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"content": "\u003cp>The BART Board of Directors has voted unanimously to place a $3.5 billion bond measure on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure -- \u003ca href=\"#bartbond\">see the full text and supporting documents below\u003c/a> -- addresses a wide range of long-term basic infrastructure needs, none of which you'll think is sexy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/268389614\" 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>The biggest single project for which BART plans to pay with bond proceeds: $1.225 billion for replacing the system's aging electrical systems, including substations, electrified third rails and dozens of miles of cable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second-biggest item on the BART bond shopping list: $625 million for replacing worn rails. No. 3: $570 million to fix leaking tunnel structures, especially under San Francisco's Market Street. And No. 4: $400 million upgrading BART's central control computer system and expanding passenger capacity by allowing trains to run closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bond measure also includes a provision for an independent annual audit of how the bond proceeds are spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure, which will appear on ballots in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties, will require two-thirds approval to pass. Homeowners in those counties would see an increase in property tax bills of between $35 and $55 a year for the 40-year life of the bond program, depending on the assessed valuation (not market price) of their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the bond say it's key to modernizing a system that has become crucial to travel throughout the Bay Area and has seen dramatic ridership increases in recent years. The system now provides about 435,000 rides every weekday -- that's the average of daily fare-gate exits -- up about 35 percent since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone who rides BART has come to feel the system is strained to or beyond its limits. That's palpable in jampacked rush-hour trains and in the system's frequent breakdowns. Those service problems were on high-profile display in March, when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/17/bart-power-problem-damages-50-cars-adds-to-crowding-and-delays\" target=\"_blank\">a still-mysterious electrical glitch\u003c/a> along the tracks between North Concord and Pittsburgh/Bay Point in Contra Costa County damaged dozens of cars and briefly triggered a systemwide crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Cohen, executive director of transit activist group \u003ca href=\"http://www.transformca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">TransForm\u003c/a>, said at Thursday's board meeting his group supports the bond measure because it believes it will increase the system's reliability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We all know that when BART stops, the Bay Area stops as well, and we've seen it a bit too much\" in recent years, Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're squished like sardines,\" he added, \"and we're just about to get to that place that Washington, D.C.'s Metro is, where they're now having frequent meltdowns.\" (Electrical problems in the D.C.-area system prompted \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/washington-braces-for-full-day-of-metro-shutdown-to-deal-with-safety-concerns/2016/03/16/42324598-eb3f-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a one-day emergency shutdown\u003c/a> in March.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is enamored of the prospect of giving BART the authority to borrow $3.5 billion for its infrastructure needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa County state Sen. Steve Glazer is an outspoken critic of BART's financial management, and said earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http://sd07.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-02-03-sen-steve-glazer%E2%80%99s-letter-bart-signatories\" target=\"_blank\">he would oppose the bond\u003c/a> unless the agency takes steps to show it can be trusted. For instance, he has suggested that BART undertake a salary survey to compare its pay scale with those of other transit agencies. He has also insisted the agency restrain pay increases to its non-union managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glazer had no comment on the BART board vote, spokesman Steve Harmon said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/315271300/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_62812\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Yes, San Francisco Mission District BART patrons, the escalator at the 16th Street station's beloved Burger King Plaza is back in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem like a stretch to call it a miracle. But at one point in the closure, which has lasted off and on since last Christmas, someone edited a sign at the escalator to read, \"This unit will be out of service until The Rapture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue choirs of angels: The fancy mechanical stairs that usually convey commuters down to the gate level from the station's northeast plaza are moving again. (Friday at midday, they were going up; the usual up escalator, to the station's southwest plaza, is also out of commission and awaiting \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/stations/escalators\" target=\"_blank\">major repairs\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10969899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"Refuse accumulated on broken escalator at BART's 16th Street Station, March 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-1920x2399.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-960x1200.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refuse accumulated on broken escalator at BART's 16th Street Station, March 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In my experience, 16th and Mission BART is the transit system's dirtiest station. And the Burger King Plaza entrance, which serves as the rambunctious outdoor living room for the neighborhood's homeless, SRO residents and many who appear to be in desperate need of some combination of medical care and psychiatric help, is the filthiest part of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common to encounter a potpourri of garbage, discarded clothing, fallen palm fronds and pigeon poop while entering and leaving the station through the BK Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, after watching the refuse pile up for a few weeks after the plaza escalator broke, I took a picture and sent it to a member of the BART board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a frequent patron of 16th Street BART, I recognize there are huge challenges to maintain a clean and orderly environment at the station,\" I wrote. \"But the conditions there often seem to bespeak outright neglect. ... I guess the underlying questions after saying all that are: What does BART have to do to improve conditions at the station? And what will it take to prompt BART to take that action?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Diary of Disrepair\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost provided this account of the mechanical problems that have beset the 16th/Mission station's Burger King Plaza (or east side) escalator since last December:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The east side unit went out of service on 12/23/15 for a water intrusion issue that caused an electrical short.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The sump pump was ordered and replaced. The crew started troubleshooting the electrical short and while troubleshooting they identified the escalator was running erratically with excessive play in the drive system.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After further troubleshooting, the cause for the excessive play was a result of a bull gear pillar block failure (pillar blocks are the components that mount the bull gear to the truss of the escalator).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immediately, material needed to make such a heavy repair was assessed and a great deal of research went into ordering this material due to equipment obsolescence. The pillar blocks need to be specially fabricated, as well as the bearings, race, seals and end caps. (This took 10 weeks to receive material.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Once material was received, our crews went right to work dismantling the upper end of the escalator to gain access and replace the faulty components.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The escalator was returned to service on 5/9/16 and unfortunately, did not have enough run in time for proper calibration following the heavy repair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On 5/10/16 the Unit was removed from service to make the necessary adjustments and indexing needed after such a large repair and major component replacement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After a thorough recalibration and all indexing was accomplished, on 5/23/16 the escalator was returned to service.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I didn't hear back from the board member. But when I was exiting the station about three hours after sending the note, a cleanup crew was on the scene. So maybe the board member actually read the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that email clearly didn't have any impact on the escalator, which has remained frozen in place week after week. What's been ailing it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constant accumulation of refuse probably doesn't help. And the conditions certainly don't make life any easier for the technicians brought in to work on the equipment. Earlier this week, San Francisco's KPIX \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/some-bart-workers-make-almost-3-times-their-salaries-in-overtime-pay/\" target=\"_blank\">aired a report\u003c/a> on BART worker overtime. KPIX says it asked BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost why the agency didn't hire more escalator technicians, for instance, instead of paying huge amounts of overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are actually having a hard time recruiting,\" Trost is quoted as saying. \"The conditions aren’t very glamorous, working 24 hours a day on our stinky old escalators. We don’t have a lot of people chomping at the bits for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of the escalators is an issue, too. The systems at 16th and Mission and three other stations (24th/Mission, Montgomery and Embarcadero) were manufactured by a German outfit named Orenstein and Koppel. Shortly after selling the escalators to BART, the firm went belly up. So now BART is stuck trying to find parts for escalators that are nearly 20 years old and whose manufacturer is no longer in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's possible to muddle through, and that's what BART is doing. Last month, it awarded a $2.9 million contract for limited part replacement and renovation of the escalators at the four stations served by O&K systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost provided a detailed account of the troubles afflicting the Burger King Plaza escalator, starting last December (see box above). The real show-stopper was something called a \"bull gear pillar block failure.\" The bull gear is the main gear moving the stairs; the pillar block connects the bull gear to the truss, or escalator framework. (Here's \u003ca href=\"http://precisionescalator.com/virtual-escalator/\" target=\"_blank\">an interactive schematic\u003c/a> that purports to show how all this stuff works in the ideal, non-16th Street world.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After diagnosing the problem, BART had to wait for months while parts were fabricated. Earlier this week, everything was installed and the escalator was running again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for now, you can ride the stairs at Burger King Plaza. The escalator across the way, at the southwest plaza, is awaiting installation of a new handrail. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Yes, San Francisco Mission District BART patrons, the escalator at the 16th Street station's beloved Burger King Plaza is back in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem like a stretch to call it a miracle. But at one point in the closure, which has lasted off and on since last Christmas, someone edited a sign at the escalator to read, \"This unit will be out of service until The Rapture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue choirs of angels: The fancy mechanical stairs that usually convey commuters down to the gate level from the station's northeast plaza are moving again. (Friday at midday, they were going up; the usual up escalator, to the station's southwest plaza, is also out of commission and awaiting \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/stations/escalators\" target=\"_blank\">major repairs\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10969899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"Refuse accumulated on broken escalator at BART's 16th Street Station, March 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-1920x2399.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-960x1200.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refuse accumulated on broken escalator at BART's 16th Street Station, March 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In my experience, 16th and Mission BART is the transit system's dirtiest station. And the Burger King Plaza entrance, which serves as the rambunctious outdoor living room for the neighborhood's homeless, SRO residents and many who appear to be in desperate need of some combination of medical care and psychiatric help, is the filthiest part of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common to encounter a potpourri of garbage, discarded clothing, fallen palm fronds and pigeon poop while entering and leaving the station through the BK Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And what will it take to prompt BART to take that action?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Diary of Disrepair\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost provided this account of the mechanical problems that have beset the 16th/Mission station's Burger King Plaza (or east side) escalator since last December:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The east side unit went out of service on 12/23/15 for a water intrusion issue that caused an electrical short.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The sump pump was ordered and replaced. The crew started troubleshooting the electrical short and while troubleshooting they identified the escalator was running erratically with excessive play in the drive system.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After further troubleshooting, the cause for the excessive play was a result of a bull gear pillar block failure (pillar blocks are the components that mount the bull gear to the truss of the escalator).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immediately, material needed to make such a heavy repair was assessed and a great deal of research went into ordering this material due to equipment obsolescence. The pillar blocks need to be specially fabricated, as well as the bearings, race, seals and end caps. (This took 10 weeks to receive material.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Once material was received, our crews went right to work dismantling the upper end of the escalator to gain access and replace the faulty components.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The escalator was returned to service on 5/9/16 and unfortunately, did not have enough run in time for proper calibration following the heavy repair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On 5/10/16 the Unit was removed from service to make the necessary adjustments and indexing needed after such a large repair and major component replacement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After a thorough recalibration and all indexing was accomplished, on 5/23/16 the escalator was returned to service.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I didn't hear back from the board member. But when I was exiting the station about three hours after sending the note, a cleanup crew was on the scene. So maybe the board member actually read the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that email clearly didn't have any impact on the escalator, which has remained frozen in place week after week. What's been ailing it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constant accumulation of refuse probably doesn't help. And the conditions certainly don't make life any easier for the technicians brought in to work on the equipment. Earlier this week, San Francisco's KPIX \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/some-bart-workers-make-almost-3-times-their-salaries-in-overtime-pay/\" target=\"_blank\">aired a report\u003c/a> on BART worker overtime. KPIX says it asked BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost why the agency didn't hire more escalator technicians, for instance, instead of paying huge amounts of overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are actually having a hard time recruiting,\" Trost is quoted as saying. \"The conditions aren’t very glamorous, working 24 hours a day on our stinky old escalators. We don’t have a lot of people chomping at the bits for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of the escalators is an issue, too. The systems at 16th and Mission and three other stations (24th/Mission, Montgomery and Embarcadero) were manufactured by a German outfit named Orenstein and Koppel. Shortly after selling the escalators to BART, the firm went belly up. So now BART is stuck trying to find parts for escalators that are nearly 20 years old and whose manufacturer is no longer in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's possible to muddle through, and that's what BART is doing. Last month, it awarded a $2.9 million contract for limited part replacement and renovation of the escalators at the four stations served by O&K systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost provided a detailed account of the troubles afflicting the Burger King Plaza escalator, starting last December (see box above). The real show-stopper was something called a \"bull gear pillar block failure.\" The bull gear is the main gear moving the stairs; the pillar block connects the bull gear to the truss, or escalator framework. (Here's \u003ca href=\"http://precisionescalator.com/virtual-escalator/\" target=\"_blank\">an interactive schematic\u003c/a> that purports to show how all this stuff works in the ideal, non-16th Street world.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After diagnosing the problem, BART had to wait for months while parts were fabricated. Earlier this week, everything was installed and the escalator was running again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for now, you can ride the stairs at Burger King Plaza. The escalator across the way, at the southwest plaza, is awaiting installation of a new handrail. That work is supposed to be done the first week of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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