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He subsequently missed a deadline to file what he described in an email to an FPPC lawyer as “my delinquent statements” and has not been heard from since, the agency complaint says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment on the FPPC’s proposed fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FPPC spokesman Jay Wierenga said Monday the proposed amount of the fine in the Williams case, $60,000, “is a lot.” He explained that in the relatively rare case in which an officeholder or candidate doesn’t respond to agency inquiries, “the enforcement division will go to the high end to get their attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in fact, the enforcement division has already signaled its willingness to settle for less than the $60,000 fine it has asked commission members to approve next week. 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SB 1, and all its higher taxes and new fees, is currently the target of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/22/poll-a-hardline-majority-favors-repealing-gas-tax-hike/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two recall campaigns\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Area bridge tolls\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/15/sb-595-bay-area-transportation-plan-regional-measure-3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(SB 595)\u003c/a>: The bill authorizes a vote on raising bridge tolls by as much as $3 in the nine Bay Area counties. The vote is expected to take place in June.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Crosswalk countdowns \u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/05/new-law-will-allow-crossing-street-while-signal-counts-down/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(AB 390)\u003c/a>: The new law makes it legal to enter a crosswalk after a crosswalk countdown starts — as long as you get to the other side by the time the counter reaches zero. It’s important to note that another facet of previous state law remains unchanged: If you’re crossing at a traditional pedestrian signal — one without a countdown clock — it will remain illegal to start into the street once the flashing “don’t walk” (or red hand) begins flashing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Cannabis — no use in vehicles\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(SB 65)\u003c/a>: New law extends existing California ban on drinking alcohol while driving and while riding in a vehicle operating on a highway and now also prohibits “smoking or ingesting marijuana or any marijuana product while driving, or while riding as a passenger in, a motor vehicle being driven upon a highway or upon specified lands.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Cannabis — no open containers in vehicles\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(SB 94)\u003c/a>: Among the dozens of provisions of the legislation enacting the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act is one that makes it illegal “to possess a receptacle containing cannabis or cannabis product that has been opened, or a seal broken, or to possess loose cannabis flower not in a container, while driving a motor vehicle, as specified, unless the receptacle is in the trunk of the vehicle or the person is a qualified patient carrying a current identification card or a physician’s recommendation and the cannabis or cannabis product is contained in a container or receptacle that is either sealed, resealed, or closed.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Driving passengers for hire — new DUI limit\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(AB 2687, 2016)\u003c/a>: A law taking effect July 1, 2018, extends the reduced blood-alcohol limits in place for truck and bus drivers to those who drive for Uber, Lyft and similar services. The law makes “it unlawful for a person who has 0.04 percent or more … of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a motor vehicle when a passenger for hire … is a passenger in the vehicle.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Parking tickets — payment plans for indigent drivers\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(AB 503)\u003c/a>: Creates a process that allows individuals with outstanding parking citations to repay their fines and penalties while preserving their ability to register and drive their vehicles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Disabled parking placards\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB611\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(SB 611)\u003c/a> Via the Sacramento Bee: The new law “requires the state Department of Motor Vehicles to tighten its oversight of the state disabled placard program. That includes reviewing the federal Social Security Administration’s ‘death file’ and canceling placards of deceased drivers.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Parking tickets — no citations at broken meters\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(AB 1625)\u003c/a>: The new law prohibits local governments from prohibiting or\u003cbr>\nrestricting parking at broken meters or payment devices. However, parking at broken meters is limited to posted time limits.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bus seat belts\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(SB 20)\u003c/a>: Effective July 1, 2018, the bill requires bus drivers and passengers to wear seat belts in buses that are equipped with them and requires drivers to notify passengers of this requirement and the fine for not wearing a seat belt either before departure or with posted signs or placards.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Motorcycle training courses\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(AB 1027)\u003c/a>: The new law allows the Department of Motor Vehicles to accept a certificate of completion of an approved motorcyclist training program in lieu of a driving test and specifies that people under 21 must complete a novice program.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Transit fines\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(SB 614)\u003c/a>: The new law reduces fines for fare evasion and other passenger conduct offenses specified by state law (for instance, smoking, eating or playing loud music on trains or buses). 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#update\">Updated Jan 1, 2018\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of paying BART patrons at a lot of stations have this gripe, but I'll go first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My regular San Francisco station is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/27/at-barts-16th-mission-station-the-rapture-is-nigh/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16th and Mission\u003c/a>. The concourse features a side gate that swings open to stairs leading out of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every time I'm headed to or from a train there, I see people waltzing right through that \"emergency\" exit, thus avoiding paying for their ride. Folks of all descriptions do that with little apparent fear of being challenged (the station agent's booth is a good 100 feet from the gate), concern about their fellow patrons' opinions or any legal consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/12/BrekkeBARTFareChecks.mp3\" title=\"BART Launching Effort to Get Tough on Fare Cheaters\" program=KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This scene is repeated often enough -- perhaps as many as 15,000 or 20,000 times every weekday, at an annual cost BART has estimated at $15 million to $25 million -- that the agency has decided to try to do a better job of persuading riders that they should pay for the sometimes questionable privilege of boarding its trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is taking steps like erecting higher barriers at some station concourses, making them harder to jump. The district is also installing signage and floor decals informing riders they may have to provide proof of payment and warning them against fare evasion\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are peripheral measures. The heart of the anti-fare-cheating effort is a proof-of-payment system that will require passengers to show a valid Clipper Card or ticket, on demand, when they're inside a station's fare gates or on a train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system, similar to those already in place on Muni and Caltrain and many other systems, will rely on a half-dozen inspectors, working in teams of at least two, to check fares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proof-of-payment rules require a non-biased approach to enforcement: Inspectors carrying card readers will be required to move through an entire car or down an entire platform, moving person to person without skipping anyone, to check fares. That protocol is designed to prevent targeting of individuals based on appearance, age or behavior. To ensure the protocol is followed, fare inspectors will wear body cameras to record their enforcement efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspectors will be BART Police Department employees, but not sworn officers. BART police are also empowered to demand proof of payment if officers have \"reasonable suspicion\" that someone has entered a station's paid area without paying or any time they approach an individual patron on suspicion of some other criminal act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What will happen if you can't prove you've paid to get on a train?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first two offenses in any 12-month period will result in a non-criminal citation and fine of $75 for adults and $55 for minors. Adults who rack up a third offense in that 12-month period will face a possible criminal citation and a fine of as much as $250. Minors, who under state law \u003ca href=\"https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/03/08/why-cities-are-starting-to-decriminalize-fare-evasion/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may not be given\u003c/a> a criminal citation for fare evasion, would face continued lower-level fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's fare-evasion ordinance, which formally takes effect Jan., 1, also allows all minors and low-income adults to perform community service in lieu of paying the fines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While BART police may start enforcing the ordinance on New Year's Day, agency spokesman Jim Allison said last week that the new inspectors were still undergoing training and \"are expected to begin their patrols in mid-January.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added there will be a grace period of at least two weeks during which inspectors will hand out warnings to those who can't produce proof of payment. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One final note: How much difference will six fare inspectors make in a system that includes 45 stations and carries hundreds of thousands of people each weekday?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's too early to say, clearly. 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That revenue, something like $52 billion over 10 years, would go to fixing streets, highways and bridges and to supporting transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one Republican in the Legislature voted for SB 1, and the tax hikes were nearly instantly targeted by a pair of repeal campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those two efforts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/california-assemblyman-travis-allen-files-ballot-initiative-to-repeal-california-gas-tax-increase-300452235.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched by\u003c/a> GOP Assemblyman Travis Allen of Huntington Beach, would kill SB 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/17-0033%20%28Gas%20and%20Car%20Tax%29_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The second\u003c/a>, by Sacramento attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcgeorge.edu/Thomas_Hiltachk.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Hiltachk\u003c/a>, would repeal SB 1 and amend the California Constitution to require a statewide vote on any future fuel tax or vehicle fee increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given Californians’ historic resentment of gas and car taxes — Gov. 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Some 81 percent of GOP voters in the survey said they supported repeal, while 60 percent of Democrats said they were against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But DiCamillo said the position of independent voters is telling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can always tell which way the wind is blowing in California politics by looking at the nonpartisan or ‘no party preference’ voters,” he said. “And on this particular issue, nonpartisans favor repeal, 56 percent to 39 percent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An overwhelming majority of survey participants appeared to agree with SB 1’s central rationale — that California’s transportation infrastructure is in lousy shape. Forty-one percent of respondents said the state’s roads and highway are in fair condition, with another 37 percent calling their condition poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those voters also were strongly in favor of repeal: 53 percent who think the roads are just in fair shape support killing the new taxes and fees, along with 52 percent of those who say the roads are in poor condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the state’s regions, only the Bay Area appears to oppose a repeal, with 60 percent of poll respondents saying they’d vote against it and 34 percent supporting the idea. DiCamillo said that’s a reflection of widely held progressive or liberal views here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So people understand you’d be paying a little more for gas, but there’s this higher importance attached to ‘the greater good,’ ” DiCamillo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiCamillo said the overall results suggest that, with Gov. 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