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But she said that with increasing congestion in the city, the agency has reached a point “where we need more transparency, more honesty about what the agency can and cannot do” to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Right Time for a Change’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Reiskin announced the impending end of his eight-year tenure in a brief message to SFMTA employees that came on the heels of the agency’s most recent mini-disaster: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Muni-suffers-widespread-subway-delays-commuters-13798160.php?psid=1GAfn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday’s daylong shutdown\u003c/a> of Muni’s downtown subway service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, often described as an unassuming leader who actually uses the trains, buses and bike lanes his agency is responsible for, noted his current contract is up in August “and it’s become clear that this is the right time for a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made it clearest was a letter from Mayor Breed to the SFMTA board of directors chastising the agency for its response to the Friday incident and a series of episodes that have hampered Muni service over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed faulted agency leadership for failing to plan for emergencies like the Friday shutdown and for stumbling in its responsibility to inform the public adequately about service disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that we have contingency plans,” Breed said at a City Hall media briefing after her letter was released. “It’s important to make sure that every step of the way, we’re communicating with the public so that they know exactly what they can expect to do as a result. And it’s important to make sure that they know that we are prepared to deal with any challenge that comes our way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin’s departure was foreshadowed last summer by \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-transit-chief-apologizes-for-Muni-delays-13172887.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a public rebuke\u003c/a> from the mayor, which came after Muni experienced major service problems during and after a project to refurbish the light-rail system’s Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $40 million project required the tunnel between the east and west sides of the city to be shut down for two months, but Muni assured riders it would make up for missed train runs with a substitute bus service. But Muni didn’t have enough drivers or vehicles to operate the replacement service and the system’s citywide performance suffered as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other problems followed, including the death of a worker on the Twin Peaks Tunnel project; damage to trackside equipment in the tunnel, which Muni blamed on the project contractor, that compromised service after it reopened; continuing delays on the agency’s $1.6 billion Central Subway that could postpone its opening until next year; and charges of sexual harassment and racial discrimination in the agency that forces out two senior managers and prompted Breed to appoint an ombudsperson to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Shocking Video and a Subway Mess\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>All of that was just a prelude for last week when, leading up to Friday’s subway mess, Muni was forced to confront video of an elderly patron being \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/exclusive-video-emerges-of-woman-bodily-caught-in-muni-door-and-dragged-to-tracks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dragged down a downtown Muni Metro platform\u003c/a> by a malfunctioning door on one of its brand-new light-rail vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/OLAhhPLZ8K4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident — along with other questions about the cars’ mechanical performance — prompted the Board of Supervisors, sitting as the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board, to hold off on approving $63 million earmarked for buying more of the light-rail vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it off, Muni was forced to cancel hundreds of runs last Monday and Tuesday because drivers were turning down overtime to put pressure on the city during contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin called the situation “a perfect storm” for Reiskin and said he felt bad for the Muni chief “as someone I know and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like Mayor Breed, Peskin questioned the SFMTA’s competence both in handling the recent black eyes and explaining them to people outside the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said that as the furor built over the malfunctioning doors on the new light-rail vehicles, he told Reiskin and Muni operations chief Julie Kirschbaum that “they really needed to get ahead of the story and be honest with the riders and elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Peskin said, “They were just kind of, as the mayor said in her letter, paralyzed. … When they kind of obfuscated and danced around things, it just compounded the problem and increased the level of frustration” with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said that as city officials begin the search for the next SFMTA boss, they should also consider the agency’s current governance structure. Peskin, who was an author of a 2007 ballot measure that gave the SFMTA a high degree of independence from direct Board of Supervisors’ and mayoral oversight — and meddling — has been talking about changing that structure for the past year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing sentiment at the Board of Supervisors that the board should take back some of its powers and oversight authorities,” Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter, of the San Francisco Transit Riders, said worsening conditions on the city streets will require the next SFMTA chief to focus on improving Muni and to do it quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see record traffic congestion in the city, just choking the city and choking people’s access to jobs and families and cultural experiences,” Carter said. “So we do need some visionary leadership to say we do need to put transit first, that transit needs to be efficient and reliable so it can compete with private vehicles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiedenmeier, of the bicycle coalition, said he thinks Breed and the SFMTA need to broaden their search for a new director beyond U.S. borders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there are people who lead transportation policy and manage transportation agencies across the globe that would find this job in San Francisco attractive,” Wiedenmeier said. “And they would have ideas and experience to bring to bear that could help us really evolve into the city that San Franciscans deserve when it comes to our transportation system and the safety of our streets.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But she said that with increasing congestion in the city, the agency has reached a point “where we need more transparency, more honesty about what the agency can and cannot do” to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Right Time for a Change’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Reiskin announced the impending end of his eight-year tenure in a brief message to SFMTA employees that came on the heels of the agency’s most recent mini-disaster: \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Muni-suffers-widespread-subway-delays-commuters-13798160.php?psid=1GAfn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday’s daylong shutdown\u003c/a> of Muni’s downtown subway service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, often described as an unassuming leader who actually uses the trains, buses and bike lanes his agency is responsible for, noted his current contract is up in August “and it’s become clear that this is the right time for a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What made it clearest was a letter from Mayor Breed to the SFMTA board of directors chastising the agency for its response to the Friday incident and a series of episodes that have hampered Muni service over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed faulted agency leadership for failing to plan for emergencies like the Friday shutdown and for stumbling in its responsibility to inform the public adequately about service disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to make sure that we have contingency plans,” Breed said at a City Hall media briefing after her letter was released. “It’s important to make sure that every step of the way, we’re communicating with the public so that they know exactly what they can expect to do as a result. 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But Muni didn’t have enough drivers or vehicles to operate the replacement service and the system’s citywide performance suffered as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many other problems followed, including the death of a worker on the Twin Peaks Tunnel project; damage to trackside equipment in the tunnel, which Muni blamed on the project contractor, that compromised service after it reopened; continuing delays on the agency’s $1.6 billion Central Subway that could postpone its opening until next year; and charges of sexual harassment and racial discrimination in the agency that forces out two senior managers and prompted Breed to appoint an ombudsperson to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Shocking Video and a Subway Mess\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>All of that was just a prelude for last week when, leading up to Friday’s subway mess, Muni was forced to confront video of an elderly patron being \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/the-city/exclusive-video-emerges-of-woman-bodily-caught-in-muni-door-and-dragged-to-tracks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dragged down a downtown Muni Metro platform\u003c/a> by a malfunctioning door on one of its brand-new light-rail vehicles.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OLAhhPLZ8K4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OLAhhPLZ8K4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The incident — along with other questions about the cars’ mechanical performance — prompted the Board of Supervisors, sitting as the San Francisco County Transportation Authority Board, to hold off on approving $63 million earmarked for buying more of the light-rail vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To top it off, Muni was forced to cancel hundreds of runs last Monday and Tuesday because drivers were turning down overtime to put pressure on the city during contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin called the situation “a perfect storm” for Reiskin and said he felt bad for the Muni chief “as someone I know and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But like Mayor Breed, Peskin questioned the SFMTA’s competence both in handling the recent black eyes and explaining them to people outside the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said that as the furor built over the malfunctioning doors on the new light-rail vehicles, he told Reiskin and Muni operations chief Julie Kirschbaum that “they really needed to get ahead of the story and be honest with the riders and elected officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Peskin said, “They were just kind of, as the mayor said in her letter, paralyzed. … When they kind of obfuscated and danced around things, it just compounded the problem and increased the level of frustration” with the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin said that as city officials begin the search for the next SFMTA boss, they should also consider the agency’s current governance structure. 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"content": "\u003cp>Californians got a deadly wake-up call when more than 27,000 Paradise residents trying to escape \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/camp-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Camp Fire\u003c/a> got caught in a nightmare traffic jam. The November 2018 catastrophe illuminated the grim reality that road systems throughout the state are not designed to handle a sudden evacuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11743364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA TODAY Network-California analysis\u003c/a> reveals the extent to which a fundamental problem in Paradise — too few escape lanes for too many people in vehicles — applies to other cities and neighborhoods at great risk of wildfire across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11711175,news_11706065\" label=\"What Happened in Paradise\"]\u003cbr>\nAbout 350,000 Californians live in areas that have both the highest wildfire risk designation, and either the same number or fewer exit routes per person as Paradise. From the mountains, lakes and forests of Northern California to the San Diego suburbs, some residents in the most fire-prone areas have far fewer evacuation routes than the vast majority of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ratio of people to exit routes doesn’t account for all the complexities of an actual evacuation, experts say, but it does serve as a shorthand for evaluating evacuation efficacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Gold Rush town of Sonora, about 3½ hours southeast of Paradise, Karl Rodefer worries as the next dry season approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that happens here, we’re going to have the same kinds of issues,” said Rodefer, a Tuolumne County supervisor. “There’s a lot of anxiety in the foothills now because of the Camp Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Sonora and Paradise are isolated communities with few roads leading into and out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, an area already known for gridlock, the city of Glendale straddles the Verdugo Mountains with neighborhoods, schools and hiking trails carved into its base. The city’s 2008 emergency plan identified them as potential brush fire zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roads can be narrow and some communities have only one way in and out. The plan notes that these conditions could make evacuation and emergency response difficult, but years of construction and development have made any kind of road widening “physically impossible” in those areas, city spokesman Dan Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s police and fire agencies have conducted outreach in these communities and are strict about defensible space around homes. There’s also a new targeted alert system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the only concern is people not evacuating when we ask them to evacuate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Bell said, the area hasn’t seen a major wildfire in some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11743360 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident rushes to save his home as an out-of-control wildfire moves through Glen Ellen. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it’s the big one that worries Glendale resident James Ward, 62. For 32 years he’s lived in Chevy Chase Canyon, a community of 1,600 homes in a cleft of the San Rafael Hills, which the city has also identified as a potential brush fire zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only two-lane roads that run through the canyon, with a single access point for many streets and only a few main arteries that let people out. But some neighbors don’t know all the ways out, Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If 80% or 60% of the people thought the only way was Chevy Chase (Drive) and all the emergency vehicles were coming up, yes that’s gonna be an issue,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Tom Cova, wildfire evacuations expert\"]“We’re gonna see a lot of bad things happen, I think … before we do something for communities.”[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/4eb3806b4c5c448f985646d91ce03c20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evacuation routes\u003c/a> came up at an annual community meeting in March with the police and fire departments because residents saw the tragedy in Paradise and had the same fears, Ward said. The co-president of the Chevy Chase Estates Association said the public safety officials acknowledged their fears, but “their message was: Be aware of your surroundings and if we ask you to leave, leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officially adopted fire code standards for roads in the 1990s, although they had been used in some areas for decades before that. They set rules for things like grades, road surfaces, passing areas, signage on dead-ends and “critical” secondary access to any subdivision, said Daniel Berlant, assistant deputy director with Cal Fire’s Office of the State Fire Marshal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the road systems that California communities like Glendale rely on were built before the widespread use of the standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also building codes that regulate room capacity and emergency exits, said wildfire evacuations expert Tom Cova. The same consideration should be applied to road infrastructure in communities, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gonna see a lot of bad things happen, I think … before we do something for communities that we did for buildings,” said Cova, director of the University of Utah’s Center for Natural and Technological Hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Cova and other experts see road capacity as just one element of a healthy evacuation system. Timely evacuation orders, residents’ willingness to obey them, traffic pinch points at intersections beyond the community and many other factors can also be a matter of life and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And road capacities can be sufficient, Cova said, if evacuations are gradual or limited. It’s when everyone tries to leave at once that escape routes are quickly overwhelmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘There Were Just So Many People’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Malibu transplant Kassidy Jones, 40, said that’s exactly what happened when he and his family fled their home in the city’s Corral Canyon neighborhood the morning of Nov. 9. As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/woolsey-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Woolsey Fire\u003c/a> bore down, they packed two cars full of belongings and drove south down the windy, two-lane road to scenic Pacific Coast Highway. At the bottom of the canyon, they found bumper-to-bumper traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s really another way out, especially because the fire was coming down the mountain,” Jones said. “There were just so many people. PCH can’t handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work brought the Texas native to Los Angeles, but he never liked the city much. That’s why he moved his family to the remote neighborhood where his backyard met the sprawling canyon and gave him a glimpse of the Pacific Ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now there he was, stuck in traffic. He couldn’t go north. The flames were coming from that direction — just like in previous fires. Plus, north of Jones, the canyon road eventually empties into a network of hiking trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LASDHQ/status/1061073827021578240\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bottom of the canyon, it took 20 minutes to even turn onto the highway, Jones said. He parked one of the vehicles along PCH and planned to leave it there, figuring the fire wouldn’t spread that far. There, Jones rejoined his wife and their children, ages 6 and 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids became restless as the family’s car crept along the highway for two hours to go just 2 miles. Finally, they stopped at a park to stretch their legs, go to the bathroom and have some snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They watched as the towering smoke plume from the Woolsey Fire changed direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before it was flowing west, then it went south. Our neighborhood was on the eastern edge of where the fire went. Unfortunately, it got our house,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Drivers Could Overwhelm Evacuation Routes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For others like Jones, who choose to live in places prone to fire, whether in remote parts of rural California or in the “urban-wildland interface” that buffers California’s rugged wilderness and dense cities, a similar situation could await.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/bba93f2197404969a0d4a3fa59f659ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA TODAY Network-California analysis of populations, fire risk zones and roadways\u003c/a> shows roughly one out of every 100 ZIP codes in California has a population-to-evacuation-route ratio that is near to or worse than that of Paradise and its neighbor, Magalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"left\" citation=\"Jim Drennan, South Lake Tahoe Fire Department Battalion Chief \"]“There’s no earthly way you’re moving the entire vacation population out of the basin all at once.”[/pullquote]Near the top of the list is South Lake Tahoe. The town is relatively isolated, with only a few thoroughfares to facilitate emergency access for firefighting resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, the number of people living in the “very high fire hazard safety zone” per roadway lanes out is almost three times the number for Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim South Lake Tahoe Fire Department Battalion Chief Jim Drennan said he wasn’t surprised to find out his community is in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/bf00185ed887421388358ed8145fe423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the most precarious fire evacuation locations in the state\u003c/a>, given the small number of roads in and out of the Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drennan said that since Paradise burned, he hears the same question from people on a nearly daily basis: What are they going to do if a major fire breaks out? Evacuation plans fall primarily to police, he said, but his fire department is one of several agencies trying to plan for what feels like a looming threat. The fire department and other public safety agencies in the area are “on super high alert,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mindset here is: There’s no earthly way you’re moving the entire vacation population out of the basin all at once,” Drennan said. “If you have just one quirk, you’re going to end up with a lot of people stuck on the roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous fire chief there wrote in a 2018 op-ed that it’s not a question of “if” but “when” a major fire will hit the area, and he pointed out the limited evacuation routes as a major concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police, fire and city officials held a public meeting April 25, specifically to discuss fire preparedness and evacuation planning, partly in response to the anxiety many have expressed to him and others, Drennan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view at the edge of the Camp Fire one month later. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The analysis identified some places in California where fires have already combined with jammed roadways, killing drivers attempting to flee. Paradise and its neighbor, Magalia, were among the areas identified as a populous area with limited routes out, and 2018’s Camp Fire proved the point. There, city and county officials had planned on having motorists evacuate using five two-lane roads and one four-lane road leading out of town. But fire forced officials to close three of those routes, further clogging the remaining roads, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cedar Fire, which burned 273,000 acres across the hills of northeastern San Diego in 2003, claimed 10 people trying to flee the blaze in their cars. That fire lashed the densely populated Scripps Ranch area, which has a limited number of roadways that lead to less fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Undeterred\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Californians clearly understand the risks. They’ve lived through wildfire evacuations, or have watched others. But that’s not enough to pry them from the places they love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Meneshian, 53, is one. He’s rebuilding the Bell Canyon home destroyed last year by the Woolsey Fire. There’s only one access point in his neighborhood of 750.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meneshian moved to the gated, equestrian-oriented community just west of the bustling San Fernando Valley about five years ago. The sense of community he felt the night he evacuated, he said, is just more reason for him and his two daughters, 10 and 12, to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking northwest from his driveway on the night of Nov. 8 he could see flames in the canyon. He and his neighbors met on the street in front of his home trying to figure out what they should do, Meneshian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were looking to me for answers as if I lived through this before,” Meneshian said. But he was in disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He woke up the girls and told them to pack a bag for a week. The power had been flickering on and off, and Meneshian knew that meant it was time to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Jones, whose wife had gotten an evacuation alert, Meneshian left before anyone told him to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was dark and smoky with nothing but the pockets of fire visible in the canyon, Meneshian said. Vehicles raced down his hilly street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a scramble for our lives,” Meneshian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d find out the next day his home was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the self-proclaimed “nostalgic guy” likes the sense of togetherness in Bell Canyon, where the closest store is 30 minutes away so sometimes borrowing from a neighbor is usually the better bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited escape routes, he thinks, are just something to be aware of: “It’s probably a deterrent for some people (moving) in,” he said. “But it shouldn’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You Have to Make These Investments’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Paradise burned, there were already signs of problems with evacuation routes during major wildfires, said Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, whose district includes Glendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, which killed 22 people and destroyed more than 5,600 structures, raised alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11654027\"]Afterward, Friedman and her staff talked with academics about the lessons learned, and she introduced Assembly Bill 2911, which then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2018. Among other things, AB 2911 requires that subdivisions with only one exit route, located in very high hazard zones for wildfire, undergo an assessment. The bill calls for developing safety recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire officials should begin the surveys around July 1, 2021, and continue every five years after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman’s bill is likely to have an impact back in her district. In Glendale’s 2008 emergency plan, bold, capitalized letters call attention to the Oakmont Woods and Whiting Woods communities and their single-access roads. Both are within the state’s very high hazard zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any city that has those conditions could benefit, and certainly it could be a legislative wake-up call to not only identify these areas but (to signal that) you have to make these investments to make the cities safer,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman hopes for more state funding for the assessments. She sees reason for optimism in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s declaration of a state of emergency ahead of the traditional wildfire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s no unified approach to dealing with California’s wildfire evacuation problem, Friedman’s bill calling for assessments to begin two years from now is not the only potential improvement underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Newsom fast-tracked 35 priority projects to remove years of dry, built-up vegetation and create fuel breaks for emergency routes. Those follow an effort by Caltrans since 2016 to remove dead and dying trees from state roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars abandoned on the side of the road during the evacuation of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>More Than Just Lanes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cova, the wildfire evacuations expert, said 25 years ago he became preoccupied with the idea that road congestion was the problem. But through his research he also learned it’s more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The direction the roads let out is also important. In most fire-prone areas officials know what historically contributes to large wildfires, such as Santa Ana or Diablo winds, and can plan to build roads in a direction those gusts are unlikely to push the fire, Cova said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an emergency, Cova said traffic routing and control makes a big difference. That can be especially important at the points where evacuation routes hit other roads. The Malibu example, where so many roads empty onto PCH, is apt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11622223\"]The road issues are important because so many other human factors may decrease the amount of time people have to evacuate, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What really causes the problem is when you have too many people leaving in too little a time,” Cova said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can take officials a while to order evacuations. And residents often hesitate, contemplating whether they should leave, and then take time packing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Malibu, Jones’ wife got an evacuation alert on her phone at 6 a.m. Sheriff’s officials came around on a loudspeaker at 7 a.m. It was around 8 a.m. when Jones actually left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To speed things up, Cova encourages residents to have a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11622223/heres-what-you-should-have-in-your-emergency-bag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go bag\u003c/a> with medications, important paperwork, photographs and other irreplaceable items. And they should have a plan to round up pets, since critical time can be lost chasing dogs and locating cats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being prepared to leave at a moment’s notice is a good idea,” Cova said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Destined to Burn’ is a collaborative story package by journalists from USA TODAY Network-California, McClatchy, Media News and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Damon Arthur of the Redding Record Searchlight contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Sonora and Paradise are isolated communities with few roads leading into and out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, an area already known for gridlock, the city of Glendale straddles the Verdugo Mountains with neighborhoods, schools and hiking trails carved into its base. The city’s 2008 emergency plan identified them as potential brush fire zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The roads can be narrow and some communities have only one way in and out. The plan notes that these conditions could make evacuation and emergency response difficult, but years of construction and development have made any kind of road widening “physically impossible” in those areas, city spokesman Dan Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s police and fire agencies have conducted outreach in these communities and are strict about defensible space around homes. There’s also a new targeted alert system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the only concern is people not evacuating when we ask them to evacuate,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, Bell said, the area hasn’t seen a major wildfire in some time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11743360 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS27223_GettyImages-859436442-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident rushes to save his home as an out-of-control wildfire moves through Glen Ellen. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it’s the big one that worries Glendale resident James Ward, 62. For 32 years he’s lived in Chevy Chase Canyon, a community of 1,600 homes in a cleft of the San Rafael Hills, which the city has also identified as a potential brush fire zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are only two-lane roads that run through the canyon, with a single access point for many streets and only a few main arteries that let people out. But some neighbors don’t know all the ways out, Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If 80% or 60% of the people thought the only way was Chevy Chase (Drive) and all the emergency vehicles were coming up, yes that’s gonna be an issue,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>At the bottom of the canyon, it took 20 minutes to even turn onto the highway, Jones said. He parked one of the vehicles along PCH and planned to leave it there, figuring the fire wouldn’t spread that far. There, Jones rejoined his wife and their children, ages 6 and 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids became restless as the family’s car crept along the highway for two hours to go just 2 miles. Finally, they stopped at a park to stretch their legs, go to the bathroom and have some snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They watched as the towering smoke plume from the Woolsey Fire changed direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before it was flowing west, then it went south. Our neighborhood was on the eastern edge of where the fire went. Unfortunately, it got our house,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where Drivers Could Overwhelm Evacuation Routes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For others like Jones, who choose to live in places prone to fire, whether in remote parts of rural California or in the “urban-wildland interface” that buffers California’s rugged wilderness and dense cities, a similar situation could await.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/bba93f2197404969a0d4a3fa59f659ae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA TODAY Network-California analysis of populations, fire risk zones and roadways\u003c/a> shows roughly one out of every 100 ZIP codes in California has a population-to-evacuation-route ratio that is near to or worse than that of Paradise and its neighbor, Magalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Near the top of the list is South Lake Tahoe. The town is relatively isolated, with only a few thoroughfares to facilitate emergency access for firefighting resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There, the number of people living in the “very high fire hazard safety zone” per roadway lanes out is almost three times the number for Paradise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim South Lake Tahoe Fire Department Battalion Chief Jim Drennan said he wasn’t surprised to find out his community is in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/bf00185ed887421388358ed8145fe423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the most precarious fire evacuation locations in the state\u003c/a>, given the small number of roads in and out of the Tahoe Basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drennan said that since Paradise burned, he hears the same question from people on a nearly daily basis: What are they going to do if a major fire breaks out? Evacuation plans fall primarily to police, he said, but his fire department is one of several agencies trying to plan for what feels like a looming threat. The fire department and other public safety agencies in the area are “on super high alert,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mindset here is: There’s no earthly way you’re moving the entire vacation population out of the basin all at once,” Drennan said. “If you have just one quirk, you’re going to end up with a lot of people stuck on the roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The previous fire chief there wrote in a 2018 op-ed that it’s not a question of “if” but “when” a major fire will hit the area, and he pointed out the limited evacuation routes as a major concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police, fire and city officials held a public meeting April 25, specifically to discuss fire preparedness and evacuation planning, partly in response to the anxiety many have expressed to him and others, Drennan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743357\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS34317_Camp-Fire-aerials_1204-1-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view at the edge of the Camp Fire one month later. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The analysis identified some places in California where fires have already combined with jammed roadways, killing drivers attempting to flee. Paradise and its neighbor, Magalia, were among the areas identified as a populous area with limited routes out, and 2018’s Camp Fire proved the point. There, city and county officials had planned on having motorists evacuate using five two-lane roads and one four-lane road leading out of town. But fire forced officials to close three of those routes, further clogging the remaining roads, Paradise Mayor Jody Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cedar Fire, which burned 273,000 acres across the hills of northeastern San Diego in 2003, claimed 10 people trying to flee the blaze in their cars. That fire lashed the densely populated Scripps Ranch area, which has a limited number of roadways that lead to less fire-prone areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Undeterred\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Californians clearly understand the risks. They’ve lived through wildfire evacuations, or have watched others. But that’s not enough to pry them from the places they love.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Meneshian, 53, is one. He’s rebuilding the Bell Canyon home destroyed last year by the Woolsey Fire. There’s only one access point in his neighborhood of 750.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meneshian moved to the gated, equestrian-oriented community just west of the bustling San Fernando Valley about five years ago. The sense of community he felt the night he evacuated, he said, is just more reason for him and his two daughters, 10 and 12, to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking northwest from his driveway on the night of Nov. 8 he could see flames in the canyon. He and his neighbors met on the street in front of his home trying to figure out what they should do, Meneshian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were looking to me for answers as if I lived through this before,” Meneshian said. But he was in disbelief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He woke up the girls and told them to pack a bag for a week. The power had been flickering on and off, and Meneshian knew that meant it was time to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Jones, whose wife had gotten an evacuation alert, Meneshian left before anyone told him to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was dark and smoky with nothing but the pockets of fire visible in the canyon, Meneshian said. Vehicles raced down his hilly street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a scramble for our lives,” Meneshian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d find out the next day his home was destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the self-proclaimed “nostalgic guy” likes the sense of togetherness in Bell Canyon, where the closest store is 30 minutes away so sometimes borrowing from a neighbor is usually the better bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The limited escape routes, he thinks, are just something to be aware of: “It’s probably a deterrent for some people (moving) in,” he said. “But it shouldn’t be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘You Have to Make These Investments’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Before Paradise burned, there were already signs of problems with evacuation routes during major wildfires, said Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, whose district includes Glendale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/tubbs-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tubbs Fire\u003c/a> in Santa Rosa, which killed 22 people and destroyed more than 5,600 structures, raised alarms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Afterward, Friedman and her staff talked with academics about the lessons learned, and she introduced Assembly Bill 2911, which then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2018. Among other things, AB 2911 requires that subdivisions with only one exit route, located in very high hazard zones for wildfire, undergo an assessment. The bill calls for developing safety recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State fire officials should begin the surveys around July 1, 2021, and continue every five years after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman’s bill is likely to have an impact back in her district. In Glendale’s 2008 emergency plan, bold, capitalized letters call attention to the Oakmont Woods and Whiting Woods communities and their single-access roads. Both are within the state’s very high hazard zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any city that has those conditions could benefit, and certainly it could be a legislative wake-up call to not only identify these areas but (to signal that) you have to make these investments to make the cities safer,” Friedman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman hopes for more state funding for the assessments. She sees reason for optimism in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s declaration of a state of emergency ahead of the traditional wildfire season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there’s no unified approach to dealing with California’s wildfire evacuation problem, Friedman’s bill calling for assessments to begin two years from now is not the only potential improvement underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Newsom fast-tracked 35 priority projects to remove years of dry, built-up vegetation and create fuel breaks for emergency routes. Those follow an effort by Caltrans since 2016 to remove dead and dying trees from state roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743358\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11743358\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS33843_Image-from-iOS-1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars abandoned on the side of the road during the evacuation of Paradise. \u003ccite>(Sonja Hutson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>More Than Just Lanes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Cova, the wildfire evacuations expert, said 25 years ago he became preoccupied with the idea that road congestion was the problem. But through his research he also learned it’s more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The direction the roads let out is also important. In most fire-prone areas officials know what historically contributes to large wildfires, such as Santa Ana or Diablo winds, and can plan to build roads in a direction those gusts are unlikely to push the fire, Cova said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During an emergency, Cova said traffic routing and control makes a big difference. That can be especially important at the points where evacuation routes hit other roads. The Malibu example, where so many roads empty onto PCH, is apt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 4:05 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have charged Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34 — a former U.S. Army sharpshooter who has a history of PTSD — with eight counts of attempted murder after saying he plowed his car into a crowd of pedestrians in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County district attorney's office filed the charges Thursday against Peoples. He is being held at Santa Clara County Jail and is set to be arraigned Friday in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Peoples was on his way to Bible class when he deliberately drove his vehicle into pedestrians at the intersection of El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Avenue around 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday, hitting people both walking in the crosswalk and waiting on the sidewalk to cross. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peoples, a Sunnyvale resident, is accused of hitting seven people and injuring a total of eight, including a 13-year-old girl who is in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale public safety Capt. Jim Choi said Peoples is cooperating with investigators and has shown no remorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11742536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale.jpg\" alt=\"Sunnyvale resident, Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, is accused of driving a black, four-door sedan into pedestrians at the Sunnyvale Avenue crosswalk and then hitting pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk to cross, police said.\" width=\"604\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunnyvale resident, Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, is accused of driving a black, four-door sedan into pedestrians at the Sunnyvale Avenue crosswalk on April 23, 2019 and then hitting pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk to cross, police said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sunnyvale police)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phan Ngo, chief of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, said during a Thursday news conference that no motive has been determined in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Peoples did not slow down prior to the collision and appeared to accelerate as he moved into the crosswalk where the victims were crossing. The vehicle struck seven of eight victims and ultimately crashed into a nearby tree,\" Ngo \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SunnyvaleDPS/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a video on Facebook on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Following the collision, a witness reported that Peoples stated something similar to, 'Thank you God,'\" Ngo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo said Thursday that Peoples had no criminal record. A search of his car turned up a dismantled, inoperable shotgun. Ngo said Peoples had picked up food to take to a Bible study group before he struck the pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the eight people injured, including the 13-year-old, were taken to area hospitals. Their conditions on Thursday had remained unchanged:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A girl, 13, with major injuries was in critical condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A woman, 32, with major injuries was in stable condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 33, with major injuries was in stable condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 52, with major injuries was in stable condition.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A boy, 9, was treated and released with minor injuries.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 45, was treated and released.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 24, was treated and released at the scene by paramedics.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A man, 25, was treated and released at the scene by paramedics.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Peoples sustained no apparent injuries and refused medical treatment, Ngo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSunnyvaleDPS%2Fvideos%2F2272035633115648%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo said it appeared that Peoples was acting alone. Police searched his apartment and took his computer to forensics. Nothing from his Facebook accounts suggested a motive. The driver and the victims didn't seem to know each other, Sunnyvale police Capt. Jim Choi said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI was notified in case there were federal law violations, Ngo said, adding that Peoples hasn't been linked to terrorist organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prentice Danner, an FBI field officer in San Francisco, wrote in an email Wednesday that the agency was in touch with Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety and will become more involved if it's determined a federal crime was committed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/krisnoceda/status/1120896102050324481\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Sharp, a spokesman for the U.S Army, wrote in an email Thursday that Peoples served as a civil affairs specialist in the Army Reserve from March 2004 to July 2009, attaining the rank of sergeant. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 4:05 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have charged Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34 — a former U.S. Army sharpshooter who has a history of PTSD — with eight counts of attempted murder after saying he plowed his car into a crowd of pedestrians in Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County district attorney's office filed the charges Thursday against Peoples. He is being held at Santa Clara County Jail and is set to be arraigned Friday in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities say Peoples was on his way to Bible class when he deliberately drove his vehicle into pedestrians at the intersection of El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Avenue around 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday, hitting people both walking in the crosswalk and waiting on the sidewalk to cross. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peoples, a Sunnyvale resident, is accused of hitting seven people and injuring a total of eight, including a 13-year-old girl who is in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sunnyvale public safety Capt. Jim Choi said Peoples is cooperating with investigators and has shown no remorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742536\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11742536\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale.jpg\" alt=\"Sunnyvale resident, Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, is accused of driving a black, four-door sedan into pedestrians at the Sunnyvale Avenue crosswalk and then hitting pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk to cross, police said.\" width=\"604\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale.jpg 604w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04242019_sunnyvale-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunnyvale resident, Isaiah Joel Peoples, 34, is accused of driving a black, four-door sedan into pedestrians at the Sunnyvale Avenue crosswalk on April 23, 2019 and then hitting pedestrians waiting on the sidewalk to cross, police said. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Sunnyvale police)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phan Ngo, chief of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, said during a Thursday news conference that no motive has been determined in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Peoples did not slow down prior to the collision and appeared to accelerate as he moved into the crosswalk where the victims were crossing. The vehicle struck seven of eight victims and ultimately crashed into a nearby tree,\" Ngo \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/SunnyvaleDPS/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a video on Facebook on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Following the collision, a witness reported that Peoples stated something similar to, 'Thank you God,'\" Ngo added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ngo said Thursday that Peoples had no criminal record. A search of his car turned up a dismantled, inoperable shotgun. Ngo said Peoples had picked up food to take to a Bible study group before he struck the pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the eight people injured, including the 13-year-old, were taken to area hospitals. 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Alphabet is also Google’s parent company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Air Carrier Certification means that we can begin a commercial service delivering goods from local businesses to homes in the United States,” Wing said in a statement posted to \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-becomes-first-certified-air-carrier-for-drones-in-the-us-43401883f20b\">the Medium website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has touted many advantages of using unmanned drones to deliver packages, from reducing carbon emissions and road congestion to increasing connections between communities and local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11660802]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important step forward for the safe testing and integration of drones into our economy. Safety continues to be our Number One priority as this technology continues to develop and realize its full potential,” Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao said in a statement from the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, the FAA said Wing was able to qualify for an air carrier certificate because it has shown “its operations met the FAA’s rigorous safety requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wing’s electric drones are powered by 14 propellers, nearly all of which are top-mounted to help carry loads of up to 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds). 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At the time, Bezos said his company’s drones would be built to carry around 5 pounds — a weight limit that would allow about 85 percent of the products sold by Amazon to be delivered by drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bezos also said it would take time to develop a safe and reliable drone system — and to get federal approvals. It wasn’t until late 2016 that Amazon announced its first fully autonomous Prime Air delivery. Since then, like Google, it’s been testing its delivery drones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of unmanned aircraft in the U.S. has been growing by leaps and bounds. At the end of 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/e0fcf74b9a9d46d1a7c57463cf6f668c\">The Associated Press reported\u003c/a> that “110,000 commercial drones are operating in U.S. airspace,” citing government figures that also projected the number would more than quadruple in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11742158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11742158\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/wing-testers-receiving-package-as-part-of-faa-testing_custom-b8e453cc8a74800a344da95377130dcc41fb934d-s1400-800x1267.jpg\" alt=\"Customers who took part in Wing's drone delivery test program in Virginia approach their package after it was dropped on their lawn.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1267\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/wing-testers-receiving-package-as-part-of-faa-testing_custom-b8e453cc8a74800a344da95377130dcc41fb934d-s1400-800x1267.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/wing-testers-receiving-package-as-part-of-faa-testing_custom-b8e453cc8a74800a344da95377130dcc41fb934d-s1400-160x253.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/wing-testers-receiving-package-as-part-of-faa-testing_custom-b8e453cc8a74800a344da95377130dcc41fb934d-s1400-1020x1615.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/wing-testers-receiving-package-as-part-of-faa-testing_custom-b8e453cc8a74800a344da95377130dcc41fb934d-s1400-758x1200.jpg 758w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/wing-testers-receiving-package-as-part-of-faa-testing_custom-b8e453cc8a74800a344da95377130dcc41fb934d-s1400.jpg 1293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers who took part in Wing’s drone delivery test program in Virginia approach their package after it was dropped on their lawn. \u003ccite>(Wing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wing has been testing its drone delivery systems from an FAA-approved test area at Virginia Tech since the autumn of 2016. With its new air carrier certification in hand, the company says it hopes to expand deliveries in southwest Virginia, recruiting businesses and potential customers in the Blacksburg and Christiansburg areas who want to try out the delivery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That expansion is planned for later this year. In the meantime, Wing “will begin its first trial in Europe in the spring, delivering to homes in Helsinki, Finland,” a company representative said in an email to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the earliest Wing drone tests took place in Canberra, Australia, in 2014. Since then, the company says, its drones have flown more than 70,000 test flights and delivered thousands of packages there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Wing officially launched its commercial delivery service in northern Canberra after gaining regulatory approval. \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/wing-aviation/wing-launches-commercial-air-delivery-service-in-canberra-5da134312474\">Its initial partners\u003c/a> in that venture range from local coffee, bakery and gelato shops to chocolate makers and a taqueria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to Google and Amazon, delivery companies such as United Parcel Service and DHL Express also have been developing their own drone systems. And like many human endeavors that rely on technology, a main hurdle has been a relatively simple constraint: battery life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have to recharge them every other hour, then you need so many drones, and you have to orchestrate that. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725616/gov-gavin-newsom-gives-first-state-of-the-state-address\">announced\u003c/a> in February that, as currently planned, the state's full high-speed rail project would take too long to build and cost too much, farm bookkeeper Joanna Spence was relieved. For her, that acknowledgement was long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I drive up and down (Highway) 99, I just see bits and pieces, nothing happening,” Spence said. “It’s been totally graffiti’d.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bullet train has long been a difficult subject at Parichan Farms, a large almond ranch in Madera County that sits directly in the path of the high-speed rail line. Late owner Harold Parichan \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harold-parichan-20160103-story.html\">fought\u003c/a> the project’s encroachment on his thousands of acres of almonds and other crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joanna Spence, Parichan Farms\"]'Why would I ride it to Merced? Even Modesto. ... And when I get there, what am I gonna have to do? First I’ve had to pay for a train ticket. Now I’m gonna have to rent a car or an Uber.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago, around 50 acres were cleared to make way for the trains' right of way. There’s now a diagonal path straight through the orchard outside Spence’s office, where she’s worked for over 20 years. In one area of the farm, the contractor for the bullet train project is building a $2.5 million underpass so farm crews will be able to get from one side to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Spence said, much of the cleared land has gone to weeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have been farming those trees, and making more money for the ranch,” Spence said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after Newsom made his announcement in February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725636/state-of-the-state-newsom-pulls-plug-on-s-f-to-l-a-high-speed-rail-project\">he tried to clarify\u003c/a> his administration's plans for the project: The initial focus will be to get the bullet train running on the 170-mile route from Merced to Bakersfield during the next decade while finishing environmental studies of the full \"Phase One\" line from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Phase One would still be built at some unspecified point in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news angered Spence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would I ride it to Merced? Even Modesto. I could be there in 45 minutes,” she said. “And when I get there, what am I gonna have to do? First I’ve had to pay for a train ticket. Now I’m gonna have to rent a car or an Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not even the ones who wanted it. It was the people who commute,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that some critics will say this is a 'train to nowhere,' \" Newsom told legislators in his State of the State. “But that’s wrong and offensive. The people of the Central Valley endure the worst air pollution in America, as well as some of the longest commutes. And they have suffered too many years of neglect from policymakers here in Sacramento. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Newsom did not acknowledge is that when it comes to high-speed rail, some of the most disillusioned and skeptical Californians are Central Valley residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/big-valley/article223441880.html\">themselves\u003c/a>. While some dream of the opportunities a bullet train could bring, others see it as a misuse of funds and believe that it will never be built — or that if it ever is, no one will ride it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>'A Commitment to the Central Valley'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When voters approved a \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2008/general/pdf-guide/suppl-complete-guide.pdf#prop1a\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> in 2008 to fund high-speed rail, they were told it could be running between Los Angeles and the Bay Area in little more than a decade and cost about $34 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its most recent estimate, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said the link between San Francisco and the L.A. area would be finished in 2033. That's \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the authority can locate the tens of billions of dollars more needed to pay for the project, now priced at around \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/2018_BusinessPlan.pdf\">$77 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, about 2,600 construction workers are working on 119 miles of the route between Madera and Wasco, the latter a town just north of Bakersfield, by the end of 2022. That deadline is part of the rail agency's agreement for $3.5 billion in federal funding — money that the Trump administration is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727539/feds-battle-with-california-over-bullet-train-funding-may-be-just-beginning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trying to take back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Doizaki stands beside a fence that was recently erected across the street from Central Fish Co, which he manages. Doizaki says the fence has cut off foot traffic between downtown Fresno and Chinatown, and he worries about how that will impact the business. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Annie Parker, a spokeswoman with the bullet train agency, said service from Madera to Bakersfield could start by the end of 2027, with passengers riding from Bakersfield to Merced a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is more of a commitment to the Central Valley,” Parker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for connecting the rail to San Jose and elsewhere, Parker said, \"It’s not on hold. We will work to get to those regions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, the high-speed rail agency has helped fund infrastructure that could someday be part of a bullet train system. In the Bay Area, those projects include the Transbay Transit Center and Caltrain's electrification project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But actual development of high-speed trains in the state's two biggest metro areas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the funds in hand to build Phase One, to build San Francisco to Los Angeles,\" Parker said, adding that the agency is \"working to establish a full funding package for the delivery of the high-speed rail project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘The Biggest Challenge Is Surviving’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Even though trains might not run for years, residents are already feeling the effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, at least 230 businesses in Fresno have relocated to make way for construction, according to the rail authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Fish Co., a seafood market and Asian grocery in Fresno's Chinatown neighborhood, has been able to stay in its current location, unlike other businesses that once surrounded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been dealing with this for a few years now and we’re just trying to hang in there,” said Morgan Doizaki, general manager of Central Fish Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doizaki supports high-speed rail. He just wants it to get built — sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresno needs something big like this,” Doizaki said. In the meantime, \"the biggest challenge is surviving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lee Ann Eager, Fresno County Economic Development Corp.\"]'I think there's a lot of people, if they actually ever ride on one they'll have a different opinion. ... We don't want to sit on freeways for three and four hours to get just from one city to another. This is that option to get us out of that rut. But it might just take another generation to do that.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fence built recently between high-speed rail's right of way and the existing Union Pacific line has cut off foot traffic between an already isolated Chinatown and downtown Fresno’s popular baseball stadium, Chukchansi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, we kind of wait till the baseball season starts,” Doizaki said, “And everyone gets a little bit busier, but this is the first year we’re gonna have no foot traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some businesses, Doizaki noted, have done well since relocating, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/article92735407.html\">Cosmopolitan restaurant\u003c/a> that was once in Chinatown but has since moved a few blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnoedc.com/\">Economic Development Corp.\u003c/a> has been assisting businesses along the rail line alignment or otherwise impacted by road closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Newsom’s plan to focus on finishing what the authority has started in the Central Valley first, EDC President and CEO Lee Ann Eager said the policy does not signify a huge shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's the fallacy now, that somehow (Newsom’s) speech stopped high-speed rail, and nobody is doing the work anymore — and that's not the case,\" Eager said. \"I think all he said was we're going to do it in stages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager said she is aware of the criticism coming from Central Valley residents who think no one will ride the train if it does not connect to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has really always been an issue with us here is that we had expected the entire Central Valley to understand what those opportunities would mean for us,” Eager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there's a lot of people (that) if they actually ever ride on one they'll have a different opinion,\" Eager said. \"Because we don't want to be in cars, we don't want to have the bad air quality and we don't want to sit on freeways for three and four hours to get just from one city to another. This is that option to get us out of that rut. But it might just take another generation to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after Newsom made his announcement in February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725636/state-of-the-state-newsom-pulls-plug-on-s-f-to-l-a-high-speed-rail-project\">he tried to clarify\u003c/a> his administration's plans for the project: The initial focus will be to get the bullet train running on the 170-mile route from Merced to Bakersfield during the next decade while finishing environmental studies of the full \"Phase One\" line from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Phase One would still be built at some unspecified point in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news angered Spence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would I ride it to Merced? Even Modesto. I could be there in 45 minutes,” she said. “And when I get there, what am I gonna have to do? First I’ve had to pay for a train ticket. Now I’m gonna have to rent a car or an Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not even the ones who wanted it. It was the people who commute,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that some critics will say this is a 'train to nowhere,' \" Newsom told legislators in his State of the State. “But that’s wrong and offensive. The people of the Central Valley endure the worst air pollution in America, as well as some of the longest commutes. And they have suffered too many years of neglect from policymakers here in Sacramento. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Newsom did not acknowledge is that when it comes to high-speed rail, some of the most disillusioned and skeptical Californians are Central Valley residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/big-valley/article223441880.html\">themselves\u003c/a>. While some dream of the opportunities a bullet train could bring, others see it as a misuse of funds and believe that it will never be built — or that if it ever is, no one will ride it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>'A Commitment to the Central Valley'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When voters approved a \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2008/general/pdf-guide/suppl-complete-guide.pdf#prop1a\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> in 2008 to fund high-speed rail, they were told it could be running between Los Angeles and the Bay Area in little more than a decade and cost about $34 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its most recent estimate, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said the link between San Francisco and the L.A. area would be finished in 2033. That's \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the authority can locate the tens of billions of dollars more needed to pay for the project, now priced at around \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/2018_BusinessPlan.pdf\">$77 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, about 2,600 construction workers are working on 119 miles of the route between Madera and Wasco, the latter a town just north of Bakersfield, by the end of 2022. 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Doizaki says the fence has cut off foot traffic between downtown Fresno and Chinatown, and he worries about how that will impact the business. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Annie Parker, a spokeswoman with the bullet train agency, said service from Madera to Bakersfield could start by the end of 2027, with passengers riding from Bakersfield to Merced a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is more of a commitment to the Central Valley,” Parker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for connecting the rail to San Jose and elsewhere, Parker said, \"It’s not on hold. We will work to get to those regions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, the high-speed rail agency has helped fund infrastructure that could someday be part of a bullet train system. 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He just wants it to get built — sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresno needs something big like this,” Doizaki said. In the meantime, \"the biggest challenge is surviving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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