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Taking a page from Apple and other tech companies in using showmanship to wow crowds, Musk surprised the crowd by announcing there was one more thing to add — and the new car rolled out of the truck's trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touting the utility and efficiency of what he called a game-changing truck, Musk welcomed the Roadster to cheers from those attending the event at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport near Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both vehicles are fast: The Roadster can take itself from zero to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds, and the Semi can perform the same feat in five seconds (unburdened by a trailer), Tesla says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Touting the sports car's speed, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/931409569640677376\">Tesla tweeted\u003c/a>, \"Going into plaid\" — a reference to a hyperspace joke from the movie \u003cem>Spaceballs\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/931409569640677376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the specs diverge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The truck has a 500-mile range on one charge even if it's fully loaded at a gross vehicle weight of 80,000 pounds. It also comes with a million-mile guarantee on its powertrain. Musk said it will be able to maintain a speed of 65 mph while going up a 5 percent grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the Roadster will be able to run a quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds. Its top speed is \"above 250 mph,\" Musk said. The Roadster will have a range of 620 miles, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Roadster will be available in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZjveRLi8iGxeIVIYBmEHXgXLeNK4YYR8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Production of the truck is expected to begin in 2019; Musk said customers who order now would get the vehicles in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning after the unveiling, trucking and freight company J.B. Hunt announced that it had placed a reservation to buy \"multiple Tesla Semi tractors,\" adding that it plans to use them mainly on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Reserving Tesla trucks marks an important step in our efforts to implement industry-changing technology,\" J.B. 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Hunt has already announced that it had placed a reservation to buy \"multiple Tesla Semi tractors.\" \u003ccite>(Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla hasn't released a price for the Semi, but the Roadster will cost at least $200,000 depending on the options chosen, the company says. Reservations for both vehicles can be made with an initial deposit of $5,000 — but in the case of the Roadster, a total of at least $50,000 is due within 10 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his presentation, Musk said the cost of operating an electric tractor-trailer would be $1.26 per mile, compared with $1.51 per mile in a diesel truck. The figure assumes a diesel price of $2.50 a gallon versus 7 cents/kWh for electricity and a maximum load traveling at an average speed of 60 mph. The company says that will translate into thousands of dollars in savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"H1l3KoaStg40cVHwGIZcYFnNkTY92L7S\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Electric motors have advantages for hauling: fewer moving parts, cheap fuel and zero tailpipe pollution,\" NPR's Emily Sullivan reports. \"But charging can be a challenge and Tesla big rigs will cost far more than diesel trucks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In describing the truck, Musk also said its windshield is made of \"thermonuclear explosion-proof glass\" — a feature he says will help truckers stay on the road. Regulations require commercial trucks to be sidelined if their windshields are cracked in a way that could affect the driver's view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also unique to the Semi is the driver's seating position. The chair and steering wheel are in the cab's center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11631976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11631976\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/tesla-semi-in_wide-7ab1b3a437bf62e16d06a2d95a98063f4a92ec79-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The driver's seat of the Tesla Semi is positioned in the center of the cab — which also provides standing room, the company says.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The driver's seat of the Tesla Semi is positioned in the center of the cab — which also provides standing room, the company says. \u003ccite>(Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although Thursday night's event celebrated Tesla's largest and smallest new offerings, the company is grappling with how to smooth problems that have hit its flagship Model 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family car was supposed to be Tesla's opening to a broad market, with a sticker price starting at $35,000 — but production snags have meant that instead of making thousands of Model 3s each month, Tesla \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/10/03/555417831/out-of-the-gate-tesla-stumbles-on-mass-market-car\">produced only 260 in September\u003c/a>. The anemic number fell far short of expectations; the company had received 140,000 advance orders for the car within hours of it being announced in the spring of 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those setbacks didn't do much to dampen the hype surrounding Thursday's unveiling — and it gained more energy as the Roadster, which from 2008 to 2012 was Tesla's star vehicle, returned to the lineup. In what has become something of a pattern in recent years, Musk has unveiled ambitious and even visionary new plans for Tesla, as the company copes with putting those ideas into effect — and cars on the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Andrew J. Hawkins wrote of the new Roadster and Semi for \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/17/16669142/tesla-semi-roadster-2017-supercut-watch\">The Verge\u003c/a>, \"These are just concept vehicles, really, but it's Tesla, and nothing is really ever as it seems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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The June 2016 inspection appears to have been the last formal examination the vehicle received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Everything Looked to Be in Compliance'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything looked to be in compliance on that vehicle,\" said Officer Hector Baiza with the CHP Golden Gate Division's commercial operations unit in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baiza and experts who have reviewed the vehicle's inspection records say the kind of violations noted on the water truck are normal, and that the reports do not raise concerns about the safety of the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Highway Patrol inspected the water truck five times in the last nine years. Aside from the June 6, 2016, inspection that found several violations, the only other violation flagged on the vehicle was during an inspection in March 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tehama Transport is one of scores of companies that supply water tenders and bulldozers under contract to help Cal Fire battle wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the crash, state workplace regulators launched an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/20/state-investigating-employer-of-driver-killed-fighting-north-bay-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> into the company after learning that it was not providing its employees with workers' compensation insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has hired the company 56 times in the last four years, records show. Nine of those assignments were for work associated with the blazes during the October Fire Siege, the extreme wildfire behavior that has devastated the North Bay and other parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2008 and this month, the CHP cited Tehama Transport vehicles a total of 14 times for a variety of infractions and equipment issues, including overweight vehicles, brake and light problems, and out-of date registrations. In 2015 the CHP gave the company a \"satisfactory\" rating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tehama Transport could not be reached for comment on the vehicle safety records or past CHP citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crash Factors Under Examination\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP, and not Cal Fire, is investigating the fatal crash. Investigators are trying to determine if speed or fatigue contributed to the incident, according to Baiza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP measured skid marks on the road to determine how fast the truck was going, and it's trying to find out how many hours Paiz had been working before the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators are also looking into whether smoke during the wildfire impaired Paiz's vision. The crash took place in the hour before sunrise, so it was dark at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire requires its private contractors who operate heavy equipment like water tenders and bulldozers to undergo safety training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz took volunteer firefighter training courses administered by Cal Fire and the Riverside County Fire Department in 2000 and 2001, but that did not include sessions focused on operating heavy equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has reached out to fire officials in Missouri to determine if Paiz had sufficient training to operate a water tender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Barrett, the chief of the Noel Fire Department, where Paiz was employed in the last year, said Paiz received heavy equipment training at his agency. Paiz also reportedly co-owned a company called Native Express Trucking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 25 percent of all firefighter fatalities occur during traffic crashes, according to the U.S. Forest Administration. The agency says it's the second-leading cause of firefighter deaths, next to cardiovascular ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/fa-248.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USFA report\u003c/a> that reviewed 38 fatal water-tanker crashes between 1990 and 2001 noted that all of those who died were \"volunteer\" firefighters, many of whom were found not to be wearing seat belts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP has not said whether Paiz was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. However, agency investigators do not believe Paiz would have survived the crash even if had been wearing a seat belt, according to CHP Sgt. Ed Clarke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle rolled over and eventually landed on the roof of the cab, Clarke said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 at 2 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Highway Patrol records show that a water tanker involved in a fatal crash during the North Bay fires earlier this month was briefly taken off the road last year because of maintenance concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrett Paiz was driving a 24-year-old Kenworth water tanker down a steep grade Oct. 16 when the truck overturned. Paiz, a Southern California native who lived in Noel, Missouri, died in the crash on Oakville Grade, just east of Highway 29 and northwest of Yountville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP documents show that a June 2016 safety inspection of the vehicle at an agency facility in Shasta County found five violations. One of the violations was considered serious enough that the Highway Patrol ordered the vehicle out of service until the problem was corrected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That violation involved excessive wear on a universal joint, or U-joint, on the vehicle's rear driveshaft. A U-joint is a coupling that allows a vehicle's axle to move up and down while maintaining connection with the driveshaft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspection also found a front U-joint with less wear -- not serious enough to remove the truck from service. Other violations involved a brake that was found to be out of adjustment, oil or grease leaking from the hub of an inner wheel, and worn front mainsprings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP did not issue any citations in connection with the violations. Five days later, the Highway Patrol records show, the problems had been corrected and the truck's owner, Tehama Transport of Red Bluff, was allowed to put the truck back into service. The June 2016 inspection appears to have been the last formal examination the vehicle received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Everything Looked to Be in Compliance'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything looked to be in compliance on that vehicle,\" said Officer Hector Baiza with the CHP Golden Gate Division's commercial operations unit in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baiza and experts who have reviewed the vehicle's inspection records say the kind of violations noted on the water truck are normal, and that the reports do not raise concerns about the safety of the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Highway Patrol inspected the water truck five times in the last nine years. Aside from the June 6, 2016, inspection that found several violations, the only other violation flagged on the vehicle was during an inspection in March 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tehama Transport is one of scores of companies that supply water tenders and bulldozers under contract to help Cal Fire battle wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days after the crash, state workplace regulators launched an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/20/state-investigating-employer-of-driver-killed-fighting-north-bay-wildfires/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> into the company after learning that it was not providing its employees with workers' compensation insurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has hired the company 56 times in the last four years, records show. Nine of those assignments were for work associated with the blazes during the October Fire Siege, the extreme wildfire behavior that has devastated the North Bay and other parts of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2008 and this month, the CHP cited Tehama Transport vehicles a total of 14 times for a variety of infractions and equipment issues, including overweight vehicles, brake and light problems, and out-of date registrations. In 2015 the CHP gave the company a \"satisfactory\" rating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tehama Transport could not be reached for comment on the vehicle safety records or past CHP citations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crash Factors Under Examination\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP, and not Cal Fire, is investigating the fatal crash. Investigators are trying to determine if speed or fatigue contributed to the incident, according to Baiza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP measured skid marks on the road to determine how fast the truck was going, and it's trying to find out how many hours Paiz had been working before the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators are also looking into whether smoke during the wildfire impaired Paiz's vision. The crash took place in the hour before sunrise, so it was dark at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire requires its private contractors who operate heavy equipment like water tenders and bulldozers to undergo safety training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz took volunteer firefighter training courses administered by Cal Fire and the Riverside County Fire Department in 2000 and 2001, but that did not include sessions focused on operating heavy equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire has reached out to fire officials in Missouri to determine if Paiz had sufficient training to operate a water tender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Barrett, the chief of the Noel Fire Department, where Paiz was employed in the last year, said Paiz received heavy equipment training at his agency. Paiz also reportedly co-owned a company called Native Express Trucking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 25 percent of all firefighter fatalities occur during traffic crashes, according to the U.S. Forest Administration. The agency says it's the second-leading cause of firefighter deaths, next to cardiovascular ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/publications/fa-248.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USFA report\u003c/a> that reviewed 38 fatal water-tanker crashes between 1990 and 2001 noted that all of those who died were \"volunteer\" firefighters, many of whom were found not to be wearing seat belts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP has not said whether Paiz was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. However, agency investigators do not believe Paiz would have survived the crash even if had been wearing a seat belt, according to CHP Sgt. Ed Clarke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle rolled over and eventually landed on the roof of the cab, Clarke said. The cab was crushed and Paiz was not ejected from the truck, Clarke said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Paiz's friends and family are mourning his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paiz was laid to rest last Friday. During a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zhaERtuVc&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funeral ceremony\u003c/a> at Destiny's Church in Indio, the Riverside County town where he was born, he was remembered as a man who gave his life to service and was loved by many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of firefighters, including some from Noel, Missouri, where Paiz worked as a volunteer, attended the ceremony. Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-La Quinta, who grew up with the Paiz family, was one of the local leaders in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Garrett ... never woke up in the morning to go to work for himself. He always went to work for somebody else,\" the Rev. Obed Martinez, the pastor of Destiny's Church, said during the service.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated 10/24/17 at 6 a.m. to include comments from a PG&E representative.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valero oil company did not violate state regulations in connection with the massive power outage that led to the release of tens of thousands of pounds of toxic gas from its Benicia refinery this spring, Solano County environmental health investigators have concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County Environmental Health Division quietly completed its initial probe of the outage in late August. It reviewed the circumstances surrounding the shutdown, the resulting flares that sent flames and black smoke into the sky and two refinery unit malfunctions that took place over the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did not find any deficiencies or issue any violations,\" said Terry Schmidtbauer, the department's assistant director, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that two of the three government probes into the shutdown -- tied to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. lines -- have led to no penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) inspected the refinery shortly after the incident, closed its investigation the same month and decided not to issue any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of punitive action outraged Benicia's mayor and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No violations of existing rules does not mean we are safe,\" Mayor Elizabeth Patterson said in an email. \"Sleeping on inadequate protection does not make us safer -- doing nothing to correct these deficiencies does not extinguish the risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson has been calling for the City Council to develop regulations that would give Benicia more oversight of the refinery, a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/23/valero-outage-prompts-benicia-to-consider-industrial-safety-ordinance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal \u003c/a>Valero opposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report raises disturbing questions about how unprepared Bay Area refineries and PG&E are for electrical outages that can lead to dangerous air pollution,\" said Maya Golden-Krasner, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regulators seem reluctant to hold anyone truly accountable for this massive release of pollutants, but what else will prevent something like this from happening again?\" Golden-Krasner said. \"It's a systemic failure to protect the air we breathe, and it shows why we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy giant expressed optimism about the state of the investigations into the outage and reiterated its blame of the entire episode on PG&E, which it has \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/30/valero-sues-pge-for-reckless-outage-at-benicia-refinery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued\u003c/a>, seeking at least $75 million in damages and lost revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are pleased that Cal/OSHA concluded there were no violations by Valero arising from the May 5 PG&E power outage nor has Solano County issued any violations to date,\" said Lillian Riojas, a company spokeswoman, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E caused this outage and significant damages. Valero, like others, is waiting on answers from PG&E, which are still not forthcoming,\" Riojas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E hired Exponent, a third party engineering firm, to conduct a view of the outage. A utility spokeswoman said Tuesday that Exponent's report on the incident has been completed and sent to the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The safety of our customers, employees and the general public is always our top priority,\" said PG&E's Deanna Contreras in an email. \"We continue to partner with Valero and the City of Benicia to prevent similar power disruptions,\" Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agency, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, issued several notices of violation due to the flaring in the days after the outage. Its investigation into the incident is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has two power sources, both operated by PG&E. When the utility put both of those sources offline on May 5, it caused an \"immediate and full shutdown of the facility,\" the Solano County report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero also has a cogeneration plant, but it does not provide enough power to fully supply the facility. County investigators point out that the plant must maintain a line to PG&E's power circuit to remain online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a problem, according to Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, who read the county's report and specializes in oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The on-site emergency power supply could have been robust enough to allow for an orderly shutdown,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage led to pressure inside the refinery that had to be relieved by the use of its flaring system. But, the loss of power shut the facility's steam boilers and cooling tower down. That meant the flaring did not operate normally, which led to flames and black smoke shooting out of the refinery, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their system got overwhelmed,\" Schmidtbauer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were brought in. \"The dump stack ignited and was extinguished during the first hour of the incident,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's fire department imposed shelter-in-place and evacuation orders for parts of the city. At least a dozen people sought medical treatment for breathing difficulties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after the initial outage, the refinery underwent \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/06878c352dab1bac8825811a005d51f7?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,valero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another malfunction\u003c/a> as it slowly restarted the facility, causing more flaring, this one lasting more than five hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero initially thought the May 8 problem was tied to the wrong refinery unit, according to county investigators. It turned out the malfunction was connected to its Coker unit, which makes gasoline through the use of high temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later the same unit malfunctioned, leading to yet another round of \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/a15f930b05dcf6148825811e00801d35?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,valero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flaring\u003c/a>. This time, it covered cars near MRC Global, a company on Bayshore Road close to the refinery, with an \"oil-based\" substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That second problem was caused by trapped moisture in the piping system as a result of the unit being shut down because of the initial outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The refinery could have done a better job of minimizing subsequent releases that occurred during the restart,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage led to an increase in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/10/after-valero-refinery-outage-three-probes-and-rising-gas-prices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state's gasoline prices,\u003c/a> hurt the company's bottom line and damaged one of the refinery's flares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently it has prompted extra \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/23/epa-demands-answers-from-valero-months-after-massive-benicia-refinery-outage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrutiny from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\u003c/a> into the power issues at the Benicia facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery released more than 80,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide on the day of the outage and in the weeks afterward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schmidtbauer says Valero is still working on its root-cause analysis of the incident. Once that's completed, the county may end up issuing recommendations to Valero to avoid another similar shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated 10/24/17 at 6 a.m. to include comments from a PG&E representative.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Valero oil company did not violate state regulations in connection with the massive power outage that led to the release of tens of thousands of pounds of toxic gas from its Benicia refinery this spring, Solano County environmental health investigators have concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County Environmental Health Division quietly completed its initial probe of the outage in late August. It reviewed the circumstances surrounding the shutdown, the resulting flares that sent flames and black smoke into the sky and two refinery unit malfunctions that took place over the following week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did not find any deficiencies or issue any violations,\" said Terry Schmidtbauer, the department's assistant director, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means that two of the three government probes into the shutdown -- tied to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. lines -- have led to no penalties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) inspected the refinery shortly after the incident, closed its investigation the same month and decided not to issue any violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of punitive action outraged Benicia's mayor and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No violations of existing rules does not mean we are safe,\" Mayor Elizabeth Patterson said in an email. \"Sleeping on inadequate protection does not make us safer -- doing nothing to correct these deficiencies does not extinguish the risk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson has been calling for the City Council to develop regulations that would give Benicia more oversight of the refinery, a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/23/valero-outage-prompts-benicia-to-consider-industrial-safety-ordinance/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposal \u003c/a>Valero opposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This report raises disturbing questions about how unprepared Bay Area refineries and PG&E are for electrical outages that can lead to dangerous air pollution,\" said Maya Golden-Krasner, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Regulators seem reluctant to hold anyone truly accountable for this massive release of pollutants, but what else will prevent something like this from happening again?\" Golden-Krasner said. \"It's a systemic failure to protect the air we breathe, and it shows why we need to move away from dirty fossil fuels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy giant expressed optimism about the state of the investigations into the outage and reiterated its blame of the entire episode on PG&E, which it has \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/06/30/valero-sues-pge-for-reckless-outage-at-benicia-refinery/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued\u003c/a>, seeking at least $75 million in damages and lost revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are pleased that Cal/OSHA concluded there were no violations by Valero arising from the May 5 PG&E power outage nor has Solano County issued any violations to date,\" said Lillian Riojas, a company spokeswoman, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PG&E caused this outage and significant damages. Valero, like others, is waiting on answers from PG&E, which are still not forthcoming,\" Riojas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E hired Exponent, a third party engineering firm, to conduct a view of the outage. A utility spokeswoman said Tuesday that Exponent's report on the incident has been completed and sent to the California Public Utilities Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The safety of our customers, employees and the general public is always our top priority,\" said PG&E's Deanna Contreras in an email. \"We continue to partner with Valero and the City of Benicia to prevent similar power disruptions,\" Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agency, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, issued several notices of violation due to the flaring in the days after the outage. Its investigation into the incident is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The refinery has two power sources, both operated by PG&E. When the utility put both of those sources offline on May 5, it caused an \"immediate and full shutdown of the facility,\" the Solano County report states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero also has a cogeneration plant, but it does not provide enough power to fully supply the facility. County investigators point out that the plant must maintain a line to PG&E's power circuit to remain online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a problem, according to Eric Smith, associate director of the Tulane Energy Institute, who read the county's report and specializes in oil and gas production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The on-site emergency power supply could have been robust enough to allow for an orderly shutdown,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage led to pressure inside the refinery that had to be relieved by the use of its flaring system. But, the loss of power shut the facility's steam boilers and cooling tower down. That meant the flaring did not operate normally, which led to flames and black smoke shooting out of the refinery, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their system got overwhelmed,\" Schmidtbauer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters were brought in. \"The dump stack ignited and was extinguished during the first hour of the incident,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's fire department imposed shelter-in-place and evacuation orders for parts of the city. At least a dozen people sought medical treatment for breathing difficulties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after the initial outage, the refinery underwent \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/06878c352dab1bac8825811a005d51f7?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,valero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another malfunction\u003c/a> as it slowly restarted the facility, causing more flaring, this one lasting more than five hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero initially thought the May 8 problem was tied to the wrong refinery unit, according to county investigators. It turned out the malfunction was connected to its Coker unit, which makes gasoline through the use of high temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later the same unit malfunctioned, leading to yet another round of \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/a15f930b05dcf6148825811e00801d35?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,valero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flaring\u003c/a>. 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"title": "What are the Mysterious Brick Circles in San Francisco Intersections?",
"headTitle": "What are the Mysterious Brick Circles in San Francisco Intersections? | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>Spend some time walking around San Francisco, and you’ll probably notice the large brick circles decorating the pavement at some intersections. They can be found all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Bay Curious has received dozens of questions about these mysterious circles. The latest one came from listener Matthew Cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, those circles date back to the mid-1800s, and they mark huge underground tanks, or cisterns, that hold water to fight fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 170 cisterns scattered throughout San Francisco. And some hold as much water as two backyard swimming pools, says Katie Miller, the city’s water division manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/markhogan/14974407252/in/photolist-gMTKYV-GCuDYq-oPeKzo-EMRQXn\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Hogan/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city just finished building 30 new cisterns, many of them in places where there weren’t any, or where they could be key in stopping fires from spreading. Each costs about $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you think about it, that’s about the cost of a really nice new home,” says Miller. “It’s about the size of a new home, too. It can be a nice bunker for somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction worker at the site of a cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. The city will be finished putting in 30 new cisterns this month. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But why does the city need these underground tanks to fight fires? For that question, Scott Kildall is the one to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s \u003ca href=\"http://kildall.com/\">an artist\u003c/a> who has lived in San Francisco for years, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterworks.io/cistern_map/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he designed a map\u003c/a> with the locations of each cistern. This mapping process turned him into a sort of cistern history buff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a historian,” he says, “but I’ve become a historian about cisterns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall begins the story in 1848, when San Francisco was a bunch of tents, housing a little less than \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CS18480318.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a thousand people\u003c/a>. Then, in 1849, gold was discovered and thousands rushed into the city. In just one year, the city grew to about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25 times its size,\u003c/a> to at least \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=tDIuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=The+Annals+of+San+Francisco+1849+at+the+close+of+1849,+the+population+of+the+town+numbered,+at+least,+twenty,+and+probably+nearer+twenty-five+thousand+souls&source=bl&ots=PEO6m8vSsg&sig=1yDgFbib7Nfm9irZtDCycuYSSn4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyz-jg_ObWAhWmllQKHRbEALEQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=The%20Annals%20of%20San%20Francisco%201849%20at%20the%20close%20of%201849%2C%20the%20population%20of%20the%20town%20numbered%2C%20at%20least%2C%20twenty%2C%20and%20probably%20nearer%20twenty-five%20thousand%20souls&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20,000 residents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for housing skyrocketed and a building frenzy followed. Most homes were built out of wood, but the wood made for perfect kindling. In the 1850s, the city saw six big fires, which came to be known as the Great Fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-3-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall points to a large brick circle that marks a cistern at the entrance to San Francisco’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The devastation from the fires spurred the city to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are like, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do. We got to do something about this,’ ” Kildall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at that time, he says, there was no way to lay out water mains and pipes. So, city leaders built 16 underground cisterns around San Francisco to store water for firefighting. The very first was a 12,000-gallon cistern in Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall looks at his cistern map on his phone to find the next cistern on our tour. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also bought some fire engines pulled by horses, and set up a paid position for a fire chief. There was even an ordinance passed that required each family to have\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> six buckets of water\u003c/a> in their house — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city grew, more cisterns were installed. But the city also started to install water pipes and hydrants. By the end of the 1800s, residents had full faith in their new water system, and the cisterns \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped being maintained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came the massive \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/18april/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1906 earthquake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1920x1361.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The massive 1906 earthquake lasted for about a minute, smashing windows, caving in chimneys, even throwing a train off its tracks. But the real damage was from the fires that ensued. \u003ccite>(Records of the United States Senate, National Archives.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It struck on the morning of April 18, and shook the city for about a minute. Windows were smashed and chimneys caved in. Even a train was thrown off its tracks. The damage was incredible. Three-quarters of the city was gone, 3,000 people died and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200,000 were left homeless\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the damage wasn’t from the earthquake itself — it was from the three days of fires that followed. Since the quake broke a lot of the city’s water pipes, most fire hydrants quickly ran out of water or stopped working entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fires/great_fires/1906/cisterns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of the old cisterns remained intact, \u003c/a>and firefighters used them to save several San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-1-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers smooth out cement to make the roof of a new cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans now realized their value, and they built and repaired \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/hpfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over a hundred\u003c/a> within \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=5oE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA677&lpg=PA677&dq=san+francisco+bond+bill+1906+cisterns&source=bl&ots=nVL6bRwqcu&sig=lJdFIwJqiEn20MtiXkNZVmmLXmk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2_YzSy-7VAhUP92MKHbHTDgEQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20bond%20bill%201906%20cisterns&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the next several years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that people didn’t think they’re actually useful until they were useful, and they said, ‘Oh that’s a really good idea,’ ” Kildall points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall offered to take me on a tour of the cisterns in San Francisco’s Chinatown. We visited about 10 cisterns, but not all of them had the brick rings. Kildall didn’t know why, but Deputy Fire Chief Tony Rivera took a guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The roads have been repaved so many times, there probably is an original brick circle somewhere deep under there,” says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A city worker uses a fire hose to fill up a cistern in the Outer Excelsior in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera is a fan of the red brick circle, although he says they come in two other designs: a double circle and a square. The designs aren’t as important anymore for helping firefighters find the cisterns. Now, he says, they use GPS. So these days, the circles just serve as decoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the cisterns underneath those designs, they haven’t been used since the 1906 earthquake more than a century ago. But they are down there, just in case, ready to save the city when the next earthquake strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of Kildall’s mapping project, he designed a 3-D cistern model. You can 3-D print your own\u003ca href=\"https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:419453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> by downloading his file here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Spend some time walking around San Francisco, and you’ll probably notice the large brick circles decorating the pavement at some intersections. They can be found all over the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Bay Curious has received dozens of questions about these mysterious circles. The latest one came from listener Matthew Cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, those circles date back to the mid-1800s, and they mark huge underground tanks, or cisterns, that hold water to fight fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 170 cisterns scattered throughout San Francisco. And some hold as much water as two backyard swimming pools, says Katie Miller, the city’s water division manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/14974407252_0472093c4e_o-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brick circle marks an underground cistern in Potrero Hill. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/markhogan/14974407252/in/photolist-gMTKYV-GCuDYq-oPeKzo-EMRQXn\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Hogan/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city just finished building 30 new cisterns, many of them in places where there weren’t any, or where they could be key in stopping fires from spreading. Each costs about $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if you think about it, that’s about the cost of a really nice new home,” says Miller. “It’s about the size of a new home, too. It can be a nice bunker for somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622291\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A construction worker at the site of a cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. The city will be finished putting in 30 new cisterns this month. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But why does the city need these underground tanks to fight fires? For that question, Scott Kildall is the one to ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s \u003ca href=\"http://kildall.com/\">an artist\u003c/a> who has lived in San Francisco for years, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.waterworks.io/cistern_map/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he designed a map\u003c/a> with the locations of each cistern. This mapping process turned him into a sort of cistern history buff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not a historian,” he says, “but I’ve become a historian about cisterns.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall begins the story in 1848, when San Francisco was a bunch of tents, housing a little less than \u003ca href=\"https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=CS18480318.2.4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a thousand people\u003c/a>. Then, in 1849, gold was discovered and thousands rushed into the city. In just one year, the city grew to about \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">25 times its size,\u003c/a> to at least \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=tDIuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&lpg=PA153&dq=The+Annals+of+San+Francisco+1849+at+the+close+of+1849,+the+population+of+the+town+numbered,+at+least,+twenty,+and+probably+nearer+twenty-five+thousand+souls&source=bl&ots=PEO6m8vSsg&sig=1yDgFbib7Nfm9irZtDCycuYSSn4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyz-jg_ObWAhWmllQKHRbEALEQ6AEINTAC#v=onepage&q=The%20Annals%20of%20San%20Francisco%201849%20at%20the%20close%20of%201849%2C%20the%20population%20of%20the%20town%20numbered%2C%20at%20least%2C%20twenty%2C%20and%20probably%20nearer%20twenty-five%20thousand%20souls&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20,000 residents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for housing skyrocketed and a building frenzy followed. Most homes were built out of wood, but the wood made for perfect kindling. In the 1850s, the city saw six big fires, which came to be known as the Great Fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622282\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-3-800x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall points to a large brick circle that marks a cistern at the entrance to San Francisco’s Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The devastation from the fires spurred the city to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are like, ‘Oh no, what are we going to do. We got to do something about this,’ ” Kildall says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at that time, he says, there was no way to lay out water mains and pipes. So, city leaders built 16 underground cisterns around San Francisco to store water for firefighting. The very first was a 12,000-gallon cistern in Portsmouth Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622283\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622283\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Kildall looks at his cistern map on his phone to find the next cistern on our tour. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They also bought some fire engines pulled by horses, and set up a paid position for a fire chief. There was even an ordinance passed that required each family to have\u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> six buckets of water\u003c/a> in their house — just in case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city grew, more cisterns were installed. But the city also started to install water pipes and hydrants. By the end of the 1800s, residents had full faith in their new water system, and the cisterns \u003ca href=\"https://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscof18491967sanf/sanfranciscof18491967sanf_djvu.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stopped being maintained\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came the massive \u003ca href=\"https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/1906calif/18april/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1906 earthquake\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-800x567.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1020x723.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1920x1361.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-1180x836.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-960x680.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-240x170.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-375x266.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/sf-earthquake-63-xl-520x369.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The massive 1906 earthquake lasted for about a minute, smashing windows, caving in chimneys, even throwing a train off its tracks. But the real damage was from the fires that ensued. \u003ccite>(Records of the United States Senate, National Archives.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It struck on the morning of April 18, and shook the city for about a minute. Windows were smashed and chimneys caved in. Even a train was thrown off its tracks. The damage was incredible. Three-quarters of the city was gone, 3,000 people died and about \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/sf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">200,000 were left homeless\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the damage wasn’t from the earthquake itself — it was from the three days of fires that followed. Since the quake broke a lot of the city’s water pipes, most fire hydrants quickly ran out of water or stopped working entirely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://guardiansofthecity.org/sffd/fires/great_fires/1906/cisterns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of the old cisterns remained intact, \u003c/a>and firefighters used them to save several San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622293\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-1-3-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers smooth out cement to make the roof of a new cistern being built in the Richmond District of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Franciscans now realized their value, and they built and repaired \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/hpfs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over a hundred\u003c/a> within \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=5oE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA677&lpg=PA677&dq=san+francisco+bond+bill+1906+cisterns&source=bl&ots=nVL6bRwqcu&sig=lJdFIwJqiEn20MtiXkNZVmmLXmk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2_YzSy-7VAhUP92MKHbHTDgEQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=san%20francisco%20bond%20bill%201906%20cisterns&f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the next several years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see that people didn’t think they’re actually useful until they were useful, and they said, ‘Oh that’s a really good idea,’ ” Kildall points out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kildall offered to take me on a tour of the cisterns in San Francisco’s Chinatown. We visited about 10 cisterns, but not all of them had the brick rings. Kildall didn’t know why, but Deputy Fire Chief Tony Rivera took a guess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The roads have been repaved so many times, there probably is an original brick circle somewhere deep under there,” says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11622292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11622292\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Cisterns-2-2-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A city worker uses a fire hose to fill up a cistern in the Outer Excelsior in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rivera is a fan of the red brick circle, although he says they come in two other designs: a double circle and a square. The designs aren’t as important anymore for helping firefighters find the cisterns. Now, he says, they use GPS. So these days, the circles just serve as decoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the cisterns underneath those designs, they haven’t been used since the 1906 earthquake more than a century ago. But they are down there, just in case, ready to save the city when the next earthquake strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>As part of Kildall’s mapping project, he designed a 3-D cistern model. 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So it’s kind of a wash, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To hear more from Tom Horton and the safety of the Transbay Tube, listen to the full episode of Bay Curious at the top of this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11618104 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming online, the fire department has only used the ambulance buses to transport patients once. They transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-375x218.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming online, the Fire Department has used the ambulance buses to transport patients only once. 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Most of the seats have been replaced by stretchers stacked three high. They’re also fully stocked with medical equipment, like oxygen supply gear, gloves, shears and bandages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each bus can carry up to 22 patients in all — 10 in ordinary bus seats, and 12 on the stretchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the buses lack sirens, they would travel with a police escort. In the event of a large-scale emergency, “the buses can be ready to roll in less than 30 minutes,” says Zanoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 743px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11618108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus_interior-1-e1505946604937.jpg\" alt=\"In a regular ambulance, “we would have cabinets where we could store all this equipment” says Zanoff. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Picture a set of binoculars — only a pair the size of a low-rise building. That’s the shape of BART’s Transbay Tube — the dual-bore, 3.8-mile passageway that connects the West Oakland Station to San Francisco’s Embarcadero Station. Every weekday during peak commute hours, more than 60,000 BART riders cruise through the tube. What most don’t know is that they’re in a trench on the floor of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious listener Jennifer Schulz rides through the tube a lot and can’t help but to think: What if there was an earthquake? How safe is the Transbay Tube? Would it crack? Would bay water flood into my jam-packed BART car? Could I be trapped?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2005, BART has been undergoing a major earthquake retrofit. The final phase is expected to begin next year, finishing up some time in 2023. The cost? So far, $1.3 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Tena Rubio spoke with Tom Horton, BART’s earthquake safety manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the Transbay Tube safe during an earthquake?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I can say is that it’s safer than most other places people are going to be in their working day. I mean, some of the buildings downtown are obviously built to very modern standards and can survive a large earthquake. But most of the buildings in the Bay Area probably would be collapsing in the size earthquake we’re talking about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Walk us through what happens if there is an earthquake.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we reduce the speed of the train down to 27 mph, which gives an operator plenty of time to see what’s in front of him, and see if there’s any cracking or anything of that nature. But our goal is to not stop in the Transbay Tube. If for some reason folks have to exit the train, we have protocols in place to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What would happen? Would it leak?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tube does get leaks every now and then, as all tunnels do. And BART actually has an active program to plug those leaks when they happen. During the earthquake we expect that the earthquake forces will cause the liner to crack and then you’ll get leakage. Now the tunnel doesn’t collapse. The tunnels are plenty strong enough to stay up. But if you get too much leakage, it fills with water and that’s what we’re trying to prevent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So if it did crack, can it fill with water and flood?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a pumping system. Part of the retrofit is to increase the size of that pumping system so you can at least slow down the rate of fill. The idea is that you can slow it down enough so that people can get out well before the tube floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So it sounds like you’d almost want to be in the tube? That it’s safer than other areas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless it’s a very, very large earthquake you’d probably want to be in the tube. Now we talked about the flooding problem. So if you’re in an earthquake that large it would be problematic, but then so is everywhere else in the Bay Area. So it’s kind of a wash, if you will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To hear more from Tom Horton and the safety of the Transbay Tube, listen to the full episode of Bay Curious at the top of this article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11618104 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-800x465.jpg\" alt=\"Since coming online, the fire department has only used the ambulance buses to transport patients once. They transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame.\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-240x140.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-375x218.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus-520x302.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since coming online, the Fire Department has used the ambulance buses to transport patients only once. It transported seniors after a convalescent home lost power in Burlingame. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtshafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A Response Plan, Ready and Waiting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All that talk about earthquakes got us thinking — what if something catastrophic did happen in the Bay Area? After the big one, it’s not going to be easy for \u003cem>anyone\u003c/em> to get around. So what will happen to people who really need medical care?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reporter Eli Wirtschafter learned about one unusual tool San Francisco has to address that problem: old Muni buses that have been turned into giant ambulances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea was first used on New Year’s Eve 2010, when big celebrations were planned at the Embarcadero. To provide extra medical support, the San Francisco Fire Department borrowed a 40-foot Muni bus and turned it into a makeshift mobile clinic, treating people who might have partied a little too hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that time on, the idea of having a bus-sized ambulance “just stayed with us,” says Andy Zanoff, chief paramedic for the Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mass casualty ambulances” exist, but new ones can cost around half a million dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Muni donated two old buses it was taking out of service. Muni engineers converted the buses into ambulances over the course of six weeks, using kits purchased from a Virginia company. The project cost the city $79,000, and was supplemented by $67,000 from the Department of Homeland Security — in all, far less expensive than buying the ambulances new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The buses are the size and shape of standard Muni buses, but inside is a different story. Most of the seats have been replaced by stretchers stacked three high. They’re also fully stocked with medical equipment, like oxygen supply gear, gloves, shears and bandages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each bus can carry up to 22 patients in all — 10 in ordinary bus seats, and 12 on the stretchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the buses lack sirens, they would travel with a police escort. In the event of a large-scale emergency, “the buses can be ready to roll in less than 30 minutes,” says Zanoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11618108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 743px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11618108\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/ambubus_interior-1-e1505946604937.jpg\" alt=\"In a regular ambulance, “we would have cabinets where we could store all this equipment” says Zanoff. Here, they use a system of pouches that hang by the backdoor of the bus.\" width=\"743\" height=\"432\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a regular ambulance, “we would have cabinets where we could store all this equipment,” says Zanoff. Here, they use a system of pouches that hang by the back door of the bus. \u003ccite>(Eli Wirtschafter/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thirty minutes may seem like a long time to wait, but the buses have largely been used for pre-planned events, like Halloween in the Castro or during Fleet Week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But emergency medical services chief Tony Molloy says one of the ambu-buses’ most important jobs is to be ready in case there’s an unplanned incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know there’s going to be big events,” says Molloy. “We know we’re going to need something during these events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molloy says during a major natural disaster, the ambu-buses could evacuate patients from a hospital that became unsafe. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: A version of this post appears in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/15/hundreds-of-bills-will-live-or-die-as-friday-deadline-looms/\" target=\"_blank\">our roundup\u003c/a> of last-minute votes in the state Legislature.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you'll be hearing a lot about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 595\u003c/a> over the next year or so. If you're a regular user of any of the region's seven state-owned toll bridges -- that's all of them, except the Golden Gate Bridge -- you'll want to pay close attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 595, which won final passage Thursday and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature, provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise bridge tolls by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls for a single crossing would be as high as $9 -- the potential rush-hour tab for a trip across the Bay Bridge. (If you're hyperventilating, just remember we're still not in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tolls would pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion over the next 25 years. The complete list is \u003ca href=\"#projectlist\">at the end of this post\u003c/a>, but highlights include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>BART would get $500 million to help pay for an expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART would get $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco's far-South of Market to downtown. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Bay Area's Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the highway side, $300 million in toll proceeds would go to building new paid express lanes on Bay Area freeways.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Another $1.1 billion would go to rebuilding interchanges and improving the most heavily traveled highway corridors.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Beyond the proposed spending, the bill's most notable feature might be a provision put forward by longtime BART critic Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, to create a new inspector general position that would have sweeping authority to watch over the agency's finances and performance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of local officials, unions, business and urban planning groups supported SB 595 as crucial for dealing with current and future transportation challenges in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill gives the Bay Area the bold plan it needs for the future,’’ Sen. Beall, the bill's sponsor, said in a statement after the proposal finally made it through the Assembly on Wednesday. He added that the measure is especially important in Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On weekdays, an average of 602,000 vehicles enter and exit the Bay Area,\" Beall said. \"With the expansion of tech firms, such as Google and Apple, those numbers will grow. Let’s take action now to curb traffic before it becomes worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what's not to like in this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Contra Costa County legislators -- Assemblymember Tim Grayson and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier among them -- opposed SB 595, saying that it's 1) a regressive tax and 2) a ripoff for the residents of the East Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their main argument -- both \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/01/desaulnier-bridge-toll-plan-fails-east-bay-commuters-miserably/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSaulnier\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion-toll-increases-are-not-the-answer-we-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson\u003c/a> penned op-ed pieces for the East Bay Times -- is that residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties will pay significantly more in increased tolls than their communities will get back in benefits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson said after SB 595 passed the Assembly that while he understood the need for infrastructure upgrades in the Bay Area, \"there is a fundamental lack of equity in this proposal. ... East Bay commuters deserve a better and far more just measure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, who has vowed to fight the toll increase as it heads to the ballot next year as Regional Measure 3, said he feels the long shopping list of projects in bill is the result of what he termed a politically driven planning process on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frustrating that such an innovative area is so backward when it comes to transportation,\" DeSaulnier said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"projectlist\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the comprehensive list of projects to be funded under SB 595, as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\">detailed in the bill\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. BART Expansion Cars.\u003c/strong> Purchase new railcars for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to expand its fleet and improve reliability. The project sponsor is the BART. Five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Bay Area Corridor Express Lanes.\u003c/strong> Fund the environmental review, design, and construction of express lanes to complete the Bay Area Express Lane Network, including supportive operational improvements to connecting transportation facilities. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, express lanes on Interstate 80, Interstate 580, and Interstate 680 in the Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa, Interstate 880 in the County of Alameda, Interstate 280 in the City and County of San Francisco, Highway 101 in the City and County of San Francisco and the County of San Mateo, State Route 84 and State Route 92 in the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo, Interstate 80 from Red Top Road to the intersection with Interstate 505 in the County of Solano, and express lanes in the County of Santa Clara. Eligible project sponsors include the Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority, and any countywide or multicounty agency in a bay area county that is authorized to implement express lanes. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall make funds available based on performance criteria, including benefit-cost and project readiness. Three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Goods Movement and Mitigation.\u003c/strong> Provide funding to reduce truck traffic congestion and mitigate its environmental effects. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, improvements in the County of Alameda to enable more goods to be shipped by rail, access improvements on Interstate 580, Interstate 80, and Interstate 880, and improved access to the Port of Oakland. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall consult and coordinate with the Alameda County Transportation Commission to select projects for the program. Eligible applicants include cities, counties, countywide transportation agencies, rail operators, and the Port of Oakland. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Alameda County Transportation Commission. One hundred sixty million dollars ($160,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. San Francisco Bay Trail/Safe Routes to Transit.\u003c/strong> Provide funding for a competitive grant program to fund bicycle and pedestrian access improvements on and in the vicinity of the state-owned toll bridges connecting to rail transit stations and ferry terminals. Eligible applicants include cities, counties, transit operators, school districts, community colleges, and universities. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. One hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Ferry Enhancement Program.\u003c/strong> Provide funding to purchase new vessels, upgrade and rehabilitate existing vessels, build facilities and landside improvements, and upgrade existing facilities. The project sponsor is the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority. Three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. BART to San Jose Phase 2.\u003c/strong> Extend BART from Berryessa Station to San Jose and Santa Clara. The project sponsor is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Three hundred seventy-five million dollars ($375,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District (SMART).\u003c/strong> Provide funding to extend the rail system north of the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport to the Cities of Windsor and Healdsburg. The project sponsor is the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. Forty million dollars ($40,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Capitol Corridor.\u003c/strong> Provide funding for track infrastructure that will improve the performance of Capital Corridor passenger rail operations by reducing travel times, adding service frequencies, and improving system safety and reliability. The project sponsor is the Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority. Ninety million dollars ($90,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. Caltrain Downtown Extension.\u003c/strong> Extend Caltrain from its current terminus at Fourth Street and King Street to the Transbay Transit Center. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall allocate funding to the agency designated to build the project, which shall be the project sponsor. Three hundred twenty-five million dollars ($325,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. Muni Fleet Expansion and Facilities.\u003c/strong> Fund replacement and expansion of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s MUNI vehicle fleet and associated facilities. The project sponsor is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. One hundred forty million dollars ($140,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. Core Capacity Transit Improvements. \u003c/strong>Implement recommendations from the Core Capacity Transit Study and other ideas to maximize person throughput in the transbay corridor. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, transbay bus improvements and high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane access improvements. Priority funding shall be the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District’s (AC Transit) Tier 1 and Tier 2 projects identified in the study. The project sponsors are the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Alameda County Transportation Commission, and AC Transit. One hundred forty million dollars ($140,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12. Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) Rapid Bus Corridor Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund bus purchases and capital improvements to reduce travel times and increase service frequency along key corridors. The project sponsors are AC Transit and Alameda County Transportation Commission. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13. Transbay Rail Crossing. \u003c/strong> Fund preliminary engineering, environmental review, and design of a second transbay rail crossing and its approaches to provide additional rail capacity, increased reliability, and improved resiliency to the corridor. Subject to approval by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, funds may also be used for construction, and, if sufficient matching funds are secured, to fully fund a useable segment of the project. The project sponsor is the Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>14. Tri-Valley Transit Access Improvements.\u003c/strong> Provide interregional and last-mile transit connections on the Interstate 580 corridor in the County of Alameda within the Tri-Valley area of Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall consult with the Alameda County Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, and local jurisdictions to determine the project sponsor. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>15. Eastridge to BART Regional Connector.\u003c/strong> Extend Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail from the Alum Rock station to the Eastridge Transit Center. The project sponsor is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. One hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>16. San Jose Diridon Station.\u003c/strong> Redesign, rebuild, and expand Diridon Station to more efficiently and effectively accommodate existing regional rail services, future BART and high-speed rail service, and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail and buses. The project sponsor shall consider accommodating a future connection to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport and prioritizing non-auto access modes. The project sponsor is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>17. Dumbarton Corridor Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund planning, environmental review, design, and construction of capital improvements within Dumbarton Bridge and rail corridor in the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo to relieve congestion, increase person throughput, and offer reliable travel times. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, the projects recommended in the Dumbarton Corridor Transportation Study and improvements to facilitate rail and transit connectivity among the Altamont Corridor Express, Capitol Corridor, and Bay Area Rapid Transit District, including a rail connection at Shinn Station. The project sponsors are the Bay Area Toll Authority, Alameda County Transportation Commission, the San Mateo County Transit District, and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority. One hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>18. Highway 101/State Route 92 Interchange.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements to the interchange of Highway 101 and State Route 92 in the County of San Mateo. The project is jointly sponsored by the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>19. Contra Costa Interstate 680/State Route 4 Interchange Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements to the Interstate 680/State Route 4 interchange to improve safety and reduce congestion, including, but not limited to, a new direct connector between northbound Interstate 680 and westbound State Route 4, a new direct connector between eastbound State Route 4 and southbound Interstate 680, and widening of State Route 4 to add auxiliary lanes and high-occupancy vehicle lanes. The project sponsor is the Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Two hundred ten million dollars ($210,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20. U.S. 101-Marin/Sonoma Narrows.\u003c/strong> Construct northbound and southbound high-occupancy vehicle lanes on U.S. 101 between Petaluma Boulevard South in Petaluma and Atherton Avenue in Novato. The project sponsors are the Transportation Authority of Marin and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. One hundred twenty million dollars ($120,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>21. Solano County Interstate 80/Interstate 680/State HIghway 12 Interchange Project.\u003c/strong> Construct Red Top Road interchange and westbound Interstate 80 to southbound Interstate 680 connector. The project sponsor is the Solano Transportation Authority. One hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>22. Interstate 80 Westbound Truck Scales.\u003c/strong> Improve freight mobility, reliability, and safety on the Interstate 80 corridor by funding improvements to the Interstate 80 Westbound Truck Scales in the County of Solano. The project sponsor is the Solano Transportation Authority. One hundred five million dollars ($105,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>23. State Highway 37 Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund near-term and longer-term improvements to State Highway 37 to improve the roadway’s mobility, safety, and long-term resiliency to sea level rise and flooding. For the purposes of the environmental review and design, the project shall include the segment of State Highway 37 from the intersection in Marin County with U.S. 101 to the intersection with Interstate 80 in the County of Solano. Capital funds may used on any segment along this corridor, as determined by the project sponsors. The project is jointly sponsored by the Transportation Authority of Marin, the Napa Valley Transportation Authority, the Solano Transportation Authority, and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. Funds for this project may be allocated to any of the project sponsors. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24. San Rafael Transit Center.\u003c/strong> Construct a replacement to the San Rafael (Bettini) Transit Center on an existing or new site, or both, in downtown San Rafael. The selected alternative shall be approved by the City of San Rafael, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, the Transportation Authority of Marin, and Marin Transit. The project sponsor is the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25. Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Access Improvements. \u003c/strong>Fund eastbound and westbound improvements in the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge corridor, including a direct connector from northbound Highway 101 to eastbound Interstate 580, westbound access and operational improvements in the vicinity of the toll plaza east of the bridge in Contra Costa County, and Richmond Parkway interchange improvements. Of the amount allocated to this project, one hundred thirty-five million dollars ($135,000,000) shall be dedicated to the direct connector from northbound Highway 101 to eastbound Interstate 580 in Marin County and seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) shall be dedicated to the projects in Contra Costa County. The project sponsors are the Bay Area Toll Authority, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority, and the Transportation Authority of Marin. Two hundred ten million dollars ($210,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>26. North Bay Transit Access Improvements. \u003c/strong>Provide funding for transit improvements, including, but not limited to, bus capital projects, including vehicles, transit facilities, and access to transit facilities, benefiting the Counties of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, and Contra Costa. Priority shall be given to projects that are fully funded, ready for construction, and serving rail transit or transit service that operates primarily on existing or fully funded high-occupancy vehicle lanes. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Eligible applicants are any transit operator providing service in the Counties of Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Solano, or Sonoma. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>27. State Highway 29. \u003c/strong>Eligible project expenses include State Highway 29 major intersection improvements, including Soscol Junction, and signal and signage improvements, which may include multimodal infrastructure and safety improvements between Carneros Highway (State Highway 12/121) and American Canyon Road. The project sponsor is the Napa Valley Transportation Authority. Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000).\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n28. Next-Generation Clipper Transit Fare Payment System.\u003c/strong> Provide funding to design, develop, test, implement, and transition to the next generation of Clipper, the bay area’s transit fare payment system. The next-generation system will support a universal, consistent, and seamless transit fare payment system for the riders of transit agencies in the bay area. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>29. Interstate 680/Interstate 880/Route 262 Freeway Connector.\u003c/strong> Connect Interstate 680 and Interstate 880 in southern Alameda County to improve traffic movement, reduce congestion, and improve operations and safety. The project sponsor is the Alameda County Transportation Commission. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>30. Interstate 680/State Highway 84 Interchange Reconstruction Project.\u003c/strong> Improve safety and regional and interregional connectivity by conforming State Highway 84 to expressway standards between south of Ruby Hill Drive and the Interstate 680 interchange in southern Alameda County and implementing additional improvements to reduce weaving and merging conflicts and help address the additional traffic demand between Interstate 680 and State Highway 84. The project sponsor is Alameda County Transportation Commission. Eighty-five million dollars ($85,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>31. Interstate 80 Transit Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements to support expanded bus service in the Interstate 80 corridor including, but not limited to, bus purchases, expansion of the WestCAT storage yard and maintenance facility. Fund implementation of the San Pablo Avenue Multi-modal Corridor (AC Transit). The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>32. Byron Highway-Vasco Road Airport Connector.\u003c/strong> Fund construction of a new connector between Byron Highway and Vasco Road south of Camino Diablo Road as well as shoulder and other improvements to the Byron Highway, including a railroad grade separation, to improve safety and access to the Byron Airport and to facilitate economic development and access for goods movement in East Contra Costa County. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Ten million dollars ($10,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>33. Vasco Road Safety Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund the widening of lanes and construction of a concrete median barrier along 2.5 miles of Vasco Road beginning approximately three miles north of the Contra Costa/Alameda County Line. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24. East Contra Costa County Transit Intermodal Center.\u003c/strong> Fund the construction of a Transit Intermodal Center in Brentwood enhancing access to eBART and Mokelumne Bike Trail/Pedestrian Overcrossing at State Route 4. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>35. Interstate 680 Transit Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements that will enhance transit service in the Interstate 680 corridor, including, but not limited to, implementing bus operations on shoulder (BOS), technology-based intermodal transit centers/managed parking lots and development of technology to enhance real-time travel information. Fund implementation of Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) to improve first and last mile transit connectivity. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Ten million dollars ($10,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>36. Transit Operating Support:\u003c/strong> The measure provides up to $60 million a year to support the operations of future regional express buses, the new Transbay Transit Center and expansions of of the Water Emergency Transportation Authorities ferries. WETA, which operates the San Francisco Bay Ferry system, would get the lion's share of that money -- as much as $40 million in operating support in coming years. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: A version of this post appears in \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/15/hundreds-of-bills-will-live-or-die-as-friday-deadline-looms/\" target=\"_blank\">our roundup\u003c/a> of last-minute votes in the state Legislature.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you'll be hearing a lot about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 595\u003c/a> over the next year or so. If you're a regular user of any of the region's seven state-owned toll bridges -- that's all of them, except the Golden Gate Bridge -- you'll want to pay close attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 595, which won final passage Thursday and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown's signature, provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise bridge tolls by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls for a single crossing would be as high as $9 -- the potential rush-hour tab for a trip across the Bay Bridge. (If you're hyperventilating, just remember we're still not in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tolls would pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion over the next 25 years. The complete list is \u003ca href=\"#projectlist\">at the end of this post\u003c/a>, but highlights include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>BART would get $500 million to help pay for an expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>BART would get $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco's far-South of Market to downtown. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Bay Area's Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On the highway side, $300 million in toll proceeds would go to building new paid express lanes on Bay Area freeways.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Another $1.1 billion would go to rebuilding interchanges and improving the most heavily traveled highway corridors.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Beyond the proposed spending, the bill's most notable feature might be a provision put forward by longtime BART critic Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, to create a new inspector general position that would have sweeping authority to watch over the agency's finances and performance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of local officials, unions, business and urban planning groups supported SB 595 as crucial for dealing with current and future transportation challenges in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill gives the Bay Area the bold plan it needs for the future,’’ Sen. Beall, the bill's sponsor, said in a statement after the proposal finally made it through the Assembly on Wednesday. He added that the measure is especially important in Silicon Valley. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On weekdays, an average of 602,000 vehicles enter and exit the Bay Area,\" Beall said. \"With the expansion of tech firms, such as Google and Apple, those numbers will grow. Let’s take action now to curb traffic before it becomes worse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what's not to like in this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Contra Costa County legislators -- Assemblymember Tim Grayson and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier among them -- opposed SB 595, saying that it's 1) a regressive tax and 2) a ripoff for the residents of the East Bay. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their main argument -- both \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/01/desaulnier-bridge-toll-plan-fails-east-bay-commuters-miserably/\" target=\"_blank\">DeSaulnier\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion-toll-increases-are-not-the-answer-we-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\">Grayson\u003c/a> penned op-ed pieces for the East Bay Times -- is that residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties will pay significantly more in increased tolls than their communities will get back in benefits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson said after SB 595 passed the Assembly that while he understood the need for infrastructure upgrades in the Bay Area, \"there is a fundamental lack of equity in this proposal. ... East Bay commuters deserve a better and far more just measure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, who has vowed to fight the toll increase as it heads to the ballot next year as Regional Measure 3, said he feels the long shopping list of projects in bill is the result of what he termed a politically driven planning process on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's frustrating that such an innovative area is so backward when it comes to transportation,\" DeSaulnier said.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"projectlist\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the comprehensive list of projects to be funded under SB 595, as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\">detailed in the bill\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. BART Expansion Cars.\u003c/strong> Purchase new railcars for the Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to expand its fleet and improve reliability. The project sponsor is the BART. Five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Bay Area Corridor Express Lanes.\u003c/strong> Fund the environmental review, design, and construction of express lanes to complete the Bay Area Express Lane Network, including supportive operational improvements to connecting transportation facilities. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, express lanes on Interstate 80, Interstate 580, and Interstate 680 in the Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa, Interstate 880 in the County of Alameda, Interstate 280 in the City and County of San Francisco, Highway 101 in the City and County of San Francisco and the County of San Mateo, State Route 84 and State Route 92 in the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo, Interstate 80 from Red Top Road to the intersection with Interstate 505 in the County of Solano, and express lanes in the County of Santa Clara. Eligible project sponsors include the Bay Area Infrastructure Financing Authority, and any countywide or multicounty agency in a bay area county that is authorized to implement express lanes. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall make funds available based on performance criteria, including benefit-cost and project readiness. Three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Goods Movement and Mitigation.\u003c/strong> Provide funding to reduce truck traffic congestion and mitigate its environmental effects. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, improvements in the County of Alameda to enable more goods to be shipped by rail, access improvements on Interstate 580, Interstate 80, and Interstate 880, and improved access to the Port of Oakland. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall consult and coordinate with the Alameda County Transportation Commission to select projects for the program. Eligible applicants include cities, counties, countywide transportation agencies, rail operators, and the Port of Oakland. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Alameda County Transportation Commission. One hundred sixty million dollars ($160,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. San Francisco Bay Trail/Safe Routes to Transit.\u003c/strong> Provide funding for a competitive grant program to fund bicycle and pedestrian access improvements on and in the vicinity of the state-owned toll bridges connecting to rail transit stations and ferry terminals. Eligible applicants include cities, counties, transit operators, school districts, community colleges, and universities. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. One hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Ferry Enhancement Program.\u003c/strong> Provide funding to purchase new vessels, upgrade and rehabilitate existing vessels, build facilities and landside improvements, and upgrade existing facilities. The project sponsor is the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority. Three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. BART to San Jose Phase 2.\u003c/strong> Extend BART from Berryessa Station to San Jose and Santa Clara. The project sponsor is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. Three hundred seventy-five million dollars ($375,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District (SMART).\u003c/strong> Provide funding to extend the rail system north of the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport to the Cities of Windsor and Healdsburg. The project sponsor is the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. Forty million dollars ($40,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>8. Capitol Corridor.\u003c/strong> Provide funding for track infrastructure that will improve the performance of Capital Corridor passenger rail operations by reducing travel times, adding service frequencies, and improving system safety and reliability. The project sponsor is the Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority. Ninety million dollars ($90,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>9. Caltrain Downtown Extension.\u003c/strong> Extend Caltrain from its current terminus at Fourth Street and King Street to the Transbay Transit Center. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall allocate funding to the agency designated to build the project, which shall be the project sponsor. Three hundred twenty-five million dollars ($325,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>10. Muni Fleet Expansion and Facilities.\u003c/strong> Fund replacement and expansion of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s MUNI vehicle fleet and associated facilities. The project sponsor is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. One hundred forty million dollars ($140,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>11. Core Capacity Transit Improvements. \u003c/strong>Implement recommendations from the Core Capacity Transit Study and other ideas to maximize person throughput in the transbay corridor. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, transbay bus improvements and high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane access improvements. Priority funding shall be the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District’s (AC Transit) Tier 1 and Tier 2 projects identified in the study. The project sponsors are the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Alameda County Transportation Commission, and AC Transit. One hundred forty million dollars ($140,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>12. Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) Rapid Bus Corridor Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund bus purchases and capital improvements to reduce travel times and increase service frequency along key corridors. The project sponsors are AC Transit and Alameda County Transportation Commission. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13. Transbay Rail Crossing. \u003c/strong> Fund preliminary engineering, environmental review, and design of a second transbay rail crossing and its approaches to provide additional rail capacity, increased reliability, and improved resiliency to the corridor. Subject to approval by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, funds may also be used for construction, and, if sufficient matching funds are secured, to fully fund a useable segment of the project. The project sponsor is the Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>14. Tri-Valley Transit Access Improvements.\u003c/strong> Provide interregional and last-mile transit connections on the Interstate 580 corridor in the County of Alameda within the Tri-Valley area of Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission shall consult with the Alameda County Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, and local jurisdictions to determine the project sponsor. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>15. Eastridge to BART Regional Connector.\u003c/strong> Extend Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail from the Alum Rock station to the Eastridge Transit Center. The project sponsor is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. One hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>16. San Jose Diridon Station.\u003c/strong> Redesign, rebuild, and expand Diridon Station to more efficiently and effectively accommodate existing regional rail services, future BART and high-speed rail service, and Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail and buses. The project sponsor shall consider accommodating a future connection to Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport and prioritizing non-auto access modes. The project sponsor is the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>17. Dumbarton Corridor Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund planning, environmental review, design, and construction of capital improvements within Dumbarton Bridge and rail corridor in the Counties of Alameda and San Mateo to relieve congestion, increase person throughput, and offer reliable travel times. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to, the projects recommended in the Dumbarton Corridor Transportation Study and improvements to facilitate rail and transit connectivity among the Altamont Corridor Express, Capitol Corridor, and Bay Area Rapid Transit District, including a rail connection at Shinn Station. The project sponsors are the Bay Area Toll Authority, Alameda County Transportation Commission, the San Mateo County Transit District, and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority. One hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>18. Highway 101/State Route 92 Interchange.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements to the interchange of Highway 101 and State Route 92 in the County of San Mateo. The project is jointly sponsored by the City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>19. Contra Costa Interstate 680/State Route 4 Interchange Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements to the Interstate 680/State Route 4 interchange to improve safety and reduce congestion, including, but not limited to, a new direct connector between northbound Interstate 680 and westbound State Route 4, a new direct connector between eastbound State Route 4 and southbound Interstate 680, and widening of State Route 4 to add auxiliary lanes and high-occupancy vehicle lanes. The project sponsor is the Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Two hundred ten million dollars ($210,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>20. U.S. 101-Marin/Sonoma Narrows.\u003c/strong> Construct northbound and southbound high-occupancy vehicle lanes on U.S. 101 between Petaluma Boulevard South in Petaluma and Atherton Avenue in Novato. The project sponsors are the Transportation Authority of Marin and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. One hundred twenty million dollars ($120,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>21. Solano County Interstate 80/Interstate 680/State HIghway 12 Interchange Project.\u003c/strong> Construct Red Top Road interchange and westbound Interstate 80 to southbound Interstate 680 connector. The project sponsor is the Solano Transportation Authority. One hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>22. Interstate 80 Westbound Truck Scales.\u003c/strong> Improve freight mobility, reliability, and safety on the Interstate 80 corridor by funding improvements to the Interstate 80 Westbound Truck Scales in the County of Solano. The project sponsor is the Solano Transportation Authority. One hundred five million dollars ($105,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>23. State Highway 37 Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund near-term and longer-term improvements to State Highway 37 to improve the roadway’s mobility, safety, and long-term resiliency to sea level rise and flooding. For the purposes of the environmental review and design, the project shall include the segment of State Highway 37 from the intersection in Marin County with U.S. 101 to the intersection with Interstate 80 in the County of Solano. Capital funds may used on any segment along this corridor, as determined by the project sponsors. The project is jointly sponsored by the Transportation Authority of Marin, the Napa Valley Transportation Authority, the Solano Transportation Authority, and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. Funds for this project may be allocated to any of the project sponsors. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24. San Rafael Transit Center.\u003c/strong> Construct a replacement to the San Rafael (Bettini) Transit Center on an existing or new site, or both, in downtown San Rafael. The selected alternative shall be approved by the City of San Rafael, the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District, the Transportation Authority of Marin, and Marin Transit. The project sponsor is the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District. Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25. Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Access Improvements. \u003c/strong>Fund eastbound and westbound improvements in the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge corridor, including a direct connector from northbound Highway 101 to eastbound Interstate 580, westbound access and operational improvements in the vicinity of the toll plaza east of the bridge in Contra Costa County, and Richmond Parkway interchange improvements. Of the amount allocated to this project, one hundred thirty-five million dollars ($135,000,000) shall be dedicated to the direct connector from northbound Highway 101 to eastbound Interstate 580 in Marin County and seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) shall be dedicated to the projects in Contra Costa County. The project sponsors are the Bay Area Toll Authority, the Contra Costa Transportation Authority, and the Transportation Authority of Marin. Two hundred ten million dollars ($210,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>26. North Bay Transit Access Improvements. \u003c/strong>Provide funding for transit improvements, including, but not limited to, bus capital projects, including vehicles, transit facilities, and access to transit facilities, benefiting the Counties of Marin, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, and Contra Costa. Priority shall be given to projects that are fully funded, ready for construction, and serving rail transit or transit service that operates primarily on existing or fully funded high-occupancy vehicle lanes. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Eligible applicants are any transit operator providing service in the Counties of Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Solano, or Sonoma. One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>27. State Highway 29. \u003c/strong>Eligible project expenses include State Highway 29 major intersection improvements, including Soscol Junction, and signal and signage improvements, which may include multimodal infrastructure and safety improvements between Carneros Highway (State Highway 12/121) and American Canyon Road. The project sponsor is the Napa Valley Transportation Authority. Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000).\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n28. Next-Generation Clipper Transit Fare Payment System.\u003c/strong> Provide funding to design, develop, test, implement, and transition to the next generation of Clipper, the bay area’s transit fare payment system. The next-generation system will support a universal, consistent, and seamless transit fare payment system for the riders of transit agencies in the bay area. The project sponsor is the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Fifty million dollars ($50,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>29. Interstate 680/Interstate 880/Route 262 Freeway Connector.\u003c/strong> Connect Interstate 680 and Interstate 880 in southern Alameda County to improve traffic movement, reduce congestion, and improve operations and safety. The project sponsor is the Alameda County Transportation Commission. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>30. Interstate 680/State Highway 84 Interchange Reconstruction Project.\u003c/strong> Improve safety and regional and interregional connectivity by conforming State Highway 84 to expressway standards between south of Ruby Hill Drive and the Interstate 680 interchange in southern Alameda County and implementing additional improvements to reduce weaving and merging conflicts and help address the additional traffic demand between Interstate 680 and State Highway 84. The project sponsor is Alameda County Transportation Commission. Eighty-five million dollars ($85,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>31. Interstate 80 Transit Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements to support expanded bus service in the Interstate 80 corridor including, but not limited to, bus purchases, expansion of the WestCAT storage yard and maintenance facility. Fund implementation of the San Pablo Avenue Multi-modal Corridor (AC Transit). The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>32. Byron Highway-Vasco Road Airport Connector.\u003c/strong> Fund construction of a new connector between Byron Highway and Vasco Road south of Camino Diablo Road as well as shoulder and other improvements to the Byron Highway, including a railroad grade separation, to improve safety and access to the Byron Airport and to facilitate economic development and access for goods movement in East Contra Costa County. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Ten million dollars ($10,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>33. Vasco Road Safety Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund the widening of lanes and construction of a concrete median barrier along 2.5 miles of Vasco Road beginning approximately three miles north of the Contra Costa/Alameda County Line. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24. East Contra Costa County Transit Intermodal Center.\u003c/strong> Fund the construction of a Transit Intermodal Center in Brentwood enhancing access to eBART and Mokelumne Bike Trail/Pedestrian Overcrossing at State Route 4. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>35. Interstate 680 Transit Improvements.\u003c/strong> Fund improvements that will enhance transit service in the Interstate 680 corridor, including, but not limited to, implementing bus operations on shoulder (BOS), technology-based intermodal transit centers/managed parking lots and development of technology to enhance real-time travel information. Fund implementation of Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAVs) to improve first and last mile transit connectivity. The project sponsor is Contra Costa Transportation Authority. Ten million dollars ($10,000,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>We’ve reached the home stretch of the legislative year at the state Capitol, with hours left until tonight’s midnight deadline to pass bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means hallways packed with fretting lobbyists, hundreds of rapid-fire votes and late-night debates on the Senate and Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve been updating this post throughout the week as bills are passed, killed or changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:40 a.m. Friday: No Later Start Time for Middle and High Schoolers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments after passing a series of landmark housing bills, the State Assembly threw cold water on a measure that would given given middle and high schoolers a little more sleep, by pushing back school start times in California to at least 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 328 was defeated Thursday night on a 26-29 vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that adolescents \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/08/24/should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan/\">require more sleep\u003c/a> as they develop, but the idea of a single, state-mandated start time drew bipartisan opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each local district should be able to incorporate what are the local pressures on young people’s schedules,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average high school start time in the state is currently 8:07 a.m. SB 328, carried by Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Pasadena), would have enacted the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/08/07/bill-for-late-school-start-passes-senate-heads-to-assembly/\">first such statewide start time\u003c/a> in the country, beginning in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”4LSMzH9HV5TSmVBXP8vkWqXiRYKps5td”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a lengthy floor debate in the Assembly, members with experience on local school boards argued that the bill would create a logjam of early morning school bus pickups, and inconvenience parents who need to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the measure said the focus should be squarely on the kids who need the sleep, not parents or administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we’re really thinking about what’s beneficial for our children,” said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said leaving the decision to districts would be fruitless, as individual school boards would have to contend with angry parents and the difficulty of synchronizing extracurricular activities with neighboring schools that remained on a different schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: Bridge Toll Measure Would Raise Billions for Bay Area Transportation; Passes Over Objections from East Bay Legislators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you’ll be hearing a lot about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 595\u003c/a> over the next year or so. The bill by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, won final Senate passage Thursday and now awaits the governor’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 595 provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise tolls on the region’s state-owned bridges — that’s all of them, except the Golden Gate — by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls on the bridges would be $8 to $9. (We still wouldn’t be in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory, though; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tolls would raise something like $375 million a year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest legislative analysis\u003c/a>, and pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1020x587.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1180x679.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-960x553.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-240x138.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-375x216.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART would get $500 million to help pay for its expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars, and $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose. Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco’s far-South of Market to downtown. The Bay Area’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the highway side, $300 million in toll proceeds would go to building new paid express lanes on Bay Area freeways, and another $1.1 billion would go to rebuilding interchanges and improving the most heavily traveled highway corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major feature: In a provision put forward by longtime BART critic Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, the measure creates a new inspector general position that would have sweeping authority to watch over the agency’s finances and performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of local officials, unions, business and urban planning groups supported SB 595 as crucial for dealing with current and future transportation challenges in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill gives the Bay Area the bold plan it needs for the future,’’ Sen. Beall, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement after the proposal finally made it through the Assembly on Wednesday. He added that the measure is especially important in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On weekdays, an average of 602,000 vehicles enter and exit the Bay Area,” Beall said. “With the expansion of tech firms, such as Google and Apple, those numbers will grow. Let’s take action now to curb traffic before it becomes worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s not to like in this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Contra Costa County legislators — Assemblymember Tim Grayson and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier among them — opposed SB 595, saying that it’s 1) a regressive tax and 2) a ripoff for the residents of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their main argument — both \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/01/desaulnier-bridge-toll-plan-fails-east-bay-commuters-miserably/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeSaulnier\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion-toll-increases-are-not-the-answer-we-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grayson\u003c/a> penned op-ed pieces for the East Bay Times — is that residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties will pay significantly more in increased tolls than their communities will get back in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson said after SB 595 passed the Assembly that while he understood the need for infrastructure upgrades in the Bay Area, “there is a fundamental lack of equity in this proposal. … East Bay commuters deserve a better and far more just measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, who has vowed to fight the toll increase when it appears on the ballot, said he feels the long shopping list of projects in SB 595 is the result of what he termed a politically driven planning process on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating that such an innovative area is so backward when it comes to transportation,” DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to Seal Court Records of the Unconvicted\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that could help thousands of Californians overcome a persistent obstacle to getting a job or housing is heading to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB393\">SB 393\u003c/a> aims to address problems faced by people\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who were arrested but not \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">convicted\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a crime, yet still find that potential employers, landlords and others have access to their court records.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Senate Bill 393, the so-called California Arrest Record Equity (CARE) Act, most of these people will be able to file a petition asking the court to seal their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. The measure’s author, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles, says people who were not convicted deserve a chance to live life free from the stigma of prior arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This now creates a clear uniform process to allow the judge to finally once and for all seal this record so that people can move on with their lives and not be trapped in this paper jail,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 393 is one of several criminal justice bills heading to the governor’s desk this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, Noon Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to House Homeless Medi-Cal Recipients Heads to the Governor\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state Legislature considers a number of high-profile bills to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, a measure to help house chronically homeless Californians is heading to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 74, from San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, would provide rental assistance to homeless Medi-Cal recipients. It passed out of the state Assembly on Wednesday on a 60-18 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is home to 20 percent of the nation’s homeless population and one-third of the nation’s chronically homeless population,” Chiu said in a statement. “We need to bring significant and innovative solutions to address this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation takes a ‘housing first’ approach, with the idea that permanent housing will \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/03/california-taps-health-care-money-to-pay-for-homeless-services/\">provide a stable setting\u003c/a> where homeless Californians can access medical and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”gKvrpDsnMiCODbIy8Ktt5uGTsE2VVWaJ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill initially sought to use state general fund money to pay for the rental assistance, but that Assembly proposal didn’t survive negotiations with the governor and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, funding in the bill will come from the federal Housing Trust Fund program, which could place the initiative on shakier ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Trust Fund sent $10.1 million to California last year, but the Trump administration has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=SOHUDtestFY18Budget_House.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminating the program\u003c/a> from the Housing and Urban Development Department budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates remained optimistic that the bill will promote the cooperation between housing and health care agencies that they believe will benefit homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a home of their own will provide the stability they need to pursue regular, preventive and effective care and that means healthier people and lower costs,” said Sharon Rapport, Associate Director at the Corporation for Supportive Housing, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Wednesday: Landmark Prescription Drug Measure Heads to Governor’s Desk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill to increase transparency on prescription drugs passed out of the Senate over the strong objections of the pharmaceutical industry and now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Brown signs Senate Bill 17, it will require drug makers to give advance notice before they raise prices and force health plans to report how much they spend on prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Sen. Ed Hernandez’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2017/04/07/california-presses-forward-in-fight-to-regulate-pharma/\">second run at the issue\u003c/a>; a similar measure was changed so dramatically in the Assembly last year that Hernandez abandoned his own bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, on the heels of public outrage over soaring drug prices — including the EpiPen — the powerful drug lobby was unable to stall the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think the biggest difference [this year] is the consumer is concerned about the costs of prescription drugs and they’re telling their elected officials,” Hernandez said shortly after the bill cleared the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Ed Hernandez\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ed Hernandez \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pharmaceutical industry representatives said the bill will do nothing to drive down prices and accused Hernandez of making false promises. His response?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, if it’s not going to do anything to impact drug prices, why do they fight so hard against it?” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said having an even better sense of how drug prices are impacting healthcare costs could put pressure on the market. And, he’s hopeful that California’s lead could help consumers in other states as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope it spreads to the federal government,” Hernandez said, but he added that even if Congress doesn’t act, “I think this is going to make a national impact because California, being such a big market, it will send shock waves throughout the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday: Bills to Expand ID Options for Nonbinary Californians Pass Assembly\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A pair of bills aiming to make life easier for Californians who identify as neither male or female sailed to passage in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 179 would allow Californians to have a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/05/30/california-bill-would-recognize-a-nonbinary-third-gender/\">“nonbinary” designation\u003c/a> displayed on state identifications like drivers licenses and birth certificates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California joins Oregon as the only states to allow this third gender on drivers licenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”v6pa7MbBBfa209nJ9xgb7fnl4pCXofZP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to keep California on the leading edge when it comes to the LGBTQ rights movement,” said Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters said the option will help transgender and nonbinary residents avoid delay and harassment when using their identification on a daily basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was opposed by conservative groups like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafamily.org/2017/bill-to-make-gender-a-personal-choice-in-hearing-tomorrow/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, which argued that gender is a medical fact, not a choice. Only Democrats supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly later passed a separate bill, also by San Diego Senator Toni Atkins, that will make it easier for California prisoners to change their name and gender while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills head back to the Senate for a final concurrence vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 p.m. Tuesday: Senate Rejects Safe Injection Sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted down \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/27/spurred-by-drug-deaths-legislature-advances-idea-of-supervised-injection-sites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation\u003c/a> that would have allowed cities and counties to create “safe-consumption sites” for drug users, in an effort to address the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/18/the-california-report-1262/\">opioid epidemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-in-the-nation idea was modeled after a program in Vancouver, where users of drugs such as heroin can shoot up under the supervision of trained staff in a designated facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of Assembly Bill 186 was to connect users in the “consumption sites” to medical treatment and other social services, while making sure they are not overdosing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616737\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-800x694.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, once worked as a drug treatment counselor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-160x139.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-240x208.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-375x325.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/SusanEggman-800x694-520x451.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblywoman Susan Eggman, the Stockton Democrat who carried the bill, once worked as a drug treatment counselor. \u003ccite>(Steve Yeater/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To opponents, the measure was little more than a step toward supporting illegal drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are we condoning the illegal drug use of heroin, which leads to other opiate addiction problems?” asked Jeff Stone R-Temecula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which is expected to be taken up on a reconsideration vote later this week, would have allowed local governments in Alameda, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Francisco and San Joaquin counties to establish four-year trial runs of the consumption sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators in both parties criticized that provision for not weighing the desires of the local governments chosen in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”dQckkjvpUAAxKQQWV0ZBHrmPRTf4L2rt”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North Coast Democrat Mike McGuire said Humboldt County was not consulted before they were included in the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers in Fresno also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article165602407.html\">chafed at the idea\u003c/a>, leading to the county being removed from the list of potential pilot sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, 4,000 people in the state ended up in the emergency room because of an opiate overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The approach we’ve been using, it’s a failure,” said Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. “Why wouldn’t we want to try new things?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 p.m. Tuesday: Effort to Lower Voting Age Fails in Assembly\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposal to lower California’s voting age from 18 to 17-years-old failed to pass on the Assembly floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10, from Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), did not receive the two-thirds vote it needed to advance towards a future statewide ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would have become the first state in the country to allow 17-year-olds to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a bold idea,” said Low. “But bold ideas are required to make significant change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Pasadena in 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-960x604.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-240x151.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-375x236.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/VotingBooths-520x327.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Pasadena in 2014. \u003ccite>(FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Proponents of ACA 10 argued that high school seniors are well-positioned to take on the responsibility of voting. Many are enrolled in history or civics classes, and unlike some college freshmen, they don’t have to vote as absentees from other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics pointed out that California has already settled on 18 as an age of responsibility for other thresholds, such as getting married and entering into contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This schizophrenic lawmaking does not make any sense,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lengthy floor debate on the idea saw several members call on personal experience to inform their decision on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Lake Elsinore) indicated that the thought of her own 17-year-old child was enough to make her vote against the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher said Melendez doesn’t speak for all mothers in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a 17-year-old who, unlike other people on this floor, I actually would very much trust to vote,” she responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low’s office says he plans to bring the measure back on a reconsideration vote later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m., Tuesday: Assembly OKs Parental Leave Law Extension\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Assembly has passed legislation to expand parental leave law to cover California businesses with between 20 and 50 employees. Other states including New York, Oregon and Washington have protections similar to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 63\u003c/a>, which guarantees a worker’s employment upon return from leave but does not provide pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Moms are only trying to bring their baby into the world and stay home for a certain amount of time,” said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego. “We need to catch up to the rest of the nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed on a 45-12 vote, with five Republicans voting in favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An earlier version of SB 63 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/30/california-senate-votes-to-expand-parental-leave-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">passed the state Senate in May\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”D84HNq0BgcFHEEzwTMVosYmZQHzHByLP”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Santa Barbara Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson pushed for a similar expansion of the state’s current law, which only applies to businesses with more than 50 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who was concerned that small businesses couldn’t afford to defend potential lawsuits brought by workers who could claim that they were not given proper pay or returned to a similar position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Negotiations with the governor’s office this year resulted in the creation of a proposed mediation pilot program, in which disputes can be heard before they end up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amendment — added to the bill last week — was not enough to stave off opposition from the measure’s most powerful opponent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://blob.capitoltrack.com/17blobs/8f89c461-defa-4c50-8d28-b6858546bf3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Chamber of Commerce\u003c/a> says the mediation program is toothless, because an employee has the option of terminating the process and heading straight to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill now heads \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/30/california-senate-votes-to-expand-parental-leave-law/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">back to the State Senate\u003c/a> for a final concurrence vote.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Bill 328 was defeated Thursday night on a 26-29 vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have found that adolescents \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2017/08/24/should-school-start-later-with-lesson-plan/\">require more sleep\u003c/a> as they develop, but the idea of a single, state-mandated start time drew bipartisan opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each local district should be able to incorporate what are the local pressures on young people’s schedules,” said Assemblyman Matthew Harper (R-Huntington Beach).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average high school start time in the state is currently 8:07 a.m. SB 328, carried by Sen. Anthony Portantino (D-Pasadena), would have enacted the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2017/08/07/bill-for-late-school-start-passes-senate-heads-to-assembly/\">first such statewide start time\u003c/a> in the country, beginning in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a lengthy floor debate in the Assembly, members with experience on local school boards argued that the bill would create a logjam of early morning school bus pickups, and inconvenience parents who need to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the measure said the focus should be squarely on the kids who need the sleep, not parents or administrators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to make sure that we’re really thinking about what’s beneficial for our children,” said Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber said leaving the decision to districts would be fruitless, as individual school boards would have to contend with angry parents and the difficulty of synchronizing extracurricular activities with neighboring schools that remained on a different schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Friday: Bridge Toll Measure Would Raise Billions for Bay Area Transportation; Passes Over Objections from East Bay Legislators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you live in the Bay Area, you’ll be hearing a lot about \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 595\u003c/a> over the next year or so. The bill by state Sen. Jim Beall, D-Campbell, won final Senate passage Thursday and now awaits the governor’s signature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 595 provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise tolls on the region’s state-owned bridges — that’s all of them, except the Golden Gate — by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls on the bridges would be $8 to $9. (We still wouldn’t be in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory, though; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tolls would raise something like $375 million a year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB595#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the latest legislative analysis\u003c/a>, and pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11617220\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.\" width=\"800\" height=\"460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11617220\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-800x460.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1020x587.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-1180x679.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-960x553.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-240x138.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-375x216.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/TollPlaza-520x299.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up at the Bay Bridge toll plaza. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART would get $500 million to help pay for its expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars, and $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose. Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco’s far-South of Market to downtown. The Bay Area’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the highway side, $300 million in toll proceeds would go to building new paid express lanes on Bay Area freeways, and another $1.1 billion would go to rebuilding interchanges and improving the most heavily traveled highway corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another major feature: In a provision put forward by longtime BART critic Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, the measure creates a new inspector general position that would have sweeping authority to watch over the agency’s finances and performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long list of local officials, unions, business and urban planning groups supported SB 595 as crucial for dealing with current and future transportation challenges in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill gives the Bay Area the bold plan it needs for the future,’’ Sen. Beall, the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement after the proposal finally made it through the Assembly on Wednesday. He added that the measure is especially important in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On weekdays, an average of 602,000 vehicles enter and exit the Bay Area,” Beall said. “With the expansion of tech firms, such as Google and Apple, those numbers will grow. Let’s take action now to curb traffic before it becomes worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what’s not to like in this picture?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several Contra Costa County legislators — Assemblymember Tim Grayson and Congressman Mark DeSaulnier among them — opposed SB 595, saying that it’s 1) a regressive tax and 2) a ripoff for the residents of the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their main argument — both \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/01/desaulnier-bridge-toll-plan-fails-east-bay-commuters-miserably/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DeSaulnier\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/09/07/opinion-toll-increases-are-not-the-answer-we-deserve/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grayson\u003c/a> penned op-ed pieces for the East Bay Times — is that residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties will pay significantly more in increased tolls than their communities will get back in benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grayson said after SB 595 passed the Assembly that while he understood the need for infrastructure upgrades in the Bay Area, “there is a fundamental lack of equity in this proposal. … East Bay commuters deserve a better and far more just measure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeSaulnier, who has vowed to fight the toll increase when it appears on the ballot, said he feels the long shopping list of projects in SB 595 is the result of what he termed a politically driven planning process on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s frustrating that such an innovative area is so backward when it comes to transportation,” DeSaulnier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to Seal Court Records of the Unconvicted\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that could help thousands of Californians overcome a persistent obstacle to getting a job or housing is heading to Governor Jerry Brown’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB393\">SB 393\u003c/a> aims to address problems faced by people\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">who were arrested but not \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">convicted\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of a crime, yet still find that potential employers, landlords and others have access to their court records.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Senate Bill 393, the so-called California Arrest Record Equity (CARE) Act, most of these people will be able to file a petition asking the court to seal their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill was sponsored by San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon. The measure’s author, Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles, says people who were not convicted deserve a chance to live life free from the stigma of prior arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This now creates a clear uniform process to allow the judge to finally once and for all seal this record so that people can move on with their lives and not be trapped in this paper jail,” Lara said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 393 is one of several criminal justice bills heading to the governor’s desk this session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, Noon Thursday, Sept. 14: Bill to House Homeless Medi-Cal Recipients Heads to the Governor\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state Legislature considers a number of high-profile bills to address the state’s affordable housing crisis, a measure to help house chronically homeless Californians is heading to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly Bill 74, from San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu, would provide rental assistance to homeless Medi-Cal recipients. It passed out of the state Assembly on Wednesday on a 60-18 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is home to 20 percent of the nation’s homeless population and one-third of the nation’s chronically homeless population,” Chiu said in a statement. “We need to bring significant and innovative solutions to address this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation takes a ‘housing first’ approach, with the idea that permanent housing will \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/03/california-taps-health-care-money-to-pay-for-homeless-services/\">provide a stable setting\u003c/a> where homeless Californians can access medical and supportive services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill initially sought to use state general fund money to pay for the rental assistance, but that Assembly proposal didn’t survive negotiations with the governor and Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, funding in the bill will come from the federal Housing Trust Fund program, which could place the initiative on shakier ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Trust Fund sent $10.1 million to California last year, but the Trump administration has proposed \u003ca href=\"https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/documents/huddoc?id=SOHUDtestFY18Budget_House.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eliminating the program\u003c/a> from the Housing and Urban Development Department budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, advocates remained optimistic that the bill will promote the cooperation between housing and health care agencies that they believe will benefit homeless residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a home of their own will provide the stability they need to pursue regular, preventive and effective care and that means healthier people and lower costs,” said Sharon Rapport, Associate Director at the Corporation for Supportive Housing, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Wednesday: Landmark Prescription Drug Measure Heads to Governor’s Desk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill to increase transparency on prescription drugs passed out of the Senate over the strong objections of the pharmaceutical industry and now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Brown signs Senate Bill 17, it will require drug makers to give advance notice before they raise prices and force health plans to report how much they spend on prescription drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Sen. Ed Hernandez’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2017/04/07/california-presses-forward-in-fight-to-regulate-pharma/\">second run at the issue\u003c/a>; a similar measure was changed so dramatically in the Assembly last year that Hernandez abandoned his own bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, on the heels of public outrage over soaring drug prices — including the EpiPen — the powerful drug lobby was unable to stall the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I think the biggest difference [this year] is the consumer is concerned about the costs of prescription drugs and they’re telling their elected officials,” Hernandez said shortly after the bill cleared the Senate floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11616926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11616926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/09/EdHernandez-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. 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Only Democrats supported the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly later passed a separate bill, also by San Diego Senator Toni Atkins, that will make it easier for California prisoners to change their name and gender while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills head back to the Senate for a final concurrence vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 p.m. Tuesday: Senate Rejects Safe Injection Sites\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Senate voted down \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/07/27/spurred-by-drug-deaths-legislature-advances-idea-of-supervised-injection-sites/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation\u003c/a> that would have allowed cities and counties to create “safe-consumption sites” for drug users, in an effort to address the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/08/18/the-california-report-1262/\">opioid epidemic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-in-the-nation idea was modeled after a program in 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