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The Legislature then passed a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\">law\u003c/a> creating automatic voter registration at the DMV, and the advocacy groups have been working with the government to implement it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was that rather than duplicating information by filling out a voter-registration form \u003cem>and\u003c/em> a driver’s license form, Californians who are legally eligible to vote would automatically be registered when completing the DMV’s computerized application for a driver’s license or ID card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program launched in April, about 1.4 million Californians have registered to vote or updated their voter registration through the motor voter process — and the DMV has acknowledged three batches of mistakes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A software error affected 77,000 registrations, resulting, in some cases, in two registration forms indicating different party preferences being issued for one voter (\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-motor-voter-registrations-errors-20180524-story.html\">reported\u003c/a> in May).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A window-toggling error affected 23,000 registrations, resulting in changes to voters’ party preference, vote-by-mail options and language choices (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article217891745.html\">reported\u003c/a> in September).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A data-entry error resulted in 1,500 people being registered to vote even though they are not legally eligible because they are not U.S. citizens, are under 18 or are on parole for a felony conviction (\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-dmv-more-voter-registration-errors-20181008-story.html\">reported\u003c/a> this month).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Though the problems are serious, none indicate intentional acts of fraud or hacking. Instead, they appear to be the result of human error and glitchy technology — which officials say are being fixed with software updates and employee training. The secretary of state said erroneous registrations have been canceled and DMV leaders say they’ve put new procedures in place to prevent mistakes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to review the efficiency and accuracy of the program and will make additional upgrades as needed,” said the statement from DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Alex Padilla has said the errors amount to a small \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/the-one-thing-the-california-dmv-does-make-it-easy-to-do/\">fraction\u003c/a> of the transactions processed by the DMV and maintains that the corrective steps he’s taking, including a third-party review of the motor voter system, “are crucial to ensuring voter confidence in our democracy.” National experts have repeatedly found that voter fraud is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jan/04/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-theres-substantial-evidence-vote/\">isolated and rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with the state government run entirely by Democrats, the motor voter problems have fueled Republican arguments that voting systems are \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/06/donald-trump/no-proof-trumps-claim-millions-voted-many-times/\">plagued by fraud\u003c/a>. In a new digital \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1w_GNowHc\">ad\u003c/a> this month, Padilla’s GOP opponent Mark Meuser highlights cases of fraudulent voting and says he wants “to end California's rigged elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for politicizing the problem is why the state government needs to come up with a big picture fix, said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant who is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a way to salvage this but it requires not dismissing it as ‘no big deal,’” he said. “The president of the United States is questioning the integrity of our electoral system and we have just legitimized that fear mongering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid wants to see a bipartisan commission formed to examine California’s voting system — not only the motor voter problems but also issues like the incident during the June primary when more than 118,000 names were erased from Los Angeles County voter rolls. An audit \u003ca href=\"https://www.lavote.net/docs/rrcc/news-releases/Final-Revised-Media-Release-Voter-Roster.pdf?v=1\">found\u003c/a> that case was caused by a formatting mismatch between state and local computer systems that left blank spaces where dates of birth should have been, causing the computer to misclassify those voters as underaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Department of Finance will examine the motor voter program as part of its audit of the DMV, which has been plagued by numerous problems this year including massive wait times. But critics say that review is insufficient because the Department of Finance, like the DMV itself, is part of the governor’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, lawmakers \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2018/08/08/california-lawmakers-reject-proposal-to-audit-the-dmv-despite-complaints-about-long-waits/\">rejected\u003c/a> a Republican assemblyman’s request to have the state’s independent auditor investigate the DMV. Now the Democratic assemblywoman who wrote the law creating the new motor voter system said she is going to ask for one when the Legislature reconvenes in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We gave them plenty of time. We increased their budget twice in order to implement this. We allowed them to delay implementation because we wanted it done right,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher of San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they told us they were ready, obviously they weren’t quite ready.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The DMV gave the public a series of piecemeal explanations as it acknowledged making more than 100,000 errors in recent months in registering Californians to vote. Software problems, it said in May. Human errors from toggling between computer windows, it said in September. Data entry mistakes that were corrected but never saved, it said this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What DMV officials didn’t acknowledge — and still haven’t — was what may be the underlying problem: The agency rolled out a massive new voter-registration effort with a piecemeal computer system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the properly integrated computer program that was needed, the agency launched in April with disparate computer systems that didn’t automatically link together, according to advocates who have been working closely with the DMV on the new “motor voter” system. That meant DMV workers had to manually link information from various systems during transactions between April and September, when an integrated system was put in place, said Kathay Feng, executive director of California Common Cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the problems reported so far happened during that period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re finding out is that they were really patching together an old system with several new systems,” Feng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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One is the state government’s pattern of \u003ca href=\"https://sbp.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbp.senate.ca.gov/files/California%20IT%20Failures%20Background.pdf\">failure\u003c/a> on large information technology projects; the other is its \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/21/us/california-governor-sues-to-void-motor-voter-law.html\">history\u003c/a> of flouting the federal voter-registration law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Cause and other voter-rights advocacy groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.mofo.com/resources/press-releases/voting-right-groups-move-to-enforce-motor-voter-in-california.pdf\">sued\u003c/a> the state in 2015, alleging it had failed to follow federal law requiring that states register people to vote and update their voting registrations when they get or renew a driver’s license or ID card. The Legislature then passed a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1461\">law\u003c/a> creating automatic voter registration at the DMV, and the advocacy groups have been working with the government to implement it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was that rather than duplicating information by filling out a voter-registration form \u003cem>and\u003c/em> a driver’s license form, Californians who are legally eligible to vote would automatically be registered when completing the DMV’s computerized application for a driver’s license or ID card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the program launched in April, about 1.4 million Californians have registered to vote or updated their voter registration through the motor voter process — and the DMV has acknowledged three batches of mistakes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A software error affected 77,000 registrations, resulting, in some cases, in two registration forms indicating different party preferences being issued for one voter (\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-motor-voter-registrations-errors-20180524-story.html\">reported\u003c/a> in May).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A window-toggling error affected 23,000 registrations, resulting in changes to voters’ party preference, vote-by-mail options and language choices (\u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article217891745.html\">reported\u003c/a> in September).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A data-entry error resulted in 1,500 people being registered to vote even though they are not legally eligible because they are not U.S. citizens, are under 18 or are on parole for a felony conviction (\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-dmv-more-voter-registration-errors-20181008-story.html\">reported\u003c/a> this month).\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Though the problems are serious, none indicate intentional acts of fraud or hacking. Instead, they appear to be the result of human error and glitchy technology — which officials say are being fixed with software updates and employee training. The secretary of state said erroneous registrations have been canceled and DMV leaders say they’ve put new procedures in place to prevent mistakes in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We continue to review the efficiency and accuracy of the program and will make additional upgrades as needed,” said the statement from DMV spokeswoman Jessica Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Alex Padilla has said the errors amount to a small \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/the-one-thing-the-california-dmv-does-make-it-easy-to-do/\">fraction\u003c/a> of the transactions processed by the DMV and maintains that the corrective steps he’s taking, including a third-party review of the motor voter system, “are crucial to ensuring voter confidence in our democracy.” National experts have repeatedly found that voter fraud is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/jan/04/donald-trump/donald-trump-says-theres-substantial-evidence-vote/\">isolated and rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, with the state government run entirely by Democrats, the motor voter problems have fueled Republican arguments that voting systems are \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/apr/06/donald-trump/no-proof-trumps-claim-millions-voted-many-times/\">plagued by fraud\u003c/a>. In a new digital \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ1w_GNowHc\">ad\u003c/a> this month, Padilla’s GOP opponent Mark Meuser highlights cases of fraudulent voting and says he wants “to end California's rigged elections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for politicizing the problem is why the state government needs to come up with a big picture fix, said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant who is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a way to salvage this but it requires not dismissing it as ‘no big deal,’” he said. “The president of the United States is questioning the integrity of our electoral system and we have just legitimized that fear mongering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid wants to see a bipartisan commission formed to examine California’s voting system — not only the motor voter problems but also issues like the incident during the June primary when more than 118,000 names were erased from Los Angeles County voter rolls. An audit \u003ca href=\"https://www.lavote.net/docs/rrcc/news-releases/Final-Revised-Media-Release-Voter-Roster.pdf?v=1\">found\u003c/a> that case was caused by a formatting mismatch between state and local computer systems that left blank spaces where dates of birth should have been, causing the computer to misclassify those voters as underaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Department of Finance will examine the motor voter program as part of its audit of the DMV, which has been plagued by numerous problems this year including massive wait times. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 9:25 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here are lots of reasons traffic congestion has gotten worse in San Francisco since 2010. Among them are a surging economy that has added an estimated 150,000 new jobs in the city and a population increase of 70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new research from San Francisco transportation planners finds that the single biggest factor in slowing down traffic and jamming city streets is the arrival of tens of thousands of ride-service vehicles carrying passengers for Uber and Lyft -- firms known in regulatory circles as transportation network companies, or TNCs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report released Tuesday by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority (SFCTA) -- \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/TNCs/TNCs_Congestion_Report_181015_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TNCs and Congestion\u003c/a>\" -- says a comparison of data from 2010 and late 2016 found that the ride-service firms are responsible for about half of the increased congestion on city streets during that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was published alongside \u003ca href=\"http://tncsandcongestion.sfcta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interactive map\u003c/a> showing the congestion impact of ride services, population and employment growth and changes in the city's street network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In statements issued before the official release of the report, the companies pushed back against the notion they're responsible for worsening traffic conditions. Uber said the study failed to account for a dramatic increase in tourism in recent years or traffic bottlenecks caused by more frequent freight and e-commerce deliveries in the city. \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/sharing-the-ride-with-lyft/understanding-lyfts-impact-on-congestion-adc1d13d932e\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lyft pointed\u003c/a> to studies that suggest TNCs may actually reduce congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Findings Add to 2017 Report\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not exactly news that there are lots of Lyft and Uber vehicles on San Francisco streets. If you're in the Financial District, South of Market (SOMA) or the Mission and open the companies' apps, nearby thoroughfares appear to be crawling with ride-service cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That impression is backed up by data. The SFCTA said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/TNCs/TNCs_Today_112917.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an analysis\u003c/a> of TNC traffic last year that as many as 6,000 Uber and Lyft vehicles were on the city's streets at any one time -- dwarfing the city's mostly moribund taxi fleet -- and accounted for about 170,000 vehicle trips on a typical weekday. That ride service traffic -- again based on data from late 2016 -- represented about 15 percent of all vehicle trips in the city, the SFCTA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we put that report out, what it revealed was that there are a lot of TNC trips happening, oftentimes in the most congested parts of the city and often at the most congested times of day,\" said Joe Castiglione, the SFCTA's deputy director for technology, data and analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, we couldn't really say how much TNCs were contributing to congestion or how they might have changed congestion since they came on the scene around seven or eight years ago, because lots of other things have changed in the interim,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those changes: the city's spike in employment and the increase in its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certainly all of these new people -- new residents and jobs -- are also contributing to congestion,\" Castiglione said. \"What this new report does is answer the question, 'How do TNCs affect roadway congestion in San Francisco relative to all of these other factors?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFCTA report acknowledges a host of unknowns in answering that question, noting a lack of data on how delivery services, freight traffic and construction activity on city streets might be affecting congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also concedes that it's not a given that ride services increase congestion. For instance, Uber and Lyft could encourage transit ridership by serving as a bridge to and from train stations and bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>S.F. Streets: More Delays, Lower Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after sifting through data from several sources, the transportation researchers concluded that the ride services are, indeed, a major factor in traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using information on late 2016 Uber and Lyft activity in San Francisco, obtained by researchers at Northeastern University and data about citywide traffic conditions from transportation intelligence firm INRIX, the SFCTA analyzed three measures of congestion: the extent of travel delays, the total number of miles vehicles travel in the city every day and average traffic speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFCTA says that total daily traffic delays in San Francisco increased from about 65,000 hours in 2010 to 105,000 hours by the end of 2016. By analyzing several different scenarios, including a hypothetical situation in which there was no TNC traffic in 2016, the agency estimates that 51 percent of the additional 40,000 hours of daily delay was due to the ride services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the study found that the TNCs contributed heavily to increases in the number of vehicle miles traveled each weekday and decreases in average speeds on city thoroughfares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFCTA report says weekday vehicle miles traveled increased from 4.9 million to 5.6 million between 2010 and the end of 2016, with TNCs accounting for 47 percent of the 700,000-mile increase. The city researchers estimate that average speeds on city streets fell from 24 mph to 20.9 mph during the study period, with ride-service traffic responsible for 55 percent of the 3.1 mph drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hardest-Hit Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also highlights the neighborhoods and times of day where the ride-service firms have had the biggest impact on travel conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Ride-hailing companies are major contributors to the horrendous traffic conditions in the city's Financial District and SOMA, areas which have seen major increases in travel delays and the number of vehicle miles traveled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Mission District saw the biggest drop in average traffic speeds -- almost 5 mph over the six-year study period. Smaller but significant drops were also seen in the Financial District, SOMA and the Civic Center/Hayes Valley/Panhandle corridor. 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If you're in the Financial District, South of Market (SOMA) or the Mission and open the companies' apps, nearby thoroughfares appear to be crawling with ride-service cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That impression is backed up by data. The SFCTA said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/TNCs/TNCs_Today_112917.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an analysis\u003c/a> of TNC traffic last year that as many as 6,000 Uber and Lyft vehicles were on the city's streets at any one time -- dwarfing the city's mostly moribund taxi fleet -- and accounted for about 170,000 vehicle trips on a typical weekday. That ride service traffic -- again based on data from late 2016 -- represented about 15 percent of all vehicle trips in the city, the SFCTA said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we put that report out, what it revealed was that there are a lot of TNC trips happening, oftentimes in the most congested parts of the city and often at the most congested times of day,\" said Joe Castiglione, the SFCTA's deputy director for technology, data and analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, we couldn't really say how much TNCs were contributing to congestion or how they might have changed congestion since they came on the scene around seven or eight years ago, because lots of other things have changed in the interim,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those changes: the city's spike in employment and the increase in its population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certainly all of these new people -- new residents and jobs -- are also contributing to congestion,\" Castiglione said. \"What this new report does is answer the question, 'How do TNCs affect roadway congestion in San Francisco relative to all of these other factors?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFCTA report acknowledges a host of unknowns in answering that question, noting a lack of data on how delivery services, freight traffic and construction activity on city streets might be affecting congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study also concedes that it's not a given that ride services increase congestion. For instance, Uber and Lyft could encourage transit ridership by serving as a bridge to and from train stations and bus stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>S.F. Streets: More Delays, Lower Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after sifting through data from several sources, the transportation researchers concluded that the ride services are, indeed, a major factor in traffic congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using information on late 2016 Uber and Lyft activity in San Francisco, obtained by researchers at Northeastern University and data about citywide traffic conditions from transportation intelligence firm INRIX, the SFCTA analyzed three measures of congestion: the extent of travel delays, the total number of miles vehicles travel in the city every day and average traffic speeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFCTA says that total daily traffic delays in San Francisco increased from about 65,000 hours in 2010 to 105,000 hours by the end of 2016. By analyzing several different scenarios, including a hypothetical situation in which there was no TNC traffic in 2016, the agency estimates that 51 percent of the additional 40,000 hours of daily delay was due to the ride services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the study found that the TNCs contributed heavily to increases in the number of vehicle miles traveled each weekday and decreases in average speeds on city thoroughfares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFCTA report says weekday vehicle miles traveled increased from 4.9 million to 5.6 million between 2010 and the end of 2016, with TNCs accounting for 47 percent of the 700,000-mile increase. 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"content": "\u003cp>Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox reiterated his support for Proposition 6 -- the November ballot measure that would repeal a recent increase to California's gas tax and vehicle license fee -- and said repairs and improvements to California's transportation infrastructure could be funded through improving efficiencies at Caltrans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments came \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11697413/gavin-newsom-john-cox-spar-on-housing-criminal-justice-in-wide-ranging-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during a debate Monday\u003c/a> with opponent Gavin Newsom at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to get the money out of politics, and I'm going to be talking about that day one on Nov. 7, after I'm elected,\" Cox said. \"But we also need to make sure that Caltrans uses its money efficiently, and the politicians like Gavin went ahead and approved an increase in the gas tax. They didn't want to do the tough job. The tough job would have been making Caltrans live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom actually had nothing to do with the passage and enactment of Senate Bill 1, the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, though he supports the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to to John Cox and Gavin Newsom discuss Proposition 6 in a debate moderated by KQED senior politics editor Scott Shafer.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/10/Prop6.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/CoxNewsom-1180x579.jpg\" Title=\"John Cox, Gavin Newsom on Proposition 6\" program=\"KQED's Forum\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill placed a tax of 12 cents on each gallon of gas and 20 cents on each gallon of diesel sold in California -- and it increased car registration fees from between $25 and $175, depending on the value of the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total taxes from SB 1 would bring in about $5 billion per year over the next decade. The money is split between the state government and local governments to fix transportation infrastructure projects around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said Cox's plan would worsen traffic conditions in California, a state that already has some of the worst congestion in the U.S., and called Cox's notions about implementing efficiencies in Caltrans \"illusory.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact is the Legislature and the governor finally began to address this issue in a substantive way,\" Newsom said. \"He's talking about taking away over $5 billion every single year for road improvements, public safety improvements, addressing the issue of traffic and congestion, which, in and of itself, is a hidden tax. And to reconcile the fact that 27 other states since 2013 have increased their sales tax, or rather gas taxes, in an effort to improve their roads, he chooses not to do that. He talks about the illusory notion of efficiencies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox said other untapped sources of money could be identified to fund transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This state is running a surplus right now, and it generates tens of billions of dollars from motor vehicle-related sources -- sales taxes on cars and other things like that aren't being used. We have a surplus,\" Cox said. \"Why are we digging into the pockets of people who were already paying the highest housing prices, the highest water prices, the highest electricity prices in the country?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who has served as lieutenant governor under Gov. Jerry Brown, said he was proud of the Brown administration's record, having adopted a $27 billion budget deficit in 2010, turning it into a $8.5 billion budget surplus today. He said California under Brown now has the lowest rate of unemployment in recorded history and an average of 3.7 percent GDP growth over the last four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The difference between myself and my opponent, John Cox, is we actually have strategies and plans to address those issues, and with respect to the illusory notion of 'efficiencies' at Caltrans, I can assure you that's not going to build any road or bridge,\" Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about possible future downturns in California's economy and what would happen if $50 billion were stripped from the state budget to fix roads, Cox said he'd look more broadly at the state's budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got to get a look at every expense that we incur,\" Cox said. \"We've got to audit every agency and we've got to root out the waste in this budget. And believe me there's a lot of it. This budget has increased tremendously, and there's a tremendous amount of waste and mismanagement that's going on in this budget.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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If passed, it would repeal SB 1, the gas tax and vehicle fee increase passed by state lawmakers last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Bay-Curious-Logo_Final-01.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area. Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>OLIVIA ALLEN-PRICE: I’m Olivia Allen-Price. This is Bay Curious. Election season is here, and if you’re anything like me, you wait until a day or two before Election Day to cram on the facts and decide how you’ll vote, especially on those confusing California ballot initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each year I vow to do better, to start earlier, to not wait until the last minute. This is that year. Over the next five days we’ll be exploring the 11 statewide propositions that Californians are voting on — not just what the prop is about but also how it came to be on the ballot in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll drop a new episode each day. Some will cover multiple props. Some just one. And by Friday afternoon you and I will be hella informed. We’re calling it Bay Curious Prop Week.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Theme music\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: First up is Proposition 6, the effort to repeal the state’s new gas tax and vehicle fees. It has become one of the top issues for Republicans in California this year. 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What were they voting on?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: SB 1 was a gas tax and vehicle fee increase. Gas, normal gas that we all use in our cars, went up by 12 cents a gallon. Diesel fuel went up by 20 cents a gallon. And then car registration fees went up between $25 and $175, depending on the value of the car. So all that money together is expected to bring in $5 billion a year over the next decade. And that money gets split between the state government and local governments to fix freeways, bridges, local roads… various infrastructure projects around the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: Gov. Jerry Brown was a big advocate of SB 1 and right after it passed the Legislature, he held an impromptu press conference outside his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GOV. JERRY BROWN: I really want to say, I appreciate being a Democrat and what the Democrats did tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: And all the Democrats were crowding around him. You know, everyone wants their picture with the governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BROWN: The Democratic Party is the party of doing things, and tonight we did something to fix the roads of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: But it wasn’t too much longer after that when we started hearing talk about recall efforts and efforts to repeal this tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NEWS AUDIO: New at 6 o’clock. A new gas tax is set to go into effect in just a couple of months, but it may not be in place for long if one San Diegan has his way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: So take me from that room where Jerry Brown is celebrating his big win, the pass of SB 1. You know, what is happening, what are the Republicans doing, sort of, from that moment through today?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: So we see an organizing effort by various Republicans to try and overturn this new tax. You saw Carl DeMaio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARL DEMAIO: C-A-R-L D-E-capital M-A-I-O. 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So that 12 extra cents on your gallon of gas, that 20 extra cents on your gallon of diesel and those increased fees at the DMV, that would all be repealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: But that’s not all Prop. 6 would do. KQED transportation editor Dan Brekke explains what else we’re voting on with this prop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DAN BREKKE: The second big part of this is that it would amend the state constitution so that any future gasoline tax increases or increases in the vehicle fees would be subject to approval of the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: What would that mean for the future if this did pass and you did have that constitutional change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BREKKE: Well, it becomes politically sort of impossible to get a gas tax increase. I mean, we’ve had all sorts of what they call ballot box budgeting, and this would just be maybe the most radical example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: So it really takes a lot of power away from the Legislature and puts it back with the voters, which some people would see as a great thing. Legislators tend to think that it would leave them a little bit hamstrung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: So why has this become sort of the marquee issue for Republicans in 2018?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: There was fear, especially in the primary, that they would not have a candidate in the governor’s race. So there was concern that it would be Gavin Newsom and Antonio Villaraigosa, both Democrats, in November. If that happens, Republicans don’t have a lot of reason to come out to the polls. So they were thinking, ‘well, shoot, we need something on the ballot because this is a huge year for the congressional races as well.’ There are about seven seats in California that Democrats think they have a really good shot at flipping from Republican to Democrat, and if Republican voters aren’t at the polls because they don’t have a candidate, then that makes those odds a lot better for Democrats. So fortunately for the Republicans, they did get a candidate into the November election, John Cox. He’s a businessman from San Diego, but he doesn’t seem to be getting as much traction as Gavin Newsom, and the gas tax is what they’re counting on to get their core voters out to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: Now, even though everyone is talking about this as the gas tax repeal, and they’re talking about what you pay at the pump, Dan says it might actually be the vehicle fee increase that people really notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BREKKE: The fees are steep under SB 1. Your vehicle fee — and then there’s a new transportation fee — is based on the market value of your car. So we bought a car last year, and I get my first vehicle registration form in the mail and the fee is over $400. And over $400 at one time, you feel that. Twelve cents a gallon is sort of a slow drip. This is kind of like a big hit all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ALLEN-PRICE: The kind of surprising thing is all this fighting might not even matter in a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ORR: The interesting thing about the gas tax is we’re having this big argument about it, right? But no matter what they really do, the gas tax is going to keep declining because people are getting more fuel-efficient cars, so they need less gas. Some people are getting electric cars — they don’t need any gas. So fewer and fewer people are actually buying the gas we need them to buy to maintain the roads. So at some point, they’re going to have to come up with a new funding mechanism anyway. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Wednesday, 3:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new $2.2 billion Salesforce Transit Center, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694695/crack-in-support-beam-shuts-down-s-f-s-brand-new-2-billion-transit-terminal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which was shut down Tuesday evening after work crews found a crack in a steel support beam\u003c/a>, will remain closed until at least the end of next week, said a top official with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zabaneh, the agency's executive director, also said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon that inspectors Tuesday night had found a second beam with cracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our inspection last night indicated that the adjacent beam to the beam in question also suffered some cracking,\" he said. \"Not to the same extent as the beam in question, but still had some cracking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zabaneh said Wednesday that the cause of the cracking at this time was unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It could be a fabrication issue,\" he said. \"It could be a welding issue. 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Apparently that's not the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's extremely frustrating, particularly given the Millennium Tower situation next door,\" Peskin said in an interview Wednesday. \"This does not create confidence for city officials ... [or] for members of the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin was referring to an adjacent landmark, the sinking 58-story condominium high-rise Millennium Tower, which has settled about 18 inches since it opened over a former landfill in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As an elected representative, I am very concerned,\" said Kim, who represents the district with the transit center. \"This is a part of the city that we are building and constructing in heavily and we want to make sure that the structures that we're building, whether it's residential or a transit terminal, are 100 percent safe for our workers and residents. 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I was really excited about the Transbay Terminal ... that it was going to cut down the commute by like five or 10 minutes each trip because it has a direct route right off the freeway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shronda Allen, who took AC Transit's NX3 bus from Oakland, said the ride usually takes 45 minutes, but today it took twice as long. She said that with the transit center closure and the ongoing Dreamforce conference, which is drawing tens of thousands of attendees to the area downtown, it has not been easy to get around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was not prepared for such a long delay. I thought I would get here my normal time,\" she said. \"I'm happy they have an alternative for safety reasons. It's kinda scary that a support beam was cracked. 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A downtown street that runs under the beam was also ordered closed indefinitely, causing traffic chaos at the same time some streets were closed for a conference sponsored by Salesforce that was expected to draw 170,000 attendees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/m0nica10/status/1044745114889838592\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enveloped in wavy white sheets of metal veil, the five-level center includes a bus deck, a towering sky-lit central entrance hall and a rooftop park with an outdoor amphitheater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project, a commanding presence in the city's South of Market neighborhood, is financed by land sales, federal stimulus grants, district fees and taxes, bridge tolls, and federal and state funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit center sits adjacent to another dubious landmark, the so-called sinking condominium, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101867291/millennium-towers-cracked-window-raises-more-questions-about-the-buildings-structural-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millennium Tower\u003c/a>, which has settled about 18 inches since it opened over a former landfill in 2009. 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"content": "\u003cp>Federal safety officials blame two Air Canada pilots for coming within just 10 to 20 feet of crashing their jetliner into a plane on the ground last year at San Francisco International Airport. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11665993/watch-video-of-airliners-near-disaster-at-sfo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Previous estimates\u003c/a> put the near-miss at within 100 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Canada pilots were apparently confused because one of two parallel runways was closed and dark before the late-night incident on July 7, 2017. The crew was seconds from landing their Airbus A320 jet on a taxiway where other planes loaded with passengers were waiting to take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could not have gotten literally or figuratively any closer to having a major disaster,” said the National Transportation Safety Board’s vice chairman, Bruce Landsberg, during a hearing Tuesday in Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underscoring the severity of the incident, the NTSB’s top aviation safety staffer, John DeLisi, said it was the first time the board considered a major investigation for an event in which there were no injuries or damaged planes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board said the Air Canada crew mistook the taxiway for a runway because they didn’t adequately review a warning to all pilots about one of the runways being closed for construction. The board cited other mistakes and crew fatigue as contributing factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick said the airline would review the safety board’s recommendations and has already taken steps to improve training and procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two pilots “are being held out of service,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety board recommended the development of technology to warn pilots and air traffic controllers when a landing plane appears to be aimed at a taxiway instead of a runway. It also said the Federal Aviation Administration should consider better lighting and markings to warn pilots about closed runways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cockpit voice recorder might have helped investigators better understand how the near-accident unfolded. However, the recording was taped over because the NTSB wasn’t notified of the incident for nearly two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we learned of a passenger airliner almost touching down on a taxiway occupied by four other airliners, we elected to launch a full investigation,” DeLisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>SFO Ground Video Shows Near-Miss\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/oF7FR7TjnME?t=42\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the video above, the Air Canada jet approaching SFO can be seen as the moving bright white light near the top of the frame. At the 1:08 minute mark, the jet’s landing lights sweep across the fuselage of an aircraft just beneath it, lined up to take off.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident occurred just before midnight — it felt like 3 a.m. to the pilots, who had taken off from Toronto. The safety board recommended that Canada strengthen rules to prevent pilot fatigue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safety board’s chairman, Robert Sumwalt, urged the FAA and Canadian officials to adopt the recommendations “so that we do not have to relearn the lessons of this incident at a far greater cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Canada crew was cleared to land on runway 28R, to the right of the closed runway, 28L.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a preliminary NTSB report, the pilots thought the lighted runway was 28L — not theirs. Despite visual cues such as different lighting on taxiways, they aimed their jet to land to the right of 28R, on a parallel taxiway where the other planes were waiting to take off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11694646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11694646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-800x597.jpg\" alt=\"A Google Earth view of Runways 28L and 28R at San Francisco International Airport. During a nighttime landing in July, 2017, an Air Canada flight crew confused a crowded taxiway at the top of this image (outlined in green) with their assigned runway, 28R. The crew's confusion partially stemmed from runway 28L being closed and dark at the time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-800x597.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-1180x881.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-960x717.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/SFORunways-520x388.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google Earth view of Runways 28L and 28R at San Francisco International Airport. During a nighttime landing in July 2017, an Air Canada flight crew confused a crowded taxiway at the top of this image (outlined in green) with their assigned runway, 28R. The crew’s confusion partially stemmed from runway 28L being closed and dark at the time. \u003ccite>(Google Earth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the NTSB, the pilots told investigators that they didn’t see planes on the taxiway, but that something did not look right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first airliner in the departing queue on the taxiway was United Airlines Flight 1, headed for Singapore, commanded by Capt. Keith Freeberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flight 1 had been awaiting clearance to depart for half an hour when the Air Canada plane approached the airport. After Freeberg saw the Airbus was “aiming at us” and not correcting course, he radioed the controller on duty, “Where’s that guy going? He’s on the taxiway.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/07/ac759sfo070717goaround.mp3\" title=\"Listen to the Exchange on SFO Air Traffic Control\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://u.s.kqed.net/2017/07/12/SFOControlTower.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Sembower, first officer on another United flight in the taxiway lineup, wrote that “within one or two seconds of this transmission, all of us in our cockpit became fully aware that Air Canada was lost and headed our way. Our captain turned on all of our lights, to include the landing lights, taxi light, turnoff lights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Air Canada pilots abandoned the landing and pulled their plane up just in time to avoid catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An NTSB staff member said Tuesday that they calculated the plane flew just 10 feet to 20 feet above United Flight 1, then circled and returned for a safe landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both pilots of the Airbus A320, which was arriving from Toronto, were experienced. The captain, who was flying the plane, had more than 20,000 hours of flying time, and the co-pilot had about 10,000 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, federal officials blamed pilot error for three other close calls in the previous 16 months at the San Francisco airport. 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