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He had a bike stolen at the Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre BART station and a seat stolen at the Walnut Creek station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_55797\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/bart_subway.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/02/bart_subway.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSCN9858\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55797\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Rees/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Fraser, hundreds of other commuters have parked a bike at a BART stop and returned to find it gone or stripped of parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Walnut Creek and neighboring Pleasant Hill BART stations are the top targets for bike thefts, a California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/data/bike-thefts-bart-stations\">analysis\u003c/a> of BART crime data shows. 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It's generally a low-crime area and kind of a low-crime demographic,\" Fraser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Systemwide, the data show a 20 percent increase in the total number of reports during the nearly six-year period, with eight stations – Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre, Dublin/Pleasanton, Ashby, Fremont, North Berkeley, MacArthur and Concord – accounting for half of the thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent meeting of the BART Bicycle Advisory Task Force, BART Deputy Police Chief Ben Fairow identified bike theft as a problem and said bike theft stings, as well as the placement of bike racks in more visible locations, are part of future plans to help decrease theft at stations, according to meeting minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Police Community Service Officer Lauren LaPlante says BART police often find commuters aren't properly locking their bikes, making it easier for thieves to make off with the bike or any unsecured parts. 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Hunt suspects that thieves strip unsecured parts from bikes more often than they make off with the bike, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since losing a bike and a seat, Fraser uses a U-lock and cable combination to secure his bike when he leaves it at the station, and he commutes on a bike he values at $300 instead of his $1,000 road bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Honestly, I'm just kind of zen about it,\" Fraser said. \"You don't lock your best bike up, which is annoying to people with only one bike and who want a nice bike to commute on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At certain stations, bike commuters can take advantage of bike lockers and bike stations. The Downtown Berkeley bike station offers free valet bike parking during the day and also houses a 24-hour self-storage facility that charges 3 cents per hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 1 cent per hour at all other times, \u003ca href=\"http://bartbikestation.com/services.php\" target=\"_blank\">according to the website\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-567\" title=\"coffee \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/10/89687195-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/batts-sudden-resignation-surprises-no/\">Behind Batts' Resignation, Years of Strife\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a move that surprised nobody — except in its timing — Oakland police Chief Anthony Batts tendered his resignation Tuesday, a year before the expiration of his three-year contract. He said he is considering a research position at Harvard University.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_19092060\">Oakland residents saddened but not surprised by resignation of Police Chief Anthony Batts\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...it was no surprise Tuesday that residents said they were saddened by Batts' resignation, but most said it was not completely unexpected. In his almost two-year tenure in Oakland, Batts began to lose the glow that surrounded his arrival.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BAV11LG50U.DTL\">Activists scatter before police raid vacant hotels\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco police searched two vacant hotels Tuesday, taking a battering ram to the front door of one, but found that activists for the homeless who occupied the buildings overnight had vanished.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/bart-protests/story/bart-cut-cell-service-spur-moment-emails/\">BART Cut Cell Service on Spur of the Moment, Emails Show\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the wake of the scandal [in which BART shut off cell phone service during a planned protest], BART officials characterized the shutdown as a difficult decision made after rider safety was weighed carefully against the rights of the protesters. \"We struggled with that decision,\" spokesman Linton Johnson said at an Aug. 16 press conference. “That was a gut-wrenching decision. This agency takes free speech seriously.\" But emails that BART released to The Bay Citizen this week show the decision was made on the spur of the moment with little discussion of the possible consequences. Officials approved one of the most controversial proposals in BART's history just hours after it landed in their inboxes.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/sunnyvale/ci_19089651\">Coroner's report: Cupertino cement plant worker killed himself\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Shareef Allman died in a hail of bullets after he was confronted by sheriff's deputies scouring a Sunnyvale neighborhood for the man who killed his co-workers at a Cupertino cement plant. But Allman didn't die from shots fired by deputies, the coroner's office said Tuesday. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_19091990\">Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum in Bay Area\u003c/a> (Bay Area News Group)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Support for the effort is coming from some notable places. In San Jose, Mayor Chuck Reed on Tuesday said he hopes the protesters have an impact on the Obama administration's willingness \"to do something about the lying, stealing and cheating going on on Wall Street,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/10/green-public-power-san-francisco-clears-major-hurdle\">Green public power for San Francisco clears major hurdle\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The City’s ambitious plan to offer residents greener power than PG&E took a significant step forward Tuesday. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission approved a term sheet Tuesday with Shell Energy North America to run CleanPowerSF, The City’s proposed public power program, and next week Supervisor David Campos will introduce it to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_19090354\">Officials want affordable housing projects spread across Marin\u003c/a> (Marin Independent Journal)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>County officials, promising to combat Marin's not-in-my-backyard culture as they promote \"fair housing\" for all, want to spread housing for the poor across Marin, rather than concentrating it in minority communities. In addition, under an \"impediments to fair housing\" plan prompted by a dispute with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the poor, minorities, the disabled and women will get a bigger voice in how federal housing money is spent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/10/12/MNIU1LBU71.DTL\">Transbay Tower plan raises shadow debate\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Reaching 1,070 feet into the air, San Francisco's proposed Transbay Tower would be the tallest building west of the Mississippi.But if approved and built, it could also do something else, critics say: Its shadow, and the shadow of five other buildings proposed to rise at least 700 feet from an area near the old Transbay Terminal at First and Mission streets, could stretch across Market Street and into the parks of North Beach and Chinatown, blocking the sun and turning the parks - at least at certain times of the day - into shadowy wastelands.That's hyperbole, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BUU71LFT2Q.DTL&tsp=1\">A.G. 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BART officials say the ramp project was designed to connect the station to a bike path leading to the Lafayette City Center. Wheelchairs could access the ramp there, but the entry point to that path is down a hill close to busy Mt. Diablo Boulevard. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This does preclude a disabled person from being dropped off in the smaller parking lot and using the ramp,\" BART spokesman James Allison said in a written e-mail response to questions. But he said disabled passengers could access the station from the north lot, which is closer to the station. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp, which was completed in April, was built with federal transportation dollars and local matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general, we're very serious about ADA requirements,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building the ramp without handicapped access prompted some head scratching among disabled-rights advocates and BART riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make a lot of sense,” said Fred Nisen, an attorney with Disability Rights California, a group that advocates for the handicapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest sidewalk wheelchair access point is roughly 100 yards away at the parking lot entrance on Happy Valley Road. The station’s much larger upper parking lot on the north side of the station features handicapped parking and curb cutouts. The south lot is for permit holders who pay $84 a month or $4.50 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macey Little, 20, who works with the disabled, waited for a client at the base of the ramp last week. She furrowed her brow, contemplating the urban planning that went into the matter. Little rides BART from Concord to her job in Lafayette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s odd that they did that,” said Little, pointing to where she would have put curbside access if she were in charge of such things. “I’d think they would have put something here and maybe there. Otherwise, you’d have to push a wheelchair up the curb, and that’s a lot of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, another BART passenger, Ken Roux, cautiously led his bicycle down the winding ramp to the sidewalk below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looks like someone made a mistake,\" said Roux, 42, who lives in Lafayette. \"It's a disappointment; if you have statutes on the books, you expect them to be enforced. It calls into question the integrity of the entire project.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal requirements call for specific ratios of handicapped parking spots – commonly one for every 25 stalls – as well as curbside access, according to Nisen. He said, however, that he would need to be more familiar with the station to know for sure whether BART was violating ADA requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the situation occurred speaks to the political dynamics and turf issues that can surface when more than one governmental agency has a stake in a public works project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41709\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart2\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41709\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new $2 million access ramp leads to a parking lot with no handicapped parking spots and no curb cutouts. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART owns and operates the station along the Pittsburg-Bay Point line. The commuter service built and maintains the parking lot on the south side of the station. But the land under the south parking lot belongs to the East Bay Municipal Utility District. The water agency has been leasing the land to BART for 40 years – even before the system carried its first passenger. BART currently pays the utility district about $74,000 a year in rent, according to utility spokeswoman Andrea Pook. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's project manager, Jeff Garcia, who oversaw the ramp construction, acknowledged that the transit agency didn't want a confrontation with the water provider, so BART steered clear of changes to the parking lot. Garcia added that the water district had balked when BART had proposed other projects in the past. In fact, he said, BART dropped plans years ago to add curb access to the parking lot because of objections from the water agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So during internal BART planning discussions of the ramp project, Garcia said, \"we were told we’re not allowed to touch the parking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were definitely afraid of East Bay MUD,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay Municipal Utility District officials said the lease allows BART officials to make whatever enhancements are needed to the south lot. They can stripe it, paint it or modify it any way the transit agency sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our land; it’s their parking lot,” said Stephen Boeri, manager of real estate services for the utility district. Boeri said the utility district bears no responsibility for access issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like an oversight of their planning of the facility,” Boeri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said the water provider's engineering staff might answer the question differently than would its real estate division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we do something, we have to talk to their engineering folks, who say you can't do anything,\" said Garcia, bemoaning the bureaucratic hoops one has to go through to plan a project. \"People wonder why some things never get done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency has won praise for its efforts to increase access to bicyclists and the disabled in recent years – but not without some missteps. In 1998, BART settled a class-action suit brought by Disability Rights California and Disability Rights Advocates over the issue of cleanliness and reliability of the system’s elevators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the new ramp opened without fanfare, Allison said BART is planning an event in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that there are no plans to change the configuration of the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not in the works,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said in a later interview that an inexpensive fix could be made to add access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I didn't give much consideration to that curb ramp,\" he said. \"And now that I think about it, it's not a bad idea.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mark Katches is the editorial director for the Center for Investigative Reporting and California Watch. More from California Watch \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>from \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/east-bay-bart-station-falls-short-disabled-access-12845\">\u003cstrong>California Watch\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Rapid Transit officials spent $2 million on a new ramp leading to the Lafayette station but didn’t include provisions for wheelchairs to get from the parking lot to the access ramp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41708\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart1\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41708\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lafayette BART station ramp zigzags from the station entrance to the south parking lot. But disabled access is limited. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch) \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only issue that might draw the ire of disabled-rights advocates. The south BART parking lot has 117 stalls for vehicles, but not a single space has been set aside for the disabled – putting the transit agency potentially at odds with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act. Federal guidelines generally call for one handicapped space for every 25 parking spots. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp allows wheelchairs and bicycles to bypass the 26 stairs leading from the south parking lot to the station entrance. The $2 million price tag covered the costs of the planning, design, landscaping, stairs and the marquee ramp that zigzags in four sections up the hillside to the station’s south entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the parking lot has no curb ramps or lips that would enable wheelchairs or bicycles to easily get from the parking surface to the sidewalk, where the ramp begins. BART officials say the ramp project was designed to connect the station to a bike path leading to the Lafayette City Center. Wheelchairs could access the ramp there, but the entry point to that path is down a hill close to busy Mt. Diablo Boulevard. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This does preclude a disabled person from being dropped off in the smaller parking lot and using the ramp,\" BART spokesman James Allison said in a written e-mail response to questions. But he said disabled passengers could access the station from the north lot, which is closer to the station. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ramp, which was completed in April, was built with federal transportation dollars and local matching funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In general, we're very serious about ADA requirements,\" Allison said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Building the ramp without handicapped access prompted some head scratching among disabled-rights advocates and BART riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t make a lot of sense,” said Fred Nisen, an attorney with Disability Rights California, a group that advocates for the handicapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearest sidewalk wheelchair access point is roughly 100 yards away at the parking lot entrance on Happy Valley Road. The station’s much larger upper parking lot on the north side of the station features handicapped parking and curb cutouts. The south lot is for permit holders who pay $84 a month or $4.50 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Macey Little, 20, who works with the disabled, waited for a client at the base of the ramp last week. She furrowed her brow, contemplating the urban planning that went into the matter. Little rides BART from Concord to her job in Lafayette.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s odd that they did that,” said Little, pointing to where she would have put curbside access if she were in charge of such things. “I’d think they would have put something here and maybe there. Otherwise, you’d have to push a wheelchair up the curb, and that’s a lot of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moments later, another BART passenger, Ken Roux, cautiously led his bicycle down the winding ramp to the sidewalk below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looks like someone made a mistake,\" said Roux, 42, who lives in Lafayette. \"It's a disappointment; if you have statutes on the books, you expect them to be enforced. It calls into question the integrity of the entire project.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal requirements call for specific ratios of handicapped parking spots – commonly one for every 25 stalls – as well as curbside access, according to Nisen. He said, however, that he would need to be more familiar with the station to know for sure whether BART was violating ADA requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How the situation occurred speaks to the political dynamics and turf issues that can surface when more than one governmental agency has a stake in a public works project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_41709\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/10/lafayettebart2-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"lafayettebart2\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41709\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new $2 million access ramp leads to a parking lot with no handicapped parking spots and no curb cutouts. (Photo: Mark Katches/California Watch)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART owns and operates the station along the Pittsburg-Bay Point line. The commuter service built and maintains the parking lot on the south side of the station. But the land under the south parking lot belongs to the East Bay Municipal Utility District. The water agency has been leasing the land to BART for 40 years – even before the system carried its first passenger. BART currently pays the utility district about $74,000 a year in rent, according to utility spokeswoman Andrea Pook. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART's project manager, Jeff Garcia, who oversaw the ramp construction, acknowledged that the transit agency didn't want a confrontation with the water provider, so BART steered clear of changes to the parking lot. Garcia added that the water district had balked when BART had proposed other projects in the past. In fact, he said, BART dropped plans years ago to add curb access to the parking lot because of objections from the water agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So during internal BART planning discussions of the ramp project, Garcia said, \"we were told we’re not allowed to touch the parking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were definitely afraid of East Bay MUD,\" he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay Municipal Utility District officials said the lease allows BART officials to make whatever enhancements are needed to the south lot. They can stripe it, paint it or modify it any way the transit agency sees fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s our land; it’s their parking lot,” said Stephen Boeri, manager of real estate services for the utility district. Boeri said the utility district bears no responsibility for access issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like an oversight of their planning of the facility,” Boeri said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Garcia said the water provider's engineering staff might answer the question differently than would its real estate division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if we do something, we have to talk to their engineering folks, who say you can't do anything,\" said Garcia, bemoaning the bureaucratic hoops one has to go through to plan a project. \"People wonder why some things never get done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency has won praise for its efforts to increase access to bicyclists and the disabled in recent years – but not without some missteps. 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"content": "\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca title=\"SFPD and BART Officers at Civic Center Station Entrance by KQED News, on Flickr\" href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedradio/6047523007/\">\u003cimg title=\"Police at BART protest\" src=\"http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6183/6047523007_980c2162c8.jpg\" alt=\"SFPD and BART Officers at Civic Center Station Entrance during August 15 protest (photo by Mina Kim/KQED)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD and BART Officers at Civic Center Station Entrance during August 15 protest (photo by Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART is facing down a new public relations mess...this time it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/bart-protests/story/inside-barts-protest-propaganda-campaign/\">a report \u003c/a>that it tried to manipulate the media's coverage of an August protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>'s transportation reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/profiles/zusha-elinson/\">Zusha Elinson\u003c/a> who broke the story. We talked about the latest revelations as well as the future of the transit agency under it's brand new general manager:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about your story that's getting a lot of traffic over at The Bay Citizen.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>So the basic story is that BART, on August 11th, was facing prospect of second protest about the shooting of a homeless man back in July. BART chief spokesman Linton Johnson had a funny idea he thought he would bring loyal riders who had contacted BART before to speak out against the protestors, to do this he hired some private cars so they wouldn’t get delayed in protest they were speaking out about.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On top of this he wrote a little script that the BART riders were supposed to read from when they were going up to microphone to speak to the media. The script is pretty funny. It says my name is blank. I take BART from blank to downtown San Francisco, and I depend on BART etc. etc. and there’s a little part where you insert your particular hardship that was caused by the protest.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>...We did a number of public records requests and we got the emails from those public records request.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So what are the repercussions of these actions?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>To be honest when you look at it, it’s the situation you can’t be too surprised when follow media relations. But I think when it’s put out there so plainly, that BART was giving these people scripts and even driving them to the press conference, people feel a little betrayed. They expect when they see someone is upset about something on TV those people are indeed upset about those things.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>While it was Johnson's idea, who was ultimately responsible for greenlighting it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>I confirmed [Johnson] the authority to purchase these vehicles... But his boss Jennifer Barton, who’s the head of BART external affairs saw the emails for this plan and approved them. She could have put a stop to them but she didn’t.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>She reports to the general manager. I don’t know if the general manager knew about these plans. It was a very busy day that was the same day BART had the idea to shut down the subway service on the underground.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>But I spoke to Bob Franklin, chairman of the board of directors, he said today he spoke with BART management and told them this should never happen again.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I understand they have a new general manager...\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>So they have a new general manager, Grace Crunican. She is known as a woman who is a straight shooter not one who likes to beat around the bush or spin things very much. From inside BART that’s what I’ve been hearing they wanted. There are some people inside BART who don’t really like how things get portrayed in the public by BART and they think that Grace can bring a breathe of fresh air about that.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are the key transit issues she'll be having to address?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Some of the big challenges she’ll have going forward is getting funding for a whole new set of trains. They want to get new trains by 2017 or 2018 the new trains would have cleaner seats would be redesigned, but the problem is BART doesn’t have the money for those right now. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The word inside BART is that they actually hired Grace because she used to work for the Feds and they want to use her connections there to help them get funding for their new trains which will cost several billion dollars.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elinson's latest piece is just the latest in a series of unexpected twists and turns the original story has taken. It began in late July when \u003ca href=\"http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-08/bay-area/29750147_1_bart-officer-police-officer-man-shot\">BART police shot a homeless man \u003c/a>who was wielding a knife. A subsequent protest of police brutality led to BART's \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/bart-police-shooting/story/bart-cell-phone-service-legal/\">shutdown of cellphone service\u003c/a>. That drew worldwide \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-technology-and-liberty/free-speech-and-bart-cell-phone-censorship\">anger from civil rights groups\u003c/a>. Then \u003ca href=\"http://newyork.ibtimes.com/articles/198775/20110816/bart-cell-phone-protest-anonymous-fcc-investigate.htm\">an international hacking collective\u003c/a> got involved. Then personal data of riders, BART police and the BART spokesman was \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391316,00.asp\">stolen off \u003c/a>of computers. Followed by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/26/interview-lgbt-organizer-speaks-out-against-the-leaking-of-linton-johnson-photos-says-organizing-counter-protest/\">charges of so-called \"gay baiting\" from the LGBT community\u003c/a>. And now the revelation of apparent propaganda attempts by the transit agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18877224?source=rss\">not over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>from \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/despite-regulations-bart-director-received-7000-contractor-12274\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38305\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 111px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/jamesfang2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/jamesfang2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jamesfang\" width=\"111\" height=\"122\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38305\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART Director James Fang\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>BART Director James Fang accepted $7,000 in campaign contributions this year from a contractor with business pending before the transit agency, in apparent violation of BART’s conflict of interest regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang, who isn’t up for re-election until 2014, voted this month to give the company an engineering award worth up to $20 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Rapid Transit regulations prohibit campaign contributions of more than $1,000 from contractors who have pending bids. Board members receive a list of contractors who are subject to the limit each week. Kal Krishnan Consulting Services was on the list in February when it gave $7,000 to Fang. In an apparent loophole in the regulations, two other BART directors each received the maximum $1,000 from the same company and an additional $1,250 from staff and relatives of the owner last year. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang said he thought Kal Krishnan – a longtime BART contractor – did not have pending business when he gave the money. Fang said he would return the contribution and look into whether it violated the rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an appearance that doesn’t look right then I really don’t want to perpetuate that and cause more problems,” said Fang, who has served on the board since 1990.\u003cbr>\nRelated\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang said the money did not influence his vote and that he simply followed BART staff’s recommendation to award the contract. He said he does not get involved in pushing for one contractor over another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heavens no. It is entirely staff,” he said. “It’s a very rigorous process.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan said his contributions constitute “free speech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these limitations are all unconstitutional and illegal,” he said. “We have the right to free speech in America. Are you working against that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Director Lynette Sweet said the board should go back to a previous policy banning campaign contributions from contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re giving to the same directors who keep voting to give you contracts over and over, it just doesn’t look good,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board banned contractor money in 1996 in the wake of a bribery scandal. One former BART director pleaded guilty to accepting bribes; another pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents. The bribes involved were as small as $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, BART directors including Fang loosened the rules to allow contributions of up to $1,000 from contractors with pending bids. BART’s nine directors serve four-year terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2010, when Krishnan had pending business with the board, the contractor hosted a fundraiser for two BART directors up for re-election, Thomas Blalock and Joel Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a little gathering … and got consultants together to honor us and toss some money into the pot, which is a typical thing they do,” Blalock said. “He even brought in some of his people from Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other contractors gave money, but Krishnan showed them up. Krishnan’s company gave $1,000 to both Blalock and Keller. Each director also received another $500 from Krishnan and his wife; $500 from a company manager named Dev Krishnan, and $250 from another employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra $1,250 Blalock and Keller received came from individuals, not the company’s account, so it shouldn’t count toward the $1,000 limit, Blalock said. Aside from the contractor regulation, there are no limits on BART campaign contributions. Blalock noted that the rules are “not as tough anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve taken a more relaxed attitude about it also,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve crossed the line anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blalock said the money doesn’t influence his votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan, whose office is across the hall from the BART boardroom in Oakland, said, “My friends need to have some money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Political campaigns are expensive, they need money and these people do very good work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who led the charge to loosen contribution rules in 2007, did not return phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 11, Keller, Blalock and Fang voted with the board majority to give Krishnan’s company and two others engineering contracts worth up to $20 million for each company over five years. Krishnan’s firm is a general engineering contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan had received an award in 2009 for $15 million over five years, but the money has been used up early. Sweet, upset at how quickly the last award had been spent, was the only director to vote against the new awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two unions representing BART employees opposed the new contracts, arguing that BART staff could do some of the work that was being contracted out. One of the unions, Service Employees International Union Local 1021, gave Fang $7,500 in Februrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fang said at the meeting that he supported the contracts, in part because the companies are led by minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have basic firms, people of color, taking the principal role,” he said. “And that’s what, without getting too corny, that’s what America is about. So I plan to move forward and support this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate decision earlier this year, Fang pushed for the board to negotiate a real estate deal with a longtime friend, developer Lawrence Lui. As previously reported, Lui had given Fang $3,500 last year. BART’s campaign contribution rules refer to contractors, not developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Van Every, senior vice president at Republic Urban Properties, which had a competing development proposal, called the campaign contributions “completely ethically wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the BART conflict of interest laws are a joke,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang said the money didn’t influence him and pointed out that Republic Urban had hired a lobbyist to push its proposal. He said Lui has “been giving me money for like 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we’re both Chinese, people are focusing in on this quote ‘relationship,’ and I think that’s very unfair,” he said. “Why all this attention on this poor Chinese guy? We didn’t even award him anything. We awarded him the right to negotiate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will Evans is an investigative reporter for California Watch, a project of the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting. Find more California Watch reporting \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/\">here\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Are you working against that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Director Lynette Sweet said the board should go back to a previous policy banning campaign contributions from contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re giving to the same directors who keep voting to give you contracts over and over, it just doesn’t look good,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board banned contractor money in 1996 in the wake of a bribery scandal. One former BART director pleaded guilty to accepting bribes; another pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents. The bribes involved were as small as $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2007, BART directors including Fang loosened the rules to allow contributions of up to $1,000 from contractors with pending bids. BART’s nine directors serve four-year terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2010, when Krishnan had pending business with the board, the contractor hosted a fundraiser for two BART directors up for re-election, Thomas Blalock and Joel Keller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a little gathering … and got consultants together to honor us and toss some money into the pot, which is a typical thing they do,” Blalock said. “He even brought in some of his people from Southern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other contractors gave money, but Krishnan showed them up. Krishnan’s company gave $1,000 to both Blalock and Keller. Each director also received another $500 from Krishnan and his wife; $500 from a company manager named Dev Krishnan, and $250 from another employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra $1,250 Blalock and Keller received came from individuals, not the company’s account, so it shouldn’t count toward the $1,000 limit, Blalock said. Aside from the contractor regulation, there are no limits on BART campaign contributions. Blalock noted that the rules are “not as tough anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve taken a more relaxed attitude about it also,” he said. “I don’t think we’ve crossed the line anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blalock said the money doesn’t influence his votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishnan, whose office is across the hall from the BART boardroom in Oakland, said, “My friends need to have some money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Political campaigns are expensive, they need money and these people do very good work,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller, who led the charge to loosen contribution rules in 2007, did not return phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 11, Keller, Blalock and Fang voted with the board majority to give Krishnan’s company and two others engineering contracts worth up to $20 million for each company over five years. 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