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After paying $500 in rent, $60 for her phone bill and $100 in bus fares there is just enough left for simple meals, like Cup ‘o’ Noodles, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay protesters are demanding $15 per hour and the right to form a union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar is uncertain if many of her McDonald's colleagues will join the strike. She thinks some of them fear they will be fired, even though it is illegal to fire a worker for striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the actions will mark the largest showing yet in a push that began a year ago. 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She is planning to strike on Thursday as part of a nationwide organized protest to demand $15 an hour and the right to unionize. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guadalupe Salazar works at a McDonald's in Oakland, where she earns $8 an hour. She is planning to strike on Thursday as part of a nationwide organized protest to demand $15 an hour and the right to unionize. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community leaders took turns giving speeches for about 15 minutes until the police arrived and ordered protesters out of the store. The crowd continued to demonstrate outside for about 45 minutes. A McDonald's manager declined to be interviewed and asked that the handful of customers in the store not be bothered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Detroit, about 50 demonstrators turned out for a pre-dawn rally in front of a McDonald's. A handful of employees walked off the job, but the restaurant stayed open as a manager and other employees worked the front counter and drive-thru window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julius Waters, a 29-year-old McDonald's maintenance worker who was among the protesters, said it's hard making ends meet on his wage of $7.40 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I need a better wage for myself, because, right now, I'm relying on aid, and $7.40 is not able to help me maintain taking care of my son. I'm a single parent,'' Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push for higher pay in the fast-food industry faces an uphill battle. The industry competes aggressively on value offerings and companies have warned that they would need to raise prices if wages were hiked. Most fast-food locations are also owned and operated by franchisees, which lets companies such as McDonald's Corp., Burger King Worldwide Inc. and Yum Brands Inc. say that they don't control worker pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, labor advocates have pointed out that companies control many other aspects of restaurant operations through their franchise agreements, including menus, suppliers and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food workers have historically been seen as difficult to unionize, given the industry's high turnover rates. But the Service Employees International Union, which represents more than 2 million workers in health care, janitorial and other industries, has been providing considerable organizational and financial support to the push for higher pay over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Restaurant Association, an industry lobbying group, said most of those protesting were union workers and that \"relatively few'' workers have participated in past actions. It called the demonstrations a \"campaign engineered by national labor groups.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald's said in a statement that it's \"committed to providing our employees with opportunities to succeed.'' 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At a time when there's growing national and international attention on economic disparities, labor unions, worker advocacy groups, Democrats are hoping to build public support to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25, or about $15,000 a year for full-time work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York City, about 100 protesters blew whistles and beat drums while marching into a McDonald's at around 6:30 a.m.; one startled customer grabbed his food and fled as they flooded the restaurant, while another didn't look up from eating and reading amid their chants of \"We can't survive on $7.25!''\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120021\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-120021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/fastfoodworker-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Guadalupe Salazar works at a McDonald's in Oakland, where she earns $8 an hour. She is planning to strike on Thursday as part of a nationwide organized protest to demand $15 an hour and the right to unionize. (Monica Lam/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guadalupe Salazar works at a McDonald's in Oakland, where she earns $8 an hour. She is planning to strike on Thursday as part of a nationwide organized protest to demand $15 an hour and the right to unionize. (Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Community leaders took turns giving speeches for about 15 minutes until the police arrived and ordered protesters out of the store. The crowd continued to demonstrate outside for about 45 minutes. A McDonald's manager declined to be interviewed and asked that the handful of customers in the store not be bothered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Detroit, about 50 demonstrators turned out for a pre-dawn rally in front of a McDonald's. A handful of employees walked off the job, but the restaurant stayed open as a manager and other employees worked the front counter and drive-thru window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julius Waters, a 29-year-old McDonald's maintenance worker who was among the protesters, said it's hard making ends meet on his wage of $7.40 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I need a better wage for myself, because, right now, I'm relying on aid, and $7.40 is not able to help me maintain taking care of my son. I'm a single parent,'' Waters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push for higher pay in the fast-food industry faces an uphill battle. The industry competes aggressively on value offerings and companies have warned that they would need to raise prices if wages were hiked. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118632\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/15/listeners-weigh-in-gentricication-is-_____________/attachment/93075709/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118632\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118632 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/93075709.jpg\" alt=\"Thinkstock Image\" width=\"442\" height=\"386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock Image\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In nearly every \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum\u003c/a> show on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, KQED’s series on affordable housing in the Bay Area, many listeners and commenters opine, to paraphrase, “Build Baby Build.” That is to say, San Francisco simply needs to accept its popularity and booming economy and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Forum decided to take up the question, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the Bay Area build its way out of a lack of affordable housing?\u003c/a>” The answer, to paraphrase again, is “It’s complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Forum guests agreed that building needs to be part of the solution, they also agreed that creating housing is a complex problem, requiring a multi-pronged, nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a person who enjoys listening, the full Forum show is online \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. So call it a $100,000 in subsidy, locally, per unit. You can kind of multiply that by how many people you want to help, and you can help thousands of people, but there will still be hundreds of thousands of people who are not going to get one of those units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Think beyond the single-family unit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a study on the East Bay of the potential for building in-law units, and compared it to the potential for building multi-family buildings, and we found that about half of our in-field developments should be coming from in-law units,” said Karen Chapple. “In many of our larger lots it’s very hard to assemble, it’s very expensive. It can cost one quarter the amount to build an in-law unit in the back of a single-family home. That said, it does need to be price controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials are starting to recognize the role that secondary units can play in easing the housing crunch. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do you think Bay Area officials should do to increase the amount of affordable housing in the region? We welcome your suggestions in the comments below.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_118632\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 442px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/15/listeners-weigh-in-gentricication-is-_____________/attachment/93075709/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-118632\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118632 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/93075709.jpg\" alt=\"Thinkstock Image\" width=\"442\" height=\"386\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thinkstock Image\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In nearly every \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum\u003c/a> show on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>, KQED’s series on affordable housing in the Bay Area, many listeners and commenters opine, to paraphrase, “Build Baby Build.” That is to say, San Francisco simply needs to accept its popularity and booming economy and build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Forum decided to take up the question, “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can the Bay Area build its way out of a lack of affordable housing?\u003c/a>” The answer, to paraphrase again, is “It’s complicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Forum guests agreed that building needs to be part of the solution, they also agreed that creating housing is a complex problem, requiring a multi-pronged, nuanced approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a person who enjoys listening, the full Forum show is online \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201311251000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. But if you’re short on time and just want the highlights, this post’s for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1.Work backwards\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are so many places for a new housing development to start — a plot of land, a vacant building, heck, just the need for housing itself is a starting point. But according to Peter Cohen, co-director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfccho.org/\">Council of Community Housing Organization\u003c/a>, the best way to ensure affordable housing is to first consider who will live in a given building, and then take the steps necessary to achieve housing for that population. \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">If Bay Area officials are serious about providing housing for the middle class, they need to start with that in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Affordable housing is typically built for a very specific income-level of household and also for a particular population. Maybe it’s built for seniors, maybe it’s for families, and maybe it’s for transitional-age youth. So the calculation at the front – of how much those rents or those ownership prices will be — is already known, and then that works backwards into operating costs and construction costs, and the subsidy is calculated from there. But it’s very intentional about who we are building for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Prioritize regional solutions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Too often San Francisco gets all the attention. But unfortunately a lack of middle-class-friendly housing is not unique to San Francisco, and the solution won’t be found within its 49 square miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rest of the region has not done its share,” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\">SPUR\u003c/a>, a San Francisco-based urban planning organization. “It has not either permitted enough affordable housing or simply has not created walkable places. So the pressure on San Francisco is all the greater. We need help from the rest of the region to solve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cohen points out that some regional planning does take place, specifically at the hands of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Association of Bay Area Governments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The state on a regular basis, every 5 to 7 years, comes up with some calculations of projected housing needs based on the growing workforce in every part of the state of California,” said Cohen. “The Bay Area gets what is called a ‘\u003ca href=\"http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/housingneeds/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Housing Needs Allocation\u003c/a>.’ Those, in turn, are distributed to each county and city as their share of the housing production that they need to produce over the next 5 to 7 years. And that’s broken down by affordability level. San Francisco has its share, Burlingame has its share, Concord has its share. The crisis we’re in on a regional level is not a whole lot different from San Francisco, except the factors are different. We are dramatically underproducing low-income housing and middle-income housing across the region, and from a numbers standpoint, overproducing market-rate housing. So there is a structural problem with the market relative to need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But often, despite a region’s good intentions, \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/contracostatimes/ci_24562439/lafayette-mayor-homeowners-debate-growth-at-state-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">local officials have a hard time getting their communities on board\u003c/a> with such plans. And that brings us to our next point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Drop the NIMBY-ism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[NIMBY-ism] is probably the biggest problem we face,” said Karen Chapple, associate director of the \u003ca href=\"http://iurd.berkeley.edu/\">Institute for Urban and Regional Development\u003c/a> at UC Berkeley. “We don’t have an easy solution. I think it’s changing over time as people see that their own kids can’t live in their cities. Eventually they come to their senses, but they’re still going to fight the apartment building on their block.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Consider public transportation when planning and pricing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an October \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201310311000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussion on the state of the Bay Area real estate market\u003c/a>, Carolyn Said, who covers economics and real estate for the San Francisco Chronicle, made the point that Solano County is a great place to live if you can work an off-schedule or work from home. In other words, if you don’t have to commute. Some of the least affordable (or should we say “less expensive”) areas in the Bay Area remain that way because a lack of transit infrastructure makes them less appealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Chapple, public transit needs to be part of the affordable housing discussion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our cost of housing is not just how much we pay for rent and utilities, or mortgage and utilities,” said Chapple. “It’s also location, and how much that is costing us. How efficient is the location?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to think of transportation costs as part of this overall affordability question, which is where the regional issue becomes so salient… \u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">We think we’re adding affordability out in Antioch, but in reality, we’re actually adding more transportation costs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to be very strategic in thinking about where we’re going to put this housing,” Chapple continued. “So let’s look at our corridors, because that’s where there isn’t that much community objection. Let’s look at El Camino Real, let’s look at San Pablo Avenue, let’s look at Telegraph Avenue, and let’s incentivize building on these corridors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Peter Cohen warns that vulnerable populations often live along those transportation corridors and he cites concerns with \u003ca href=\"http://onebayarea.org/regional-initiatives/plan-bay-area.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a>, a regional transportation and housing plan aimed at accommodating growth while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201307220900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plan Bay Area\u003c/a> is essentially a growth vision for all the population of the region over the next 20 years or so, and 75 percent of it goes into those El Camino Real corridors or those urbanized neighborhoods,” said Cohen. “Which, from a land use standpoint and an urbanism standpoint, is good. … [But] if you overlay that with where there are communities that are actually vulnerable for displacement – gentrification displacement – it’s a very close match. That’s the problem – the places where it’s good to build a lot of new housing for the regional growth is also where you have the greatest degree of gentrification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Show affordable housing the money\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen also goes on to criticize Plan Bay Area for its lack of monetary teeth:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no funding source for the affordable housing that’s necessary to make that kind of vision work,” he said. “It’s just basically a numerical game plan and then the market builds. But the market only builds for a segment of that need and without the money, what you have is a recipe for displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just how much does it cost to build affordable or subsidized housing? A lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It probably costs, depending on who you’re building for, a few hundred thousand dollars in subsidies per unit,” said Gabriel Metcalf. “And maybe a third of that [comes from local sources]. So call it a $100,000 in subsidy, locally, per unit. You can kind of multiply that by how many people you want to help, and you can help thousands of people, but there will still be hundreds of thousands of people who are not going to get one of those units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. Think beyond the single-family unit\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did a study on the East Bay of the potential for building in-law units, and compared it to the potential for building multi-family buildings, and we found that about half of our in-field developments should be coming from in-law units,” said Karen Chapple. “In many of our larger lots it’s very hard to assemble, it’s very expensive. It can cost one quarter the amount to build an in-law unit in the back of a single-family home. That said, it does need to be price controlled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials are starting to recognize the role that secondary units can play in easing the housing crunch. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69198\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed allowing in-law units to be built in his district\u003c/a> and Board of Supervisor President David Chiu introduced legislation that would \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-in-law-proposal-would-make-units-legal-5011267.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalize existing secondary units\u003c/a> that were built illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24573926/exclusive-controversial-bart-negotiator-thomas-hock-speaks-out\">Contra Costa Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>His comments come amid growing dissent from his former bosses, the BART directors, who agreed to pay him $399,000 to lead the six months of acrimonious negotiations. In fact, the board last week directed BART General Manager Grace Crunican to investigate whether the agency had grounds to file insurance claims or take legal action in the matter, Director Joel Keller said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hock, Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier and Labor Relations Manager Rudolph Medina signed the family medical leave provision in July. The clause was included in the final labor package ratified Nov. 1 by members of BART's two largest unions. BART has called the inclusion of the language a \"clerical mistake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders said the disputed provision was \"not a glitch,\" but an agreement between both sides, and blamed Hock's \"minimalist\" approach to negotiations as a contributing factor to any confusion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hock also came under fire during the negotiations. He was \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/10/bart_tom_hock_disneyland.php\">criticized \u003c/a>for going to Disneyland to speak at a transit conference on Oct. 15. He was also criticized for taking vacation days during the negotiations, and for a history of labor complaints filed against him and his company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What options do unions now have, besides walking off the job for a third time? KQED's Mina Kim talks with John Logan, associate professor of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/121297366\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the labor negotiation that just won't die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111413\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-111413\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6027_bart-strike20130804-scr-e1379366884127-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train idled during strike in early July. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train idled during strike in early July. 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The upshot of a statement from Pete Castelli, executive Director of SEIU 1021, following the vote: \"We're considering all our options.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sticking point here is the inclusion in the contract of a family medical leave provision, which BART says was left in by accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/BART-unions-balk-at-reopening-contract-over-error-4988823.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle's Joe Garofoli explains\u003c/a> what that particular language allows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Up to now, BART workers have been allowed to take up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave to deal with serious personal or family medical problems or to bond with a newborn or newly adopted child, but they had to use sick leave, vacation days or other accrued time off. But under the disputed contract provision ... BART would now pay for the first six weeks of that leave.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>BART says it repeatedly rejected the disputed provision during the negotiations, and that if it remains it will end up costing $44 million over four years, assuming one-third of workers take six weeks of leave each year. The unions say that figure is vastly overinflated, because not that many workers avail themselves of the leave in a given year. They say the financial hit to BART costs out to more like $1.4 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A deal is a deal,\" ATU Local 1555 President Antonette Bryant said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, in less aphoristic terms, Bryant said, \"For them to (propose reopening the contract) is totally, totally disgusting.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tone was softer last night, when the unions issued this statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is our expectation that the Board of Directors will honor the agreement that their chief negotiator, assistant manager and labor relations manager made with the unions. 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BART has called the inclusion of the language a \"clerical mistake.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders said the disputed provision was \"not a glitch,\" but an agreement between both sides, and blamed Hock's \"minimalist\" approach to negotiations as a contributing factor to any confusion.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Hock also came under fire during the negotiations. He was \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/10/bart_tom_hock_disneyland.php\">criticized \u003c/a>for going to Disneyland to speak at a transit conference on Oct. 15. He was also criticized for taking vacation days during the negotiations, and for a history of labor complaints filed against him and his company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What options do unions now have, besides walking off the job for a third time? KQED's Mina Kim talks with John Logan, associate professor of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/121297366\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the labor negotiation that just won't die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111413\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-111413\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/RS6027_bart-strike20130804-scr-e1379366884127-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A BART train idled during strike in early July. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART train idled during strike in early July. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The BART board today voted 8-1 in favor of ratifying the negotiated contract with its two biggest unions, but without a disputed family leave provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what's that mean, exactly? Matthias Gafni of the Bay Area News Group breaks down today's development into this Tweet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote lang=\"en\">\u003cp>Essentially, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBART\">@SFBART\u003c/a> board giving GM power to return to unions and say we'll ratify contract just w/out family medical leave (1/2)\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Now it's up to the unions to respond. The upshot of a statement from Pete Castelli, executive Director of SEIU 1021, following the vote: \"We're considering all our options.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sticking point here is the inclusion in the contract of a family medical leave provision, which BART says was left in by accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/BART-unions-balk-at-reopening-contract-over-error-4988823.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicle's Joe Garofoli explains\u003c/a> what that particular language allows:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Up to now, BART workers have been allowed to take up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave to deal with serious personal or family medical problems or to bond with a newborn or newly adopted child, but they had to use sick leave, vacation days or other accrued time off. But under the disputed contract provision ... 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We expect the board to meet their responsibility to the workers and to the riders and approve this contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the context of the board approving the contract, we are willing, through the mediator, to meet and discuss the implementation of the family medical leave provision, including its cost.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24570046/bart-board-set-vote-disputed-labor-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times\u003c/a> added today that \"public agencies hardly ever vote down contracts after union members have ratified them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>AP contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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A BART procedures manual from 2001 describes simple approval as permission to enter a restricted area \"with the understanding that personnel shall not interfere with the normal operation of trains or equipment and are not provided any protection from trains or equipment.\" The manual also says \"personnel accessing trackways ... under Simple Approval are individually responsible for providing their own protection.\" In the past, contractors have been informed that simple approvals are not permitted in areas where trains are moving in excess of 50 mph.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nAs \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-on-tracks-don-t-get-train-warnings-4914319.php#page-2\" target=\"_blank\">Demian Bulwa reports in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> today, \"simple approval\" has come up in previous BART accident inquiries:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The simple-approval procedure was central to the investigation into the death of James Strickland, a BART inspector who was struck from behind by a train Oct. 14, 2008, as he walked east on the westbound track between the Pleasant Hill and Concord stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART operations managers had granted Strickland simple approval. But they did not tell him that BART had shut down the eastbound track and begun single-tracking trains in the area, state investigators said. Nor were train operators in the area told of Strickland's presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded shrubbery may have obscured the train operator's view of Strickland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's workplace safety regulator, Cal/OSHA, issued four citations to BART and levied total fines of $28,685 for serious violations in connection with Strickland's death, including one alleging that the simple-approval system had contributed to the accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's appeals board wrote a year after the accident that simple approval \"deprives employees of (information about train travel) intentionally. The proffered reason for depriving workers of this information is so that workers stay alert at all times and expect a train at any time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART countered at the time that simple approval had worked well for more than 30 years, with no accidents. But the appeals board said an employer \"cannot leave it up to the employee to safeguard himself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, agencies must fix problems cited by Cal/OSHA after a case is over. But BART is still fighting the state's findings in the Strickland matter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m., Monday: \u003c/strong>The NTSB held a press conference about the incident on Saturday when two workers were killed by a BART train. NTSB investigator Jim Southworth said the operator of the train was in training, and that the train was moving at 60-70 miles per hour. He said the operator, who has held other positions with BART, had the train in automatic mode. Six employees were on board at the time. The NTSB said the train recorders are on their way to the NTSB lab in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southworth also said the operator knew that there were people ahead on the tracks. From the Los Angeles Times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He said the trainee operator, whom the NTSB interviewed Monday, had sounded the air horn before the accident. The train was moving at 60 mph to 70 mph when it made an emergency stop, Southworth said. He said the operator had heard a radio report warning of workers on the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was aware of people on the tracks,” Southworth said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency conducted employee interviews today and will interview management tomorrow. It will also schedule a reenactment of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m., Monday:\u003c/strong> The Contra Costa County coroner has released the names of two people who were killed on Saturday after being struck by a BART train: Laurence Daniels, 66, from Fair Oaks, and Christopher Sheppard, 58, from Hayward. Bay City News reports that Daniels was a contractor working with BART and that Sheppard was a member of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3993. That union is not striking, and BCN says it represents about 210 BART employees, mostly middle managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>Update, 9:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong> BART union members held candlelight vigils in Walnut Creek and Oakland this evening to remember two workers who died Saturday when they were struck by a train while working trackside. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie \u003c/a>covered the Walnut Creek gathering and talked to some of the BART workers in attendance: Fannie Pettis said she knew one of the workers who died Saturday and says BART managers should have ensured the safety of her friend. \"I am very angry because I just feel like we should have rules in place to protect our employees at all times regardless of who they are, what they’re doing, and obviously something went wrong,\" Pettis said Richard Stingily said Saturday's accident shows why unions have tried to highlight safety issues in their contract negotiations. \"The safety rules, and the work rules, are very important\" Stingily said. \"That is one of the most important things here. And situations like this is what we were talking about.\" Saturday, BART General Manager Grace Crunican and Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier extended their condolences to the families of the victims. When asked whether the accident highlighted the safety issues unions have raised, Oversier said \"I'm not going to go there right now.\" He said sorting out how the accident happened and helping the victims' families was foremost in his mind. \"We're dealing with a situation here where the labor issues, the negotiations, are not in the forefront of our mind. We've just lost two members of the BART family.\" The two people who died Saturday were the seventh and eighth workers to die on the job in BART's 41-year history and the first since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c!--more-->Update, 5:15 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> National Transportation Safety Board investigators have taken over the investigation of the accident that killed two workers along BART tracks in Walnut Creek on Saturday afternoon. An NTSB team arrived on the scene of the incident, in which a four-car train operated by a BART manager struck the workers early Sunday afternoon. The victims, one BART employee and one contract worker, were inspecting tracks between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations. Jim Southworth, the NTSB's chief railroad accident investigator, is leading the inquiry. He said during a press conference in Walnut Creek this afternoon that only a limited amount of data was available from the train involved in the accident — not as much, say, as would be available from a freight train. Southworth said the train was not equipped with a forward-facing camera that might have captured the scene on the tracks as the accident unfolded. He added that the lead car did have an inward-facing camera in the cab that could shed light on the operator's actions. Southworth said his team could be in the East Bay from four to 10 days and that the investigation could take six to 12 months or more before it's final. \"We are at the very start of this investigation,\" Southworth said. \"These accidents occur in an instant but they take a great deal of time to investigate.\" He declined to speculate on any aspect of the incident, including whether the strike played a role or whether the two workers killed were currently certified to work along the tracks. Southworth said BART, the California Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Transit Administration and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are all participating in the investigation. \u003c!--more--> \u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> One of the questions that will arise in the aftermath of today's fatal accident: the credentials of the train operator. BART's statement calls the as-yet-unnamed person driving the train \"an experienced operator.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24345866/bart-train-strikes-two-people-near-walnut-creek\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times cites sources\u003c/a>as saying the driver was \"an operator supervisor who drove trains two decades ago.\" The Times also notes that BART General Manager Grace Crunican visited the site of the accident: \"Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the two workers killed on the BART track,\" she said. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 tweeted in the aftermath of the deaths:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>Due to the recent tragedy at Walnut creek station, and out of respect for the families involved ATU's members will not be picketing tomorrow — BART ATU LOCAL 1555 (@ATU_1555) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ATU_1555/statuses/391696823099731968\">October 19, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:20 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> BART just posted \u003ca href=\"http://bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20131019a.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this statement\u003c/a>on the accident:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>BART officials are responding to the scene of a fatal accident involving two employees who were struck by an out-of-service BART train. The names of the deceased are not being released at this time.The accident occurred at approximately 1:53 pm between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations, approximately one mile north of the Walnut Creek Station. The employees were performing track inspections in response to a report of a dip in the track at the time of the accident. The deceased include one BART employee and a contractor. Both people had extensive experience working around moving trains in both the freight train and the rapid transit industry. The procedures involved in track maintenance require one employee to inspect the track and the other to act as a lookout and notify of any oncoming traffic. The train was on a routine maintenance run with an experienced operator at the controls. At the time of the accident the train was being run in automatic mode under computer control. No further details are available at the moment. Updates will be provided as they become available.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:55 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>Audio of BART radio traffic from the time of the incident has been posted online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>AUDIO: BART radio transmission from the moment a maintenance train struck employees on track (warning: graphic) - \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/tJMRcDCANN\">http://t.co/tJMRcDCANN\u003c/a> — Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/statuses/391688263737413632\">October 19, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:50 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong>BART has confirmed a train struck and killed two employees working along the system's tracks between Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill. The Contra Costa Times reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>Two BART employees were hit and killed by one of the transit agency's trains between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations Saturday afternoon, a BART police deputy chief confirmed. Sources say the two dead workers were non-union engineers performing track inspections when a manager operating a four-car train hit them. ... ... A BART employee, who wished to remain anonymous due to the ongoing strike, said he was monitoring BART transmissions when he heard a manager who was operating a train report an emergency. He said the manager reported that two unrepresented engineers who were performing track maintenance were hit. BART trains have not been running for commuters since Friday due to a labor strike, however some managers have moved trains for other purposes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Two-BART-workers-killed-by-train-running-during-4909974.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle adds\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>The two workers, whose names weren't immediately released, died at the scene after they were hit by an eastbound train, sources close to the investigation said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to BART emergency radio traffic immediately after the incident, there were six people aboard the train. BART police told KTVU that it was not yet clear who was operating the train at the time of the accident. After July's BART strike, the agency said it ran trains every day to ensure everything in the system worked correctly and to keep rust off the rail lines.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Alex Emslie/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>BART accident probe\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>National Transportation Safety Board investigators are re-enacting the Saturday BART accident that killed two workers in Walnut Creek\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The NTSB says the workers had been granted \"simple approval\" to enter the trackway and under BART policy were responsible for their own safety.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>NTSB says two trainee operators were in control cab along with an \"experienced trainer\" at time of accident.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> BART has closed tracks between its Lafayette and Pleasant Hill station so federal investigators can re-enact the weekend accident that killed two workers in Walnut Creek. BART is running a bus bridge between the two stations from noon through 3:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board is doing the re-enactment, including a \"sight/distance\" test, to gather more information on the Saturday afternoon incident. Christopher Sheppard, a BART employee, and contractor Laurence Daniels were killed when a four-car train with an operator trainee at the controls hit them while traveling 60 to 70 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB announced yesterday that it has determined there were two trainees and a supervisor in the cab at the time of the accident. BART was apparently conducting the training in case it decided to try to run limited train service during the strike that had begun on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB said Daniels and Sheppard had obtained \"simple approval\" to enter the BART right-of-way. A BART procedures manual from 2001 describes simple approval as permission to enter a restricted area \"with the understanding that personnel shall not interfere with the normal operation of trains or equipment and are not provided any protection from trains or equipment.\" The manual also says \"personnel accessing trackways ... under Simple Approval are individually responsible for providing their own protection.\" In the past, contractors have been informed that simple approvals are not permitted in areas where trains are moving in excess of 50 mph.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nAs \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-on-tracks-don-t-get-train-warnings-4914319.php#page-2\" target=\"_blank\">Demian Bulwa reports in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> today, \"simple approval\" has come up in previous BART accident inquiries:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The simple-approval procedure was central to the investigation into the death of James Strickland, a BART inspector who was struck from behind by a train Oct. 14, 2008, as he walked east on the westbound track between the Pleasant Hill and Concord stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART operations managers had granted Strickland simple approval. But they did not tell him that BART had shut down the eastbound track and begun single-tracking trains in the area, state investigators said. Nor were train operators in the area told of Strickland's presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded shrubbery may have obscured the train operator's view of Strickland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's workplace safety regulator, Cal/OSHA, issued four citations to BART and levied total fines of $28,685 for serious violations in connection with Strickland's death, including one alleging that the simple-approval system had contributed to the accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's appeals board wrote a year after the accident that simple approval \"deprives employees of (information about train travel) intentionally. The proffered reason for depriving workers of this information is so that workers stay alert at all times and expect a train at any time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART countered at the time that simple approval had worked well for more than 30 years, with no accidents. But the appeals board said an employer \"cannot leave it up to the employee to safeguard himself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under state law, agencies must fix problems cited by Cal/OSHA after a case is over. But BART is still fighting the state's findings in the Strickland matter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m., Monday: \u003c/strong>The NTSB held a press conference about the incident on Saturday when two workers were killed by a BART train. NTSB investigator Jim Southworth said the operator of the train was in training, and that the train was moving at 60-70 miles per hour. He said the operator, who has held other positions with BART, had the train in automatic mode. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southworth also said the operator knew that there were people ahead on the tracks. From the Los Angeles Times:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>He said the trainee operator, whom the NTSB interviewed Monday, had sounded the air horn before the accident. The train was moving at 60 mph to 70 mph when it made an emergency stop, Southworth said. He said the operator had heard a radio report warning of workers on the track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was aware of people on the tracks,” Southworth said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agency conducted employee interviews today and will interview management tomorrow. It will also schedule a reenactment of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m., Monday:\u003c/strong> The Contra Costa County coroner has released the names of two people who were killed on Saturday after being struck by a BART train: Laurence Daniels, 66, from Fair Oaks, and Christopher Sheppard, 58, from Hayward. Bay City News reports that Daniels was a contractor working with BART and that Sheppard was a member of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3993. That union is not striking, and BCN says it represents about 210 BART employees, mostly middle managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cstrong>Update, 9:45 p.m.:\u003c/strong> BART union members held candlelight vigils in Walnut Creek and Oakland this evening to remember two workers who died Saturday when they were struck by a train while working trackside. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie \u003c/a>covered the Walnut Creek gathering and talked to some of the BART workers in attendance: Fannie Pettis said she knew one of the workers who died Saturday and says BART managers should have ensured the safety of her friend. \"I am very angry because I just feel like we should have rules in place to protect our employees at all times regardless of who they are, what they’re doing, and obviously something went wrong,\" Pettis said Richard Stingily said Saturday's accident shows why unions have tried to highlight safety issues in their contract negotiations. \"The safety rules, and the work rules, are very important\" Stingily said. \"That is one of the most important things here. And situations like this is what we were talking about.\" Saturday, BART General Manager Grace Crunican and Assistant General Manager Paul Oversier extended their condolences to the families of the victims. When asked whether the accident highlighted the safety issues unions have raised, Oversier said \"I'm not going to go there right now.\" He said sorting out how the accident happened and helping the victims' families was foremost in his mind. \"We're dealing with a situation here where the labor issues, the negotiations, are not in the forefront of our mind. We've just lost two members of the BART family.\" The two people who died Saturday were the seventh and eighth workers to die on the job in BART's 41-year history and the first since 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c!--more-->Update, 5:15 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> National Transportation Safety Board investigators have taken over the investigation of the accident that killed two workers along BART tracks in Walnut Creek on Saturday afternoon. An NTSB team arrived on the scene of the incident, in which a four-car train operated by a BART manager struck the workers early Sunday afternoon. The victims, one BART employee and one contract worker, were inspecting tracks between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations. Jim Southworth, the NTSB's chief railroad accident investigator, is leading the inquiry. He said during a press conference in Walnut Creek this afternoon that only a limited amount of data was available from the train involved in the accident — not as much, say, as would be available from a freight train. Southworth said the train was not equipped with a forward-facing camera that might have captured the scene on the tracks as the accident unfolded. He added that the lead car did have an inward-facing camera in the cab that could shed light on the operator's actions. Southworth said his team could be in the East Bay from four to 10 days and that the investigation could take six to 12 months or more before it's final. \"We are at the very start of this investigation,\" Southworth said. \"These accidents occur in an instant but they take a great deal of time to investigate.\" He declined to speculate on any aspect of the incident, including whether the strike played a role or whether the two workers killed were currently certified to work along the tracks. Southworth said BART, the California Public Utilities Commission, the Federal Transit Administration and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration are all participating in the investigation. \u003c!--more--> \u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> One of the questions that will arise in the aftermath of today's fatal accident: the credentials of the train operator. BART's statement calls the as-yet-unnamed person driving the train \"an experienced operator.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24345866/bart-train-strikes-two-people-near-walnut-creek\" target=\"_blank\">Contra Costa Times cites sources\u003c/a>as saying the driver was \"an operator supervisor who drove trains two decades ago.\" The Times also notes that BART General Manager Grace Crunican visited the site of the accident: \"Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the two workers killed on the BART track,\" she said. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 tweeted in the aftermath of the deaths:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>Due to the recent tragedy at Walnut creek station, and out of respect for the families involved ATU's members will not be picketing tomorrow — BART ATU LOCAL 1555 (@ATU_1555) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ATU_1555/statuses/391696823099731968\">October 19, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:20 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> BART just posted \u003ca href=\"http://bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20131019a.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this statement\u003c/a>on the accident:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>BART officials are responding to the scene of a fatal accident involving two employees who were struck by an out-of-service BART train. The names of the deceased are not being released at this time.The accident occurred at approximately 1:53 pm between the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill stations, approximately one mile north of the Walnut Creek Station. The employees were performing track inspections in response to a report of a dip in the track at the time of the accident. The deceased include one BART employee and a contractor. Both people had extensive experience working around moving trains in both the freight train and the rapid transit industry. The procedures involved in track maintenance require one employee to inspect the track and the other to act as a lookout and notify of any oncoming traffic. The train was on a routine maintenance run with an experienced operator at the controls. At the time of the accident the train was being run in automatic mode under computer control. No further details are available at the moment. Updates will be provided as they become available.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:55 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>Audio of BART radio traffic from the time of the incident has been posted online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" style=\"font-size: medium\">\u003cp>AUDIO: BART radio transmission from the moment a maintenance train struck employees on track (warning: graphic) - \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/tJMRcDCANN\">http://t.co/tJMRcDCANN\u003c/a> — Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/statuses/391688263737413632\">October 19, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:50 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong>BART has confirmed a train struck and killed two employees working along the system's tracks between Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill. 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