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"content": "\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his budget proposal Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers will be particularly interested in how the governor approaches two key policy areas: transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders got a lot done in 2016, there was no grand deal on how to tackle two of California's most vexing and expensive infrastructure challenges. Now, Democrats in Sacramento -- who control both houses of the Legislature -- say that improving aging transportation infrastructure and building more affordable housing are among their top priorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301828644\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who have pushed for state solutions to both issues in the past said they're optimistic that the time is right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all indications are that there is a great desire among the whole spectrum of my colleagues to really focus on these issues of housing and transportation in a way we haven't in the past, so I am hopeful,\" said San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, state leaders need to find money to tackle either problem -- and that's where the challenge lies. Last year, a special session called by the governor in 2015 to deal with the state's estimated $130 billion in road repair needs \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article116573743.html\">ended without any agreement\u003c/a> on how to fund those fixes. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-affordable-housing-union-fight-20160720-snap-story.html\">proposal by Brown \u003c/a>to put $400 million into low-income housing development if lawmakers agreed to relax building regulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article96492302.html\">died amid concerted opposition\u003c/a> by environmentalists, local governments and the construction trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11262348 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. 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It's not clear whether moderate Democrats are any more willing to back tax hikes than GOP lawmakers are, but Chiu said he think there's room for agreement, since the issues transcend regional differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do see a path in part because these crises have only intensified -- the housing crisis that started in San Francisco and the Bay Area has spread to the entire state of California,\" he said. \"And Californians up and down the state are very frustrated with the state of our roads, with the lateness of public transit, the lack of real options to get around and the tremendous congestion we face on the roads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Road repairs are something that if we don’t do, it’s like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy.'\u003ccite>Sen. Jim Beall\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>State Senate President Kevin de León said there is agreement among both houses of the Legislature and the governor that a transportation infrastructure plan is needed. He hopes to get it done within months -- and with Republican support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that we can get it done in a bipartisan fashion, irrespective of the supermajorities that we currently enjoy in both the Assembly and Senate, because a transportation infrastructure package is a vote for continued economic growth of the middle class of California,\" said de León, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Sen. Jim Beall has been one of the Legislature's most vocal supporters of a transportation deal. He noted that lawmakers already have legislation in front of them in both houses -- in the Senate, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1\">he authored SB 1\u003c/a> -- that would \u003ca href=\"http://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-12-05-beall-introduces-new-transportation-infrastructure-maintenance-bill\">raise about $6 billion a year \u003c/a>through an increase the gas tax and car registration fees. That plan is \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-new-transportation-funding-plan-calls-1471476415-htmlstory.html\">more expansive than the 6-cents-per-gallon tax proposed by the governor last year, but less ambitious \u003c/a>than earlier proposals of Beall and other Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Road repairs are something that if we don't do, it's like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy,\" Beall said. \"The governor has said it makes no sense to let things deteriorate further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he expects Brown to make a proposal similar to the one the governor's office put out in 2016 and he hopes they can strike a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing Agreement Further Off\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is at least agreement between lawmakers and the governor on potential funding sources for transportation, common ground on housing may be a bit stickier. Brown's proposal last year was seen by critics as a giveaway to developers that would have done little to spur affordable housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, lawmakers have a host of ideas on the table. Chiu and other Democrats in the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/assemblymember-david-chiu-joins-colleagues-to-announce-bills-to-address-affordable-housing-crisis\">unveiled a legislative package in December\u003c/a> that includes a proposal to eliminate a tax break for second homes, $400 million a year they want to redirect toward affordable housing development. In the Senate, Beall and San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins are looking to tack on a $75 fee to real estate transactions to fund the construction of low-income homes; they also want to put a $3 billion housing bond before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11262355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-520x310.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear whether Brown, who has been reticent to add to the state's debt or increase taxes and fees, would support either proposal. Assemblyman Phil Ting, who is a co-author of the Assembly proposals, said he thinks there is room for agreement with Brown and others who may be wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting, D-San Francisco, said the state needs to take a bigger role in funding affordable housing development after taking a step back in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we also heard loud and clear the governor's desire to streamline the development of housing so we can reduce those costs, so public dollars can go further, which makes a lot of sense,\" he said. \"I think there are different proposals we are looking at that can balance the interest of different groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What About Trump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild card in all of this is what a Donald Trump presidency will do to the state budget. The president-elect has\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/29/donald-trump-wants-to-cut-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-but-can-he/\"> threatened to strip funding from \"sanctuary\" jurisdictions\u003c/a> like California that limit their cooperation with federal immigration officials, and there's\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/09/obamacare-repeal-could-punch-15-billion-hole-in-state-budget/\"> huge uncertainty over what a repeal of Obamacare will do to the state's Medicaid program\u003c/a>, Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Trump has repeatedly talked about investing in infrastructure. Democrats said they're open to working with the new president, but are skeptical of how Republicans will go about paying for an infrastructure package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we can find common ground with Washington we will find common ground, but to move an infrastructure package at a national level by incurring much more debt, and by rolling that debt over year after year, is not the most fiscally prudent thing to do,\" de León said. \"You can't offer free money because there's no free money -- somebody has to pay for it eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, lawmakers agree, the heart of the debate this year will focus on that exact question: how to pay for the investment they believe the state desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Katie Orr contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his budget proposal Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers will be particularly interested in how the governor approaches two key policy areas: transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders got a lot done in 2016, there was no grand deal on how to tackle two of California's most vexing and expensive infrastructure challenges. Now, Democrats in Sacramento -- who control both houses of the Legislature -- say that improving aging transportation infrastructure and building more affordable housing are among their top priorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301828644&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301828644'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who have pushed for state solutions to both issues in the past said they're optimistic that the time is right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all indications are that there is a great desire among the whole spectrum of my colleagues to really focus on these issues of housing and transportation in a way we haven't in the past, so I am hopeful,\" said San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, state leaders need to find money to tackle either problem -- and that's where the challenge lies. Last year, a special session called by the governor in 2015 to deal with the state's estimated $130 billion in road repair needs \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article116573743.html\">ended without any agreement\u003c/a> on how to fund those fixes. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-affordable-housing-union-fight-20160720-snap-story.html\">proposal by Brown \u003c/a>to put $400 million into low-income housing development if lawmakers agreed to relax building regulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article96492302.html\">died amid concerted opposition\u003c/a> by environmentalists, local governments and the construction trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11262348 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats now have a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Legislature -- meaning that in theory, they could pass a gas tax or other tax hike without Republican votes. It's not clear whether moderate Democrats are any more willing to back tax hikes than GOP lawmakers are, but Chiu said he think there's room for agreement, since the issues transcend regional differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do see a path in part because these crises have only intensified -- the housing crisis that started in San Francisco and the Bay Area has spread to the entire state of California,\" he said. \"And Californians up and down the state are very frustrated with the state of our roads, with the lateness of public transit, the lack of real options to get around and the tremendous congestion we face on the roads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Road repairs are something that if we don’t do, it’s like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy.'\u003ccite>Sen. Jim Beall\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>State Senate President Kevin de León said there is agreement among both houses of the Legislature and the governor that a transportation infrastructure plan is needed. He hopes to get it done within months -- and with Republican support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that we can get it done in a bipartisan fashion, irrespective of the supermajorities that we currently enjoy in both the Assembly and Senate, because a transportation infrastructure package is a vote for continued economic growth of the middle class of California,\" said de León, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Sen. Jim Beall has been one of the Legislature's most vocal supporters of a transportation deal. He noted that lawmakers already have legislation in front of them in both houses -- in the Senate, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1\">he authored SB 1\u003c/a> -- that would \u003ca href=\"http://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-12-05-beall-introduces-new-transportation-infrastructure-maintenance-bill\">raise about $6 billion a year \u003c/a>through an increase the gas tax and car registration fees. That plan is \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-new-transportation-funding-plan-calls-1471476415-htmlstory.html\">more expansive than the 6-cents-per-gallon tax proposed by the governor last year, but less ambitious \u003c/a>than earlier proposals of Beall and other Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Road repairs are something that if we don't do, it's like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy,\" Beall said. \"The governor has said it makes no sense to let things deteriorate further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he expects Brown to make a proposal similar to the one the governor's office put out in 2016 and he hopes they can strike a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing Agreement Further Off\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is at least agreement between lawmakers and the governor on potential funding sources for transportation, common ground on housing may be a bit stickier. Brown's proposal last year was seen by critics as a giveaway to developers that would have done little to spur affordable housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, lawmakers have a host of ideas on the table. Chiu and other Democrats in the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/assemblymember-david-chiu-joins-colleagues-to-announce-bills-to-address-affordable-housing-crisis\">unveiled a legislative package in December\u003c/a> that includes a proposal to eliminate a tax break for second homes, $400 million a year they want to redirect toward affordable housing development. In the Senate, Beall and San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins are looking to tack on a $75 fee to real estate transactions to fund the construction of low-income homes; they also want to put a $3 billion housing bond before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11262355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-520x310.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear whether Brown, who has been reticent to add to the state's debt or increase taxes and fees, would support either proposal. Assemblyman Phil Ting, who is a co-author of the Assembly proposals, said he thinks there is room for agreement with Brown and others who may be wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting, D-San Francisco, said the state needs to take a bigger role in funding affordable housing development after taking a step back in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we also heard loud and clear the governor's desire to streamline the development of housing so we can reduce those costs, so public dollars can go further, which makes a lot of sense,\" he said. \"I think there are different proposals we are looking at that can balance the interest of different groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What About Trump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild card in all of this is what a Donald Trump presidency will do to the state budget. The president-elect has\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/29/donald-trump-wants-to-cut-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-but-can-he/\"> threatened to strip funding from \"sanctuary\" jurisdictions\u003c/a> like California that limit their cooperation with federal immigration officials, and there's\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/09/obamacare-repeal-could-punch-15-billion-hole-in-state-budget/\"> huge uncertainty over what a repeal of Obamacare will do to the state's Medicaid program\u003c/a>, Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Trump has repeatedly talked about investing in infrastructure. Democrats said they're open to working with the new president, but are skeptical of how Republicans will go about paying for an infrastructure package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we can find common ground with Washington we will find common ground, but to move an infrastructure package at a national level by incurring much more debt, and by rolling that debt over year after year, is not the most fiscally prudent thing to do,\" de León said. \"You can't offer free money because there's no free money -- somebody has to pay for it eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, lawmakers agree, the heart of the debate this year will focus on that exact question: how to pay for the investment they believe the state desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ridership on Caltrain is slowing down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than six years the average number of people riding trains on weekdays between San Francisco and Santa Clara County increased each month compared to the month the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency credited the boom in Silicon Valley for a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2016/06/caltrain-hits-new-ridership-record-for-sixth-year.html\">ridership records\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, at the end of last summer the trend changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were bound to level off at some point,\" said Caltrain spokesman Will Reisman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain's average weekday ridership in August decreased 2.7 percent from the same month in 2015. Year-over-year ridership declined 3.3 percent in September and 3.5 percent in October. And according to data to be presented at Caltrain's Board of Directors meeting on Thursday, average weekday ridership dropped 1.8 percent in November compared to the same month in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We might be victims of our own success,\" Reisman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Translation: Caltrain is now known for having very crowded trains during the morning and evening commutes. That congestion is turning some riders away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency wants to find a way to bring riders back, but it has to do so in the face of growing competition from ride-service companies like Lyft and Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a little concerned,\" said Reisman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the train agency wants to make off-peak travel more attractive to its riders. In the coming months, the district plans to try to draw more very early morning commuters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April Caltrain will add six stops on its northbound weekday Train 305, a San Francisco-bound \"baby bullet\" run that leaves San Jose's Diridon Station at 5:45 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to find ways to make the commute more relaxing and less crowded as a way of bringing back the passenger numbers,\" Reisman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He emphasized, though, that the long-term solution is coming: the electrification of the system. When that happens, expected in early 2021, Caltrain plans to have more trains per hour and greatly expand capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Peninsula train agency is not the only local transit system experiencing a drop in ridership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART saw year-over-year ridership declines of 1 to 2 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From August, September, October through December, BART's weekday ridership dropped about 1 percent to 2 percent each month compared to the same period in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where are the riders going? It's not easy to say. But in the case of BART, some riders turned off by chronic commute-hour overcrowding might be driving across the bay instead of riding the train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between July and December, there was a small increase in crossings over all of the Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges compared to the same time last year, according to statistics from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between July and December, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission says, the Bay Bridge saw a 1.3 percent increase in crossings, the Dumbarton Bridge increased by 1.2 percent and the San Mateo Bridge increased by 2.7 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Nina Thorsen contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Since you may not be thinking as clearly after your end-of-year celebrations, here's what you need to know to plan ahead for your return trip home on Saturday night (or Sunday morning). If you live in San Francisco, the East Bay or parts of the South Bay, you should be able to do it without money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By comparison, Lyft and Uber are expected to have high surge pricing on the busy New Year's Eve, especially in the 12:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. window. And we're not aware of any free taxi ride programs in the Bay Area this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you really want to get in a car, you could use \u003ca href=\"http://newsroom.aaa.com/safety/holiday-safe-ride-program/\" target=\"_blank\">AAA's \"Tipsy Tow\" program\u003c/a> to call 1-800-AAA-HELP for a free tow up to 10 miles, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.dryver.com/cities/san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">hire your own designated driver\u003c/a> -- which is pretty much the opposite of \"free.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or just take one of the many, many public transit options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20161214\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be regular service until 8 p.m., and then BART will run special extended service from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m. During that time, BART will use a stop-skipping schedule to minimize overcrowding. Pittsburg/Bay Point and Richmond trains will not stop at Embarcadero; Dublin/Pleasanton and Fremont trains will not stop at Montgomery Street, and will not stop at West Oakland after the midnight \u003ca href=\"http://sf.funcheap.com/san-francisco-new-years-eve-fireworks/\">fireworks show\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Check\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20161214\" target=\"_blank\"> the BART announcement \u003c/a>for full details. BART will not be free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/calendar/alerts/ride-muni-free-extra-service-new-years-eve\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Free rides for everyone! SFMTA will have free rides from 8 p.m. on Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 1. Do not tag your Clipper Card during this time or it will be charged. Some extra service is scheduled, though there is currently no rerouting planned or street closures. Check \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/calendar/alerts/ride-muni-free-extra-service-new-years-eve\" target=\"_blank\">the SFMTA\u003c/a> for information on all route changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/holidayservice.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain will also have free service starting at 8 p.m. on Dec. 31. Post-fireworks, there will be service at 12:45 a.m., 1: 15 a.m., 1:45 a.m., and 2:15 a.m. leaving from the main San Francisco station at Fourth and King streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/2016/12/22/free-rides-new-year%E2%80%99s-eve/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>AC Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit rides will be free from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. And you may want to check the schedule for their \u003ca href=\"http://www.actransit.org/rider-info/stops/all-nighter/#800\" target=\"_blank\">All Nighter bus lines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.samtrans.com/about/MediaRelations/news/SamTrans_to_Offer_Free_Service_on_New_Year_s_Eve__Sunday_Schedule_on_New_Year_s_Day.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>SamTrans\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All buses will be free from 8 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m. on Sunday. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:50 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Less than 24 hours after Uber announced it had pulled its self-driving cars out of San Francisco, the company says it's shipping the fleet to Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our cars departed for Arizona this morning by truck,\" an Uber spokesperson said in an emailed statement. \"We’ll be expanding our self-driving pilot there in the next few weeks, and we’re excited to have the support of Governor [Doug] Ducey.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Ducey had taken to Twitter on Wednesday as soon as Uber and the California DMV announced that the company was taking its cars off San Francisco's streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/811764550169083904\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ducey has been a vocal advocate of Uber and competing ride service Lyft -- and of autonomous vehicle technology. Last week, he took \u003ca href=\"http://ktar.com/story/1392245/gov-doug-ducey-takes-spin-google-self-driving-car-phoenix/\" target=\"_blank\">a well-publicized ride\u003c/a> in one of Google's self-driving SUVs and pronounced the trip \"just an incredible ride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt unbelievably safe and it was silky smooth,” Ducey told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Uber's announcement Thursday that cars were headed to Arizona, Ducey tweeted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/812036376468144128\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber announced it was ending its self-driving program in San Francisco late Wednesday afternoon -- though it was not clear whether the company acted before or after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked registrations for 16 cars in the company's self-driving fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber launched the San Francisco pilot without getting a DMV permit to operate autonomous vehicles on California roads. The company argued that its vehicles, which currently require an operator to be sitting in the driver's seat, don't meet the state's definition of autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Uber and the DMV declared Wednesday they were committed to testing autonomous vehicles on California roads, though the company had warned earlier that it was prepared to take its vehicles to jurisdictions that might have friendlier regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Wednesday 5:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> After a week of intensifying criticism for \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.uber.com/san-francisco-your-self-driving-uber-is-arriving-now/\" target=\"_blank\">launching self-driving cars\u003c/a> onto San Francisco streets without a state permit, Uber told the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday that it's no longer using the vehicles on public roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the DMV announced it is revoking the registration of 16 cars Uber was using in the program \"because they were not properly marked as test vehicles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter released late Wednesday, DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said the DMV welcomes Uber's participation in autonomous vehicle testing and promised to expedite its application for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are committed to assisting Uber in their efforts to innovate and advance this ground-breaking technology,\" Shiomoto wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its own statement, Uber said it was halting use of the self-driving cars because their registrations had been revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain 100 percent committed to California and will be redoubling our efforts to develop statewide rules,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's development marks a rare retreat by the world's No. 1 ride-service company, which has earned a global reputation for pushing to expand its service regardless of the niceties of local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That approach ran into a buzzsaw of criticism in San Francisco, with everyone from Mayor Ed Lee to bike and pedestrian activists decrying the company's defiance of the DMV's regulations for testing autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The condemnation only grew more intense when video surfaced of a self-driving Uber Volvo XC90 rolling through a red light outside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Third Street. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Uber announced it was ending its self-driving program in San Francisco late Wednesday afternoon -- though it was not clear whether the company acted before or after the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked registrations for 16 cars in the company's self-driving fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber launched the San Francisco pilot without getting a DMV permit to operate autonomous vehicles on California roads. The company argued that its vehicles, which currently require an operator to be sitting in the driver's seat, don't meet the state's definition of autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Uber and the DMV declared Wednesday they were committed to testing autonomous vehicles on California roads, though the company had warned earlier that it was prepared to take its vehicles to jurisdictions that might have friendlier regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Wednesday 5:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> After a week of intensifying criticism for \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.uber.com/san-francisco-your-self-driving-uber-is-arriving-now/\" target=\"_blank\">launching self-driving cars\u003c/a> onto San Francisco streets without a state permit, Uber told the California Department of Motor Vehicles on Wednesday that it's no longer using the vehicles on public roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the DMV announced it is revoking the registration of 16 cars Uber was using in the program \"because they were not properly marked as test vehicles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter released late Wednesday, DMV Director Jean Shiomoto said the DMV welcomes Uber's participation in autonomous vehicle testing and promised to expedite its application for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are committed to assisting Uber in their efforts to innovate and advance this ground-breaking technology,\" Shiomoto wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its own statement, Uber said it was halting use of the self-driving cars because their registrations had been revoked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain 100 percent committed to California and will be redoubling our efforts to develop statewide rules,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's development marks a rare retreat by the world's No. 1 ride-service company, which has earned a global reputation for pushing to expand its service regardless of the niceties of local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That approach ran into a buzzsaw of criticism in San Francisco, with everyone from Mayor Ed Lee to bike and pedestrian activists decrying the company's defiance of the DMV's regulations for testing autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The condemnation only grew more intense when video surfaced of a self-driving Uber Volvo XC90 rolling through a red light outside the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Third Street. For its part, the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/16/a-warning-to-people-who-bike-self-driving-ubers-and-right-hook-turns/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bicycle Coalition noted\u003c/a> that the self-driving vehicles appeared to be unable to negotiate a legal right turn when a bike lane was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee issued a statement Wednesday evening saying he \"strongly supported\" the DMV's action on Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have always been a strong supporter of innovation and autonomous vehicle development and testing, but only under conditions that put human, bicyclist and pedestrian safety first,\" the mayor's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Wednesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.uber.com/statement-from-anthony-levandowski-on-self-driving-in-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Uber had argued\u003c/a> that since its self-driving cars require an operator to ride in the driver's seat, the vehicles don't fit the state's definition of autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>We’ve all seen the signs along the freeway warning us of eyes in the sky looking for speeders. A Bay Curious listener wanted to find out if someone really was up there ready to hand out tickets.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]very time Aaron Perry-Zucker drives down I-5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, he sees the signs: “Speed enforced by aircraft.” But he’s never seen an aircraft issue a ticket, and he can’t imagine how that even would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never really made sense,” he said. “It didn’t seem believable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Perry-Zucker asked \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are there \u003cem>really\u003c/em> helicopters and airplanes patrolling Bay Area traffic? How do they ticket someone from the air?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/bay-curious/2016/12/SpeedLimitpodcastmastered.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter-1920x1280.jpg\" Title=\"How Much Truth Is There to Those 'Speed Enforced by Aircraft' Signs?\" program=\"Bay Curious\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, he speculated, are the signs simply an exaggeration meant to deter speeding motorists — without any real aircraft on patrol?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Andrews says those signs are \u003cem>definitely\u003c/em> real. And he should know. He’s been a California Highway Patrol pilot for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t necessarily set up as many specific speed enforcement details as we did 10 or 15 years ago, predominantly because of the advent of Lidar,” said Andrews. (Lidar lets officers use lasers to pinpoint the speed of a vehicle.) “But there are still circumstances where we are definitely valuable, where traditional ground enforcement may not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easier from above, for example, to see drag racing or drivers crossing the double yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Patrolling from Above\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To find out how it all works, I climbed into one of the two helicopters that serve the CHP Golden Gate Division, which oversees all nine Bay Area counties. The air enforcement office also has two small airplanes at its headquarters at Napa County Airport — but that’s it for the fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10975832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10975832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Things are cramped inside the helicopter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Things are cramped inside the helicopter. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each aircraft has a pilot and paramedic on board, both CHP officers. That makes for cramped quarters in the back, where I stuff myself in between emergency equipment: oxygen tanks, a stretcher and medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as we’re flying over I-580, it’s easy to see that Andrews is right. From up high, you can quickly get the lay of the land and spot speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also get nauseous really quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we fly, radio calls come in from different voices and agencies. I can’t decipher them all, but Andrews points out a red car that officers have identified over the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very easy to see. It stands out when someone’s going considerably faster,” he said. Pilots once used binoculars to spot the cars, but now the aircraft are equipped with high-definition cameras. Despite the technology, they still rely first and foremost on their eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spotting a suspected speeder, Andrews has to confirm that the car is, in fact, speeding. It’s not a high-tech process. He simply flies low above the car at either the same speed or slower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On most freeways in the state, Caltrans has measured and painted perpendicular white lines every mile on the side of the road. You can see them from the helicopter window, or if you look closely when you drive by. Those are used to calculate speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrews starts his stopwatch when he flies over one and stops it when he hits the next. He knows the helicopter’s ground speed. And, since he’s flying the same speed or slower than the car below, he can tell if the car is speeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10975829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10975829\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2.png\" alt=\"CHP helicopters fly low over the roadways to spot lawbreakers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1218\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2-400x254.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2-800x508.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2-1180x749.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter2-960x609.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHP helicopters fly low over the roadways to spot lawbreakers. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The officers in the air don’t actually land and issue tickets. That might cause a traffic accident. Instead, they radio down to another officer in a more ground-friendly vehicle, who then pulls over the offender. Typically, that officer is waiting and ready to go at a predetermined location. Both officers’ names are on the ticket and both must appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP press officer Daniel Hill said they once ticketed a motorcyclist who was caught racing through the streets. He got all the way home and was then surprised when an officer knocked on his door 20 minutes later. Helicopters had been watching him from the air and captured him on camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>But How Common Is It … Really?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol used to rely heavily on this system of helicopters and small airplanes to monitor traffic, but these days aircraft enforcement has gone out of style. Budget cuts have rolled back the number of CHP aircraft and their total flying time. The small planes used to go on speed patrol once or twice a day. Now, they simply monitor speed while on general patrol for other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It never was cost-effective for [helicopters] to go out and loiter over a section of freeway,” said Andrews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed enforcement by aircraft has become especially rare in the last decade, since radar and Lidar devices made it possible for officers on the ground to catch speeders more efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radar, which uses Doppler waves, sends that signal out across all lanes of traffic — feeding back whatever are the fastest and slowest speeds on the road. But it’s the relatively new precision of Lidar, or Light Detection and Ranging, utilizing laser technology, that has truly been a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said it is impossible to say exactly how many tickets are issued each year by aircraft. That kind of data isn’t tracked in their database. But he admits it’s not many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are around 1 million traffic tickets issued annually in the Golden Gate District, so I asked: Is the number that comes from aircraft 10 or 10,000?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s closer to 10,” said Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as long as there’s any chance it could happen, those “speed enforced by aircraft” signs aren’t just a scare tactic. They legally have to be posted, no matter how remote the possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Fighting Back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“In the Bay Area, the only place I’ve ever dealt with it is out on 280,” said John Stanko, a traffic defense attorney in the Bay Area for the last 20 years. He’s defended a few clients who were ticketed by aircraft in that area, and said it’s most common in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible to fight an aircraft-issued ticket, just as it’s possible to fight a regular one.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Things That Must Happen for a Ticket to Hold Up in Court\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The speedometers in CHP cars must be calibrated every three months. Radar and Lidar devices must also be checked before each patrol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officers must complete three days of radar training, in addition to Lidar and visual estimation training. To be certified, they have to accurately estimate within 5 mph the speed of multiple cars during a test.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To use radar or Lidar for ticketing on non-highway roads, there also must be an up-to-date traffic and engineering survey for that road on file. Those surveys determine the 85th percentile of speed for all cars driving on that road. The speed limit then has to be set within the nearest 5 mph increment of that 85th percentile. You can see how on surface roads, where almost everyone drives significantly faster than the current posted speed limit, this can be problematic, Stanko pointed out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If officials want to set the speed limit higher than the 85th percentile, they have to “justify where they set the speed,” said Stanko, meaning arguments must be made for unique or unsafe conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Again, both the air and ground officers have to appear in court if you choose to take the issue to court. Stanko also objects to the calculation of speed using a stopwatch from the helicopter and believes it’s more challenging for officers to identify a driver from the air, or to prove that they have the right person once the officer on the ground writes the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of arguments against these tickets,” he said, though he acknowledges they can be hard to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There also have to be signs posted at specific heights and sizes — those signs that our question-asker, Aaron Perry-Zucker, sees on Highway 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Fly At All?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If budgets are tight and speed enforcement by air is rare, then why use the aircraft at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re patrolling the whole Bay Area,” Andrews said in the helicopter. “We’re available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” The CHP aircraft can respond to incidents that local police or agencies don’t have the resources for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire time we’re in the helicopter, Andrews keeps saying “anything can happen” when he’s on patrol, and you never know what’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m skeptical. How much can happen on a brief speed enforcement helicopter ride? What can they \u003cem>really \u003c/em>do on patrol from up here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then a call comes in over the radio. It involves codes and numbers and the stilted shorthand of emergency personnel and law enforcement, but I do catch a few details: 10-year-old male down, possible hit-and-run, juvenile on bike hit by a car, med-evac requested, someone is en route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10975831\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10975831 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-800x530.png\" alt=\"Andrews and a hospital medic discuss the situation on the roof of John Muir Medical Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-800x530.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-400x265.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-1180x781.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-960x636.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrews and a hospital medic discuss the situation on the roof of John Muir Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrews responds: This is CHP, we’re closer than whoever’s already been called, one minute out and available. Wave us in if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly we’re descending into a parking lot in Richmond as the paramedic leans out the open helicopter door to guide Andrews into the painted asphalt circle that serves as a landing pad — while I try not to throw up and make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairs and equipment are quickly pulled out and rearranged, and a boy — conscious and without any obvious major injuries — is strapped to a stretcher across the floor of the helicopter. I wedge myself back behind the pilot’s seat and within 25 minutes from when the call came in, we’ve delivered him to the roof of the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it’s over and we’re back at the CHP’s air enforcement office at Napa County Airport, I ask about a sign on the wall: “Speed enforced by drone.” It was a joke made by a Marin resident and gifted to the office. But don’t worry, said Andrews: “I don’t believe that’s ever going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drones capable of monitoring traffic would be even less cost-effective than helicopters, he said, and a drone wouldn’t be able to med-evac anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or, he speculated, are the signs simply an exaggeration meant to deter speeding motorists — without any real aircraft on patrol?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Andrews says those signs are \u003cem>definitely\u003c/em> real. And he should know. He’s been a California Highway Patrol pilot for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t necessarily set up as many specific speed enforcement details as we did 10 or 15 years ago, predominantly because of the advent of Lidar,” said Andrews. (Lidar lets officers use lasers to pinpoint the speed of a vehicle.) “But there are still circumstances where we are definitely valuable, where traditional ground enforcement may not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s easier from above, for example, to see drag racing or drivers crossing the double yellow.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Patrolling from Above\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>To find out how it all works, I climbed into one of the two helicopters that serve the CHP Golden Gate Division, which oversees all nine Bay Area counties. The air enforcement office also has two small airplanes at its headquarters at Napa County Airport — but that’s it for the fleet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10975832\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10975832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Things are cramped inside the helicopter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter5-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Things are cramped inside the helicopter. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each aircraft has a pilot and paramedic on board, both CHP officers. That makes for cramped quarters in the back, where I stuff myself in between emergency equipment: oxygen tanks, a stretcher and medical supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as soon as we’re flying over I-580, it’s easy to see that Andrews is right. From up high, you can quickly get the lay of the land and spot speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also get nauseous really quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While we fly, radio calls come in from different voices and agencies. I can’t decipher them all, but Andrews points out a red car that officers have identified over the radio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very easy to see. It stands out when someone’s going considerably faster,” he said. Pilots once used binoculars to spot the cars, but now the aircraft are equipped with high-definition cameras. Despite the technology, they still rely first and foremost on their eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spotting a suspected speeder, Andrews has to confirm that the car is, in fact, speeding. 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He’s defended a few clients who were ticketed by aircraft in that area, and said it’s most common in rural areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s possible to fight an aircraft-issued ticket, just as it’s possible to fight a regular one.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Things That Must Happen for a Ticket to Hold Up in Court\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The speedometers in CHP cars must be calibrated every three months. Radar and Lidar devices must also be checked before each patrol.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officers must complete three days of radar training, in addition to Lidar and visual estimation training. To be certified, they have to accurately estimate within 5 mph the speed of multiple cars during a test.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>To use radar or Lidar for ticketing on non-highway roads, there also must be an up-to-date traffic and engineering survey for that road on file. Those surveys determine the 85th percentile of speed for all cars driving on that road. The speed limit then has to be set within the nearest 5 mph increment of that 85th percentile. You can see how on surface roads, where almost everyone drives significantly faster than the current posted speed limit, this can be problematic, Stanko pointed out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If officials want to set the speed limit higher than the 85th percentile, they have to “justify where they set the speed,” said Stanko, meaning arguments must be made for unique or unsafe conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Again, both the air and ground officers have to appear in court if you choose to take the issue to court. Stanko also objects to the calculation of speed using a stopwatch from the helicopter and believes it’s more challenging for officers to identify a driver from the air, or to prove that they have the right person once the officer on the ground writes the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of arguments against these tickets,” he said, though he acknowledges they can be hard to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There also have to be signs posted at specific heights and sizes — those signs that our question-asker, Aaron Perry-Zucker, sees on Highway 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Why Fly At All?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If budgets are tight and speed enforcement by air is rare, then why use the aircraft at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re patrolling the whole Bay Area,” Andrews said in the helicopter. “We’re available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” The CHP aircraft can respond to incidents that local police or agencies don’t have the resources for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire time we’re in the helicopter, Andrews keeps saying “anything can happen” when he’s on patrol, and you never know what’s coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m skeptical. How much can happen on a brief speed enforcement helicopter ride? What can they \u003cem>really \u003c/em>do on patrol from up here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then a call comes in over the radio. It involves codes and numbers and the stilted shorthand of emergency personnel and law enforcement, but I do catch a few details: 10-year-old male down, possible hit-and-run, juvenile on bike hit by a car, med-evac requested, someone is en route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10975831\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10975831 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-800x530.png\" alt=\"Andrews and a hospital medic discuss the situation on the roof of John Muir Medical Center.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-800x530.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-400x265.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-1180x781.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/helicopter4-960x636.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrews and a hospital medic discuss the situation on the roof of John Muir Medical Center. \u003ccite>(Kelly O'Mara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrews responds: This is CHP, we’re closer than whoever’s already been called, one minute out and available. Wave us in if needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly we’re descending into a parking lot in Richmond as the paramedic leans out the open helicopter door to guide Andrews into the painted asphalt circle that serves as a landing pad — while I try not to throw up and make things worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chairs and equipment are quickly pulled out and rearranged, and a boy — conscious and without any obvious major injuries — is strapped to a stretcher across the floor of the helicopter. I wedge myself back behind the pilot’s seat and within 25 minutes from when the call came in, we’ve delivered him to the roof of the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After it’s over and we’re back at the CHP’s air enforcement office at Napa County Airport, I ask about a sign on the wall: “Speed enforced by drone.” It was a joke made by a Marin resident and gifted to the office. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a San Jose auto shop, gold sparks dart as Felicia Chen cuts a metal motorcycle seat to size with an electric hand saw. She’s part of a team competing in this year’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.dirtbagchallenge.com/\"> Dirtbag Challenge\u003c/a>, an annual motorcycle build-off based in San Francisco. Chen’s team has been working tirelessly, using every spare moment to build a home-built bike. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dirtbag delirium dude,” Chen says. “Two hours of sleep.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487291 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"rs23321_felicia-chen-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Chen fabricates a custom motorcycle seat for the Dirtbag bike she’s helping build. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The competition, which is now in its 13th year, began the first week of November via a social media announcement on the Dirtbag Challenge’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DirtbagChallenge/\">Facebook account\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Three-and-a-half weeks ago we started collecting parts and planning,” Chen says, who has been competing in the event for three years. “For us that’s pretty much standard; we’ve always just had our bike and kind of just winged it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bike itself, built out of a salvaged Triumph motorcycle, is a beast. It features lots of parts that were either custom-made by the team or pulled off of other motorcycles. Basically, it’s a “Franken-bike.” The team has come up with some clever ways to make the thing run, like attaching skateboard wheels to the frame.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s to keep the chain from hitting the frame and slapping around too much,” team member Aaron O’Brien says. “Around here, we call it uncommon sense.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487292\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487292 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"rs23320_triumph-frankenbike-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23320_Triumph-frankenbike-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The silver beast, nicknamed Bertha by the team, features unconventional motorcycle parts like an ammo can, a Nalgene bottle and skateboard wheels. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>It’s not called the Dirtbag Challenge for nothing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Competition co-founder Poll Brown says the Dirtbag Challenge is open to everyone — if you are prepared to use your wits instead of your wallet. And the competition demands \u003cem>all\u003c/em> the wits you have.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You have one month to build your motorcycle, you can spend up to $2,000 and you must come on this ride which is going to be at least 200 miles,” Brown says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not easy, and the rules, unsurprisingly, tend to scare many would-be Dirtbaggers off. Motorcycles are complicated machines. People can sometimes spend years fixing them up. Many bikes, both used and new, cost well over the competition’s paltry $2,000 spending limit. And just one loose screw or engine misfire can spell disaster on the road.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We don’t call it the Dirtbag Easy,” Brown says. “We call it the Dirtbag Challenge for a reason.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Riders hit the road\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the first weekend of December, after a month of building, six competitors put their machines to the test: a 300 mile-plus overnight camp-out ride from San Francisco to Mendocino National Forest and back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After some fits and starts on my Yamaha, I meet up with the Dirtbaggers in Calistoga. The ride is beautiful, but at times rough. Headlights stop working, a weld breaks on one of the bikes, and then there’s the four-mile long dirt trail where I get stuck in the mud.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487293 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"db-repair\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitors help a fellow Dirtbagger fix a broken weld on his bike on the way to Deer Valley Campground in Mendocino National Forest. \u003ccite>(Heidi Zumbrun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of these home-built choppers aren’t built for dirt roads, including the bike Chen and her team built. There’s only a four-inch clearance between the bottom of the frame and the ground. But miraculously, that bike and all the others make it through.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the group somehow manages to lose group leader Brown on the muddy trail. He rolls into camp about 15 minutes after everyone else. Later, around the campfire, we chat about what happened. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Well, he drives really fast and the road is really bumpy,” competitor Justin Martens says. “And it was dark.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the morning after tightening loose nuts and bolts, we’re all ready to head back to San Francisco where hundreds of Dirtbag fans are waiting for our return.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487295\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487295 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"rs23322_poll-leading-ride-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-founder Poll Brown leads the Dirtbaggers back to San Francisco on his own home-built bike. \u003ccite>(Heidi Zumbrun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Zen and the art of Dirtbagging\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But after the beer is flowing, and individual riders win titles like “prettiest bike” and “sketchiest chopper,” it’s easy to forget the countless hours of planning, building and tinkering that go into this feat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chen says the challenge has taught her to be more resourceful. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it’s broken, you can fix it,” Chen says. “And if something doesn’t work, you can make something that will.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown says that is really what the Dirtbag Challenge is all about: developing the wherewithal to solve problems as they arise. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Struggle has value and adds value to something,” Brown says. “Don’t get me wrong; easy is nice. But to me that’s a little empty.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you can take it from this reporter, whose motorcycle got stuck in the mud only a few times, that pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone does make your final destination taste that much sweeter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487296 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"rs23325_db-tiffany-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED Reporter Tiffany Camhi taking up the rear while riding with the Dirtbag competitors. \u003ccite>(Heidi Zumbrun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a San Jose auto shop, gold sparks dart as Felicia Chen cuts a metal motorcycle seat to size with an electric hand saw. She’s part of a team competing in this year’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.dirtbagchallenge.com/\"> Dirtbag Challenge\u003c/a>, an annual motorcycle build-off based in San Francisco. Chen’s team has been working tirelessly, using every spare moment to build a home-built bike. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Dirtbag delirium dude,” Chen says. “Two hours of sleep.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487291\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487291 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"rs23321_felicia-chen-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23321_Felicia-Chen-qut.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Felicia Chen fabricates a custom motorcycle seat for the Dirtbag bike she’s helping build. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The competition, which is now in its 13th year, began the first week of November via a social media announcement on the Dirtbag Challenge’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DirtbagChallenge/\">Facebook account\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Three-and-a-half weeks ago we started collecting parts and planning,” Chen says, who has been competing in the event for three years. “For us that’s pretty much standard; we’ve always just had our bike and kind of just winged it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bike itself, built out of a salvaged Triumph motorcycle, is a beast. It features lots of parts that were either custom-made by the team or pulled off of other motorcycles. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“You have one month to build your motorcycle, you can spend up to $2,000 and you must come on this ride which is going to be at least 200 miles,” Brown says.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is not easy, and the rules, unsurprisingly, tend to scare many would-be Dirtbaggers off. Motorcycles are complicated machines. People can sometimes spend years fixing them up. Many bikes, both used and new, cost well over the competition’s paltry $2,000 spending limit. And just one loose screw or engine misfire can spell disaster on the road.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We don’t call it the Dirtbag Easy,” Brown says. “We call it the Dirtbag Challenge for a reason.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Riders hit the road\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the first weekend of December, after a month of building, six competitors put their machines to the test: a 300 mile-plus overnight camp-out ride from San Francisco to Mendocino National Forest and back. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After some fits and starts on my Yamaha, I meet up with the Dirtbaggers in Calistoga. The ride is beautiful, but at times rough. Headlights stop working, a weld breaks on one of the bikes, and then there’s the four-mile long dirt trail where I get stuck in the mud.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487293\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487293 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"db-repair\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/DB-repair.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Competitors help a fellow Dirtbagger fix a broken weld on his bike on the way to Deer Valley Campground in Mendocino National Forest. \u003ccite>(Heidi Zumbrun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many of these home-built choppers aren’t built for dirt roads, including the bike Chen and her team built. There’s only a four-inch clearance between the bottom of the frame and the ground. But miraculously, that bike and all the others make it through.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Though the group somehow manages to lose group leader Brown on the muddy trail. He rolls into camp about 15 minutes after everyone else. Later, around the campfire, we chat about what happened. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Well, he drives really fast and the road is really bumpy,” competitor Justin Martens says. “And it was dark.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the morning after tightening loose nuts and bolts, we’re all ready to head back to San Francisco where hundreds of Dirtbag fans are waiting for our return.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487295\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487295 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"rs23322_poll-leading-ride-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23322_Poll-leading-ride-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Co-founder Poll Brown leads the Dirtbaggers back to San Francisco on his own home-built bike. \u003ccite>(Heidi Zumbrun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Zen and the art of Dirtbagging\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But after the beer is flowing, and individual riders win titles like “prettiest bike” and “sketchiest chopper,” it’s easy to forget the countless hours of planning, building and tinkering that go into this feat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chen says the challenge has taught her to be more resourceful. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“If it’s broken, you can fix it,” Chen says. “And if something doesn’t work, you can make something that will.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brown says that is really what the Dirtbag Challenge is all about: developing the wherewithal to solve problems as they arise. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Struggle has value and adds value to something,” Brown says. “Don’t get me wrong; easy is nice. But to me that’s a little empty.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And you can take it from this reporter, whose motorcycle got stuck in the mud only a few times, that pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone does make your final destination taste that much sweeter.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12487296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12487296 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"rs23325_db-tiffany-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-960x639.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut-520x346.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/RS23325_DB-Tiffany-qut.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KQED Reporter Tiffany Camhi taking up the rear while riding with the Dirtbag competitors. \u003ccite>(Heidi Zumbrun)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor's note: This post \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbike.org/news/a-warning-to-people-who-bike-self-driving-ubers-and-right-hook-turns/#petition\" target=\"_blank\">originally appeared\u003c/a> on the SF Bike Coalition blog. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the surprise launch of Uber’s autonomous vehicles on San Francisco streets this week, I rode in one. I can tell you firsthand: Those vehicles are not yet ready for our streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I was at one of the demonstrations \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/uber-offered-self-driving-rides-state-lawmakers-days-illegal-sf-launch/\" target=\"_blank\">covered in the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>, along with others who Uber hoped to impress with their new technology. None of us were told that just two days later, Uber would be releasing this technology on our streets on a large scale. I did tell Uber some things about the shortcomings of that technology, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the ride I took through the streets of SoMa on Monday, the autonomous vehicle in “self-driving” mode, as well as the one in front of it, took an unsafe right-hook-style turn through a bike lane. Twice. This kind of turn is one featured in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/news/bike-lanes-and-right-turns/\" target=\"_blank\">a 2013 blog post\u003c/a> that is known to be one of the primary causes of collisions between cars and people who bike, resulting in serious injury or fatality. It’s also an unsafe practice that we address in all of the safety curriculum we offer to professional drivers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfbike.org/news/driver-education-now-reaching-hundreds-of-thousands/\" target=\"_blank\">the videos we consulted on\u003c/a> for Uber as recently as this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told staff from Uber’s policy and engineering teams about the safety hazards of their autonomous vehicle technology. They told me they would work on it. Then, two days later, they unleashed that technology on San Francisco’s streets. Your streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Wednesday, we have been told that “safety drivers” in these vehicles have been instructed to disengage from self-driving mode when approaching right turns on a street with a bike lane and that engineers are continuing to work on the problem. In the meantime, Uber is continuing to operate autonomous vehicles for passenger service in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no other way to put it: Launching autonomous vehicle technology before it’s regulated and safe for our streets is unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> California regulators are meeting privately with officials from Uber to hammer home their demand that the ride-service company immediately stop picking up San Francisco passengers in self-driving cars -- or face legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety was sure to be front and center: Dash cam video posted online showed a self-driving Uber run a red light Wednesday, the same day the company launched the pilot program with several Volvo SUVs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publicly, both sides have dug into opposing positions. The state insists Uber must shut down the new self-driving service until it obtains a special permit for testing on public roads, while Uber says the cars are exempt from the permit requirement because they have a backup driver behind the wheel who must monitor the car's performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber attributed the red light infraction to \"human error\" and said the driver had been suspended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The California Department of Motor Vehicles has ordered Uber to halt use of self-driving vehicles, a service the company launched in San Francisco early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent Wednesday afternoon to Anthony Levandowski, the chief of Uber's Advanced Technology Group, DMV Chief Counsel Brian Soublet noted the company did not seek the required state permit for autonomous vehicles. 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We have a permitting process in place to ensure public safety as this technology is being tested. Twenty manufacturers have already obtained permits to test hundreds of cars on California roads. Uber shall do the same.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.uber.com/san-francisco-your-self-driving-uber-is-arriving-now/\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post\u003c/a> published Wednesday, Anthony Levandowski, the chief of Uber's Advanced Technology Group, argued that the state should get on board with the company's program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... There is a more fundamental point — how and when companies should be able to engineer and operate self-driving technology. We have seen different approaches to this question. Most states see the potential benefits, especially when it comes to road safety. And several cities and states have recognized that complex rules and requirements could have the unintended consequence of slowing innovation. Pittsburgh, Arizona, Nevada and Florida in particular have been leaders in this way, and by doing so have made clear that they are pro technology. Our hope is that California, our home state and a leader in much of the world’s dynamism, will take a similar view.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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