremont facility on May 18, Musk began agitating for an immediate restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla filed suit, arguing that county health orders were in conflict with state directives that allowed some manufacturing to resume. Musk also took a swipe at Alameda County’s interim health officer, Dr. Erica Pan — calling her “ignorant and unelected”— and warned that he was ready to move his company out of California altogether. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1259162367285317633\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came last week’s reopening — signaled first by the appearance of thousands of employee cars at the plant, then by Musk’s tweet that the plant was resuming production and that he was willing to be arrested, and finally by Alameda County’s repeated conciliatory statements that it was working things out with plant managers and that the company had a satisfactory plan to go ahead with a ramp up from “basic minimum operations” in preparation for a restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday whether Tesla had been given preferential treatment when it suffered no legal consequences for disobeying the health orders, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/17/sotu-newsom-tesla-treatment.cnn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">what he called\u003c/a> “the spirit of cooperation” shown by the county and company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s remarks were in line with sentiments expressed last week by Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a group representing hundreds of businesses and public agencies in the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the world’s most iconic automobile manufacturer here in the Bay Area, which we’d like to keep,” Wunderman said in an interview. “It’s not just an auto manufacturer. They’re making the kind of vehicles that are the future of the world. They’re contributing something very special.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the council was “very satisfied” with Tesla getting back to work, though “under no circumstances are we suggesting any business owner violate any regs or anything like that. We didn’t in this case, and we wouldn’t in any other case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what he would make of the situation if he were a bookseller or florist or other small business owner required to remain closed while Musk and Tesla defied the Alameda County orders, Wunderman said the automaker’s situation is unique. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, in the real world, as a bookseller or a florist — and we love our booksellers and we revere our florists — they don’t have the leverage Tesla had with 10,000 employees and the kind of financial value and impact that a plant like (Fremont) has,” Wunderman said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11817565,news_11801138,news_11788180\" label=\"Elon Musk and Tesla\"]Wunderman said the Bay Area counties had been “heroes — they save maybe hundreds or thousands of lives” by imposing shelter-at-home orders when they did. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not kid around about that — they did a great job,” he said. “But now they have to do the great job of getting folks back to work.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Robert Reich, former secretary of labor and a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, says the way Tesla went about its reopening sets a terrible precedent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It puts every business owner in an awkward and difficult position, because if you have enough wealth and power, you have political clout and you can defy orders and you can get what you want,” Reich said. “But most people who are in business can’t do that and should not do that. They understand that they have to obey the law, that they have certain social responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said Musk failed in those responsibilities by reopening the plant before health authorities had signed off on the company’s safety measures. He was especially critical of Musk for putting employees who have exhausted their paid time off in the position of having to report to work amid the pandemic or not get paid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the worst and most inhumane choice you can impose,” Reich said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said he believes Tesla and Musk should face some state sanction for defying the county health orders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is calling the shots here?” he asked. “Public health authorities and authorities who are there to protect people or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said last week that Musk’s behavior followed a familiar arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley leaders unfortunately have a reputation for disregard for laws and regulations, and they tend to wear it as a badge of honor,” Skeet said. “It’s not necessarily productive, and it’s certainly not considerate of the rest of the community and the broader society they’re operating in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said there were other aspects of Musk’s confrontation with county authorities that “were not a good look.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another overlay that’s really unfortunate is a highly qualified female authority being challenged by a male tech CEO in a community, Silicon Valley, that already has not a great reputation for gender relationships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said she believes that companies’ behavior will have lasting effects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going to have long memories on how leaders have responded in this moment,” she said. “And leaders who have put the health and well-being of their workers and customers front and center are going to bounce back more quickly, I think, than those that haven’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "Company's federal lawsuit challenging health orders is still pending. And critics of CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his behavior during dispute remain unresolved.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721110237,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 35,
"wordCount": 1440
},
"headData": {
"title": "Tesla Reopens, But Battle Between Carmaker and Alameda County Isn't Over | KQED",
"description": "Company's lawsuit challenging health orders is pending. And critics of CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his behavior during dispute remain unresolved.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"socialDescription": "Company's lawsuit challenging health orders is pending. And critics of CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his behavior during dispute remain unresolved.",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Tesla Reopens, But Battle Between Carmaker and Alameda County Isn't Over",
"datePublished": "2020-05-18T17:40:15-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-15T23:10:37-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"audioUrl": "https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/4479254f-cbbb-4c8a-9f0d-abbf0128f095/audio.mp3",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/11818938/tesla-reopens-but-battle-between-carmaker-and-alameda-county-isnt-over",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A week after welcoming thousands of workers back to its electric car plant in Fremont in defiance of Alameda County health orders, Tesla is officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tesla-tells-employees-that-Fremont-factory-got-15276512.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">resuming full production\u003c/a> at the facility. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Alameda County joined other jurisdictions in the region Monday in taking the next step toward reopening businesses on a broader scale. With the number of new coronavirus cases and COVID-19 deaths leveling off, the county \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/media/577747/press%20release%202020.05.18.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">will allow\u003c/a> curbside retail along with manufacturing and warehouse firms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the battle between the company and the county is not over, with \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6887676/Tesla-v-Alameda-County.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a Tesla lawsuit\u003c/a> challenging the health officials’ authority to shut down the plant during the coronavirus pandemic still pending in federal court. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some critics of Tesla CEO Elon Musk say issues raised by his false and inflammatory statements about shelter-at-home orders, threats to move the company, personal insults to health officials and open contempt for directives intended to protect company workers remain unresolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "‘Who is calling the shots here? Public health authorities … who are there to protect people, or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?’",
"name": "pullquote",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"size": "medium",
"align": "right",
"citation": "Robert Reich, UC Berkeley professor of public policy and former US secretary of labor",
"label": ""
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/12/elon-musk-tesla-reopening-lockdown-timeline\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">has publicly questioned\u003c/a> the seriousness of the coronavirus threat ever since pandemic began. When six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley imposed the nation’s first shelter-at-home orders in mid-March, Musk told Tesla employees he intended to continue working. The Fremont plant shut down a week late and only after a public dispute involving the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk’s displeasure with the COVID-19 measures spilled out in a Tesla earnings call on April 29, when he noted that the Fremont factory’s continued closure posed a “serious risk” to the company’s financial performance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He went on to describe the health orders, which had just been extended, as “forcibly imprisoning people in their homes against all their constitutional rights, in my opinion, and breaking people’s freedom in ways that are horrible and wrong and not why people came to America or built this country.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn’t finished. In answer to another question, he repeated his baseless claim that people were subject to arrest if they left home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is fascist,” he said. “This is not democratic. This is not freedom. Give the people back their goddamn freedom.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to the week before last. In the midst of discussions between Alameda County and Tesla plant officials that appeared \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon-musk-tesla-california.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">headed toward an agreement\u003c/a> to open the Fremont facility on May 18, Musk began agitating for an immediate restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla filed suit, arguing that county health orders were in conflict with state directives that allowed some manufacturing to resume. Musk also took a swipe at Alameda County’s interim health officer, Dr. Erica Pan — calling her “ignorant and unelected”— and warned that he was ready to move his company out of California altogether. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "singleTwitterStatus",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"id": "1259162367285317633"
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Then came last week’s reopening — signaled first by the appearance of thousands of employee cars at the plant, then by Musk’s tweet that the plant was resuming production and that he was willing to be arrested, and finally by Alameda County’s repeated conciliatory statements that it was working things out with plant managers and that the company had a satisfactory plan to go ahead with a ramp up from “basic minimum operations” in preparation for a restart. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on Sunday whether Tesla had been given preferential treatment when it suffered no legal consequences for disobeying the health orders, Gov. Gavin Newsom praised \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/05/17/sotu-newsom-tesla-treatment.cnn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">what he called\u003c/a> “the spirit of cooperation” shown by the county and company. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s remarks were in line with sentiments expressed last week by Jim Wunderman, president and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a group representing hundreds of businesses and public agencies in the region. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have the world’s most iconic automobile manufacturer here in the Bay Area, which we’d like to keep,” Wunderman said in an interview. “It’s not just an auto manufacturer. They’re making the kind of vehicles that are the future of the world. They’re contributing something very special.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the council was “very satisfied” with Tesla getting back to work, though “under no circumstances are we suggesting any business owner violate any regs or anything like that. We didn’t in this case, and we wouldn’t in any other case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked what he would make of the situation if he were a bookseller or florist or other small business owner required to remain closed while Musk and Tesla defied the Alameda County orders, Wunderman said the automaker’s situation is unique. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, in the real world, as a bookseller or a florist — and we love our booksellers and we revere our florists — they don’t have the leverage Tesla had with 10,000 employees and the kind of financial value and impact that a plant like (Fremont) has,” Wunderman said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "aside",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"postid": "news_11817565,news_11801138,news_11788180",
"label": "Elon Musk and Tesla "
},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Wunderman said the Bay Area counties had been “heroes — they save maybe hundreds or thousands of lives” by imposing shelter-at-home orders when they did. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s not kid around about that — they did a great job,” he said. “But now they have to do the great job of getting folks back to work.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Robert Reich, former secretary of labor and a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, says the way Tesla went about its reopening sets a terrible precedent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It puts every business owner in an awkward and difficult position, because if you have enough wealth and power, you have political clout and you can defy orders and you can get what you want,” Reich said. “But most people who are in business can’t do that and should not do that. They understand that they have to obey the law, that they have certain social responsibilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said Musk failed in those responsibilities by reopening the plant before health authorities had signed off on the company’s safety measures. He was especially critical of Musk for putting employees who have exhausted their paid time off in the position of having to report to work amid the pandemic or not get paid. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the worst and most inhumane choice you can impose,” Reich said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reich said he believes Tesla and Musk should face some state sanction for defying the county health orders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is calling the shots here?” he asked. “Public health authorities and authorities who are there to protect people or a very wealthy billionaire businessman who is there basically to maximize shareholder value and his own wealth?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Skeet, senior director of leadership ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, said last week that Musk’s behavior followed a familiar arc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley leaders unfortunately have a reputation for disregard for laws and regulations, and they tend to wear it as a badge of honor,” Skeet said. “It’s not necessarily productive, and it’s certainly not considerate of the rest of the community and the broader society they’re operating in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said there were other aspects of Musk’s confrontation with county authorities that “were not a good look.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Another overlay that’s really unfortunate is a highly qualified female authority being challenged by a male tech CEO in a community, Silicon Valley, that already has not a great reputation for gender relationships,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeet said she believes that companies’ behavior will have lasting effects. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are going to have long memories on how leaders have responded in this moment,” she said. “And leaders who have put the health and well-being of their workers and customers front and center are going to bounce back more quickly, I think, than those that haven’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "floatright"
},
"numeric": [
"floatright"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11818938/tesla-reopens-but-battle-between-carmaker-and-alameda-county-isnt-over",
"authors": [
"222"
],
"categories": [
"news_6188",
"news_8",
"news_248",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_260",
"news_17611",
"news_27350",
"news_27504",
"news_3897",
"news_66",
"news_2075",
"news_1631",
"news_57"
],
"featImg": "news_11818947",
"label": "news"
},
"news_11818774": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11818774",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11818774",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1589587488000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "carbon-catches-a-break",
"title": "Carbon Catches a Break",
"publishDate": 1589587488,
"format": "standard",
"headTitle": "Carbon Catches a Break | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 18515,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>After a petroleum lobbying group asked for help amid a huge drop in demand because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorenewsomoilregs\">killed a proposal to add oil regulators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting a stop to the 128 extra geologists, analysts and engineers wasn’t done to save the state money – the oil industry would have been required to pay for them under the new regulatory framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging by how Chevron and other oil companies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773382/chevron-faces-new-demands-from-regulators-as-kern-county-oil-releases-continue\">drilled and spilled in California\u003c/a>, I’d say we need all the regulatory staffing we can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess the oil lobby’s cries of COVID-19 hardship found a receptive audience in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": "After a petroleum lobbying group asked for help amid a huge drop in demand because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Newsom killed a proposal to add oil regulators.",
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721122342,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 6,
"wordCount": 112
},
"headData": {
"title": "Carbon Catches a Break | KQED",
"description": "After a petroleum lobbying group asked for help amid a huge drop in demand because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Newsom killed a proposal to add oil regulators.",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "Carbon Catches a Break",
"datePublished": "2020-05-15T17:04:48-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T02:32:22-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/11818774/carbon-catches-a-break",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After a petroleum lobbying group asked for help amid a huge drop in demand because of the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/fiorenewsomoilregs\">killed a proposal to add oil regulators\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting a stop to the 128 extra geologists, analysts and engineers wasn’t done to save the state money – the oil industry would have been required to pay for them under the new regulatory framework.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging by how Chevron and other oil companies have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773382/chevron-faces-new-demands-from-regulators-as-kern-county-oil-releases-continue\">drilled and spilled in California\u003c/a>, I’d say we need all the regulatory staffing we can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I guess the oil lobby’s cries of COVID-19 hardship found a receptive audience in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11818774/carbon-catches-a-break",
"authors": [
"3236"
],
"series": [
"news_18515"
],
"categories": [
"news_19906",
"news_13",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_424",
"news_26260",
"news_27350",
"news_16",
"news_26266",
"news_20949",
"news_3111",
"news_18125"
],
"featImg": "news_11818785",
"label": "news_18515"
},
"news_11818583": {
"type": "posts",
"id": "news_11818583",
"meta": {
"index": "posts_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "11818583",
"score": null,
"sort": [
1589586333000
]
},
"guestAuthors": [],
"slug": "ca-budget-deficit-regional-transit-woes-future-of-museums",
"title": "CA Budget Deficit, Regional Transit Woes, Future of Museums",
"publishDate": 1589586333,
"format": "video",
"headTitle": "CA Budget Deficit, Regional Transit Woes, Future of Museums | KQED",
"labelTerm": {
"term": 7052,
"site": "news"
},
"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Gov. Newsom Calls for Cuts, Cancellations, Congressional Aid to Close Budget Deficit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised state budget as California faces a deficit of more than $54 billion due to shrinking tax revenues and soaring job losses from the coronavirus pandemic. Newsom is calling for steep cuts to public education, asking state workers to take a 10% pay cut and canceling the expansion of programs and services intended to help low-income residents. Also this week, California state senators returned to Sacramento for the first time in nearly two months. Among their proposals are two innovative relief packages that would help people stay in their homes and offer tax credits to landlords in exchange for rent forgiveness. Meanwhile, House Democrats proposed this week a new, $3 trillion round of federal aid despite opposition from the White House and Senate Republicans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marisa Lagos, KQED politics and government correspondent\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Shafer, KQED senior editor of politics and government \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Coronavirus Takes Heavy Toll on Public Transit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, BART joined more than a dozen other national transit agencies to ask Congress for $33 billion in federal aid to help maintain services and prevent layoffs during the pandemic. BART alone is facing a $600 million deficit as ridership on its trains is down more than 90%. Bay Area transit agencies are already getting more than $1 billion from the first round of federal relief approved by congressional lawmakers in March. When the region eventually reopens, transit operators will need to assure commuters that it’s safe to use their buses, trains and ferries to return to workplaces.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Brekke, KQED transportation editor\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Future of Museums Transformed by COVID-19\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the pandemic closures drag on, Bay Area museums are scrambling to stay solvent. Art museums have closed their doors, covered their paintings and turned out the lights. Other institutions have a core team still caring for animals and other living exhibits. All are facing significant budget shortfalls, and by some industry estimates, one-third of all museums nationwide won’t be able to afford to reopen. And for those that do, questions and uncertainty abound over how to keep staff and visitors safe through social distancing, reimagined exhibits and virtual tours of popular permanent collections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Sampson, executive director, California Academy of Sciences\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jay Xu, CEO and director, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
"blocks": [],
"excerpt": null,
"status": "publish",
"parent": 0,
"modified": 1721124925,
"stats": {
"hasAudio": false,
"hasVideo": false,
"hasChartOrMap": false,
"iframeSrcs": [],
"hasGoogleForm": false,
"hasGallery": false,
"hasHearkenModule": false,
"hasPolis": false,
"paragraphCount": 8,
"wordCount": 404
},
"headData": {
"title": "CA Budget Deficit, Regional Transit Woes, Future of Museums | KQED",
"description": "Gov. Newsom Calls for Cuts, Cancellations, Congressional Aid to Close Budget Deficit On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised state budget as California faces a deficit of more than $54 billion due to shrinking tax revenues and soaring job losses from the coronavirus pandemic. Newsom is calling for steep cuts to public education, asking",
"ogTitle": "",
"ogDescription": "",
"ogImgId": "",
"twTitle": "",
"twDescription": "",
"twImgId": "",
"schema": {
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "NewsArticle",
"headline": "CA Budget Deficit, Regional Transit Woes, Future of Museums",
"datePublished": "2020-05-15T16:45:33-07:00",
"dateModified": "2024-07-16T03:15:25-07:00",
"image": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"isAccessibleForFree": "True",
"publisher": {
"@type": "NewsMediaOrganization",
"@id": "https://www.kqed.org/#organization",
"name": "KQED",
"logo": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"url": "https://www.kqed.org",
"sameAs": [
"https://www.facebook.com/KQED",
"https://twitter.com/KQED",
"https://www.instagram.com/kqed/",
"https://www.tiktok.com/@kqedofficial",
"https://www.linkedin.com/company/kqed",
"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeC0IOo7i1P_61zVUWbJ4nw"
]
}
}
},
"videoEmbed": "https://youtu.be/gGmE_hE4Zko",
"sticky": false,
"path": "/news/11818583/ca-budget-deficit-regional-transit-woes-future-of-museums",
"audioTrackLength": null,
"parsedContent": [
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Gov. Newsom Calls for Cuts, Cancellations, Congressional Aid to Close Budget Deficit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a revised state budget as California faces a deficit of more than $54 billion due to shrinking tax revenues and soaring job losses from the coronavirus pandemic. Newsom is calling for steep cuts to public education, asking state workers to take a 10% pay cut and canceling the expansion of programs and services intended to help low-income residents. Also this week, California state senators returned to Sacramento for the first time in nearly two months. Among their proposals are two innovative relief packages that would help people stay in their homes and offer tax credits to landlords in exchange for rent forgiveness. Meanwhile, House Democrats proposed this week a new, $3 trillion round of federal aid despite opposition from the White House and Senate Republicans.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marisa Lagos, KQED politics and government correspondent\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Shafer, KQED senior editor of politics and government \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Coronavirus Takes Heavy Toll on Public Transit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, BART joined more than a dozen other national transit agencies to ask Congress for $33 billion in federal aid to help maintain services and prevent layoffs during the pandemic. BART alone is facing a $600 million deficit as ridership on its trains is down more than 90%. Bay Area transit agencies are already getting more than $1 billion from the first round of federal relief approved by congressional lawmakers in March. When the region eventually reopens, transit operators will need to assure commuters that it’s safe to use their buses, trains and ferries to return to workplaces.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guest:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Brekke, KQED transportation editor\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Future of Museums Transformed by COVID-19\u003cbr>\n\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the pandemic closures drag on, Bay Area museums are scrambling to stay solvent. Art museums have closed their doors, covered their paintings and turned out the lights. Other institutions have a core team still caring for animals and other living exhibits. All are facing significant budget shortfalls, and by some industry estimates, one-third of all museums nationwide won’t be able to afford to reopen. And for those that do, questions and uncertainty abound over how to keep staff and visitors safe through social distancing, reimagined exhibits and virtual tours of popular permanent collections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
},
{
"type": "component",
"content": "",
"name": "ad",
"attributes": {
"named": {
"label": "fullwidth"
},
"numeric": [
"fullwidth"
]
}
},
{
"type": "contentString",
"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Guests:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scott Sampson, executive director, California Academy of Sciences\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jay Xu, CEO and director, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
"attributes": {
"named": {},
"numeric": []
}
}
],
"link": "/news/11818583/ca-budget-deficit-regional-transit-woes-future-of-museums",
"authors": [
"236"
],
"programs": [
"news_7052"
],
"categories": [
"news_223",
"news_1758",
"news_6188",
"news_8",
"news_13",
"news_1397"
],
"tags": [
"news_19133",
"news_1653",
"news_402",
"news_20297",
"news_19177",
"news_20562",
"news_163",
"news_20517"
],
"featImg": "news_11818779",
"label": "news_7052"
}
},
"podcastsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"podcasts": {}
},
"radioProgramsReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"radioPrograms": {}
},
"radioSearchSegmentsReducer": {},
"programsReducer": {
"all-things-considered": {
"id": "all-things-considered",
"title": "All Things Considered",
"info": "Every weekday, \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> hosts Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro, and Kelly McEvers present the program's trademark mix of news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features. Michel Martin hosts on the weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 1pm-2pm, 4:30pm-6:30pm\u003cbr />SAT-SUN 5pm-6pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/All-Things-Considered-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/all-things-considered"
},
"american-suburb-podcast": {
"id": "american-suburb-podcast",
"title": "American Suburb: The Podcast",
"tagline": "The flip side of gentrification, told through one town",
"info": "Gentrification is changing cities across America, forcing people from neighborhoods they have long called home. Call them the displaced. Now those priced out of the Bay Area are looking for a better life in an unlikely place. American Suburb follows this migration to one California town along the Delta, 45 miles from San Francisco. But is this once sleepy suburb ready for them?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/American-Suburb-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 19
},
"link": "/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/RBrW",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=1287748328",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/American-Suburb-p1086805/",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/american-suburb-podcast/feed/podcast",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMzMDExODgxNjA5"
}
},
"baycurious": {
"id": "baycurious",
"title": "Bay Curious",
"tagline": "Exploring the Bay Area, one question at a time",
"info": "KQED’s new podcast, Bay Curious, gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Bay-Curious-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Bay Curious",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/news/series/baycurious",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 3
},
"link": "/podcasts/baycurious",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/category/bay-curious-podcast/feed/podcast",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9a90d476-aa04-455d-9a4c-0871ed6216d4/bay-curious",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/bay-curious",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6O76IdmhixfijmhTZLIJ8k"
}
},
"bbc-world-service": {
"id": "bbc-world-service",
"title": "BBC World Service",
"info": "The day's top stories from BBC News compiled twice daily in the week, once at weekends.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9pm-10pm, TUE-FRI 1am-2am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BBC-World-Service-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "BBC World Service"
},
"link": "/radio/program/bbc-world-service",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/global-news-podcast/id135067274?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/BBC-World-Service-p455581/",
"rss": "https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nq0gn.rss"
}
},
"californiareport": {
"id": "californiareport",
"title": "The California Report",
"tagline": "California, day by day",
"info": "KQED’s statewide radio news program providing daily coverage of issues, trends and public policy decisions.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareport",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 8
},
"link": "/californiareport",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-the-california-report/id79681292",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/26099305-72af-4542-9dde-ac1807fe36d5/kqed-s-the-california-report",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432285393/the-california-report",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-the-california-report-podcast-8838",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcram/feed/podcast"
}
},
"californiareportmagazine": {
"id": "californiareportmagazine",
"title": "The California Report Magazine",
"tagline": "Your state, your stories",
"info": "Every week, The California Report Magazine takes you on a road trip for the ears: to visit the places and meet the people who make California unique. The in-depth storytelling podcast from the California Report.",
"airtime": "FRI 4:30pm-5pm, 6:30pm-7pm, 11pm-11:30pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-California-Report-Magazine-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The California Report Magazine",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/californiareportmagazine",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 10
},
"link": "/californiareportmagazine",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM3NjkwNjk1OTAz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/564733126/the-california-report-magazine",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-california-report-magazine",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/tcrmag/feed/podcast"
}
},
"city-arts": {
"id": "city-arts",
"title": "City Arts & Lectures",
"info": "A one-hour radio program to hear celebrated writers, artists and thinkers address contemporary ideas and values, often discussing the creative process. Please note: tapes or transcripts are not available",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/cityartsandlecture-300x300.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.cityarts.net/",
"airtime": "SUN 1pm-2pm, TUE 10pm, WED 1am",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "City Arts & Lectures"
},
"link": "https://www.cityarts.net",
"subscribe": {
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/City-Arts-and-Lectures-p692/",
"rss": "https://www.cityarts.net/feed/"
}
},
"closealltabs": {
"id": "closealltabs",
"title": "Close All Tabs",
"tagline": "Your irreverent guide to the trends redefining our world",
"info": "Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CAT_2_Tile-scaled.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Close All Tabs",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 1
},
"link": "/podcasts/closealltabs",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-all-tabs/id214663465",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC6993880386",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/92d9d4ac-67a3-4eed-b10a-fb45d45b1ef2/close-all-tabs",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/6LAJFHnGK1pYXYzv6SIol6?si=deb0cae19813417c"
}
},
"code-switch-life-kit": {
"id": "code-switch-life-kit",
"title": "Code Switch / Life Kit",
"info": "\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em>, which listeners will hear in the first part of the hour, has fearless and much-needed conversations about race. Hosted by journalists of color, the show tackles the subject of race head-on, exploring how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and more.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em>, which will be in the second part of the hour, guides you through spaces and feelings no one prepares you for — from finances to mental health, from workplace microaggressions to imposter syndrome, from relationships to parenting. The show features experts with real world experience and shares their knowledge. Because everyone needs a little help being human.\u003cbr />\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch\">\u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/lifekit\">\u003cem>Life Kit\u003c/em> offical site and podcast\u003c/a>\u003cbr />",
"airtime": "SUN 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Code-Switch-Life-Kit-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/code-switch-life-kit",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/1112190608?mt=2&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy9yc3MvcG9kY2FzdC5waHA_aWQ9NTEwMzEy",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3bExJ9JQpkwNhoHvaIIuyV",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510312/podcast.xml"
}
},
"commonwealth-club": {
"id": "commonwealth-club",
"title": "Commonwealth Club of California Podcast",
"info": "The Commonwealth Club of California is the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum. As a non-partisan forum, The Club brings to the public airwaves diverse viewpoints on important topics. The Club's weekly radio broadcast - the oldest in the U.S., dating back to 1924 - is carried across the nation on public radio stations and is now podcasting. Our website archive features audio of our recent programs, as well as selected speeches from our long and distinguished history. This podcast feed is usually updated twice a week and is always un-edited.",
"airtime": "THU 10pm, FRI 1am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Commonwealth-Club-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.commonwealthclub.org/podcasts",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Commonwealth Club of California"
},
"link": "/radio/program/commonwealth-club",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/commonwealth-club-of-california-podcast/id976334034?mt=2",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jb21tb253ZWFsdGhjbHViLm9yZy9hdWRpby9wb2RjYXN0L3dlZWtseS54bWw",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Commonwealth-Club-of-California-p1060/"
}
},
"forum": {
"id": "forum",
"title": "Forum",
"tagline": "The conversation starts here",
"info": "KQED’s live call-in program discussing local, state, national and international issues, as well as in-depth interviews.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 9am-11am, 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Forum-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Forum with Mina Kim and Alexis Madrigal",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/forum",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 9
},
"link": "/forum",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kqeds-forum/id73329719",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM5NTU3MzgxNjMz",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432307980/forum",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqedfm-kqeds-forum-podcast",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9557381633"
}
},
"freakonomics-radio": {
"id": "freakonomics-radio",
"title": "Freakonomics Radio",
"info": "Freakonomics Radio is a one-hour award-winning podcast and public-radio project hosted by Stephen Dubner, with co-author Steve Levitt as a regular guest. It is produced in partnership with WNYC.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/freakonomicsRadio.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://freakonomics.com/",
"airtime": "SUN 1am-2am, SAT 3pm-4pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/freakonomics-radio",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/freakonomics-radio/id354668519",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/Freakonomics-Radio-p272293/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/freakonomicsradio"
}
},
"fresh-air": {
"id": "fresh-air",
"title": "Fresh Air",
"info": "Hosted by Terry Gross, \u003cem>Fresh Air from WHYY\u003c/em> is the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. One of public radio's most popular programs, Fresh Air features intimate conversations with today's biggest luminaries.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fresh-Air-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/fresh-air",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/4s8b",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=214089682&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Fresh-Air-p17/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/381444908/podcast.xml"
}
},
"here-and-now": {
"id": "here-and-now",
"title": "Here & Now",
"info": "A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it's happening in the middle of the day, with timely, in-depth news, interviews and conversation. Hosted by Robin Young, Jeremy Hobson and Tonya Mosley.",
"airtime": "MON-THU 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Here-And-Now-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/here-and-now",
"subsdcribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?mt=2&id=426698661",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Here--Now-p211/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510051/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hidden-brain": {
"id": "hidden-brain",
"title": "Hidden Brain",
"info": "Shankar Vedantam uses science and storytelling to reveal the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, shape our choices and direct our relationships.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/05/hiddenbrain.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain",
"airtime": "SUN 7pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "NPR"
},
"link": "/radio/program/hidden-brain",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-brain/id1028908750?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Hidden-Brain-p787503/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510308/podcast.xml"
}
},
"how-i-built-this": {
"id": "how-i-built-this",
"title": "How I Built This with Guy Raz",
"info": "Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/05/howIBuiltThis.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this",
"airtime": "SUN 7:30pm-8pm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/how-i-built-this",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/3zxy",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/How-I-Built-This-p910896/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510313/podcast.xml"
}
},
"hyphenacion": {
"id": "hyphenacion",
"title": "Hyphenación",
"tagline": "Where conversation and cultura meet",
"info": "What kind of no sabo word is Hyphenación? For us, it’s about living within a hyphenation. Like being a third-gen Mexican-American from the Texas border now living that Bay Area Chicano life. Like Xorje! Each week we bring together a couple of hyphenated Latinos to talk all about personal life choices: family, careers, relationships, belonging … everything is on the table. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Hyphenacion_FinalAssets_PodcastTile.png",
"imageAlt": "KQED Hyphenación",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 15
},
"link": "/podcasts/hyphenacion",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hyphenaci%C3%B3n/id1191591838",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2p3Fifq96nw9BPcmFdIq0o?si=39209f7b25774f38",
"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/c/kqedarts",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/6c3dd23c-93fb-4aab-97ba-1725fa6315f1/hyphenaci%C3%B3n",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC2275451163"
}
},
"jerrybrown": {
"id": "jerrybrown",
"title": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"tagline": "Lessons from a lifetime in politics",
"info": "The Political Mind of Jerry Brown brings listeners the wisdom of the former Governor, Mayor, and presidential candidate. Scott Shafer interviewed Brown for more than 40 hours, covering the former governor's life and half-century in the political game – and Brown has some lessons he'd like to share. ",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Political-Mind-of-Jerry-Brown-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Political Mind of Jerry Brown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 18
},
"link": "/podcasts/jerrybrown",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/790253322/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1492194549",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/jerrybrown/feed/podcast/",
"tuneIn": "http://tun.in/pjGcK",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/54C1dmuyFyKMFttY6X2j6r?si=K8SgRCoISNK6ZbjpXrX5-w",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/44420f75-3b0e-4301-ab3b-16da6b09e543/the-political-mind-of-jerry-brown"
}
},
"latino-usa": {
"id": "latino-usa",
"title": "Latino USA",
"airtime": "MON 1am-2am, SUN 6pm-7pm",
"info": "Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, is the only national, English-language radio program produced from a Latino perspective.",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/latinoUsa.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://latinousa.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/latino-usa",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/xtTd",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=79681317&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Latino-USA-p621/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510016/podcast.xml"
}
},
"marketplace": {
"id": "marketplace",
"title": "Marketplace",
"info": "Our flagship program, helmed by Kai Ryssdal, examines what the day in money delivered, through stories, conversations, newsworthy numbers and more. Updated Monday through Friday at about 3:30 p.m. PT.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 4pm-4:30pm, MON-WED 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Marketplace-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.marketplace.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "American Public Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/marketplace",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201853034&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/APM-Marketplace-p88/",
"rss": "https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-pm/rss/rss"
}
},
"masters-of-scale": {
"id": "masters-of-scale",
"title": "Masters of Scale",
"info": "Masters of Scale is an original podcast in which LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman sets out to describe and prove theories that explain how great entrepreneurs take their companies from zero to a gazillion in ingenious fashion.",
"airtime": "Every other Wednesday June 12 through October 16 at 8pm (repeats Thursdays at 2am)",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Masters-of-Scale-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://mastersofscale.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "WaitWhat"
},
"link": "/radio/program/masters-of-scale",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "http://mastersofscale.app.link/",
"rss": "https://rss.art19.com/masters-of-scale"
}
},
"mindshift": {
"id": "mindshift",
"title": "MindShift",
"tagline": "A podcast about the future of learning and how we raise our kids",
"info": "The MindShift podcast explores the innovations in education that are shaping how kids learn. Hosts Ki Sung and Katrina Schwartz introduce listeners to educators, researchers, parents and students who are developing effective ways to improve how kids learn. We cover topics like how fed-up administrators are developing surprising tactics to deal with classroom disruptions; how listening to podcasts are helping kids develop reading skills; the consequences of overparenting; and why interdisciplinary learning can engage students on all ends of the traditional achievement spectrum. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. KQED is an NPR/PBS member station based in San Francisco. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MindShiftKQED\">@MindShiftKQED\u003c/a> or visit us at \u003ca href=\"/mindshift\">MindShift.KQED.org\u003c/a>",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mindshift-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED MindShift: How We Will Learn",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/mindshift/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 12
},
"link": "/podcasts/mindshift",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mindshift-podcast/id1078765985",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkM1NzY0NjAwNDI5",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/464615685/mind-shift-podcast",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/stories-teachers-share",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0MxSpNYZKNprFLCl7eEtyx"
}
},
"morning-edition": {
"id": "morning-edition",
"title": "Morning Edition",
"info": "\u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em> takes listeners around the country and the world with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. Hosts Steve Inskeep, David Greene and Rachel Martin bring you the latest breaking news and features to prepare you for the day.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3am-9am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Morning-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/morning-edition/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/morning-edition"
},
"onourwatch": {
"id": "onourwatch",
"title": "On Our Watch",
"tagline": "Deeply-reported investigative journalism",
"info": "For decades, the process for how police police themselves has been inconsistent – if not opaque. In some states, like California, these proceedings were completely hidden. After a new police transparency law unsealed scores of internal affairs files, our reporters set out to examine these cases and the shadow world of police discipline. On Our Watch brings listeners into the rooms where officers are questioned and witnesses are interrogated to find out who this system is really protecting. Is it the officers, or the public they've sworn to serve?",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/On-Our-Watch-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "On Our Watch from NPR and KQED",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 11
},
"link": "/podcasts/onourwatch",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1567098962",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5ucHIub3JnLzUxMDM2MC9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbD9zYz1nb29nbGVwb2RjYXN0cw",
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/onourwatch",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/0OLWoyizopu6tY1XiuX70x",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-Our-Watch-p1436229/",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/show/on-our-watch",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510360/podcast.xml"
}
},
"on-the-media": {
"id": "on-the-media",
"title": "On The Media",
"info": "Our weekly podcast explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of \"making media,\" especially news media, because it's through that lens that we see the world and the world sees us",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm-3pm, MON 12am-1am",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/onTheMedia.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/otm",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wnyc"
},
"link": "/radio/program/on-the-media",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/On-the-Media-p69/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/onthemedia"
}
},
"pbs-newshour": {
"id": "pbs-newshour",
"title": "PBS NewsHour",
"info": "Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PBS-News-Hour-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "pbs"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pbs-newshour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pbs-newshour-full-show/id394432287?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/PBS-NewsHour---Full-Show-p425698/",
"rss": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/feeds/rss/podcasts/show"
}
},
"perspectives": {
"id": "perspectives",
"title": "Perspectives",
"tagline": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991",
"info": "KQED's series of daily listener commentaries since 1991.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Perspectives_Tile_Final.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Perspectives",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/perspectives/",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 14
},
"link": "/perspectives",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id73801135",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/432309616/perspectives",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/perspectives/category/perspectives/feed/",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93dzIua3FlZC5vcmcvcGVyc3BlY3RpdmVzL2NhdGVnb3J5L3BlcnNwZWN0aXZlcy9mZWVkLw"
}
},
"planet-money": {
"id": "planet-money",
"title": "Planet Money",
"info": "The economy explained. Imagine you could call up a friend and say, Meet me at the bar and tell me what's going on with the economy. Now imagine that's actually a fun evening.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/planetmoney.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/sections/money/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/planet-money",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/M4f5",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/planet-money/id290783428?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business--Economics-Podcasts/Planet-Money-p164680/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510289/podcast.xml"
}
},
"politicalbreakdown": {
"id": "politicalbreakdown",
"title": "Political Breakdown",
"tagline": "Politics from a personal perspective",
"info": "Political Breakdown is a new series that explores the political intersection of California and the nation. Each week hosts Scott Shafer and Marisa Lagos are joined with a new special guest to unpack politics -- with personality — and offer an insider’s glimpse at how politics happens.",
"airtime": "THU 6:30pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Political-Breakdown-2024-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Political Breakdown",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 5
},
"link": "/podcasts/politicalbreakdown",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/political-breakdown/id1327641087",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/e0c2d153-ad36-4c8d-901d-f1da6a724824/political-breakdown",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/572155894/political-breakdown",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/political-breakdown",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/07RVyIjIdk2WDuVehvBMoN",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/political-breakdown/feed/podcast"
}
},
"possible": {
"id": "possible",
"title": "Possible",
"info": "Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. It asks: What if everything goes right for once? How can we get there? Each episode also includes a short fiction story generated by advanced AI GPT-4, serving as a thought-provoking springboard to speculate how humanity could leverage technology for good.",
"airtime": "SUN 2pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Possible-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.possible.fm/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "Possible"
},
"link": "/radio/program/possible",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/possible/id1677184070",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/730YpdUSNlMyPQwNnyjp4k"
}
},
"pri-the-world": {
"id": "pri-the-world",
"title": "PRI's The World: Latest Edition",
"info": "Each weekday, host Marco Werman and his team of producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is.",
"airtime": "MON-FRI 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-World-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.pri.org/programs/the-world",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "PRI"
},
"link": "/radio/program/pri-the-world",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pris-the-world-latest-edition/id278196007?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/News--Politics-Podcasts/PRIs-The-World-p24/",
"rss": "http://feeds.feedburner.com/pri/theworld"
}
},
"radiolab": {
"id": "radiolab",
"title": "Radiolab",
"info": "A two-time Peabody Award-winner, Radiolab is an investigation told through sounds and stories, and centered around one big idea. In the Radiolab world, information sounds like music and science and culture collide. Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, the show is designed for listeners who demand skepticism, but appreciate wonder. WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media and many more.",
"airtime": "SUN 12am-1am, SAT 2pm-3pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/radiolab1400.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/radiolab",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiolab/id152249110?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/RadioLab-p68032/",
"rss": "https://feeds.wnyc.org/radiolab"
}
},
"reveal": {
"id": "reveal",
"title": "Reveal",
"info": "Created by The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX, Reveal is public radios first one-hour weekly radio show and podcast dedicated to investigative reporting. Credible, fact based and without a partisan agenda, Reveal combines the power and artistry of driveway moment storytelling with data-rich reporting on critically important issues. The result is stories that inform and inspire, arming our listeners with information to right injustices, hold the powerful accountable and improve lives.Reveal is hosted by Al Letson and showcases the award-winning work of CIR and newsrooms large and small across the nation. In a radio and podcast market crowded with choices, Reveal focuses on important and often surprising stories that illuminate the world for our listeners.",
"airtime": "SAT 4pm-5pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/reveal300px.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/reveal",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Reveal-p679597/",
"rss": "http://feeds.revealradio.org/revealpodcast"
}
},
"rightnowish": {
"id": "rightnowish",
"title": "Rightnowish",
"tagline": "Art is where you find it",
"info": "Rightnowish digs into life in the Bay Area right now… ish. Journalist Pendarvis Harshaw takes us to galleries painted on the sides of liquor stores in West Oakland. We'll dance in warehouses in the Bayview, make smoothies with kids in South Berkeley, and listen to classical music in a 1984 Cutlass Supreme in Richmond. Every week, Pen talks to movers and shakers about how the Bay Area shapes what they create, and how they shape the place we call home.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rightnowish-Podcast-Tile-500x500-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Rightnowish with Pendarvis Harshaw",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 16
},
"link": "/podcasts/rightnowish",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/721590300/rightnowish",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/rightnowish/feed/podcast",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rightnowish/id1482187648",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/rightnowish",
"google": "https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vS1FJTkMxMjU5MTY3NDc4",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/7kEJuafTzTVan7B78ttz1I"
}
},
"science-friday": {
"id": "science-friday",
"title": "Science Friday",
"info": "Science Friday is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide. Each week, the show focuses on science topics that are in the news and tries to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join host Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.",
"airtime": "FRI 11am-1pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Science-Friday-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/science-friday",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/science-friday",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=73329284&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Science-Friday-p394/",
"rss": "http://feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday"
}
},
"snap-judgment": {
"id": "snap-judgment",
"title": "Snap Judgment",
"tagline": "Real stories with killer beats",
"info": "The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap's musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling... with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by KQED & PRX.",
"airtime": "SAT 1pm-2pm, 9pm-10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Snap-Judgment-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Snap Judgment",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 4
},
"link": "https://snapjudgment.org",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/snap-judgment/id283657561",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/449018144/snap-judgment",
"stitcher": "https://www.pandora.com/podcast/snap-judgment/PC:241?source=stitcher-sunset",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cct7ZWmxHNAtLgBTqjC5v",
"rss": "https://snap.feed.snapjudgment.org/"
}
},
"soldout": {
"id": "soldout",
"title": "SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America",
"tagline": "A new future for housing",
"info": "Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sold-Out-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Sold Out: Rethinking Housing in America",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/soldout",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 13
},
"link": "/podcasts/soldout",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/911586047/s-o-l-d-o-u-t-a-new-future-for-housing",
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/introducing-sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america/id1531354937",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/soldout",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/38dTBSk2ISFoPiyYNoKn1X",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/sold-out-rethinking-housing-in-america",
"tunein": "https://tunein.com/radio/SOLD-OUT-Rethinking-Housing-in-America-p1365871/"
}
},
"spooked": {
"id": "spooked",
"title": "Spooked",
"tagline": "True-life supernatural stories",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Spooked-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED Spooked",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 7
},
"link": "https://spookedpodcast.org/",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spooked/id1279361017",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/549547848/snap-judgment-presents-spooked",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/76571Rfl3m7PLJQZKQIGCT",
"rss": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/TBotaapn"
}
},
"tech-nation": {
"id": "tech-nation",
"title": "Tech Nation Radio Podcast",
"info": "Tech Nation is a weekly public radio program, hosted by Dr. Moira Gunn. Founded in 1993, it has grown from a simple interview show to a multi-faceted production, featuring conversations with noted technology and science leaders, and a weekly science and technology-related commentary.",
"airtime": "FRI 10pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Tech-Nation-Radio-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "http://technation.podomatic.com/",
"meta": {
"site": "science",
"source": "Tech Nation Media"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tech-nation",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://technation.podomatic.com/rss2.xml"
}
},
"ted-radio-hour": {
"id": "ted-radio-hour",
"title": "TED Radio Hour",
"info": "The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ways to think and create.",
"airtime": "SUN 3pm-4pm, SAT 10pm-11pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/tedRadioHour.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2018-06-22",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/ted-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/8vsS",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=523121474&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/TED-Radio-Hour-p418021/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/510298/podcast.xml"
}
},
"thebay": {
"id": "thebay",
"title": "The Bay",
"tagline": "Local news to keep you rooted",
"info": "Host Devin Katayama walks you through the biggest story of the day with reporters and newsmakers.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Bay-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Bay",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/thebay",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 2
},
"link": "/podcasts/thebay",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452",
"amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d800ea4c-7a2c-42f2-b861-edaf78a5db0b/the-bay",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/586725995/the-bay",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC8259786327"
}
},
"thelatest": {
"id": "thelatest",
"title": "The Latest",
"tagline": "Trusted local news in real time",
"info": "",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Latest-2025-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Latest",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/thelatest",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 6
},
"link": "/thelatest",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-latest-from-kqed/id1197721799",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1257949365/the-latest-from-k-q-e-d",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/5KIIXMgM9GTi5AepwOYvIZ?si=bd3053fec7244dba",
"rss": "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/KQINC9137121918"
}
},
"theleap": {
"id": "theleap",
"title": "The Leap",
"tagline": "What if you closed your eyes, and jumped?",
"info": "Stories about people making dramatic, risky changes, told by award-winning public radio reporter Judy Campbell.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Leap-Podcast-Tile-703x703-1.jpg",
"imageAlt": "KQED The Leap",
"officialWebsiteLink": "/podcasts/theleap",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "kqed",
"order": 17
},
"link": "/podcasts/theleap",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-leap/id1046668171",
"npr": "https://www.npr.org/podcasts/447248267/the-leap",
"stitcher": "https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-leap",
"spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/show/3sSlVHHzU0ytLwuGs1SD1U",
"rss": "https://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-leap/feed/podcast"
}
},
"the-moth-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-moth-radio-hour",
"title": "The Moth Radio Hour",
"info": "Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Since 2008, The Moth podcast has featured many of our favorite stories told live on Moth stages around the country. For information on all of our programs and live events, visit themoth.org.",
"airtime": "SAT 8pm-9pm and SUN 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/theMoth.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://themoth.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "prx"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-moth-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moth-podcast/id275699983?mt=2",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/The-Moth-p273888/",
"rss": "http://feeds.themoth.org/themothpodcast"
}
},
"the-new-yorker-radio-hour": {
"id": "the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"title": "The New Yorker Radio Hour",
"info": "The New Yorker Radio Hour is a weekly program presented by the magazine's editor, David Remnick, and produced by WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Each episode features a diverse mix of interviews, profiles, storytelling, and an occasional burst of humor inspired by the magazine, and shaped by its writers, artists, and editors. This isn't a radio version of a magazine, but something all its own, reflecting the rich possibilities of audio storytelling and conversation. Theme music for the show was composed and performed by Merrill Garbus of tUnE-YArDs.",
"airtime": "SAT 10am-11am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-New-Yorker-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/tnyradiohour",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "WNYC"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-new-yorker-radio-hour",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1050430296",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/podcasts/WNYC-Podcasts/New-Yorker-Radio-Hour-p803804/",
"rss": "https://feeds.feedburner.com/newyorkerradiohour"
}
},
"the-sam-sanders-show": {
"id": "the-sam-sanders-show",
"title": "The Sam Sanders Show",
"info": "One of public radio's most dynamic voices, Sam Sanders helped launch The NPR Politics Podcast and hosted NPR's hit show It's Been A Minute. Now, the award-winning host returns with something brand new, The Sam Sanders Show. Every week, Sam Sanders and friends dig into the culture that shapes our lives: what's driving the biggest trends, how artists really think, and even the memes you can't stop scrolling past. Sam is beloved for his way of unpacking the world and bringing you up close to fresh currents and engaging conversations. The Sam Sanders Show is smart, funny and always a good time.",
"airtime": "FRI 12-1pm AND SAT 11am-12pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/The-Sam-Sanders-Show-Podcast-Tile-400x400-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"meta": {
"site": "arts",
"source": "KCRW"
},
"link": "https://www.kcrw.com/shows/the-sam-sanders-show/latest",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feed.cdnstream1.com/zjb/feed/download/ac/28/59/ac28594c-e1d0-4231-8728-61865cdc80e8.xml"
}
},
"the-splendid-table": {
"id": "the-splendid-table",
"title": "The Splendid Table",
"info": "\u003cem>The Splendid Table\u003c/em> hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture.",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Splendid-Table-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.splendidtable.org/",
"airtime": "SUN 10-11 pm",
"meta": {
"site": "radio",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/the-splendid-table"
},
"this-american-life": {
"id": "this-american-life",
"title": "This American Life",
"info": "This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.",
"airtime": "SAT 12pm-1pm, 7pm-8pm",
"imageSrc": "https://ww2.kqed.org/radio/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2018/04/thisAmericanLife.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "wbez"
},
"link": "/radio/program/this-american-life",
"subscribe": {
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=201671138&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"rss": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml"
}
},
"tinydeskradio": {
"id": "tinydeskradio",
"title": "Tiny Desk Radio",
"info": "We're bringing the best of Tiny Desk to the airwaves, only on public radio.",
"airtime": "SUN 8pm and SAT 9pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/300x300-For-Member-Station-Logo-Tiny-Desk-Radio-@2x.png",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/series/g-s1-52030/tiny-desk-radio",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/tinydeskradio",
"subscribe": {
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/g-s1-52030/rss.xml"
}
},
"wait-wait-dont-tell-me": {
"id": "wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"title": "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!",
"info": "Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis host the weekly NPR News quiz show alongside some of the best and brightest news and entertainment personalities.",
"airtime": "SUN 10am-11am, SAT 11am-12pm, SAT 6pm-7pm",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wait-Wait-Podcast-Tile-300x300-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/wait-wait-dont-tell-me",
"subscribe": {
"npr": "https://rpb3r.app.goo.gl/Xogv",
"apple": "https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?s=143441&mt=2&id=121493804&at=11l79Y&ct=nprdirectory",
"tuneIn": "https://tunein.com/radio/Wait-Wait-Dont-Tell-Me-p46/",
"rss": "https://feeds.npr.org/344098539/podcast.xml"
}
},
"weekend-edition-saturday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-saturday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Saturday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon.",
"airtime": "SAT 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-saturday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-saturday"
},
"weekend-edition-sunday": {
"id": "weekend-edition-sunday",
"title": "Weekend Edition Sunday",
"info": "Weekend Edition Sunday features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. The program has covered news events from Nelson Mandela's 1990 release from a South African prison to the capture of Saddam Hussein.",
"airtime": "SUN 5am-10am",
"imageSrc": "https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Weekend-Edition-Podcast-Tile-360x360-1.jpg",
"officialWebsiteLink": "https://www.npr.org/programs/weekend-edition-sunday/",
"meta": {
"site": "news",
"source": "npr"
},
"link": "/radio/program/weekend-edition-sunday"
}
},
"racesReducer": {},
"racesGenElectionReducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026Reducer": {},
"racesGenElection2026PresidentialReducer": {},
"radioSchedulesReducer": {},
"listsReducer": {
"posts/news?category=transportation": {
"isFetching": false,
"latestQuery": {
"from": 420,
"size": 12
},
"vitalsOnly": false,
"totalRequested": 12,
"isLoading": false,
"isLoadingMore": true,
"total": {
"value": 1951,
"relation": "eq"
},
"items": [
"news_11829125",
"news_11826287",
"news_11826281",
"news_11824758",
"news_11824913",
"news_11824004",
"news_11823807",
"news_11820991",
"news_11820003",
"news_11818938",
"news_11818774",
"news_11818583"
],
"complete": true
}
},
"recallGuideReducer": {
"intros": {},
"policy": {},
"candidates": {}
},
"savedArticleReducer": {
"articles": [],
"status": {}
},
"newslettersReducer": {
"isFetching": false,
"fetchFailed": false,
"hasFetched": false,
"newsletters": {},
"isSubscribing": false,
"isUnsubscribing": false,
"subscribedNewsletters": {}
},
"termsReducer": {
"about": {
"name": "About",
"type": "terms",
"id": "about",
"slug": "about",
"link": "/about",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"arts": {
"name": "Arts & Culture",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"description": "KQED Arts provides daily in-depth coverage of the Bay Area's music, art, film, performing arts, literature and arts news, as well as cultural commentary and criticism.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "arts",
"slug": "arts",
"link": "/arts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"artschool": {
"name": "Art School",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "artschool",
"slug": "artschool",
"link": "/artschool",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareabites": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareabites",
"slug": "bayareabites",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"bayareahiphop": {
"name": "Bay Area Hiphop",
"type": "terms",
"id": "bayareahiphop",
"slug": "bayareahiphop",
"link": "/bayareahiphop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"campaign21": {
"name": "Campaign 21",
"type": "terms",
"id": "campaign21",
"slug": "campaign21",
"link": "/campaign21",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"careers": {
"name": "Careers",
"type": "terms",
"id": "careers",
"slug": "careers",
"link": "/careers",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"checkplease": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "checkplease",
"slug": "checkplease",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"education": {
"name": "Education",
"grouping": [
"education"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "education",
"slug": "education",
"link": "/education",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"elections": {
"name": "Elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "elections",
"slug": "elections",
"link": "/elections",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"events": {
"name": "Events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "events",
"slug": "events",
"link": "/events",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"event": {
"name": "Event",
"alias": "events",
"type": "terms",
"id": "event",
"slug": "event",
"link": "/event",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"filmschoolshorts": {
"name": "Film School Shorts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "filmschoolshorts",
"slug": "filmschoolshorts",
"link": "/filmschoolshorts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"food": {
"name": "KQED food",
"grouping": [
"food",
"bayareabites",
"checkplease"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "food",
"slug": "food",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"forum": {
"name": "Forum",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/forum?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "forum",
"slug": "forum",
"link": "/forum",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"futureofyou": {
"name": "Future of You",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "futureofyou",
"slug": "futureofyou",
"link": "/futureofyou",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"jpepinheart": {
"name": "KQED food",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/food,bayareabites,checkplease",
"parent": "food",
"type": "terms",
"id": "jpepinheart",
"slug": "jpepinheart",
"link": "/food",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"liveblog": {
"name": "Live Blog",
"type": "terms",
"id": "liveblog",
"slug": "liveblog",
"link": "/liveblog",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"livetv": {
"name": "Live TV",
"parent": "tv",
"type": "terms",
"id": "livetv",
"slug": "livetv",
"link": "/livetv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"lowdown": {
"name": "The Lowdown",
"relatedContentQuery": "posts/lowdown?",
"parent": "news",
"type": "terms",
"id": "lowdown",
"slug": "lowdown",
"link": "/lowdown",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"mindshift": {
"name": "Mindshift",
"parent": "news",
"description": "MindShift explores the future of education by highlighting the innovative – and sometimes counterintuitive – ways educators and parents are helping all children succeed.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "mindshift",
"slug": "mindshift",
"link": "/mindshift",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news": {
"name": "News",
"grouping": [
"news",
"forum"
],
"type": "terms",
"id": "news",
"slug": "news",
"link": "/news",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"newsletters": {
"name": "newsletters",
"type": "terms",
"id": "newsletters",
"slug": "newsletters",
"link": "/newsletters",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"perspectives": {
"name": "Perspectives",
"parent": "radio",
"type": "terms",
"id": "perspectives",
"slug": "perspectives",
"link": "/perspectives",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"podcasts": {
"name": "Podcasts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "podcasts",
"slug": "podcasts",
"link": "/podcasts",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pop": {
"name": "Pop",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pop",
"slug": "pop",
"link": "/pop",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"pressroom": {
"name": "Pressroom",
"type": "terms",
"id": "pressroom",
"slug": "pressroom",
"link": "/pressroom",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"quest": {
"name": "Quest",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "quest",
"slug": "quest",
"link": "/quest",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"radio": {
"name": "Radio",
"grouping": [
"forum",
"perspectives"
],
"description": "Listen to KQED Public Radio – home of Forum and The California Report – on 88.5 FM in San Francisco, 89.3 FM in Sacramento, 88.3 FM in Santa Rosa and 88.1 FM in Martinez.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "radio",
"slug": "radio",
"link": "/radio",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"root": {
"name": "KQED",
"image": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png",
"imageWidth": 1200,
"imageHeight": 630,
"headData": {
"title": "KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California",
"description": "KQED provides public radio, television, and independent reporting on issues that matter to the Bay Area. We’re the NPR and PBS member station for Northern California."
},
"type": "terms",
"id": "root",
"slug": "root",
"link": "/root",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"science": {
"name": "Science",
"grouping": [
"science",
"futureofyou"
],
"description": "KQED Science brings you award-winning science and environment coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.",
"type": "terms",
"id": "science",
"slug": "science",
"link": "/science",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"stateofhealth": {
"name": "State of Health",
"parent": "science",
"type": "terms",
"id": "stateofhealth",
"slug": "stateofhealth",
"link": "/stateofhealth",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"support": {
"name": "Support",
"type": "terms",
"id": "support",
"slug": "support",
"link": "/support",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"thedolist": {
"name": "The Do List",
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "thedolist",
"slug": "thedolist",
"link": "/thedolist",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"trulyca": {
"name": "Truly CA",
"grouping": [
"arts",
"pop",
"trulyca"
],
"parent": "arts",
"type": "terms",
"id": "trulyca",
"slug": "trulyca",
"link": "/trulyca",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"tv": {
"name": "TV",
"type": "terms",
"id": "tv",
"slug": "tv",
"link": "/tv",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"voterguide": {
"name": "Voter Guide",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "voterguide",
"slug": "voterguide",
"link": "/voterguide",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"guiaelectoral": {
"name": "Guia Electoral",
"parent": "elections",
"alias": "elections",
"type": "terms",
"id": "guiaelectoral",
"slug": "guiaelectoral",
"link": "/guiaelectoral",
"taxonomy": "site"
},
"news_category_transportation": {
"isLoading": true
},
"news_1397": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1397",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1397",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1409,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/transportation"
},
"source_news_11820991": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "source_news_11820991",
"meta": {
"override": true
},
"name": "Bay Curious",
"link": "http://baycurious.org/",
"isLoading": false
},
"news_8": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_8",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "8",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "News",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "News Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 8,
"slug": "news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/news"
},
"news_195": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_195",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "195",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Aaron Peskin",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Aaron Peskin Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 203,
"slug": "aaron-peskin",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/aaron-peskin"
},
"news_510": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_510",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "510",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Caltrain",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Caltrain Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 519,
"slug": "caltrain",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/caltrain"
},
"news_27350": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27350",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27350",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "coronavirus",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "coronavirus Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27367,
"slug": "coronavirus",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/coronavirus"
},
"news_27504": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27504",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27504",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "covid-19",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "covid-19 Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27521,
"slug": "covid-19",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/covid-19"
},
"news_27626": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27626",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27626",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "featured-news",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "featured-news Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27643,
"slug": "featured-news",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/featured-news"
},
"news_1533": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1533",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1533",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "public transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "public transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1545,
"slug": "public-transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/public-transportation"
},
"news_28121": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_28121",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "28121",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Shamann Walton",
"slug": "shamann-walton",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Shamann Walton | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 28138,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/shamann-walton"
},
"news_2684": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2684",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2684",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "transit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "transit Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2701,
"slug": "transit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transit"
},
"news_20517": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20517",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20517",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "transportation",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "transportation Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20534,
"slug": "transportation",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/transportation"
},
"news_13": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_13",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "13",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Politics",
"slug": "politics",
"taxonomy": "category",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Politics | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 13,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/politics"
},
"news_269": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_269",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "269",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "BART",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "BART Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 277,
"slug": "bart",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bart"
},
"news_800": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_800",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "800",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Bevan Dufty",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Bevan Dufty Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 810,
"slug": "bevan-dufty",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bevan-dufty"
},
"news_116": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_116",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "116",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "police",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "police Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 120,
"slug": "police",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/police"
},
"news_2505": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2505",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2505",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "AC Transit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "AC Transit Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2520,
"slug": "ac-transit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/ac-transit"
},
"news_29029": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_29029",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "29029",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Coronavirus Resources and Explainers",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Coronavirus Resources and Explainers Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 29046,
"slug": "coronavirus-resources-and-explainers",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers"
},
"news_320": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_320",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "320",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Muni",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Muni Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 328,
"slug": "muni",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/muni"
},
"news_27808": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_27808",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "27808",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "resource",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "resource Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 27825,
"slug": "resource",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/resource"
},
"news_20887": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20887",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20887",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Bay Ferry",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Bay Ferry Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20904,
"slug": "san-francisco-bay-ferry",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-bay-ferry"
},
"news_1970": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1970",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1970",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Amtrak",
"slug": "amtrak",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Amtrak | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 1985,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/amtrak"
},
"news_18515": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18515",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18515",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/DrawnBayHeader.jpg",
"name": "Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay",
"description": "\"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay\" is a look at the Bay Area through the eyes of a longtime local cartoonist. Sometimes current, sometimes quirky, always interesting and engaging, you can find Drawn to the Bay here and on KQED’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds Monday through Friday. Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political animator and cartoonist who hatched in California before the Intertubes were even invented.\r\n",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "\"Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay\" is a look at the Bay Area through the eyes of a longtime local cartoonist. Sometimes current, sometimes quirky, always interesting and engaging, you can find Drawn to the Bay here and on KQED’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds Monday through Friday. Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political animator and cartoonist who hatched in California before the Intertubes were even invented.",
"title": "Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18549,
"slug": "mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay"
},
"news_6188": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_6188",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "6188",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Law and Justice",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Law and Justice Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 6212,
"slug": "law-and-justice",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/law-and-justice"
},
"news_20949": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20949",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20949",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay-featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay-featured Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20966,
"slug": "mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay-featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/mark-fiore-drawn-to-the-bay-featured"
},
"news_28089": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_28089",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "28089",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "police killings",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "police killings Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 28106,
"slug": "police-killings",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/police-killings"
},
"news_18046": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18046",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18046",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "police violence",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "police violence Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18080,
"slug": "police-violence",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/police-violence"
},
"news_1764": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1764",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1764",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "public transit",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "public transit Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1777,
"slug": "public-transit",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/public-transit"
},
"news_4096": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4096",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4096",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4115,
"slug": "san-francisco-municipal-transportation-agency",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-municipal-transportation-agency"
},
"news_545": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_545",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "545",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "San Francisco Police Department",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "San Francisco Police Department Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 554,
"slug": "san-francisco-police-department",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/san-francisco-police-department"
},
"news_1334": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1334",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1334",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "SFMTA",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "SFMTA Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1346,
"slug": "sfmta",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sfmta"
},
"news_20331": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20331",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20331",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "SFPD",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "SFPD Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20348,
"slug": "sfpd",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/sfpd"
},
"news_28031": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_28031",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "28031",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "George Floyd",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "George Floyd Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 28048,
"slug": "george-floyd",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/george-floyd"
},
"news_745": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_745",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "745",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "protests",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "protests Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 754,
"slug": "protests",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/protests"
},
"news_33523": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33523",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33523",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Bay Curious",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Bay Curious Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33540,
"slug": "bay-curious",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/bay-curious"
},
"news_17986": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17986",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17986",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/BayCuriousLogoFinal01-e1493662037229.png",
"name": "Bay Curious",
"description": "\u003ch2>A podcast exploring the Bay Area one question at a time\u003c/h2>\r\n\r\n\u003caside>\r\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; padding-right: 20px;\">\r\n\r\nKQED’s \u003cstrong>Bay Curious\u003c/strong> gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers.\r\n\u003cbr />\r\n\u003cspan class=\"alignleft\">\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1172473406\">\u003cimg width=\"75px\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/app/playmusic?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Ipi2mc5aqfen4nr2daayiziiyuy?t%3DBay_Curious\">\u003cimg width=\"75px\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/div>\r\n\u003c/aside> \r\n\u003ch2>What's your question?\u003c/h2>\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"huxq6\" class=\"curiosity-module\" data-pym-src=\"//modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/curiosity_modules/133\">\u003c/div>\r\n\u003cscript src=\"//assets.wearehearken.com/production/thirdparty/p.m.js\">\u003c/script>\r\n\u003ch2>Bay Curious monthly newsletter\u003c/h2>\r\nWe're launching it soon! \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEtzbyNbSQkRHCCAkKhoGiAl3Bd0zWxhk0ZseJ1KH_o_ZDjQ/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up\u003c/a> so you don't miss it when it drops.\r\n",
"taxonomy": "series",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "A podcast exploring the Bay Area one question at a time KQED’s Bay Curious gets to the bottom of the mysteries — both profound and peculiar — that give the Bay Area its unique identity. And we’ll do it with your help! You ask the questions. You decide what Bay Curious investigates. And you join us on the journey to find the answers. What's your question? Bay Curious monthly newsletter We're launching it soon! Sign up so you don't miss it when it drops.",
"title": "Bay Curious Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18020,
"slug": "baycurious",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/series/baycurious"
},
"news_33520": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_33520",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "33520",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Podcast",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Podcast Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 33537,
"slug": "podcast",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/podcast"
},
"news_356": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_356",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "356",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Science",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Science Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 364,
"slug": "science",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/science"
},
"news_4090": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_4090",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "4090",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Bay Area Traffic",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "KQED's Bay Area Traffic is your go-to source for the latest updates on traffic conditions. We share real-time traffic reports to help commuters stay informed.",
"title": "Bay Area Traffic Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 4109,
"slug": "bay-area-traffic",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/bay-area-traffic"
},
"news_92": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_92",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "92",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "traffic",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "traffic Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 95,
"slug": "traffic",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/traffic"
},
"news_248": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_248",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "248",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Technology",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Technology Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 256,
"slug": "technology",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/technology"
},
"news_260": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_260",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "260",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Alameda County",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Alameda County Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 268,
"slug": "alameda-county",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/alameda-county"
},
"news_17611": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_17611",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "17611",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "business",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "business Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 17645,
"slug": "business",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/business"
},
"news_3897": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3897",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3897",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Elon Musk",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Elon Musk Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3916,
"slug": "elon-musk",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/elon-musk"
},
"news_66": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_66",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "66",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Fremont",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Fremont Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 67,
"slug": "fremont",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/fremont"
},
"news_2075": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_2075",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "2075",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Robert Reich",
"slug": "robert-reich",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Robert Reich | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null,
"metaRobotsNoIndex": "noindex"
},
"ttid": 2090,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/robert-reich"
},
"news_1631": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1631",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1631",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"name": "Technology",
"slug": "technology",
"taxonomy": "tag",
"description": null,
"featImg": null,
"headData": {
"title": "Technology | KQED News",
"description": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogDescription": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"twDescription": null,
"twImgId": null
},
"ttid": 1643,
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/technology"
},
"news_57": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_57",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "57",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Tesla",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Tesla Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 57,
"slug": "tesla",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/tesla"
},
"news_19906": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19906",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19906",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Environment",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Environment Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19923,
"slug": "environment",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/environment"
},
"news_424": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_424",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "424",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Chevron",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Chevron Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 433,
"slug": "chevron",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/chevron"
},
"news_26260": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_26260",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "26260",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "chevron oil spill",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "chevron oil spill Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 26277,
"slug": "chevron-oil-spill",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/chevron-oil-spill"
},
"news_16": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_16",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "16",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Gavin Newsom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Gavin Newsom Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 16,
"slug": "gavin-newsom",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/gavin-newsom"
},
"news_26266": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_26266",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "26266",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "kern county oil spill",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "kern county oil spill Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 26283,
"slug": "kern-county-oil-spill",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/kern-county-oil-spill"
},
"news_3111": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_3111",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "3111",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "oil",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "oil Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 3129,
"slug": "oil",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/oil"
},
"news_18125": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_18125",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "18125",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "oil spills",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "oil spills Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 18159,
"slug": "oil-spills",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/oil-spills"
},
"news_7052": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_7052",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "7052",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {
"ogImgId": {
"data": {
"type": "attachments",
"id": "news_117396"
}
}
},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/KQED-Newsroom-Logo-Web-Banners-051.png",
"name": "KQED Newsroom",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "program",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": "KQED Newsroom",
"ogImgId": "news_117396",
"twDescription": null,
"description": "KQED Newsroom airs every Friday on KQED-9",
"title": "KQED Newsroom | KQED Arts",
"ogDescription": "KQED Newsroom is our weekly show highlighting the issues that matter most to the people of Northern California."
},
"ttid": 7078,
"slug": "kqed-newsroom",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/program/kqed-newsroom"
},
"news_223": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_223",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "223",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Arts and Culture",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Arts and Culture Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 231,
"slug": "arts-and-culture",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/arts-and-culture"
},
"news_1758": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1758",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1758",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Economy",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "category",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": "Full coverage of the economy",
"title": "Economy Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 2648,
"slug": "economy",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/category/economy"
},
"news_19133": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19133",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19133",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Arts",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Arts Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19150,
"slug": "arts",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/arts"
},
"news_1653": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_1653",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "1653",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California Academy of Sciences",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California Academy of Sciences Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 1665,
"slug": "california-academy-of-sciences",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california-academy-of-sciences"
},
"news_402": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_402",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "402",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "California budget",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "California budget Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 410,
"slug": "california-budget",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/california-budget"
},
"news_20297": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20297",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20297",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": "https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/KQED-Newsroom-Logo-Web-Banners-051.png",
"name": "KQED Newsroom Full Episodes",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "KQED Newsroom Full Episodes Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20314,
"slug": "kqed-newsroom-episode",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/kqed-newsroom-episode"
},
"news_19177": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_19177",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "19177",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "kqed-newsroom-featured",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "kqed-newsroom-featured Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 19194,
"slug": "kqed-newsroom-featured",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/kqed-newsroom-featured"
},
"news_20562": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_20562",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "20562",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Marisa Lagos",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Marisa Lagos Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 20579,
"slug": "marisa-lagos",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/marisa-lagos"
},
"news_163": {
"type": "terms",
"id": "news_163",
"meta": {
"index": "terms_1716263798",
"site": "news",
"id": "163",
"found": true
},
"relationships": {},
"featImg": null,
"name": "Scott Shafer",
"description": null,
"taxonomy": "tag",
"headData": {
"twImgId": null,
"twTitle": null,
"ogTitle": null,
"ogImgId": null,
"twDescription": null,
"description": null,
"title": "Scott Shafer Archives | KQED News",
"ogDescription": null
},
"ttid": 170,
"slug": "scott-shafer",
"isLoading": false,
"link": "/news/tag/scott-shafer"
}
},
"userPermissionsReducer": {
"wpLoggedIn": false
},
"eventsReducer": {},
"fssReducer": {},
"tvDailyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvWeeklyScheduleReducer": {},
"tvPrimetimeScheduleReducer": {},
"tvMonthlyScheduleReducer": {},
"userAccountReducer": {
"user": {
"email": null,
"emailStatus": "EMAIL_UNVALIDATED",
"loggedStatus": "LOGGED_OUT",
"loggingChecked": false,
"articles": [],
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"phoneNumber": null,
"fetchingMembership": false,
"membershipError": false,
"memberships": [
{
"id": null,
"startDate": null,
"firstName": null,
"lastName": null,
"familyNumber": null,
"memberNumber": null,
"memberSince": null,
"expirationDate": null,
"pfsEligible": false,
"isSustaining": false,
"membershipLevel": "Prospect",
"membershipStatus": "Non Member",
"lastGiftDate": null,
"renewalDate": null,
"lastDonationAmount": null
}
]
},
"authModal": {
"isOpen": false,
"view": "LANDING_VIEW"
},
"error": null
},
"youthMediaReducer": {},
"checkPleaseReducer": {
"filterData": {
"region": {
"key": "Restaurant Region",
"filters": [
"Any Region"
]
},
"cuisine": {
"key": "Restaurant Cuisine",
"filters": [
"Any Cuisine"
]
}
},
"restaurantDataById": {},
"restaurantIdsSorted": [],
"error": null
},
"userAgentReducer": {
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)",
"isBot": true
},
"requestOutcomesReducer": {
"notFound": []
}
}
