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Their attorney, Paul Justi, says the agency \"was grossly negligent in failing to ensure the safety of the passengers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justi says that the youths pounded on the doors and windows of the train before the operator allowed them to board. He also says that better communication with the Oakland Police Department could have prevented the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A BART spokesperson said that since the robbery, the transit system's police department has been working to improve coordination with other agencies, including OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have arrested two teens suspected in the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:45 p.m. Friday, April 28:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they've made their first arrest in connection with last weekend's mass robbery at Oakland's Coliseum Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, which reported earlier this week that it had used video from a train car and the station to identify \"multiple suspects\" and obtain arrest warrants, said officers took a male juvenile into custody on robbery charges early Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/27/bart-police-chief-spike-in-crime-preceded-teen-mob-robbery-at-coliseum-saturday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times quoted\u003c/a> BART's acting police chief, Jeffrey Jennings, as saying the suspect is a student at San Leandro High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say the incident, which occurred about 9:30 p.m. last Saturday, involved dozens of teenagers who jumped fare gates and barged onto a train that had just arrived at the platform. BART has said seven people were robbed and at least two passengers were beaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've never had anything of this scale,\" Jennings said in answer to questions from BART board member Lateefah Simon at a Thursday night meeting. \"We've had several independent [incidents] of two to five to 12 -- nothing this large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings added that the crowd of juveniles, which BART says included both males and females, had been at a party in East Oakland that had been broken up by gunfire. He said not all of the crowd of youths present during the incident were involved in the robberies and assaults captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No -- not 50 of these kids were committing burglaries and robberies at that time,\" Jennings said. \"There was a group that were, and there was a group that were watching. ... The vast majority of kids -- they fare-evaded and they're watching, probably to call out when the police got there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings told the board that the incident came amid a 22 percent increase in crime in the first quarter of 2017, as compared to the same period a year earlier. That spike had already prompted BART police to increase officer overtime and focus \"crime suppression\" efforts on areas in San Francisco, Oakland and Pittsburg, Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department's attention had moved to the Fruitvale, Coliseum, San Leandro and Bay Fair stations \"due to an increase in juvenile activity,\" Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that since March 11, BART police had arrested 19 people ages 12 to 21 \"working in concerted groups of two or more up to five to seven\" -- groups he suggested were involved in strong-arm robberies similar to those of last Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/SqCOsdEf6zk\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence McCarty, BART's acting deputy chief, told KQED on Friday that the department will institute emergency staffing in response to the increase in crime. That means all of BART's 175 or so officers -- about 30 fewer than the department's authorized strength -- will be required to work overtime -- an extra day each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 26:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they've identified \"multiple suspects\" in last weekend's mass robbery aboard a train in Oakland -- IDs the agency says were made possible by video from cameras aboard one of the train's nine cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence McCarty, acting deputy chief for the BART Police Department, said surveillance video recorded at the Coliseum station's fare gates, on the platform and aboard a train car showed 45 to 50 youths were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven passengers were robbed and at least two were also beaten and required medical attention in an episode McCarty said took a total of four minutes. He said BART police arrived at the station within three minutes of receiving the first report that a robbery had occurred. By that time, he said, the suspects had already fled the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's midday Wednesday statement on the investigation did not say exactly how many suspects have been identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because the investigation's ongoing, I'm not at liberty to say how many\" suspects have been identified, McCarty said. \"But we're pleased so far with the ones we've been able to identify and we expect to identify more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said police are seeking arrest warrants and that investigators from partner agencies, including the Oakland police, have helped in identifying suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART began installing cameras on its train cars after a murder aboard a train at the West Oakland Station in January 2016. After the killing, it came to light that trains had been fitted previously with mostly camera decoys, not working cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says it will finish installing cameras on its entire fleet by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday, April 24:\u003c/strong> BART police and investigators from several other agencies are trying to identify those involved in a Saturday night incident in which 40 to 60 youths took over a train car at Oakland's Coliseum Station and robbed and beat passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial BART police summary of the incident -- reported at 9:26 p.m. -- says dozens of juveniles jumped the gates at the station, dashed upstairs to the platform and rushed onto at least one car of a train headed to Dublin-Pleasanton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say a total of seven passengers were the victims of strong-arm robbery. Items taken included five mobile phones, a purse and a duffel bag. Two people were beaten by the robbers and were treated by paramedics for head and facial injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A bunch of these teenagers started banging on the door,\" said Justine Lin, who reported losing her iPhone in the robbery. \"Initially we were just kind of confused because it was very loud, a lot of commotion. I thought they were just messing around, horsing around, just being loud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum Station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lin, 27, who was on her way home from San Francisco, said passengers began screaming as the youths began grabbing items from people on the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They started hitting passengers and stealing their stuff,\" Lin said. \"They were really attacking one family of three. ... They were hitting the dad a lot on his neck and on his head, they were trying to grab his phone. They hit the mother -- they stole her purse and her phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said she was not harmed when one of the attackers grabbed her phone and ran. She said the entire episode lasted 30 to 60 seconds. Police say the suspects ran from the station and dispersed into the surrounding neighborhood. No arrests were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said the agency's investigators are enlisting other agencies to try to track down the attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are in the process of pulling all the various surveillance images available to us and sharing them with Oakland police, Oakland Unified School police and Oakland Housing Authority to help identify them,\" Trost said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that since the suspects are all believed to be juveniles, the images would not be released to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost said six of the nine cars on the train had working security cameras. However, since victims could not say for sure which car they were on, police are in the process of looking at images from all six of the cars equipped with cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is in the process of retrofitting all of its 600-plus cars with cameras, a process it says will be finished by July 1. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m. Friday, May 12: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they are still sending beefed-up patrols to Fruitvale, Coliseum, San Leandro and Bay Fair stations almost three weeks after a group of 50 or so teenagers robbed passengers on a train at Coliseum Station on April 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Saturday night incident punctuated a period of increased crime on BART. From January to March, crime rates in the system jumped 22 percent compared to the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they had already increased patrols in Oakland starting mid-March, before the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the incident, the department instituted what it calls \"emergency staffing\" -- all BART police are required to work an extra day each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dublin family attacked on the train is seeking $3 million from BART. Their attorney, Paul Justi, says the agency \"was grossly negligent in failing to ensure the safety of the passengers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justi says that the youths pounded on the doors and windows of the train before the operator allowed them to board. He also says that better communication with the Oakland Police Department could have prevented the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A BART spokesperson said that since the robbery, the transit system's police department has been working to improve coordination with other agencies, including OPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police have arrested two teens suspected in the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:45 p.m. Friday, April 28:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they've made their first arrest in connection with last weekend's mass robbery at Oakland's Coliseum Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, which reported earlier this week that it had used video from a train car and the station to identify \"multiple suspects\" and obtain arrest warrants, said officers took a male juvenile into custody on robbery charges early Friday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/27/bart-police-chief-spike-in-crime-preceded-teen-mob-robbery-at-coliseum-saturday/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">East Bay Times quoted\u003c/a> BART's acting police chief, Jeffrey Jennings, as saying the suspect is a student at San Leandro High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say the incident, which occurred about 9:30 p.m. last Saturday, involved dozens of teenagers who jumped fare gates and barged onto a train that had just arrived at the platform. BART has said seven people were robbed and at least two passengers were beaten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've never had anything of this scale,\" Jennings said in answer to questions from BART board member Lateefah Simon at a Thursday night meeting. \"We've had several independent [incidents] of two to five to 12 -- nothing this large.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings added that the crowd of juveniles, which BART says included both males and females, had been at a party in East Oakland that had been broken up by gunfire. He said not all of the crowd of youths present during the incident were involved in the robberies and assaults captured on video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No -- not 50 of these kids were committing burglaries and robberies at that time,\" Jennings said. \"There was a group that were, and there was a group that were watching. ... The vast majority of kids -- they fare-evaded and they're watching, probably to call out when the police got there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennings told the board that the incident came amid a 22 percent increase in crime in the first quarter of 2017, as compared to the same period a year earlier. That spike had already prompted BART police to increase officer overtime and focus \"crime suppression\" efforts on areas in San Francisco, Oakland and Pittsburg, Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, the department's attention had moved to the Fruitvale, Coliseum, San Leandro and Bay Fair stations \"due to an increase in juvenile activity,\" Jennings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that since March 11, BART police had arrested 19 people ages 12 to 21 \"working in concerted groups of two or more up to five to seven\" -- groups he suggested were involved in strong-arm robberies similar to those of last Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/SqCOsdEf6zk\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence McCarty, BART's acting deputy chief, told KQED on Friday that the department will institute emergency staffing in response to the increase in crime. That means all of BART's 175 or so officers -- about 30 fewer than the department's authorized strength -- will be required to work overtime -- an extra day each week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 26:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART police say they've identified \"multiple suspects\" in last weekend's mass robbery aboard a train in Oakland -- IDs the agency says were made possible by video from cameras aboard one of the train's nine cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terence McCarty, acting deputy chief for the BART Police Department, said surveillance video recorded at the Coliseum station's fare gates, on the platform and aboard a train car showed 45 to 50 youths were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven passengers were robbed and at least two were also beaten and required medical attention in an episode McCarty said took a total of four minutes. He said BART police arrived at the station within three minutes of receiving the first report that a robbery had occurred. By that time, he said, the suspects had already fled the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's midday Wednesday statement on the investigation did not say exactly how many suspects have been identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because the investigation's ongoing, I'm not at liberty to say how many\" suspects have been identified, McCarty said. \"But we're pleased so far with the ones we've been able to identify and we expect to identify more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART said police are seeking arrest warrants and that investigators from partner agencies, including the Oakland police, have helped in identifying suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART began installing cameras on its train cars after a murder aboard a train at the West Oakland Station in January 2016. After the killing, it came to light that trains had been fitted previously with mostly camera decoys, not working cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says it will finish installing cameras on its entire fleet by July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Monday, April 24:\u003c/strong> BART police and investigators from several other agencies are trying to identify those involved in a Saturday night incident in which 40 to 60 youths took over a train car at Oakland's Coliseum Station and robbed and beat passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial BART police summary of the incident -- reported at 9:26 p.m. -- says dozens of juveniles jumped the gates at the station, dashed upstairs to the platform and rushed onto at least one car of a train headed to Dublin-Pleasanton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say a total of seven passengers were the victims of strong-arm robbery. Items taken included five mobile phones, a purse and a duffel bag. Two people were beaten by the robbers and were treated by paramedics for head and facial injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A bunch of these teenagers started banging on the door,\" said Justine Lin, who reported losing her iPhone in the robbery. \"Initially we were just kind of confused because it was very loud, a lot of commotion. I thought they were just messing around, horsing around, just being loud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11425097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11425097\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-800x510.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1020x650.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-1180x752.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-960x612.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-240x153.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-375x239.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/BartColiseum-520x332.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train at Oakland's Coliseum Station, where 40 to 60 youths took over a train car and robbed and beat passengers. \u003ccite>(Paul Sullivan/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lin, 27, who was on her way home from San Francisco, said passengers began screaming as the youths began grabbing items from people on the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They started hitting passengers and stealing their stuff,\" Lin said. \"They were really attacking one family of three. ... They were hitting the dad a lot on his neck and on his head, they were trying to grab his phone. They hit the mother -- they stole her purse and her phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin said she was not harmed when one of the attackers grabbed her phone and ran. She said the entire episode lasted 30 to 60 seconds. Police say the suspects ran from the station and dispersed into the surrounding neighborhood. No arrests were made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said the agency's investigators are enlisting other agencies to try to track down the attackers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are in the process of pulling all the various surveillance images available to us and sharing them with Oakland police, Oakland Unified School police and Oakland Housing Authority to help identify them,\" Trost said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that since the suspects are all believed to be juveniles, the images would not be released to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost said six of the nine cars on the train had working security cameras. However, since victims could not say for sure which car they were on, police are in the process of looking at images from all six of the cars equipped with cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART is in the process of retrofitting all of its 600-plus cars with cameras, a process it says will be finished by July 1. The agency made that move after a murder last year led to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/bart-says-it-will-install-surveillance-cameras-on-every-car/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the disclosure\u003c/a> that most trains carry only \"decoy\" cameras -- nonfunctional boxes, with red or green lights on them, that don't record or transmit anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lin -- one of the passengers victimized Saturday -- said the episode and apparent lack of security cameras on trains has left her feeling uneasy about riding BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State workplace regulators have begun an investigation into the power outage at Valero's Benicia refinery that has been sending flames, smoke and toxic gas into the sky for close to a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage is renewing concern among environmentalists and could soon be felt by consumers around the region: a leading oil expert says the refinery’s shutdown will increase the cost of gas throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, which began Friday morning, led to the release of a large plume of smoke that sent at least 12 people to local hospitals, according to Solano County health officials. It prompted the evacuation of a nearby industrial area and shelter-in-place orders for two elementary schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero says its refinery is still working to restore operations, a process that is causing intermittent flaring. In fact, \u003ca href=\"https://w3.calema.ca.gov/operational/malhaz.nsf/f1841a103c102734882563e200760c4a/7f32b10d0259de568825811c006be190?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,valero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">another flaring incident\u003c/a> at the Benicia plant was reported to state emergency officials on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) started its probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The focus of the investigation is to ensure the safe operation of the refinery, to determine whether last week's incident damaged any equipment, and if so, ensure that there are appropriate repairs made,\" said Cal/OSHA spokeswoman Erika Monterroza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No Valero workers were injured in the incident, but Cal/OSHA does occasionally probe refineries after significant safety incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's investigation comes as local air regulators conduct their own investigations into Valero's flaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Friday's outage, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2017/2017_045_valeronovs_050917-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six notices of violation\u003c/a> to the refinery for excess emissions and public nuisance.[contextly_sidebar id=\"TJ7LjckRfi9xYpZunjde9L5OeiQBsX66\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, for the first time in 18 months, Solano County is investigating the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hazardous materials specialists at the county's Department of Resource Management interviewed Valero officials about the incident on Wednesday, according to its director, Terry Schmidtbauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The main thing is, how does a plant lose complete power?\" Schmidtbauer said in an interview Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pacific Gas & Electric says the outage began shortly after crews took one of two transmission lines offline to complete upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero says it does not have a backup power source because it never got a permit to create a co-generation unit -- an addition that the company says would increase its carbon footprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Solano County conducted a probe of Valero was following a petroleum release in December 2015 after an above-ground tank at the facility became corroded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has inspected the refinery five times in the last 2½ years, said Schmidtbauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Friday's incident the company is required to file a follow-up report to the Governor's Office of Emergency Services within 30 days, said Robb Mayberry, a Cal OES spokesman.[contextly_sidebar id=\"SSdojvDvj7Buvew7Sx2C9XnHo4OYmwkK\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Benicia officials are conducting a top-to-bottom review of their emergency responses after the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/05/09/benicia-mayor-calls-for-key-emergency-improvements-after-valero-refinery-outage-and-flaring/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outage revealed weaknesses \u003c/a>in the way the city communicates with its residents about potential disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists say the flaring is another reason for stricter oversight of the oil industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The black clouds of pollution from this latest accident are a vivid reminder of how dangerous these refineries are to nearby communities,\" said Hollin Kretzmann of the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This dirty industry has a long and disturbing history of violating our clean air protections,\" said Kretzmann. \"We need to crack down on these accident-prone refineries immediately and rapidly shift toward cleaner, safer energy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage is expected to increase the cost of gasoline in the Bay Area, according to Denton Cinquegrana, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, who's been watching gasoline market trades in reaction to Valero's shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prices have been falling off as of late, but now they're starting to move back up based on the event,\" Cinquegrana said. \"I do believe that you're going to start to see that kind of make its way downstream and out to the street level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flaring incidents at Chevron's Richmond refinery, the Phillips 66 facility in Rodeo and Shell's Martinez plant \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/13/bay-area-refinery-malfunctions-lead-to-jump-in-gasoline-prices/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sent local gas prices up in January\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average cost of a gallon of regular unleaded in California was $2.97, Triple A announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A proposal to allow bikes to roll through intersections has come to a skidding stop -- for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1103\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1103\u003c/a> would have let bicyclists treat stop signs like yield signs. On Monday, the measure stalled in an Assembly committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unlikely duo brought the legislation: San Francisco Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://a19.asmdc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Ting\u003c/a> and Republican \u003ca href=\"https://ad33.asmrc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Obernolte\u003c/a>, whose district lies in the Mojave Desert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are united by a belief that bicyclists would be safer if the law allowed what so many cyclists already do -- roll through stop signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're just trying to have the law reflect what happens in reality,\" Ting says. \"People stop at stop signs when it's dangerous, and people don't stop at stop signs when it's empty and when it's clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's only one state where bikers can roll through stop signs: Idaho.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bicycle injuries there dropped by 14.5 percent after the Legislature changed the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no single measure that would promote bicycle safety more in California,\" says Obernolte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Idaho isn't quite the same as California. But a \u003ca href=\"https://meggsreport.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/idaho-law-jasonmeggs-2010version.pdf\">UC Berkeley study\u003c/a> compared Idaho's largest city -- Boise -- to similar cities in California and found that bicycling in Boise was 30 to 60 percent safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday's hearing, Jason Meggs, who wrote the study, said that cyclists have more control when they keep up their momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the law encouraged more people to bike and led drivers to look out for cyclists. \"When more people bicycle, each bicyclist individually is safer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a lot of data that says it's safer,\" says Obernolte. \"I haven't seen any data that says that it's not as safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sylvia Rees, an advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccbnet.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Council of the Blind, \u003c/a>also testified at the hearing. She said she had been hit by a bicyclist who slowed down, saw that no cars were coming, \"but neglected to see me, a blind woman, crossing in the crosswalk.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://calstate.aaa.com/?zip=94044&stateprov=ca&city=pacifica&devicecd=PC&referer=www.aaa.com\" target=\"_blank\">The American Automobile Association \u003c/a>opposes the measure, as does the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiapolicechiefs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Police Chiefs Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the measure are holding off until next year when they plan to reintroduce the bill. They decided they needed more time to convince their fellow lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"disqusTitle": "Can Salinas' Chinatown Design Its Way Out of Violence?",
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"content": "\u003cp>With surprise and intrigue in his voice, local tour guide Wellington Lee describes the murder plot that targeted his grandfather in Salinas' Chinatown in April 1912.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They shot up the whole place. It ended up where four men were killed and four were arrested and they sent the guilty to San Quentin,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee is standing in front of the spot where the failed assassination took place -- his former home. The violence, he says, stemmed from a \u003ca href=\"http://juliareynolds.com/?page_id=998\" target=\"_blank\">rivalry between Chinese tongs\u003c/a>, a type of association comparable to the Italian Mafia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast forward from the early 1900s to the 1940s and '50s, when Lee grew up in Chinatown. At that point, the tongs were still running the place. They were in charge of the gambling halls and brothels that were the center of adult entertainment for the surrounding soldiers and fieldworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-09d-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-28-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Can Salinas' Chinatown Design Its Way Out of Violence?\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The weekends were jumping,” Lee says as he walks down Soledad Street, the main thoroughfare. \"This is where everyone came for all the vices, prostitution, whatever. I was just a kid growing up, smelling all this perfume. And then the music blaring from all the bars. It’s nothing like that anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chinatown of today is unrecognizable, compared with the Chinatown that Lee and his grandfather knew. The tongs have been replaced by gangs, and the violence and chaos that comes with them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Chinatown saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/my-safety/2017/02/16/quadruple-shooting-erupts-salinas-chinatown/97982072/\" target=\"_blank\">four shootings\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kion546.com/news/salinas-police-investigating-homicide-in-chinatown/356053420\" target=\"_blank\">one homicide\u003c/a> in the span of nine days. A month after that, a historic \u003ca href=\"http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/blogs/news_blog/salinas-fire-officials-announce-chinatown-fire-was-an-accident/article_b1e62446-1982-11e7-9f21-3fdc3155fb91.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chinatown building caught fire\u003c/a> and is set to be torn down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" ids=\"11418255,11418530,11418537,11418529,11418533,11418528,11418531,11418534,11418535\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the bars that Lee once frequented to watch TV as a kid have either been torn down or shuttered up. And Lee’s home, where the shootings took place in 1912, was demolished. In its stead is an empty lot, covered in weeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was part of the urban renewal plan,\" Lee says. \"They asked people to move. We had to have someone tear our home down because we couldn’t keep up with the repairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened in 1961. In the '70s, Lee saw Chinatown go downhill. That's when the streets around the community were widened to make it faster for cars to get to the highway. And that meant that all the streets going from Chinatown into downtown Salinas -- across the railroad tracks -- were cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one-way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee thinks the design was planned to keep all the vices contained in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/chinatown,+salinas/@36.6781423,-121.6522571,17z\" target=\"_blank\">small five-block neighborhood\u003c/a>. The result -- whether intentional or not -- isolated the area. And this isolation made the vices of Chinatown worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime homeless residents Jimmy Rice and Diana West noticed the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This used to be a really nice place to come,” Rice says. “But all the drugs moved in and the businesses were shut down because of drugs.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with drugs, the area also saw an increase in prostitution. It got so bad that the city changed all the streets to be one way and to point in the same direction. The reasoning was that it would discourage traffic, but Rice and West see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" columns=\"2\" size=\"medium\" ids=\"11418323,11418322,11418400,11418404\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All these one-way streets didn't deter nothing,” says Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West agrees. \"It didn’t deter nothing. If you were coming in, you knew what you were coming in for -- either for drugs, prostitution or to get high.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the first time in over 30 years the homeless couple has lived there, the design of those streets could change. That’s because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/11/30/salinas-awards-212k-chinatown-deal/94649416/\" target=\"_blank\">city of Salinas is trying to plan\u003c/a> its way out of the dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty much everyone is on board to get rid of the one-way streets, put in a pedestrian railroad crossing and make Chinatown more walkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The view out of Commander Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view out of Cmdr. David Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://csumb.edu/directory/people/seth-pollack\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Pollack\u003c/a>, a professor of service learning at CSU Monterey Bay, believes in this power of design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With simple design changes, Pollack says, “You’re going to have energy, you’re going to have people exchanging, you’re going to have new business, you’re going to have people come to Chinatown for something other than prostitution, drugs and alcohol. Wouldn’t it be nice to come to Chinatown for some Chinese food? Or for good food in general? Or to see some art?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as when we cut off air flow or circulation -- whether it’s a part of your body or a city -- decay happens. But Pollack says it’s not just the built environment that will change Chinatown. He sees it as a first step for changing our mental environment and demystifying the \"other\" -- the \"other\" being the huge homeless population that currently resides there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for 3 years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. "At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for three years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. \"At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here.\" \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/city-manager/community-safety-division/profiles/jose-arreola\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Arreola\u003c/a>, director of the city’s Community Safety Division, it’s less about demystifying the other than it is about moving the other to a different location. Or moving the activities that go on -- mainly using and dealing drugs -- elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those drugs are gonna get sold, that’s a huge business. The demand for it is not going to go away, so they will get sold someplace else,\" he says. \"What we will get rid of, it looks like, is the concentration of those problems in one area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this concentration is good or bad depends on who you talk to. And the next step in the planning process is to talk to all of the stakeholders in the area -- homeless organizations, the Asian community, surrounding businesses, etc. This input has already been collected twice before -- in 2007 and 2010 -- during \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/09/01/salinas-starts-chinatown-revitalization/89747042/\" target=\"_blank\">previous Chinatown revitalization plans\u003c/a>. But they failed because the funding fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To discourage those who come to Chinatown to deal the daily fix, the city will have to wait over a year for the plan to be completed. Then it is looking at an estimated price tag -- taken from the 2010 plan -- of $30 million to $50 million to implement it. But maybe, this time around, the third plan’s a charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man rests from pushing his cart as the sun sets behind the railroad tracks in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rests from pushing his cart as the sun sets behind the railroad tracks in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the bars that Lee once frequented to watch TV as a kid have either been torn down or shuttered up. And Lee’s home, where the shootings took place in 1912, was demolished. In its stead is an empty lot, covered in weeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was part of the urban renewal plan,\" Lee says. \"They asked people to move. We had to have someone tear our home down because we couldn’t keep up with the repairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That happened in 1961. In the '70s, Lee saw Chinatown go downhill. That's when the streets around the community were widened to make it faster for cars to get to the highway. And that meant that all the streets going from Chinatown into downtown Salinas -- across the railroad tracks -- were cut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418502\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one-way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-27.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinatown resident walks down Soledad Street -- pointed one way -- to take a shower at the recently opened Chinatown Health Services Center. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee thinks the design was planned to keep all the vices contained in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/search/chinatown,+salinas/@36.6781423,-121.6522571,17z\" target=\"_blank\">small five-block neighborhood\u003c/a>. The result -- whether intentional or not -- isolated the area. And this isolation made the vices of Chinatown worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longtime homeless residents Jimmy Rice and Diana West noticed the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This used to be a really nice place to come,” Rice says. “But all the drugs moved in and the businesses were shut down because of drugs.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with drugs, the area also saw an increase in prostitution. It got so bad that the city changed all the streets to be one way and to point in the same direction. The reasoning was that it would discourage traffic, but Rice and West see it differently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All these one-way streets didn't deter nothing,” says Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West agrees. \"It didn’t deter nothing. If you were coming in, you knew what you were coming in for -- either for drugs, prostitution or to get high.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for the first time in over 30 years the homeless couple has lived there, the design of those streets could change. That’s because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/11/30/salinas-awards-212k-chinatown-deal/94649416/\" target=\"_blank\">city of Salinas is trying to plan\u003c/a> its way out of the dilemma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pretty much everyone is on board to get rid of the one-way streets, put in a pedestrian railroad crossing and make Chinatown more walkable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The view out of Commander Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-21.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view out of Cmdr. David Crabill's police vehicle shows homeless residents standing outside Victory Mission, a homeless services center in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://csumb.edu/directory/people/seth-pollack\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Pollack\u003c/a>, a professor of service learning at CSU Monterey Bay, believes in this power of design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With simple design changes, Pollack says, “You’re going to have energy, you’re going to have people exchanging, you’re going to have new business, you’re going to have people come to Chinatown for something other than prostitution, drugs and alcohol. Wouldn’t it be nice to come to Chinatown for some Chinese food? Or for good food in general? Or to see some art?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as when we cut off air flow or circulation -- whether it’s a part of your body or a city -- decay happens. But Pollack says it’s not just the built environment that will change Chinatown. He sees it as a first step for changing our mental environment and demystifying the \"other\" -- the \"other\" being the huge homeless population that currently resides there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418517\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for 3 years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. "At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here."\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-11.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diana Blaylock cuddles with one of her two dogs on Soledad Street in Salinas' Chinatown. She's been homeless for three years and was shaken by the recent shooting that happened three tents down from hers. \"At first the shooting scared me, but I'm fixing to get out of here.\" \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.cityofsalinas.org/our-city-services/city-manager/community-safety-division/profiles/jose-arreola\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Arreola\u003c/a>, director of the city’s Community Safety Division, it’s less about demystifying the other than it is about moving the other to a different location. Or moving the activities that go on -- mainly using and dealing drugs -- elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those drugs are gonna get sold, that’s a huge business. The demand for it is not going to go away, so they will get sold someplace else,\" he says. \"What we will get rid of, it looks like, is the concentration of those problems in one area.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether this concentration is good or bad depends on who you talk to. And the next step in the planning process is to talk to all of the stakeholders in the area -- homeless organizations, the Asian community, surrounding businesses, etc. This input has already been collected twice before -- in 2007 and 2010 -- during \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/local/2016/09/01/salinas-starts-chinatown-revitalization/89747042/\" target=\"_blank\">previous Chinatown revitalization plans\u003c/a>. But they failed because the funding fell through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To discourage those who come to Chinatown to deal the daily fix, the city will have to wait over a year for the plan to be completed. Then it is looking at an estimated price tag -- taken from the 2010 plan -- of $30 million to $50 million to implement it. But maybe, this time around, the third plan’s a charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11418522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11418522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man rests from pushing his cart as the sun sets behind the railroad tracks in Salinas' Chinatown.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26-520x347.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/SecondEdits-26.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rests from pushing his cart as the sun sets behind the railroad tracks in Salinas' Chinatown. \u003ccite>(Sarah Craig/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ighway 35, known to locals on the peninsula south of San Francisco as Skyline Boulevard, is one odd bird of a road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its northern end, it's a full-on freeway funneling traffic to and from San Francisco. As you go south, it takes on a different character, suburban at first, then rural, winding through the forested ridges standing high above the bay shore and Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its southern end, it climbs into the Santa Cruz Mountains. Then, before it ends its 65-mile run, it narrows to a back-country road that's a good deal less than two lanes wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, this quirky Bay Area route has another distinction: It's the site of the single most expensive road repair project arising from the already legendary Winter of '16-'17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms that came crashing into California starting last October have dropped 100 inches of rain or more in parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains this season. At a remote spot on Highway 35 in Santa Clara County that Caltrans identifies prosaically as Post Mile 10.5, the season's precipitation total is something like 94 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/05/2017-05-08b-tcr.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/05/RS25138_20170503_Highway35_Credit_BertJohnson-8-qut-800x533.jpg\" Title=\"Price Tag for State's Road-Wrecking Winter: $1.4 Billion and Counting\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rain fell so hard and so long that on Feb. 10, the slope at Post Mile 10.5 gave way, spilling earth, trees, rocks and a roughly 50-yard-long section of pavement far down a steep mountainside. The result was a monstrous gouge in the landscape and a rebuilding project that Caltrans currently says will cost $37 million. (Two smaller slides occurred Feb. 10 just south of Post Mile 10.5; Caltrans says those will take another couple of months to completely clear and will cost $5.5 million each.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3701802/Caltrans-PDA-2017WinterStorm-Ver-4-28-17.pdf\">the agency lists\u003c/a> 425 damage sites that will require an estimated $974 million to fix. Caltrans says local agencies face at least another $400 million in storm-related road repairs. The money to pay for all that will come mainly from the state and federal governments -- the latter partly due to a disaster declaration from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jhLYaCOiK1M\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ooking at pictures of the Highway 35/Skyline Boulevard slide immediately after it happened -- see the YouTube video above -- it's a little hard to imagine just how you'd go about putting a road back through the area. From one side of the gap, you gaze across at a chasm where a piece of pavement, complete with double-yellow lines, hangs in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we -- as a state and nation dedicated to the pursuit of happy and productive motoring -- are not in the business of letting some little thing like a collapsing mountainside shut down an otherwise perfectly fine road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Exhibit A for our determination to keep the roads open even when nature's not in sync with our intentions: Highway 1 through Big Sur. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/projects/bigsur/inventory_reports/history_road_closures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2001 Caltrans report\u003c/a> documented 41 closures from rockslides, mudslides, mountain slides, slipouts, washouts and flooding along that section of highway between 1970 and 2000. There have been plenty of shutdowns since then, too. The winter of 2016-17 triggered several major slides and closures on the coast road -- including one involving \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/13/highway-1-big-sur-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-demolition/\" target=\"_blank\">a bridge failure\u003c/a> near the northern end of Big Sur. Caltrans hopes to have \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-tr-california-new-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-20170412-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new span\u003c/a> ready for use by \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/28/big-sur-bridge-set-to-open-jan-1-connecting-broken-link-along-highway-1/\" target=\"_blank\">the end of September\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visiting the big Highway 35 slide site last week with Bernard Walik, the Caltrans spokesman for Santa Clara County, I got to see the outline of the agency's repair plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we've done here is created an access road,\" Walik says, describing one lane of dirt and gravel that's been bulldozed, somehow, into the curving upper rim of the slide. \"And actually, the access road we have in front of us here follows the profile of the new road -- meaning it's going to curve into the hillside.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rebuilding the road will involve more than just realigning it, though. Engineers plan to build a massive retaining wall supported by piles driven deep into the mountainside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How challenging will it be to get a new piece of highway to stay where Caltrans wants it to stay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our geotechnology engineers (and) hydraulic engineers have determined that, looking at all the conditions of the current hillside, that the realignment with the support of the retaining wall will definitely provide a safe road for many, many decades,\" Walik says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While I was there, one other person showed up to watch the small construction crew, which on this day consisted of two dump truck drivers, a front-loader operator and a spotter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These guys have got a pretty good job,\" says Art Vasquez, a retired heavy-equipment operator who arrives at the site on a motorcycle. \"They've got job security. 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The money to pay for all that will come mainly from the state and federal governments -- the latter partly due to a disaster declaration from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/jhLYaCOiK1M\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">L\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ooking at pictures of the Highway 35/Skyline Boulevard slide immediately after it happened -- see the YouTube video above -- it's a little hard to imagine just how you'd go about putting a road back through the area. From one side of the gap, you gaze across at a chasm where a piece of pavement, complete with double-yellow lines, hangs in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we -- as a state and nation dedicated to the pursuit of happy and productive motoring -- are not in the business of letting some little thing like a collapsing mountainside shut down an otherwise perfectly fine road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Exhibit A for our determination to keep the roads open even when nature's not in sync with our intentions: Highway 1 through Big Sur. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist05/projects/bigsur/inventory_reports/history_road_closures.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2001 Caltrans report\u003c/a> documented 41 closures from rockslides, mudslides, mountain slides, slipouts, washouts and flooding along that section of highway between 1970 and 2000. There have been plenty of shutdowns since then, too. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]C[/dropcap]ommuting on Bay Area ferries might not be quite the perfect experience it used to be. Mostly because, like other ways of getting to and from work in this booming region, you're going to find bigger crowds than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you look up from your iPhone or laptop once the boat's left the dock, you'll find yourself in direct contact with the always unfolding drama of San Francisco Bay -- the changing light, surging water and expansive vistas of bridges, skylines, shipping and, yes, even nature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The people who experience this drama more often and more intimately than anyone else are those who work on the boats. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 7:25 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A House appropriations bill proposed this week as part of a package to fund federal government operations through the end of September contains what could be a welcome surprise for Caltrain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules.house.gov/files/115/OMNI/DIVISION%20K%20-%20THUD%20SOM%20OCR%20FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Legislation\u003c/a> from the House appropriations subcommittee on transportation includes $100 million for the Peninsula commuter railroad's planned electrification of its route from San Jose to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's far from certain, however, that Caltrain will get to spend the money. Congress has yet to vote on the bill including the electrification funding -- a project that has faced unanimous opposition from the 14 Republicans in California's House delegation. And even if Congress approves the legislation and it's signed into law, the transit agency will receive the funds only if the Trump administration signs off on a $647 million grant agreement that's been on hold since February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not a done deal, but it's good progress,\" said Caltrain spokeswoman Tasha Bartholomew. She added: \"We still have a long way to go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain had secured Obama administration approval for the $647 million federal grant that would help pay for the line's electrification. The rest of the money for the $1.9 billion project would come from the California High-Speed Rail Authority, which would kick in $600 million in bond funds and use the electrified line in the future, and a variety of local and regional sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain says electrifying its line will allow it to modernize its fleet and increase passenger capacity 70 percent by 2040. The agency has said the project would create 9,600 jobs in 15 states. If funding is lined up, electrification work could begin this year, with a projected completion date of 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/07/california-republicans-want-trump-to-block-caltrain-electrification/\" target=\"_blank\">California's House Republicans pounced\u003c/a> on the connection to the state's high-speed rail project to urge Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao to reject the grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GOP contingent argued the public will be stuck with a huge bill for a system that will never work as promised. The delegation's letter said providing the requested electrification grant \"would be an irresponsible use of taxpayer dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's House Democrats, all 39 of them, answered with \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ca-delegation-letter-to-secretary-chao-re-caltrain-2-3-17-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter urging Chao\u003c/a> to approve the grant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said Republicans were guilty of \"a material misstatement of fact\" in characterizing the grant as intended primarily to aid the bullet train and that the project meets President Trump's declared goals for infrastructure investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chao has until June 30 to decide on the grant. That's also the deadline set in Caltrain's agreements with contractors for work to begin on the electrification project.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>An attempt to create a pilot project that would place speed cameras on the streets of San Francisco and San Jose to test their effectiveness on traffic safety is on hold after encountering opposition — mostly from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, withdrew the bill from consideration earlier this week prior to a scheduled vote in the Assembly Transportation Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB342\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB 342\u003c/a> would have allowed the use of the enforcement devices on streets in San Jose and San Francisco with a documented history of speeding and traffic collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aim of the five-year pilot program: to see whether automated speed enforcement would help reduce the number of fatal collisions in the two cities, which each have recorded a total of more than 100 traffic fatalities over the past five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we know from the more than 140 jurisdictions across the country that have used automated speed enforcement is that when it’s done right, it can be absolutely effective in reducing vehicle speeds and traffic collisions — and in some cases it can do so dramatically,” Ed Reiskin, head of San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency, told the Assembly panel during its Monday hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would impose a number of restrictions on the five-year automated speed enforcement pilot: Fines would be limited to $100 and would be levied only against vehicles detected traveling 10 mph or more over posted speed limits, for instance, and tickets issued under the program would not count as a point on drivers’ records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer privacy concerns, the bill would have prohibited snapping drivers’ pictures — only pictures of license plates would be allowed — and set strict limits on how long the cities could retain data captured by the speed cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Chiu’s proposal won wide local support, including San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and pedestrian and cycling advocacy groups, it encountered vehement opposition from law enforcement groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Maguire, representing the CHP’s rank-and-file union, challenged the notion that speed cameras would help improve street safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 21-year career patrolling the East Bay, Maguire said, “I have never investigated or assisted in an investigation that involved a vehicle and a pedestrian or a vehicle and a bicycle that resulted in a fatality where speed was the primary collision factor. Never.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argued that most pedestrian and cyclist fatalities involve other types of violations — motorists’ failure to yield to pedestrians, for instance, or violating a state law that mandates a 3-foot safety zone when drivers pass cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maguire also argued that speed cameras could inspire hostility toward police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this day when unprovoked violence and mistrust against law enforcement may be at an all-time high … this method of blindly citing drivers by the thousands will completely undermine any and all efforts of the law enforcement community to regain the trust of the public,” Maguire told the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In withdrawing AB 342 for the time being, Chiu emphasized that the bill had the support of the California Police Chiefs Association and the leadership of the police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the CHP knows, I am very open and willing and have pushed our sponsors to ensure that this pilot is structured in such a way that the California Highway Patrol and others can have input on the data we are going to collect and the data that at the end of a four- or five-year would be analyzed,” Chiu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu added he would begin work immediately on amendments to satisfy opponents’ concerns. The bill would come up for consideration in early 2018.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the 1950s, when America was hopeful and reckless conjecture was encouraged, prognosticators had some wild ideas about 21st century technology. A few came true, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/cool-robots/pepper\">robot companions\u003c/a>. Most didn't, like \u003ca href=\"http://signsfromthenearfuture.tumblr.com/image/157825581640\">lunar shuttles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one concept in particular has endured without quite being realized -- the flying car. Check those special \"future\" editions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/g462/future-that-never-was-next-gen-tech-concepts/\">old magazines\u003c/a> and you'll find plenty of stalwart citizens commuting to work in hovering sedans, with tail fins. So where did the dream go wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, you may have noticed that flying cars have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/flying-car-technology.html\">buzzing the headlines\u003c/a> this week, with new \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMma4c2SPdY\">prototype footage\u003c/a> making the rounds and Uber's \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/info/elevate/summit/\">flying car tech summit\u003c/a> in Texas. The timing seems right for a reappraisal of our retro-future dreams. The good news is that flying cars are no longer science fiction -- in fact, several designs are already in the air. The bad news is that you won't be flying one anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the good news. Depending on how you define your terms, flying cars have been around for several years now. Straightforward hybrids like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.terrafugia.com/the-transition/\">Terrafugia Transition\u003c/a> are basically cars with folding wings -- keep 'em folded up when you're driving around; drop 'em down when you hit the runway. Of course, these vehicles are essentially private planes -- you'll need a pilot's license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11426672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Terrafugia Transition extends its fold-up wings when it hits the runway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Terrafugia Transition extends its fold-up wings when it hits the runway. \u003ccite>(Terrfugia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there are the rotor-driven aerial vehicles that function like miniaturized helicopters or maximized drones. Click around online and you can find several projects in this area, from high-tech specimens like the newly unveiled \u003ca href=\"https://kittyhawk.aero/about/\">Kitty Hawk\u003c/a> (backed by Google's Larry Page) to old-school da Vinci-style \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerovelo.com/ornithopter-summary\">pedal-powered ornithopters\u003c/a>. Depending on where you're flying, many of these personal aircraft are classified as recreational ultralight vehicles and don't require a pilot's license at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMma4c2SPdY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But they're not strictly flying cars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjy-fnsmWR4\">\"The Jetsons\"\u003c/a> flavor we've been promised. For the real space-age stuff, you want vehicles with enclosed cabins that can launch and land in crowded urban environments. That means expanding on existing Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) technology, employed by military vehicles like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2014/06/why-harrier-jets-crash/\">Harrier Jump Jet\u003c/a>. For a good example of this approach, check out the \u003ca href=\"https://lilium.com/\">Lilium\u003c/a> jet from Germany, backed by the European Space Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, that pesky pilot's license issue remains. If we're already worried about too many drones in the air, do we really want to consider a sky full of personal aerial vehicles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 578px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11426673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a.jpg\" alt=\"Lilium Aviation is already testing its all-electric personal jet, which takes off and lands vertically.\" width=\"578\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a.jpg 578w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilium Aviation is already testing its all-electric personal jet, which takes off and lands vertically. \u003ccite>(Lilium Aviation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address this concern, the biggest players in the flying car game are banking on one more critical innovation: flying cars that can pilot themselves. That's what Uber is aiming for with its new \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/elevate.pdf\">Elevate initiative\u003c/a>, which imagines a future of semi-autonomous flying vehicles that can be hailed from designated rooftops and helipads around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Holden, Uber chief product officer, described a future service, tentatively called Uber Air. \"You literally push a button and you get a flight,\" he said at the company's Elevate Summit in Dallas on Tuesday. A car trip between San Francisco and San Jose can take up to 2½ hours, depending on traffic, and \"this is like a 15-minute flight,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is giving you freedom, radically reducing time from point A to point B,\" Holden said. Uber hopes to launch working prototypes by 2020 and to eventually reduce the cost so that it's comparable to an UberX ride, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 447px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11426674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d.jpg\" alt=\"Uber is planning to expand its transportation services skyward with the Elevate program.\" width=\"447\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d.jpg 447w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber is planning to expand its transportation services skyward with the Elevate program. \u003ccite>(Uber)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uber's \"taxi planes\" would initially use a combination of human pilots and automation, and could eventually move to a fully artificial intelligence-controlled flight network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that seems crazy, consider that the city of Dubai has already announced it will deploy a fleet of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Q2W0r5e-s\">air taxis\u003c/a> this summer, using the Chinese \u003ca href=\"http://www.ehang.com/ehang184\">EHang 184\u003c/a> passenger drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is not the only heavy hitter moving into this area. European aviation behemoth Airbus has been gradually unveiling elements of its ambitious autonomous vehicle project, which it hopes to start testing as early as next year. Airbus' proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-90/PopUp.html\">Pop.Up system\u003c/a> would employ modular passenger cabins that can be affixed to a set of wheels on the bottom or an array of rotors on the top, depending on whether you're driving or flying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11426675\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Airbus envisions a future of hybrid modular vehicles for road and sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airbus envisions a future of hybrid modular vehicles for road and sky. \u003ccite>(Italdesign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the Uber and Airbus projects also incorporate that other major auto innovation of recent years -- electric vehicles. Both systems envision a future of fully electric flying taxis and buses, to cut down on weight, noise and pollution. In fact, almost all of the recent flying car proposals are banking on batteries, with the exception of those \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerovelo.com/atlas-helicopter\">pedal-powered contraptions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent issue of Airbus' \u003ca href=\"http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-88/My-Kind-Of-Flyover.html\">corporate magazine\u003c/a>, CEO Tom Enders said he fully expects to have a sky full of flying coaches and cabs over major cities: \"In a not-too-distant future, we'll use our smartphones to book a fully automated flying taxi that will land outside our front door -- without any pilot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Different Point of View\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It all seems very exciting and imminent, but obviously some enormous obstacles remain -- true autonomous vehicle technology and air traffic control, to name two. Adding millions of flying cars and taxis to the existing airspace would require a colossal reboot of air traffic control systems, most likely managed by some kind of future artificial intelligence. The more you think it through, the more daunting it all becomes. If you'd rather keep the 1950s dream alive in your mind, stop reading now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aviation consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.richardaboulafia.com/\">Richard Aboulafia\u003c/a> is squarely among the skeptics. As a veteran industry analyst, Aboulafia makes his living assessing nuts-and-bolt realities, not concept drawings. When it comes to hybrid vehicles that can drive on roads and fly in the air, there's a core design dilemma, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426670\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11426670\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Airbus is one of more than a dozen companies actively developing flying cars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-flying-car-d781b22144f8ac071029ba51fadefe48e3980d91.jpg 915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airbus is one of more than a dozen companies actively developing flying cars. \u003ccite>(Airbus)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"You know, I'd like to have a good product that combines shampoo and conditioner in one bottle, but you can't do it,\" he says. \"And it's the same here with flying cars -- you have a perfectly inadequate plane crossed with a perfectly inadequate car. You've got two very different animals here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for those fleets of ski taxis and autonomous flying vehicles being proposed by Uber, Airbus and others, Aboulafia sees another mountain of practical problems: \"More issues than I can count, really.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aboulafia says the first thing that jumped out at him in Uber's Elevate \u003ca href=\"http://www.uber.com/elevate/whitepaper/\">white paper\u003c/a> is an old industry dilemma: Electric vehicles have a fundamental battery problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest issue with the Elevate manifesto is that it assumes the existence of a truly amazing battery with a phenomenal energy density,\" he says. \"We've been striving for this for the last century. You'd need the kind of reliability that puts you in the air and keeps you there safely. This isn't a Tesla -- you can't just pull over to the side of the road.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5wMFtawn7I\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The self-piloting aspect has him worried as well. With flying cars, after all, we're adding an entire extra dimension to problems we have yet to solve in 2-D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we have a safe self-driving car, we'll be part of the way there,\" Aboulafia says. \"But we'll need some dramatic improvements in sense-and-avoid technology, to be able to track everything in all directions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are the maintenance issues. \"Aircraft have a lot of moving parts, you know,\" Aboulafia says. \"And aircraft maintenance is a lot more expensive than car maintenance -- ask any pilot. If nothing else, we'd need a total maintenance revolution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is there any hope? Is our cherished 1950s vision of flying cars just an impossible sci-fi dream? Well, Aboulafia doesn't want to be a total bummer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It could be that one day we have this amazing confluence of unlimited and safe battery power, combined with truly autonomous capabilities, where the machine is truly flying itself,\" Aboulafia said. \"All of that may trigger some kind of intra-urban mobility revolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But that's many, many decades away -- if ever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.glenn-mcdonald.com/\">Glenn McDonald\u003c/a> \u003cem>is a freelance writer, editor and game designer based in Chapel Hill, N.C. You can follow him\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/glennmcdonald1\">@glennmcdonald1\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the 1950s, when America was hopeful and reckless conjecture was encouraged, prognosticators had some wild ideas about 21st century technology. A few came true, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ald.softbankrobotics.com/en/cool-robots/pepper\">robot companions\u003c/a>. Most didn't, like \u003ca href=\"http://signsfromthenearfuture.tumblr.com/image/157825581640\">lunar shuttles\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one concept in particular has endured without quite being realized -- the flying car. Check those special \"future\" editions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/g462/future-that-never-was-next-gen-tech-concepts/\">old magazines\u003c/a> and you'll find plenty of stalwart citizens commuting to work in hovering sedans, with tail fins. So where did the dream go wrong?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, you may have noticed that flying cars have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/technology/flying-car-technology.html\">buzzing the headlines\u003c/a> this week, with new \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMma4c2SPdY\">prototype footage\u003c/a> making the rounds and Uber's \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/info/elevate/summit/\">flying car tech summit\u003c/a> in Texas. The timing seems right for a reappraisal of our retro-future dreams. The good news is that flying cars are no longer science fiction -- in fact, several designs are already in the air. The bad news is that you won't be flying one anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the good news. Depending on how you define your terms, flying cars have been around for several years now. Straightforward hybrids like the \u003ca href=\"http://www.terrafugia.com/the-transition/\">Terrafugia Transition\u003c/a> are basically cars with folding wings -- keep 'em folded up when you're driving around; drop 'em down when you hit the runway. Of course, these vehicles are essentially private planes -- you'll need a pilot's license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11426672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The Terrafugia Transition extends its fold-up wings when it hits the runway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/transition-e8e204780be4b9a1734b739eb413dfbcbd7ec2e6.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Terrafugia Transition extends its fold-up wings when it hits the runway. \u003ccite>(Terrfugia)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there are the rotor-driven aerial vehicles that function like miniaturized helicopters or maximized drones. Click around online and you can find several projects in this area, from high-tech specimens like the newly unveiled \u003ca href=\"https://kittyhawk.aero/about/\">Kitty Hawk\u003c/a> (backed by Google's Larry Page) to old-school da Vinci-style \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerovelo.com/ornithopter-summary\">pedal-powered ornithopters\u003c/a>. Depending on where you're flying, many of these personal aircraft are classified as recreational ultralight vehicles and don't require a pilot's license at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/lMma4c2SPdY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/lMma4c2SPdY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>But they're not strictly flying cars of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjy-fnsmWR4\">\"The Jetsons\"\u003c/a> flavor we've been promised. For the real space-age stuff, you want vehicles with enclosed cabins that can launch and land in crowded urban environments. That means expanding on existing Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) technology, employed by military vehicles like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/2014/06/why-harrier-jets-crash/\">Harrier Jump Jet\u003c/a>. For a good example of this approach, check out the \u003ca href=\"https://lilium.com/\">Lilium\u003c/a> jet from Germany, backed by the European Space Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, that pesky pilot's license issue remains. If we're already worried about too many drones in the air, do we really want to consider a sky full of personal aerial vehicles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 578px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11426673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a.jpg\" alt=\"Lilium Aviation is already testing its all-electric personal jet, which takes off and lands vertically.\" width=\"578\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a.jpg 578w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/lilium-c3a1ef27516dfb630216ac9a3bd968fe01205a3a-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lilium Aviation is already testing its all-electric personal jet, which takes off and lands vertically. \u003ccite>(Lilium Aviation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To address this concern, the biggest players in the flying car game are banking on one more critical innovation: flying cars that can pilot themselves. That's what Uber is aiming for with its new \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/elevate.pdf\">Elevate initiative\u003c/a>, which imagines a future of semi-autonomous flying vehicles that can be hailed from designated rooftops and helipads around the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Holden, Uber chief product officer, described a future service, tentatively called Uber Air. \"You literally push a button and you get a flight,\" he said at the company's Elevate Summit in Dallas on Tuesday. A car trip between San Francisco and San Jose can take up to 2½ hours, depending on traffic, and \"this is like a 15-minute flight,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is giving you freedom, radically reducing time from point A to point B,\" Holden said. Uber hopes to launch working prototypes by 2020 and to eventually reduce the cost so that it's comparable to an UberX ride, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 447px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11426674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d.jpg\" alt=\"Uber is planning to expand its transportation services skyward with the Elevate program.\" width=\"447\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d.jpg 447w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/uber-650bbf4dbd9ca95f9a6ce4797a13384b8f7f690d-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber is planning to expand its transportation services skyward with the Elevate program. \u003ccite>(Uber)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uber's \"taxi planes\" would initially use a combination of human pilots and automation, and could eventually move to a fully artificial intelligence-controlled flight network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that seems crazy, consider that the city of Dubai has already announced it will deploy a fleet of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Q2W0r5e-s\">air taxis\u003c/a> this summer, using the Chinese \u003ca href=\"http://www.ehang.com/ehang184\">EHang 184\u003c/a> passenger drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is not the only heavy hitter moving into this area. European aviation behemoth Airbus has been gradually unveiling elements of its ambitious autonomous vehicle project, which it hopes to start testing as early as next year. Airbus' proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-90/PopUp.html\">Pop.Up system\u003c/a> would employ modular passenger cabins that can be affixed to a set of wheels on the bottom or an array of rotors on the top, depending on whether you're driving or flying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11426675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11426675\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Airbus envisions a future of hybrid modular vehicles for road and sky.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-960x719.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/airbus-ac91de84242c894abe628882b3fa9d7d473ffb60.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airbus envisions a future of hybrid modular vehicles for road and sky. \u003ccite>(Italdesign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both the Uber and Airbus projects also incorporate that other major auto innovation of recent years -- electric vehicles. Both systems envision a future of fully electric flying taxis and buses, to cut down on weight, noise and pollution. In fact, almost all of the recent flying car proposals are banking on batteries, with the exception of those \u003ca href=\"http://www.aerovelo.com/atlas-helicopter\">pedal-powered contraptions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent issue of Airbus' \u003ca href=\"http://www.airbusgroup.com/int/en/news-media/corporate-magazine/Forum-88/My-Kind-Of-Flyover.html\">corporate magazine\u003c/a>, CEO Tom Enders said he fully expects to have a sky full of flying coaches and cabs over major cities: \"In a not-too-distant future, we'll use our smartphones to book a fully automated flying taxi that will land outside our front door -- without any pilot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Different Point of View\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It all seems very exciting and imminent, but obviously some enormous obstacles remain -- true autonomous vehicle technology and air traffic control, to name two. Adding millions of flying cars and taxis to the existing airspace would require a colossal reboot of air traffic control systems, most likely managed by some kind of future artificial intelligence. The more you think it through, the more daunting it all becomes. If you'd rather keep the 1950s dream alive in your mind, stop reading now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aviation consultant \u003ca href=\"http://www.richardaboulafia.com/\">Richard Aboulafia\u003c/a> is squarely among the skeptics. As a veteran industry analyst, Aboulafia makes his living assessing nuts-and-bolt realities, not concept drawings. 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