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"content": "\u003cp>How safe is your Uber ride? That question has dogged the company for years, as it has faced complaints from passengers and drivers alleging they have been sexually assaulted in an Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Uber is revealing the scale of those complaints for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company received 5,981 allegations of serious sexual assault in the U.S. over two years, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/about/reports/us-safety-report/\">new report covering 2017 and 2018\u003c/a>. The claims range from unwanted touching and kissing to rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.-only report also covers deaths involving Uber rides. During those two years, 107 people died in crashes involving Uber cars, and 19 people were killed in physical assaults during or soon after an Uber ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As troubling as those statistics are, the incidents they capture are rare. People in the U.S. took 2.3 billion rides using Uber in those two years. For 99.9% of those trips, no safety incident was reported, and the serious safety problems detailed in the report were even more uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the scale that Uber operates, we're going to see both the good and the bad that happens in society because we're operating so many trips every single day,\" said Tony West, Uber's chief legal officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the unfortunate but sad truths is that sexual assault, sexual violence is far more prevalent in American society than a lot of people recognize,\" he said. \"That exists in companies, it exists in classrooms, it exists on university campuses and homes. Uber's not immune to that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Data Paint a Mixed, and Limited, Picture\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The report is a window into a long-standing \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/11/25/782732967/uber-stripped-of-its-license-to-operate-in-london\">problem \u003c/a>for ride-hailing companies — not just Uber, but competitors around the world, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/11/759899409/lyft-facing-flood-of-lawsuits-after-riders-report-they-were-sexually-attacked-by\">Lyft\u003c/a> in the U.S., Didi in China and Ola in India. The apps have come under intense scrutiny for how they screen drivers, handle complaints and remove offenders from their platforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Uber's report doesn't present a complete picture. When it comes to sexual assaults, Uber includes what it defines as the five most severe categories: nonconsensual kissing of a nonsexual body part, attempted nonconsensual sexual penetration, nonconsensual touching of a sexual body part, nonconsensual kissing of a sexual body part and nonconsensual sexual penetration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report does not include other types of sexual misconduct, like masturbation, asking for sex or verbal threats of assault. Uber worked with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and other advocacy groups to develop the report and address safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11789655 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/12/12042019_Lyft-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report counts car crashes and physical assaults that resulted in a death, but not those that resulted in injuries — likely far larger numbers. The company says it will release updated figures every two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate of serious sexual assault incidents per ride went down in every category between 2017 and 2018. For example, the average rate of sexual assault reports across the five categories fell 16% from one year to the next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I feel comfortable that Uber is a very safe mode of transportation. And I think the data in this report actually indicates that as well,\" West said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber also warned that rates could go up in the years to come if more people are encouraged to report sexual assault. Reporting rates for sexual violence and misconduct are notoriously low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sexual assault numbers in Uber's report cover a wide range of allegations. Some of the claims ended up being investigated by police and criminally prosecuted. In other cases, Uber was unable to reach the person who reported the assault for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victims were both riders and drivers. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/05/29/728005817/uber-to-start-banning-passengers-with-low-ratings\">passengers\u003c/a> were accused of sexual assault in nearly half the reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most frequent reports were of unwanted touching of sexual body parts — the mouth, breasts, buttocks or genitals. Uber received 1,440 such reports in 2017 and 1,560 in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company received 235 reports of nonconsensual sexual penetration — rape — last year and 229 such reports the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 19 deaths from physical assault, Uber did not break down who committed the assaults. Eight victims were riders, seven were Uber drivers and four were third parties, such as people outside the cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber considers a fatal assault as related to Uber if it involved at least one person using the app — either a rider or driver — or if it involved people paired by the Uber app and took place within 48 hours of the ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Is Uber More or Less Safe Than a Taxi?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A question the report does not answer is how Uber's safety record compares with other forms of transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no national statistics for how many sexual assaults or deaths happen in U.S. taxis each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxis are typically regulated by individual cities, and most police departments do not track whether sexual assaults involve a particular company or type of work, said John Boit, executive vice president of the Transportation Alliance, a trade group that represents taxi and limousine companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rachel Abrams, San Francisco lawyer whose firm represents victims of sexual assault on ride-hailing apps\"]'Having a dashboard camera for these rides would, I think, prevent a substantial portion of the assaults from happening.'[/pullquote]The data that are available are hard to compare directly with Uber's report. San Francisco's transportation regulator tracks complaints about taxis, mainly through the city's 311 hotline. In 2017, for example, San Francisco received 14 reports of violence or physical altercations and four reports of accidents involving injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city does not separate out sexual assault complaints. And without knowing the total number of rides taken in San Francisco taxis in that year, it is impossible to calculate how often such incidents occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the 107 people killed in crashes involving an Uber vehicle in the two years covered by the report, that compares with 74,033 people in total killed in crashes on U.S. roads during that period, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber's fatality rate per mile driven was about half the national rate, according to the NHTSA, in each year of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Weighing Safety and Privacy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In the past two years, Uber has introduced a number of safety features, including a \"panic button\" in its app that connects passengers and drivers to emergency services, using sensors in drivers' smartphones to detect possible crashes and performing continuous background checks of drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is considering additional safety measures, including recording rides with audio or video and sharing with other ride-hailing companies the names of drivers who have been banned from its app for serious safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These newest proposals raise questions about how Uber will balance the safety of passengers and drivers with their rights to privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11777002,news_11773127,news_11738380 label='Related Coverage']Sharing the names of banned drivers could help prevent a driver banned for groping, for example, from simply switching over to driving for rival Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're committed to doing that in a way that's fair and that is compliant with the law,\" West said. \"But we think it is important that if someone is not deemed to be safe on our platform that that information is shared with others.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company already shares this information in Chicago, where local law requires ride-hailing apps to notify city officials when they ban a driver for reasons including complaints of sexual misconduct and physical assault. The city then passes those names on to other ride-hailing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could flag drivers who behave unsafely or inappropriately, even if their behavior does not violate the law. Allegations may not be corroborated the way they would be in a criminal case, however, and it is unclear how much information another company would require to ban a driver for behavior conducted while using a different app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is also testing audio recording in some cities in Latin America and video recording in Texas. It allows either drivers or passengers to initiate recordings. They can choose to send the file to Uber but cannot access or save it for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many critics have pushed for Uber to require cameras in cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having a dashboard camera for these rides would, I think, prevent a substantial portion of the assaults from happening,\" said Rachel Abrams, a lawyer in San Francisco whose firm represents victims of sexual assault on ride-hailing apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rolling out such recordings more widely will require navigating privacy and notification laws that differ across states and countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is the first ride-hailing company to publicly release its safety data. Lyft has also said it is working on a report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, victims of sexual assault are taking their claims against Uber \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/12/759876637/lawsuits-say-lyft-doesnt-do-enough-to-protect-women-from-predator-drivers\">and Lyft\u003c/a> to court. 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Dozens of locations across the region topped an inch of rain, including downtown San Francisco and San Francisco International Airport (1.14), Hayward Airport (1.13) and Oakland International Airport (1.01).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Driving across the mountains? Not a lot of fun:\u003c/strong> Winter storm warnings are in effect through Thanksgiving afternoon for most mountain highways in Northern and Central California and through early Friday for higher-elevation routes in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic has been intermittently halted on Interstate 80, U.S. 50 and Highway 88, the main routes to Lake Tahoe and other resorts in the central Sierra Nevada. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk showed off his company's all-electric \"Cybertruck\" on Thursday, touting its versatility and toughness. But the truck's unique design — it follows one angle from the front bumper to the top of the windshield, for instance — threw some Tesla fans for a loop. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And during a demonstration to show off the truck's \"armor glass,\" the windows smashed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In typical Tesla style, the unveiling in Los Angeles included a countdown clock and an auditorium full of fans and journalists. The truck drove onto the stage through wafts of artificial smoke, and music drummed through loudspeakers. On the periphery, pyrotechnic flames rose as the vehicle stopped in front of a graffiti-style Cybertruck graphic, in stark black and white. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk had teased several of the design cues ahead of the event, citing influences from \u003cem>Bladerunner\u003c/em> to the James Bond movie \u003cem>The Spy Who Loved Me\u003c/em>. Both films featured vehicles with sharply angled front ends and overall wedge shapes — an approach to car design that's been seen as futuristic and aerodynamic since Alfa Romeo created the knifelike \u003ca href=\"https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/cars/classic-concepts-1968-alfa-romeo-carabo\">Carabo\u003c/a> concept car in 1968. Others followed, such as Lamborghini's angular Countach and the Lotus Esprit, one of which was made into an amphibious vehicle for Roger Moore's James Bond — a car that \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/18/tesla-elon-musk-james-bond-lotus-submarine-car\">Musk bought in 2013\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The front of the Cybertruck angles up to a point just above the front-seat headrests, where it meets an even longer slope down to the rear — a continuous plane that includes both a transparent roof panel and the truck's rolltop bed cover, which retracts behind the back seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musk seems to have expected the wedge-shaped design to split some potential customers, saying months before the truck's long-awaited unveiling that \u003ca href=\"https://electrek.co/2019/03/15/tesla-cyberpunk-electric-pickup-truck-teaser-elon-musk/\">its look\u003c/a> \"may be too futuristic for most people.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11788182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-800x450.jpe\" alt=\"Tesla unveiled its Cybertruck electric vehicle Thursday night. After the much-hyped event, the company's fans were divided on the truck's aggressively angular design.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11788182\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-800x450.jpe 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-160x90.jpe 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-1020x574.jpe 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27-1200x675.jpe 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/cybertruck-5_wide-a71c29f4a3bb25b815a5eea6bb234c41e4e3fd27.jpe 1435w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tesla unveiled its Cybertruck electric vehicle Thursday night. After the much-hyped event, the company's fans were divided on the truck's aggressively angular design. \u003ccite>(via Tesla Motors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Cybertruck also looks markedly different from the truck concept improvised by Tesla owner Simone Giertz — who won fans earlier this year when she hacked off the back roof of a new Tesla Model 3 and converted the sedan into a truck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giertz, who was at the Tesla event, said of the Cybertruck,\" I have no idea what I think of it. Need to sleep on it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, she elaborated somewhat: \"I've slept on it now, but my facial expression is still the same. I think I might have gotten chronic shocked \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cybertruck?src=hashtag_click\">#Cybertruck\u003c/a> face.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SimoneGiertz/status/1197929481454813184?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics called it a doorstop or a very ugly DeLorean — or something that might be seen in an old vector-graphic video game. But the truck also had its defenders, who seem to chalk up the initial negative comments to the Cybertruck's bold look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really disappointed by my colleagues at so many pubs who are dismissing the Cybertruck because it looks weird,\" \u003cem>Roadshow \u003c/em>Editor-in-Chief Tim Stevens \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tim_Stevens/status/1197783753705185284\">said via Twitter\u003c/a>. He added, \"Many of these same colleagues spent this entire week lamenting an industry that is churning out samey, half-assed crossover SUVs. I'll take weird over anonymous.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter user David Wu \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/libdave/status/1197750810261647361\">compared it to a stealth fighter\u003c/a>: \"The F35 of pickup trucks. Don't think my mind has ever been blown like this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla says the Cybertruck drives better than most sports cars and is more useful than a normal truck. From a standing start, the truck's maxed-out version can accelerate to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds, according to the company. And on paper at least, the pairing of electric motors — known for their high torque output — with a truck would seem to be a slam-dunk concept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pickup trucks, like most automobiles, are also sold on image. And both Tesla and Musk have repeatedly played up the new electric truck's ruggedness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You want a truck that's really tough? Not fake tough?\" Musk asked the crowd Thursday night. He also said Tesla will make the exterior of the Cybertruck from a stainless steel alloy developed by his companies. \"We're going to be using the same alloy in the Starship rocket,\" Musk said, referring to his SpaceX project. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is literally bulletproof to a 9 mm handgun, that's how strong the skin is,\" Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then things went off track with the \"Tesla armor glass\" strength test. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7atGkba-Z8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A metal ball was dropped onto a sheet of what Musk described as \"regular car glass,\" leaving a long crack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test a sheet of Tesla's glass, the metal ball was taken up to a height of around 10 feet and dropped again. The \"armor glass\" remained intact. But Musk didn't stop there — he turned the ball over to Tesla's chief designer, Franz von Holzhausen, who had previously whacked the truck's doors with a sledgehammer to show its durability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Franz, could you try to break this glass, please?\" Musk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You sure?\" von Holzhausen asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without much of a windup, von Holzhausen whirled the ball at Tesla's brand-new truck — leaving a nasty-looking spiderweb of splintered and dented glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well,\" Musk said afterward. \"Maybe that was a little too hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staring at the ruined window, one hand on his chin, Musk added, \"It didn't go through. That's the plus side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then von Holzhausen asked if they should try the rear window. Musk agreed, and was soon standing in front of two pock-marked windows for the rest of the carefully stage-managed event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not bad,\" Musk summed up that portion of the night, adding, \"Room for improvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cybertruck has six seats and a cargo bed (or \"vault,\" as Tesla calls it) that's 6 1/2 feet long. Its tailgate also hides a ramp, for rolling materials or vehicles into the bed. The truck is 231.7 inches (19.3 feet) long, nearly 80 inches wide and 75 inches tall. Tesla lists its maximum range at more than 500 miles. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck will be offered in a wide spectrum of driving range and weight capacity, depending on which motor is powering the vehicle. While the basic single-motor truck would have a range of around 250 miles and a tow rating of 7,500 pounds using rear-wheel drive, the three-motor all-wheel-drive version would double that range and be capable of towing 14,000 pounds, Tesla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The starting price for the CyberTruck is $39,900. In the most high-powered version, it would cost $69,900. The company is taking preorders now, with a $100 deposit required to reserve a vehicle that Tesla says will hit the market in about two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps reflecting the uncertainty over the new design, Tesla's stock price fell overnight and continued to dip on Friday, down by around 6% at midday ET. 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"content": "\u003cp>In an effort to gain community support and bring attention to contract negotiations, AC Transit bus drivers and mechanics gathered at Fruitvale BART Station on Saturday to air their grievances against management over what they say are stalled negotiations. Their labor union, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 192 (\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ATULocal192/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATU Local 192\u003c/a>) received support from other labor unions across the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, AC Transit's labor union entered negotiations with the company as their contract was set to expire at the end of June. In September, the union voted to authorize a strike as talks between both parties carried on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They've been meeting pretty regularly to try to negotiate a contract. Unfortunately, things have not been moving forward in the way that's productive for the workers,\" said Elizabeth Ortega-Toro, executive secretary-treasurer of \u003ca href=\"https://alamedalabor.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda Labor Council\u003c/a>, an umbrella organization representing more than 135 unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/about-us/facts-and-figures/ridership/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AC Transit\u003c/a> services approximately 1.5 million people who live in the agency's 364 square mile service area.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sticking Points\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The union said talks have stalled over concerns regarding sickness and safety. Among other things, they are calling on the company to keep legacy language around sick policy in its renewed contract.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yvonne M. Williams, ATU Local 192 union president\"]'You may have heard it on the news, we're subject to attacks while we're at work.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their previous contract allowed up to a year to heal for those with debilitating illnesses, but now the union says AC Transit wants to scale that back to 30 days, according to union president Yvonne M. Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Hopper, who has been driving for AC Transit for 17 years, said she's concerned for her coworkers \"who are sick and injured, and who are being threatened to be terminated because of their injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-800x600.jpg\" alt='Karen Hopper, who has been driving with AC Transit for 17 years, is standing while holding up a sign that reads \"AC Transit! Workers & riders roll together\". 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An \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Drivers-Under-Siege-486501371.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC Investigative Unit\u003c/a> review found a spike in assaults on AC Transit bus drivers in recent years after looking at 200 bus surveillance videos and uncovering an increase in the number of assaults against drivers. The videos show drivers being punched, choked, and threatened at gunpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You may have heard it on the news,\" said Williams, \"we're subject to attacks while we're at work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jovanka Beckles from Teamsters 856\"]'When we fight locally that gives the rest of this country the energy and the willingness to continue to fight.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said they've been asking for safety shields, a barrier between passengers and bus drivers, to be installed in their buses for years. But Williams claims when AC Transit ordered buses, they \"did not specify that they wanted shields.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams also claims that management has said they would only retrofit 25 out of 700 buses with protective shields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union is also demanding living wages and improved bathroom conditions, as well as asking the agency to stop diverting local services to the Transbay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they don't have enough operators to provide the service for the Transbay service, they would divert service from the inner community to provide that service to Transbay lines,\" Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Union Solidarity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Members from the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, including their president Keith Brown, attended the rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We stand in solidarity with ATU 192,\" Brown said to the crowd. \"We thank you because, ATU, you had our back in February, our students' backs in Oakland. You supported us during our strike ... and we're here to return the favor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787082\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787082\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-800x600.jpg\" alt='President of Oakland Education Association Keith Brown speaking into a megaphone in front of rallygoers holding signs that say \"Fight for a better workstation,\" \"When we fight, we win,\" and \"AC Transit! Workers & riders roll together.\" The rally was hosted by ATU Local 192 at Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Saturday, November 16, 2019.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3699-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of Oakland Education Association Keith Brown speaking at a rally by ATU Local 192 held at Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The union representing BART workers, \u003ca href=\"http://atu1555.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATU Local 1555\u003c/a>, said they'd support their AC Transit colleagues and walk alongside them at the picket lines should the latter decide to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART union president Gena L. Alexander said transit workers worry about safety on the job because they encounter people with mental disabilities or people who are experiencing homelessness or drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also have to deal with passengers who take public transportation to work every day and who may be under an extenuating amount of pressure thereby taking their frustrations out on the workers, Alexander added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're running late, but you were late when you left home. Now your ticket doesn't work. And now you're mad at the agent because they have to fix your ticket or tell you the bad news that you don't have enough money,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"ac-transit\" label=\"Related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To some, the fight is larger than local. \"We know that when we fight locally that gives the rest of this country the energy and the willingness to continue to fight,\" said Jovanka Beckles from \u003ca href=\"https://teamsters856.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teamsters 856\u003c/a>, a union representing workers from over 150 different employers in both the public and private sector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other unions in attendance included \u003ca href=\"https://newhaventa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Haven Teachers Association\u003c/a> representing educators from Union City, \u003ca href=\"https://www.unitehere2850.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unite HERE 2850\u003c/a> representing hotel and restaurant employees, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu-uhw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEIU United Healthcare Workers West\u003c/a> representing healthcare workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SEIU 1021\u003c/a> representing city and county employees, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ibew595.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IBEW Local 595\u003c/a> representing electrical workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally ended with attendees breaking into small groups and heading out to share information with others and local businesses. Rallygoers were tasked with poster and flyer canvassing at different BART stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787111\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787111\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-800x600.jpg\" alt='John Murray worked as a Muni bus driver for 30 years before he retired. Liz Kimura worked as a mechanic for BART for 20 years before she retired. Both are holding up signs that read \"AC Transit! Workers & riders roll together\". Kimura is also wearing a homemade poster sign that says \"The Working Class has POWER! We need unity & organization to use it!\" They attended a rally hosted by ATU Local 192 which was held at Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Saturday, November 16, 2019.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3733-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Murray worked as a Muni bus driver for 30 years before he retired. Liz Kimura worked as a mechanic for BART for 20 years before she retired. They attended a rally hosted by ATU Local 192 which was held at Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>AC Transit spokesperson Robert Lyles said the agency remains at the negotiating table, that they are unaware of any impasse in contract negotiations and that he will not get into details because negotiations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driver compartment shields are \"just one\" of the improvements for bus operators\u003cb> \u003c/b>that have already been adopted by the board of directors, according to Lyles. The company is in the process of testing out two beta model shields and waiting for union approval before moving on to next steps, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For us, our train operators are safer because we go into a cab and close the door,\" Alexander said, \"AC Transit bus drivers don't have that luxury. They are at the mercy of the public ... like sitting ducks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their previous contract allowed up to a year to heal for those with debilitating illnesses, but now the union says AC Transit wants to scale that back to 30 days, according to union president Yvonne M. Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen Hopper, who has been driving for AC Transit for 17 years, said she's concerned for her coworkers \"who are sick and injured, and who are being threatened to be terminated because of their injuries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11787110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11787110\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-800x600.jpg\" alt='Karen Hopper, who has been driving with AC Transit for 17 years, is standing while holding up a sign that reads \"AC Transit! Workers & riders roll together\". She attended a rally hosted by ATU Local 192 which was held at Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Saturday, November 16, 2019.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/IMG_3743-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Hopper, who has been driving with AC Transit for 17 years, attended a rally hosted by ATU Local 192 which was held at Fruitvale BART station in Oakland on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. \u003ccite>(Julie Chang/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another issue is safety. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Drivers-Under-Siege-486501371.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC Investigative Unit\u003c/a> review found a spike in assaults on AC Transit bus drivers in recent years after looking at 200 bus surveillance videos and uncovering an increase in the number of assaults against drivers. The videos show drivers being punched, choked, and threatened at gunpoint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You may have heard it on the news,\" said Williams, \"we're subject to attacks while we're at work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]G[/dropcap]et ready for a little slice of Bay Area transportation history this weekend: A new cycling and walking path across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge will open to the public Saturday morning. That marks the first time ever, I think, that people will be able to stroll or bike directly between Contra Costa County and Marin County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you're motivated by history and a first-ever sort of experience, woo-hoo! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the real reason you should check out the 6-mile path across the bridge is the visual feast on display from the upper deck: from the Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate to the wide expanses of San Pablo Bay, with an amazing vista of Mount Tamalpais and the rest of the northern bay's hills and ridges. You can also get a leisurely, close-up view of the bridge's 1950s-era Erector-set construction and get a chance to take in the span's curves and swoops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_10430659,news_11648255\" label=\"Richmond-San Rafael Bridge\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local dignitaries, transportation officials and bike and trail advocates/enthusiasts will participate in \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/RSR_BikePath_RibbonCutting_Invitation_v5.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a ribbon-cutting ceremony\u003c/a> for the new path will be held near the bridge's toll plaza at 10 a.m. Saturday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the groups participating: Bike East Bay, which is sponsoring \u003ca href=\"https://bikeeastbay.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=1554\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a ride\u003c/a> to the event from the Richmond BART station. Cyclists will begin to gather there at 9 a.m. and roll out to the bridge at 9:30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has put together \u003ca href=\"https://bikeeastbay.org/news/getting-bridge\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an excellent guide\u003c/a> on getting to the new bike path, and it has posted a list of \u003ca href=\"https://bikeeastbay.org/news/join-richmond-san-rafael-bridge-group-ride\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the many Saturday morning group rides\u003c/a> planned to celebrate the path's opening. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walking and cycling path is 10 feet wide — it will probably seem a little crowded at points on opening weekend — and is separated from upper-deck motor traffic by a 42-inch-high movable barrier similar to the one installed on the Golden Gate Bridge. That will allow the barrier to be shifted to the right when Caltrans needs to do maintenance. (More on the movable barrier in the rather cool MTC video below.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qk0i5WnVBl8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new path, which is officially a four-year pilot project, was financed with funds from the Bay Area Toll Authority. It's part of a project under which a third lane for motor vehicle traffic was restored last year to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge's lower, eastbound deck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total cost of the project: $74 million, including $36 million for restoring the motor vehicle lane and $20 million for the cyclist/pedestrian lane. Caltrans, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority and the Transportation Authority of Marin partnered with BATA on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>BART's top official issued a public apology Monday to a man \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11785824/bart-officers-detain-handcuff-and-cite-man-for-eating-sandwich-on-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handcuffed\u003c/a> last week after a transit agency police officer confronted him for eating a sandwich on a station platform — an apology the agency was later forced to modify and one which the detained man is criticizing as an attempt to blame the incident on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 4 incident at BART's Pleasant Hill Station, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/7husal0t7/videos/pcb.2520780144653829/2520765981321912/?type=3&theater\">posted on Facebook\u003c/a> on Friday, sparked a social media backlash against the agency and prompted at least one \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/bart-riders-hold-lunchtime-eat-protest-man-detained/story?id=66911537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"eat-in\" protest\u003c/a> in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART General Manager Bob Powers said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2019/news20191111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a written statement\u003c/a> that although eating in BART's paid areas is banned, he was \"disappointed\" in how the encounter between Officer D. 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When the officer walked by again and still saw him eating, he moved forward with the process of issuing him a citation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART later corrected Powers' statement to clarify that McCormick did not pass by Foster and then return but instead approached Foster about not eating when he first encountered him. \"Mr. Foster did not stop eating and the officer moved forward with the process of issuing him a citation,\" the corrected statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I read that apology, and I wasn't feeling it at all,\" Foster, 31, of Concord, said in an interview Monday. He said BART had not contacted him since the incident and that he would \"probably have felt a little better about it and known they were genuine\" if the agency had reached out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster said he felt the statement was an attempt \"to make the story seem like I was the one that was actually in the wrong and I was just uncooperative from the jump, and it wasn't like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster, who is African American, suggested that he'd been singled out for attention by McCormick, who is white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCormick \"just came straight up to me and got in my face and told me I couldn't eat on BART,\" Foster said, describing the officer's approach as \"aggressive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its statement, BART noted, as other have, that video of the incident shows Foster directing a string of homophobic slurs at McCormick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've missed two trains because of your old f____t ass,\" Foster says in the video. \"You f____n' f_g. Ask your mama what my name is, that's what you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Foster said he's gotten some \"backlash\" about those comments, but was unapologetic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to take back what I said. I said what I said. I meant what I said. I mean, I was angry,\" he said. \"I felt disrespected and I felt I needed to disrespect him in every shape, form or fashion I could because I felt I was being singled out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster's citation for eating on the platform carries a maximum fine of $250 or 48 hours of community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's independent police auditor, Russell Bloom, said Friday his office is collecting evidence on the incident before deciding whether to launch a formal investigation. The evidence includes video from social media and footage from cameras at the station and officers' body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although frequent BART patrons can testify that eating and drinking on trains and station platforms is an everyday occurrence, it appears to be rare for the prohibition on dining and snacking to be enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokespeople say they don't have current statistics on eating and drinking citations, but a 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/It-s-really-hard-to-get-fined-by-BART-for-bad-11821144.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SFGATE inquiry\u003c/a> into the issue found that the agency issued 11 eating/drinking tickets in the final nine months of 2016. That was equivalent to one every 8 million rides.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11: \u003c/strong> BART's top official, General Manager Robert Powers, issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11786100/bart-says-its-sorry-about-detaining-man-for-eating-but-hes-not-buying-apology\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a public apology\u003c/a> Monday to a man detained and handcuffed last week after one of the transit agency's police officers spotted him eating a sandwich on a train platform. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nov. 4 incident sparked a social media backlash against BART and prompted at least one \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/bart-riders-hold-lunchtime-eat-protest-man-detained/story?id=66911537\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\"eat-in\" protest\u003c/a> in response. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Powers said in his statement that although eating in BART's paid areas is banned that he was \"disappointed\" in how the encounter between Officer D. McCormick and passenger Steve Foster unfolded. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The officer was doing his job but context is key,\" Powers' statement said. \"Enforcement of infractions such as eating and drinking inside our paid area should not be used to prevent us from delivering on our mission to provide safe, reliable, and clean transportation. We have to read each situation and allow people to get where they are going on time and safely. ... I apologize to Mr. Foster, our riders, employees, and the public who have had an emotional reaction to the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, updated 12:40 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART says it's looking into an incident earlier this week in which a man was detained and handcuffed after a transit agency police officer spotted him eating a breakfast sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said videos of the incident, which occurred about 8 a.m. Monday on the platform of the Pleasant Hill Station, has been forwarded to the agency's independent police auditor for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One video, posted Friday to Facebook and Twitter, shows the sandwich-eating man, who appears to be African American, protesting that he had been singled out by the BART police officer, who appears to be white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/7husal0t7/posts/2520780144653829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Videos of the incident\u003c/a> first appeared on the Facebook account of \"Bill Gluckman\" — an apparent pseudonym. At one point in the video, the man gives his first name as \"Steve.\" The principal officer in the case, identified by his nameplate as D. McCormick, later refers to the man as \"Mr. Foster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The platform video begins after McCormick had made contact with the man. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=640\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California law\u003c/a> makes it an infraction to eat or drink \"in or on a (transit) system facility or vehicle in areas where those activities are prohibited by that system.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're eating,\" the officer says, restraining the man by holding his backpack. \"So what?\" the man replies. \"It's against the law. ... It's a violation of California law. I have the right to detain you,\" the officer says. \"No you don't,\" the man responds. \"Can you please let my backpack go?\" A moment later, the officer calls for backup and tells the man he's \"going to jail\" for resisting arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ToneOliver/status/1192863750040109056\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/7husal0t7/videos/pcb.2520780144653829/2520765981321912/?type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longer version of the footage\u003c/a>, on Facebook, shows the dispute continuing for more than seven minutes before other officers arrive. At one point, after McCormick had asked for the man's name, the man bursts out with a series of homophobic slurs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've missed two trains because of your old faggot ass,\" he says. \"You f___in' fag. Ask your mama what my name is, that's what you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, three more officers arrive on the scene. One handcuffs the man and leads him from the platform. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/7husal0t7/videos/pcb.2520780144653829/2520766257988551/?type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a second video\u003c/a>, McCormick explains to a woman who was apparently accompanying the man that he had gone to the platform because of a report of a possibly intoxicated woman. While walking down the platform, he said, he encountered the man eating the sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you decided to forget about the bitch that's drunk and wanted to f__k with him for eating a sandwich?\" the woman asks. \"... So you decided to turn and focus on the black guy eating a sandwich?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was directly in front of me, and I simply asked him, 'Hey, there's no eating on BART,' \" McCormick says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said in a tweet that \"no matter how you feel about eating on BART, the officer saw someone eating and asked him to stop, when he didn't he was given a citation.\" The agency said the man was handcuffed after he initially refused to provide his name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1192898150744215552\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost said the man was cited for an alleged violation of state \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penal code section 640(b)(1)\u003c/a>, which allows transit agencies to prohibit eating or drinking on trains and in stations. 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"content": "\u003cp>So, you want to know about Sweets, the miniature wonder horse, also known as “the BART pony,” and how she wound up riding the train back and forth Tuesday through the Transbay Tube?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the basics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sweets is a 4-year-old mare.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>She was rescued last year from a hoarding situation in Texas.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>She’s in training to be a service animal. (It came as news to me and probably many others that miniature horses qualify to work in that capacity under the Americans With Disabilities Act.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>She’s not entirely housebroken.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>She can ride an escalator.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>She wears sneakers sometimes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And to a non-horse person, me, she seems amiable, gentle and curious. But she doesn’t have much to say about her sudden celebrity.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the details, let’s turn to Vanessa Gilliam, a muscle therapist, theatrical stagehand and bartender and Sweets’ trainer, who introduced the Horse of the Hour and a stablemate at their leafy corral in the Solano County hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rodrlou/status/1191817989747699712\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says the path that led to Tuesday’s Oakland-San Francisco round trip started as serendipity: After seeing a Netflix documentary on dogs earlier this year, she started thinking about working with service animals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several days later she saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2246175798768454&id=191085114277543&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCETl8MVmIsXvkLyL6KbAvdwpdsNWweupRLpHHk2mw18n_G-AGpa33XqHQwnaQsGiYc9qenWW5Vjfv7n0VKIXWaXdapmbpYReQRiHQ9KR-aAaBNfrHO6HM4_T0s3kmk6naxsvxYtklK_GiwwPaQXCmo_YBSRquggJbY5FcWHusoLRzRPdaOBkgMZ7XAJNSstRqi7pN82evqe4SIxT3oBx0kVN_9Zvj9Io7QExsTl5oTxJHoKL1YqeC7eTAFhj-MeO4sn4BT3UTvI8LOKwOAxhhFQVXJQaacwfJ-DutndSbSP8xuYjRihFa-N3sRL52Aqwpn0TJm0JznXNEOGNixsyBcPQ&__tn__=-R\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online post\u003c/a> from a friend who runs a horse rescue ranch in Monterey County. The friend was in the process of bringing more than 30 miniature horses seized in \u003ca href=\"https://abc13.com/pets-animals/nearly-300-dogs-and-mini-horses-rescued-in-grimes-county/3974589/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Texas hoarding case\u003c/a> to California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam, who had run her own equine and canine rescue program near San Luis Obispo before moving to the Bay Area, knew that miniature horses qualified as service animals under the Americans With Disabilities Act. That history and the sudden appearance of a herd of tiny horses at her friend’s ranch gave her an idea. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Hey, miniature horses are ADA compliant, so let’s go pick some out and give it a whirl,’ ” Gilliam said. She wound up adopting two minis, as the small horses are often called: a 9-year-old chocolate brown gelding she named Cuzzi and a 4-year-old pinto mare she called Sweets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started training the horses in March, a difficult process for animals coming from a situation in which they had been neglected. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuzzi — the name rhymes with Suzie — was sociable from the beginning, Gilliam says. Sweets “took a lot longer to warm up.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would go in her stall, and she would run to the back of it, and we had to work on, ‘Hey, you can trust me, I’m OK, I’m not going to hurt you,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785500\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-800x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-1200x887.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweets, the celebrated transit-riding miniature horse, and her trainer, Vanessa Gilliam. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says Cuzzi is probably unsuited to become a service animal. He’s friendly enough, but he tends to be skittish in unfamiliar situations. For instance, when Gilliam and a friend took the horses on an outing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried taking them to the movies — ‘The Lion King,’ which is, ironically, really kind of hilarious,” she said. “But his nerves were too much, so we stayed for two previews and then left. You don’t know how they’re going to act until you take them to that situation. You prepare them as best you can at home by throwing everything you can at them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How exactly did Cuzzi exhibit nerves? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of defecating,” Gilliam said. “Every boom and light flash, he got startled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Sweets was so calm at the theater that she appeared ready to fall asleep. Gilliam says that’s one of the horse’s characteristics that made it plausible to her take on a more challenging adventure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Service ponies need to be able to go into heavily populated areas, ride on public transportation and aid people,” Gilliam said. She describes Sweets’ work role, when she’s ready to take it on, as being “a mobility support animal — trained to help people getting around.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miniature horses appear to have debuted as service animals in the United States about 20 years ago. That’s when a North Carolina horse trainer and a visually impaired Maine client \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-21-cl-40402-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made headlines\u003c/a> when they took a miniature horse named Cuddles on a trip that involved airline flights and riding Atlanta’s MARTA transit system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The client in that case, Dan Shaw, said one of the reasons he thought he’d prefer a mini horse to a dog as a service animal was its lifespan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Horses live 35 to 40 years,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m an animal lover. To lose a dog after eight to 10 years, and then have another to train, and have to do that three or four times in my lifetime … that’s painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says horses have a vision advantage over dogs, too. Their eyes, positioned on the sides of their heads, give them a 350-degree field of vision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes equines are fundamentally different from canines in another important way, too. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are prey animals, where dogs are predators,” she said. “That means they are going to be more alert to potential dangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with those qualities, and eminently intelligent and trainable, miniature horses now appear more often as service animals — on \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-passenger-takes-horse-service-animal-flight-2019-9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planes\u003c/a>, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQ3YbdI2nc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trains\u003c/a> and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ae-service-horse-florida-restaurant-20180619-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now on BART. Gilliam says that Tuesday trip had a couple of goals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had just bought a new set of tennis shoes for her, and we were just testing out her maneuverability in her new sneakers,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a bigger aim, for both horse and trainer, than trying out new shoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole experience was about trust,” Gilliam said. “How much does she trust us? How comfortable is she? How can we manage her stress? How can we expose her to things and make it not stressful next time?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did the journey unfold? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says she and a friend drove the 200-pound Sweets in a minivan from her barn near Fairfield to MacArthur BART in Oakland. Unable to find parking there after the morning rush hour, they drove to the Rockridge Station and parked nearby. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, they brought Sweets up to the fare gate and then to the platform on the station elevators. They immediately drew the attention of both BART employees and patrons, whom Gilliam says were overwhelmingly curious and friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leg one of the trip was from Rockridge to Montgomery Station in downtown San Francisco. After doing an errand there, Gilliam, Sweets and friend strolled down Market Street to BART’s Embarcadero Station for the ride back to Oakland. Back at Rockridge, Sweets tried something new, leaving the station via the down escalator. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip wasn’t problem-free. Under federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ADA regulations\u003c/a>, the No. 1 requirement for miniature horses working as service animals is that they be housebroken. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says the path that led to Tuesday’s Oakland-San Francisco round trip started as serendipity: After seeing a Netflix documentary on dogs earlier this year, she started thinking about working with service animals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several days later she saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2246175798768454&id=191085114277543&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCETl8MVmIsXvkLyL6KbAvdwpdsNWweupRLpHHk2mw18n_G-AGpa33XqHQwnaQsGiYc9qenWW5Vjfv7n0VKIXWaXdapmbpYReQRiHQ9KR-aAaBNfrHO6HM4_T0s3kmk6naxsvxYtklK_GiwwPaQXCmo_YBSRquggJbY5FcWHusoLRzRPdaOBkgMZ7XAJNSstRqi7pN82evqe4SIxT3oBx0kVN_9Zvj9Io7QExsTl5oTxJHoKL1YqeC7eTAFhj-MeO4sn4BT3UTvI8LOKwOAxhhFQVXJQaacwfJ-DutndSbSP8xuYjRihFa-N3sRL52Aqwpn0TJm0JznXNEOGNixsyBcPQ&__tn__=-R\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an online post\u003c/a> from a friend who runs a horse rescue ranch in Monterey County. The friend was in the process of bringing more than 30 miniature horses seized in \u003ca href=\"https://abc13.com/pets-animals/nearly-300-dogs-and-mini-horses-rescued-in-grimes-county/3974589/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Texas hoarding case\u003c/a> to California. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam, who had run her own equine and canine rescue program near San Luis Obispo before moving to the Bay Area, knew that miniature horses qualified as service animals under the Americans With Disabilities Act. That history and the sudden appearance of a herd of tiny horses at her friend’s ranch gave her an idea. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘Hey, miniature horses are ADA compliant, so let’s go pick some out and give it a whirl,’ ” Gilliam said. She wound up adopting two minis, as the small horses are often called: a 9-year-old chocolate brown gelding she named Cuzzi and a 4-year-old pinto mare she called Sweets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started training the horses in March, a difficult process for animals coming from a situation in which they had been neglected. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuzzi — the name rhymes with Suzie — was sociable from the beginning, Gilliam says. Sweets “took a lot longer to warm up.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would go in her stall, and she would run to the back of it, and we had to work on, ‘Hey, you can trust me, I’m OK, I’m not going to hurt you,’ ” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785500\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-800x592.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-800x592.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-1020x754.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d-1200x887.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106d.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweets, the celebrated transit-riding miniature horse, and her trainer, Vanessa Gilliam. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says Cuzzi is probably unsuited to become a service animal. He’s friendly enough, but he tends to be skittish in unfamiliar situations. For instance, when Gilliam and a friend took the horses on an outing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We tried taking them to the movies — ‘The Lion King,’ which is, ironically, really kind of hilarious,” she said. “But his nerves were too much, so we stayed for two previews and then left. You don’t know how they’re going to act until you take them to that situation. You prepare them as best you can at home by throwing everything you can at them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How exactly did Cuzzi exhibit nerves? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of defecating,” Gilliam said. “Every boom and light flash, he got startled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, Sweets was so calm at the theater that she appeared ready to fall asleep. Gilliam says that’s one of the horse’s characteristics that made it plausible to her take on a more challenging adventure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Service ponies need to be able to go into heavily populated areas, ride on public transportation and aid people,” Gilliam said. She describes Sweets’ work role, when she’s ready to take it on, as being “a mobility support animal — trained to help people getting around.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miniature horses appear to have debuted as service animals in the United States about 20 years ago. That’s when a North Carolina horse trainer and a visually impaired Maine client \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-21-cl-40402-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made headlines\u003c/a> when they took a miniature horse named Cuddles on a trip that involved airline flights and riding Atlanta’s MARTA transit system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The client in that case, Dan Shaw, said one of the reasons he thought he’d prefer a mini horse to a dog as a service animal was its lifespan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Horses live 35 to 40 years,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m an animal lover. To lose a dog after eight to 10 years, and then have another to train, and have to do that three or four times in my lifetime … that’s painful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says horses have a vision advantage over dogs, too. Their eyes, positioned on the sides of their heads, give them a 350-degree field of vision. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes equines are fundamentally different from canines in another important way, too. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are prey animals, where dogs are predators,” she said. “That means they are going to be more alert to potential dangers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Armed with those qualities, and eminently intelligent and trainable, miniature horses now appear more often as service animals — on \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-passenger-takes-horse-service-animal-flight-2019-9\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planes\u003c/a>, on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQ3YbdI2nc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trains\u003c/a> and in \u003ca href=\"https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ae-service-horse-florida-restaurant-20180619-story.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">restaurants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now on BART. Gilliam says that Tuesday trip had a couple of goals. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had just bought a new set of tennis shoes for her, and we were just testing out her maneuverability in her new sneakers,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a bigger aim, for both horse and trainer, than trying out new shoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole experience was about trust,” Gilliam said. “How much does she trust us? How comfortable is she? How can we manage her stress? How can we expose her to things and make it not stressful next time?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did the journey unfold? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam says she and a friend drove the 200-pound Sweets in a minivan from her barn near Fairfield to MacArthur BART in Oakland. Unable to find parking there after the morning rush hour, they drove to the Rockridge Station and parked nearby. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, they brought Sweets up to the fare gate and then to the platform on the station elevators. They immediately drew the attention of both BART employees and patrons, whom Gilliam says were overwhelmingly curious and friendly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leg one of the trip was from Rockridge to Montgomery Station in downtown San Francisco. After doing an errand there, Gilliam, Sweets and friend strolled down Market Street to BART’s Embarcadero Station for the ride back to Oakland. Back at Rockridge, Sweets tried something new, leaving the station via the down escalator. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip wasn’t problem-free. Under federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ADA regulations\u003c/a>, the No. 1 requirement for miniature horses working as service animals is that they be housebroken. And Sweets didn’t pass that test Tuesday, defecating on both train trips and peeing while riding on a BART elevator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11785504\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f-800x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11785504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f-800x607.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f-160x121.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f-1020x774.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f-1200x911.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/bartpony191106f.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Gilliam and Sweets, the rescued miniature horse she’s been training for work as a service animal. Sweets became a BART celebrity during a Nov. 5 ride from Oakland to San Francisco and back. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Putting her in those stressful situations, she did have a couple accidents,” Gilliam said of the onboard episodes. “But we had a poop catcher, and anything that missed the poop catcher we immediately cleaned up and sanitized.” She added that an attendant on the elevator waved off her offer to deal with that mess, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correcting that shortcoming in Sweets’ travel manners “is definitely the next thing we will be focusing on,” Gilliam said, adding that the horse is an excellent student. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s so smart and has such a good work ethic and is so willing to just do anything to please us, it’s amazing,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more work to do, Gilliam says she has not placed Sweets with a client — yet. 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