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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/muni-time-performance-inflated/\">The Bay Citizen\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMuni officials were told two years ago that they had been inflating on-time arrival rates of buses for a decade but they failed to address the issue, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69570\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>In a memo to top executives, including the CEO, Muni's chief information officer detailed the accounting maneuvers, called “quirks,” that were boosting the numbers reported to the public by as much as 18 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni has been under pressure to improve timeliness since 1999, when San Francisco residents voted to require the transit agency to be on time at least 85 percent of the time. For years, bonuses for the Muni chief have also been tied to performance measures, including on-time performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69571\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/munibus-jason-henry-baycitizen.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-69571\" title=\"munibus jason henry baycitizen\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/munibus-jason-henry-baycitizen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus makes its way down Market Street in San Francisco. (Jason Henry/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen revealed last month that Muni vehicles arrived on schedule 61.4 percent of the time during the last three months of 2011, instead of the 71 percent reported by the transit agency. From July to September 2011, the transit agency’s on-time performance was 59 percent, not the 72 percent it claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Muni officials blamed an imprecise algorithm for the errant calculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a newly obtained 2010 memo sent to then-CEO Nat Ford and others, Muni Chief Information Officer Travis Fox detailed exactly how the agency made its calculations.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote that in the late 1990s, on-time performance was measured by observing whether a bus reached the bus stop at the scheduled time. He characterized that method as the “most appropriate way to measure the consistency of service delivered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the transit agency dropped that method after voters passed Proposition E, which set goals and etched into the city’s charter the definition of “on time” as no more than one minute early or four minutes late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memo, Fox outlined four accounting maneuvers that led to “a reported on-time performance figure that is 13-18 percent higher than actual schedule adherence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any bus arriving up to 4 minutes and 59 seconds late was counted as on time. The liberal definition of 60 seconds was reported by The Bay Citizen last month. In his 2010 memo, Fox blamed a software program that “clips” the seconds off of time entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phantom buses that don't make their scheduled runs at all were not factored into on-time performance. Yet Fox pointed out that the “resulting service gaps affect on-time performance due to longer boarding times associated with crush loads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni would count a bus as on time if it came to a stop at the time when another bus was scheduled to arrive, even if it was a different late or early bus on the same bus line. Fox wrote that accounting maneuver was used to “maximize the number of observations falling within the -1/+4 minute on-time performance window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late inbound Muni trains heading to the Embarcadero Station were excluded from the calculation because “service in the tunnel cannot be controlled.” Tunnel traffic, automatically controlled by Muni computers, is a chronic source of train delays. The N-Judah, for instance, was on time 52 percent of the time during the last six months of 2011, according to a Bay Citizen analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford, the former Muni CEO, acknowledged in an interview that the memo should have “set off alarm bells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have been a major issue that would have had to be brought to the board,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ford, who resigned last year, said he didn’t recall ever reading the memo, which was also sent to four other SFMTA higher-ups, including John Haley, director of Transit Operations, and Julie Kirschbaum, manager of Operations Planning. The transit agency was in the midst of dealing with cuts to bus service, Ford said, and the memo “may have got lost in the shuffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, two weeks after Fox sent the memo, Ford and then-Mayor Gavin Newsom together announced that the troubled transit agency had achieved a record 75 percent on-time performance rate in the first three months of 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Improving Muni’s on-time performance is fundamental to the SFMTA’s mission,” Ford said in the news release on the achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disappointment, but no surprise\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proof that Muni’s on-time arrival rate is lower than it reported for years did not surprise passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for seven years, and they’re always late,” said Rex Tan, who takes a train and a bus to his job selling sunglasses at Fisherman’s Wharf. “Just last week I was late to work twice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Kaufman, a spokesman for the San Francisco Transit Riders Union, said that it was “disappointing and frustrating that the MTA would deceive the public like that for better performance data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not going to get better on-time performance unless they make serious changes to the system,” Kaufman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial reaction at the transit agency to inflated on-time reports was muted. At a board meeting last month, the agency’s directors said they were not concerned when the issue first was raised by The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of faith in the management team here in terms of the integrity of the information,” Jerry Lee, chairman of the agency’s Policy and Governance Committee, said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board made no effort to inquire further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fox said in an interview last week that, starting in July, Muni would be reporting on-time performance without any of the maneuvers he had identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be no quirk implementation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Origins of the deception\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear who set Muni down the path of overstating on-time performance. In his memo, Fox wrote that the methodology was “modified” by Michael Burns, the Muni chief from 1999 to 2005. And in an interview Fox said the method first was used in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns, however, said that he “was not involved in developing the formula at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not aware of the details, and I did not direct any of the calculations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns said he wouldn’t have stood for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would've had them go back and use the four minutes,” he said. “ I never, nor do I now, think there’s any flexibility on what is written in charter.”\u003cbr>\nThree SFMTA employees who worked on the performance statistics at the time either refused to comment or didn’t return emails and phone calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear is that after voters set the 85 percent target, Muni struggled to reach it. In fiscal year 2001, the transit agency’s on-time arrival rate was 55.4 percent. The next year, the rate jumped to 69.9 percent. From then on, the rate leveled off before peaking in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonuses for Muni employees, including Burns, were tied to the performance standards back then. A total of 1,500 employees received incentive payments in 2001, according to meeting minutes. Burns' contract allowed him to receive up to $15,000 in bonuses tied to performance, including on-time performance, although it is not clear whether he received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man behind the numbers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox, 40, arrived at the transit agency in 2007 with a background in performance measurement. He quickly pieced together how the transit agency calculated on-time arrivals. The issue came to the fore as the agency considered switching from a manual tally to electronic data supplied by transmitters on the buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a November 2010 email to Ford, Fox wrote, “As discussed previously, this is not a matter of simply flicking the switch – we need to ensure the NextMuni data is as 'apples to apples' as possible when compared to the historical methodology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo from earlier that year, Fox had weighed the pros and cons of switching to the unadulterated electronic data. The new system, he wrote, “would likely result in a hard-to-explain 10-15 percent drop in reporting on-time performance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it wasn’t until current Muni Chief Ed Reiskin arrived last year that the agency decided to ditch the old method, Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Fox said, the public and Muni managers will have access to plentiful data measuring real-time performance of the transit agency’s buses, trains and cable cars. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/muni-time-performance-inflated/\">The Bay Citizen\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nMuni officials were told two years ago that they had been inflating on-time arrival rates of buses for a decade but they failed to address the issue, according to interviews and documents obtained by The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69570\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>In a memo to top executives, including the CEO, Muni's chief information officer detailed the accounting maneuvers, called “quirks,” that were boosting the numbers reported to the public by as much as 18 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni has been under pressure to improve timeliness since 1999, when San Francisco residents voted to require the transit agency to be on time at least 85 percent of the time. For years, bonuses for the Muni chief have also been tied to performance measures, including on-time performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69571\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/munibus-jason-henry-baycitizen.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-69571\" title=\"munibus jason henry baycitizen\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/munibus-jason-henry-baycitizen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus makes its way down Market Street in San Francisco. (Jason Henry/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen revealed last month that Muni vehicles arrived on schedule 61.4 percent of the time during the last three months of 2011, instead of the 71 percent reported by the transit agency. From July to September 2011, the transit agency’s on-time performance was 59 percent, not the 72 percent it claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Muni officials blamed an imprecise algorithm for the errant calculation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a newly obtained 2010 memo sent to then-CEO Nat Ford and others, Muni Chief Information Officer Travis Fox detailed exactly how the agency made its calculations.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wrote that in the late 1990s, on-time performance was measured by observing whether a bus reached the bus stop at the scheduled time. He characterized that method as the “most appropriate way to measure the consistency of service delivered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the transit agency dropped that method after voters passed Proposition E, which set goals and etched into the city’s charter the definition of “on time” as no more than one minute early or four minutes late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memo, Fox outlined four accounting maneuvers that led to “a reported on-time performance figure that is 13-18 percent higher than actual schedule adherence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any bus arriving up to 4 minutes and 59 seconds late was counted as on time. The liberal definition of 60 seconds was reported by The Bay Citizen last month. In his 2010 memo, Fox blamed a software program that “clips” the seconds off of time entries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phantom buses that don't make their scheduled runs at all were not factored into on-time performance. Yet Fox pointed out that the “resulting service gaps affect on-time performance due to longer boarding times associated with crush loads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni would count a bus as on time if it came to a stop at the time when another bus was scheduled to arrive, even if it was a different late or early bus on the same bus line. Fox wrote that accounting maneuver was used to “maximize the number of observations falling within the -1/+4 minute on-time performance window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late inbound Muni trains heading to the Embarcadero Station were excluded from the calculation because “service in the tunnel cannot be controlled.” Tunnel traffic, automatically controlled by Muni computers, is a chronic source of train delays. The N-Judah, for instance, was on time 52 percent of the time during the last six months of 2011, according to a Bay Citizen analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford, the former Muni CEO, acknowledged in an interview that the memo should have “set off alarm bells.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That would have been a major issue that would have had to be brought to the board,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ford, who resigned last year, said he didn’t recall ever reading the memo, which was also sent to four other SFMTA higher-ups, including John Haley, director of Transit Operations, and Julie Kirschbaum, manager of Operations Planning. The transit agency was in the midst of dealing with cuts to bus service, Ford said, and the memo “may have got lost in the shuffle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, two weeks after Fox sent the memo, Ford and then-Mayor Gavin Newsom together announced that the troubled transit agency had achieved a record 75 percent on-time performance rate in the first three months of 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Improving Muni’s on-time performance is fundamental to the SFMTA’s mission,” Ford said in the news release on the achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disappointment, but no surprise\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proof that Muni’s on-time arrival rate is lower than it reported for years did not surprise passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for seven years, and they’re always late,” said Rex Tan, who takes a train and a bus to his job selling sunglasses at Fisherman’s Wharf. “Just last week I was late to work twice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Kaufman, a spokesman for the San Francisco Transit Riders Union, said that it was “disappointing and frustrating that the MTA would deceive the public like that for better performance data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re not going to get better on-time performance unless they make serious changes to the system,” Kaufman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initial reaction at the transit agency to inflated on-time reports was muted. At a board meeting last month, the agency’s directors said they were not concerned when the issue first was raised by The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a lot of faith in the management team here in terms of the integrity of the information,” Jerry Lee, chairman of the agency’s Policy and Governance Committee, said at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board made no effort to inquire further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fox said in an interview last week that, starting in July, Muni would be reporting on-time performance without any of the maneuvers he had identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be no quirk implementation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Origins of the deception\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear who set Muni down the path of overstating on-time performance. In his memo, Fox wrote that the methodology was “modified” by Michael Burns, the Muni chief from 1999 to 2005. And in an interview Fox said the method first was used in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns, however, said that he “was not involved in developing the formula at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not aware of the details, and I did not direct any of the calculations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns said he wouldn’t have stood for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would've had them go back and use the four minutes,” he said. “ I never, nor do I now, think there’s any flexibility on what is written in charter.”\u003cbr>\nThree SFMTA employees who worked on the performance statistics at the time either refused to comment or didn’t return emails and phone calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is clear is that after voters set the 85 percent target, Muni struggled to reach it. In fiscal year 2001, the transit agency’s on-time arrival rate was 55.4 percent. The next year, the rate jumped to 69.9 percent. From then on, the rate leveled off before peaking in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonuses for Muni employees, including Burns, were tied to the performance standards back then. A total of 1,500 employees received incentive payments in 2001, according to meeting minutes. Burns' contract allowed him to receive up to $15,000 in bonuses tied to performance, including on-time performance, although it is not clear whether he received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man behind the numbers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox, 40, arrived at the transit agency in 2007 with a background in performance measurement. He quickly pieced together how the transit agency calculated on-time arrivals. The issue came to the fore as the agency considered switching from a manual tally to electronic data supplied by transmitters on the buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a November 2010 email to Ford, Fox wrote, “As discussed previously, this is not a matter of simply flicking the switch – we need to ensure the NextMuni data is as 'apples to apples' as possible when compared to the historical methodology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo from earlier that year, Fox had weighed the pros and cons of switching to the unadulterated electronic data. The new system, he wrote, “would likely result in a hard-to-explain 10-15 percent drop in reporting on-time performance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it wasn’t until current Muni Chief Ed Reiskin arrived last year that the agency decided to ditch the old method, Fox said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Fox said, the public and Muni managers will have access to plentiful data measuring real-time performance of the transit agency’s buses, trains and cable cars. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Shane Shifflett and Reyhan Harmanci, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/muni-inflated-its-time-performance-rates/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Question: When is a minute longer than 60 seconds?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answer: When you work for Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_65687\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/munibusjasonhenrybaycitizen.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/05/munibusjasonhenrybaycitizen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"munibusjasonhenrybaycitizen\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65687\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muni bus makes its way down Market Street. (Jason Henry for The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco transit officials have redefined time, fudging their statistics to make it look like buses and trains arrive on schedule, The Bay Citizen has found. These numbers are critical in determining the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's efficiency – and they show the transit agency is much less efficient than it has claimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the City Charter, Muni vehicles are considered on time if they arrive “no more than one minute early or four minutes late.\" But according to Muni’s clock, a minute can last as long as 119 seconds – or 1 minute, 59 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means under Muni’s definition, buses are considered \"on time\" if they arrive at a stop up to 4 minutes, 59 seconds late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While even that definition is stricter than at some other transit agencies – buses in Washington, D.C., for example, are considered on time as long as seven minutes after the schedule – Muni riders said the manipulation of Muni's numbers is important. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are standards that they are supposed to meet, and they are not meeting those standards by cheating,” said John Holtzclaw, who works on transportation issues for the Sierra Club. “The importance of having the on-time percentage is that it puts pressure on the city to make the changes that are necessary for Muni to run faster and more efficiently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By using an elongated definition of a minute, the transit agency inflated its on-time performance rate for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni reported its on-time performance was about 71 percent for the last three months of 2011. But a Bay Citizen analysis – using the traditionally accepted definition of a minute – determined that Muni vehicles were on schedule 61.4 percent of the time. And from July to September 2011, the transit agency’s on-time performance was 59 percent, not the 72 percent it claimed for the period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its inflated performance statistics, the transit agency moves closer to meeting an on-time rating of 85 percent, the target set by a 1999 voter-approved initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni officials acknowledged that the agency reported many late vehicles as on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recently identified that the current algorithm rounded down the number of minutes if it were 4 minutes, 25 seconds,” said Muni spokesman Paul Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFMTA board subcommittee plans to discuss on-time performance at its meeting today, and the agency expects to update its algorithm to include an additional on-time metric using the strict definition of a minute, Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency would not say exactly when it began defining four minutes as 4 minutes, 59 seconds, but the new definition went into use sometime in 2010. Since 1999, Muni’s method for calculating its on-time rates has continually evolved, according to John Haley, the agency’s transit director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The measurement, such as it is, is meaningless to the rider,” Haley insisted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the on-time performance rating doesn’t take into account a number of key factors, including the different types of vehicles Muni uses. “We're not standing here saying, ‘Gee, we think 71 percent is a good number,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other transit agencies use different definitions of “on time,” while still adhering to the 60-second minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, God,” said Chris Peeples, an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board member, when asked how AC Transit defined its window for delivering on-time service, before explaining that the district relies on the standard definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to the dictionary and look up ‘minute,’ it'll say 60 seconds,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a transit agency perspective, Peeples said, being early – or “hot” – is considered worse than being late. His agency has a six-minute window for lateness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office said it does not plan to investigate how Muni determines its on-time rates. The Metropolitan Transport Commission, the government agency charged with auditing transportation agencies throughout the Bay Area, declined to comment, saying only that it tries to avoid “micromanaging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its 2010 Muni audit did note that “on-time performance and headway adherence were particular areas in which SFMTA fell well short of its standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Metcalf, head of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, which helped draft 1999’s Proposition E that created the SFMTA, said he thought it was probably “a mistake to write performance metrics into the (city’s) charter.” Still, he said Muni should not be padding its on-time records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want accurate information. They shouldn't be playing games with the numbers. They should report honestly,” Metcalf said. “As a city, we've got to do a lot better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using data obtained through a public records request, The Bay Citizen analyzed the entire set of Muni vehicles that were on time, late or early in the last half of 2011. The agency routinely collects on-time samples during various periods each day. Because of this, The Bay Citizen's figures would differ slightly from the agency's, even if it used the dictionary definition of a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of what constitutes a Muni minute might be moot by August, when the agency is slated to use a new set of performance factors. The new system will use some different metrics and will categorize lines by vehicle types and ridership levels. One of the most important metrics will be “headway” – that is, the time between two buses arriving at a stop on the same route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Muni riders can expect a bus or train at regular intervals, and the interval will vary according to each line. For instance, the 14 Mission line might come every seven minutes, while the 33 bus might be every 10 minutes. This, said Haley, would be a better way to measure Muni than on-time performance, no matter how you count a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders are looking for better performance and greater transparency from Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the everyday frustration caused by Muni's chronic lateness, this new data isn't a huge surprise, but it is disturbing,\" said Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, a frequent Muni rider. \"I do have some confidence, though, that the new MTA leadership will move quickly to provide more accurate on-time data and to implement the fundamental reforms needed to fix the underlying problems with Muni service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zusha Elinson contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/\">www.baycitizen.org\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means under Muni’s definition, buses are considered \"on time\" if they arrive at a stop up to 4 minutes, 59 seconds late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While even that definition is stricter than at some other transit agencies – buses in Washington, D.C., for example, are considered on time as long as seven minutes after the schedule – Muni riders said the manipulation of Muni's numbers is important. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are standards that they are supposed to meet, and they are not meeting those standards by cheating,” said John Holtzclaw, who works on transportation issues for the Sierra Club. “The importance of having the on-time percentage is that it puts pressure on the city to make the changes that are necessary for Muni to run faster and more efficiently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By using an elongated definition of a minute, the transit agency inflated its on-time performance rate for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni reported its on-time performance was about 71 percent for the last three months of 2011. But a Bay Citizen analysis – using the traditionally accepted definition of a minute – determined that Muni vehicles were on schedule 61.4 percent of the time. And from July to September 2011, the transit agency’s on-time performance was 59 percent, not the 72 percent it claimed for the period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its inflated performance statistics, the transit agency moves closer to meeting an on-time rating of 85 percent, the target set by a 1999 voter-approved initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni officials acknowledged that the agency reported many late vehicles as on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recently identified that the current algorithm rounded down the number of minutes if it were 4 minutes, 25 seconds,” said Muni spokesman Paul Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFMTA board subcommittee plans to discuss on-time performance at its meeting today, and the agency expects to update its algorithm to include an additional on-time metric using the strict definition of a minute, Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transit agency would not say exactly when it began defining four minutes as 4 minutes, 59 seconds, but the new definition went into use sometime in 2010. Since 1999, Muni’s method for calculating its on-time rates has continually evolved, according to John Haley, the agency’s transit director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The measurement, such as it is, is meaningless to the rider,” Haley insisted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the on-time performance rating doesn’t take into account a number of key factors, including the different types of vehicles Muni uses. “We're not standing here saying, ‘Gee, we think 71 percent is a good number,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other transit agencies use different definitions of “on time,” while still adhering to the 60-second minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, God,” said Chris Peeples, an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District board member, when asked how AC Transit defined its window for delivering on-time service, before explaining that the district relies on the standard definition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to the dictionary and look up ‘minute,’ it'll say 60 seconds,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a transit agency perspective, Peeples said, being early – or “hot” – is considered worse than being late. His agency has a six-minute window for lateness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney’s office said it does not plan to investigate how Muni determines its on-time rates. The Metropolitan Transport Commission, the government agency charged with auditing transportation agencies throughout the Bay Area, declined to comment, saying only that it tries to avoid “micromanaging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But its 2010 Muni audit did note that “on-time performance and headway adherence were particular areas in which SFMTA fell well short of its standards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gabriel Metcalf, head of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, which helped draft 1999’s Proposition E that created the SFMTA, said he thought it was probably “a mistake to write performance metrics into the (city’s) charter.” Still, he said Muni should not be padding its on-time records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want accurate information. They shouldn't be playing games with the numbers. They should report honestly,” Metcalf said. “As a city, we've got to do a lot better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using data obtained through a public records request, The Bay Citizen analyzed the entire set of Muni vehicles that were on time, late or early in the last half of 2011. The agency routinely collects on-time samples during various periods each day. Because of this, The Bay Citizen's figures would differ slightly from the agency's, even if it used the dictionary definition of a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of what constitutes a Muni minute might be moot by August, when the agency is slated to use a new set of performance factors. The new system will use some different metrics and will categorize lines by vehicle types and ridership levels. One of the most important metrics will be “headway” – that is, the time between two buses arriving at a stop on the same route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Muni riders can expect a bus or train at regular intervals, and the interval will vary according to each line. For instance, the 14 Mission line might come every seven minutes, while the 33 bus might be every 10 minutes. This, said Haley, would be a better way to measure Muni than on-time performance, no matter how you count a minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders are looking for better performance and greater transparency from Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the everyday frustration caused by Muni's chronic lateness, this new data isn't a huge surprise, but it is disturbing,\" said Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, a frequent Muni rider. \"I do have some confidence, though, that the new MTA leadership will move quickly to provide more accurate on-time data and to implement the fundamental reforms needed to fix the underlying problems with Muni service.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zusha Elinson contributed to this report\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That will likely be the reality for San Jose residents next summer if city officials don't raise taxes or trim employee pensions and perks, city administrators told San Jose's elected leaders Tuesday.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/21/BA8F1L72DV.DTL&tsp=1\">'Troubling' frequency of Oakland cops pulling guns\u003c/a> (Matier & Ross, SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland police are often too quick to draw their guns, especially when confronting African American suspects, according to a report by a federal court monitor...Although the analysis found that officers had acted appropriately in a majority of the cases, court monitor Robert Warshaw and his team said they were \"troubled by the high number of instances\" - 28 percent - in which police didn't have to draw their guns.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/21/BAON1L6KV2.DTL\">Third straight Spare the Air Day declared\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bay Area air officials have declared a third consecutive Spare the Air Day for Wednesday, as smog continues to reach unhealthy levels in the East Bay beyond the hills.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_18942013\">San Bruno begins to fill in crater\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...About 50 residents, officials and city workers gathered at 11 a.m. for a ceremony to close the 72-foot-long by 26-foot-wide pit from which so much fire and destruction poured into their community. 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Things didn't improve when the chief gave up and opened up the floor to questions: Those trying to question the officials could barely be heard above the crowd's cries of outrage.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/20/BAJP1KD48G.DTL&tsp=1\">Ed Reiskin named new head of S.F. transit agency\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ed Reiskin will be named today as the new executive director of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, The Chronicle has learned. Reiskin, the city's public works director since 2008, starts one of the most demanding jobs on the city payroll without experience at a transportation agency but with the reputation as a top-notch manager with a passion for city living.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/21/BAON1KD2MA.DTL&type=newsbayarea\">Police detail 43 arrests in S.F. protest of cops\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A total of 43 people were arrested Tuesday night during a raucous protest against police conduct in San Francisco, two of them for assault, authorities said today. The protest was a response to Saturday's fatal shooting of a Washington state parolee by officers who chased him in the Bayview neighborhood after stopping him to see if he was riding Muni without a ticket.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/21/BAQA1KD1MQ.DTL&type=newsbayarea\">Bay Area mayors back suit over redevelopment cuts\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mayors from around the East Bay said Wednesday that Gov. Jerry Brown's elimination of redevelopment agencies amounts to theft by the state that strips cities of millions of dollars that would have improved neighborhoods and produced tens of thousands of jobs. Standing near a 100-unit housing complex in East Oakland that is being built with redevelopment money, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and other East Bay leaders expressed their support for a lawsuit filed Monday by the League of California Cities to challenge the state's new budget, which allows cities to keep their redevelopment agencies only if they give up millions to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/20/MNE51KCVPD.DTL&tsp=1\">S.F. Mayor Ed Lee refuses to rule out running\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a shift that could dramatically recast the race to replace him, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee refused Wednesday - for the first time - to rule out running for a full term. Lee, who was appointed by the Board of Supervisors in January to serve the final year of former Mayor Gavin Newsom's term, acknowledged he had been in \"interesting discussions about the future of the city\" and what role he should play, but he declined to provide specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_18516776\">Bay Area labor unions object to \"silent\" immigration raids\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bay Area labor unions demanded Wednesday that the Obama administration stop its increased practice of auditing business payrolls to check for illegal immigrant workers. Using Berkeley-based Pacific Steel and Casting as an example, leaders from several unions said the Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking havoc with immigrant families and local economies by demanding that employers provide it information about its employees.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/southbayfootball/ci_18516529\">NFL deal could bring 49ers' Santa Clara stadium to reality\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury New)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After years of planning and waiting, the 49ers appear likely to get money they need to build their new Santa Clara stadium as part of the imminent agreement to end the NFL's labor strife. The proposed multibillion-dollar agreement between the NFL players and owners, which could be signed this week, not only returns players to practice facilities, but also will provide league financing for a reported three new stadiums, including the hub the 49ers say they are committed to build in Santa Clara starting in 18 months, a league source said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland/ci_18515598\">Fremont strikes deals with police and fire\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Police have begrudgingly agreed to terms on a two-year contract that will cut salaries for current officers and reduce pension benefits and retiree medical benefits for future ones. Additionally, the city's fire union has agreed to a tentative deal that includes similar concessions, although terms of that agreement aren't being released until after union leaders brief the rank and file. The agreement with police, which the City Council approved Tuesday, is expected to save Fremont nearly $1.6 million this year.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_18516583?nclick_check=1\">Audit: State prisons had lousy bookkeeping\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Lousy bookkeeping in California's prison system put millions of taxpayers' dollars at risk of fraud and abuse, according to an audit released Wednesday by state Controller John Chiang. Chiang said the sloppiness was due to \"a lack of focus. What we've heard in prior instances is that it (bookkeeping) is not their core function, but they have to understand they're not going to be able to perform those core functions unless they have financial controls.\" The audit comes amid increasing pressure to find savings in the prison system...\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/news/california/2011/07/california-bill-aims-overrule-san-francisco-s-circumcision-ban\">State bill aims to overrule San Francisco’s circumcision ban\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A California state assembly bill aimed at San Francisco’s circumcision ban on the November ballot seeks to make it clear that no local law can restrict the practice. San Francisco resident Lloyd Schofield gathered more than 12,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot, which would make circumcision of a minor in The City a misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine and up to a year behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18520113\">Bay Area rents, especially in Silicon Valley, are on the rise\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bay Area apartment rents are on the rise, fed by the contrasting economic forces of a booming tech recovery and the steady flow of foreclosures that is turning former homeowners into renters. The San Jose metro area, which includes Silicon Valley, weighed in with the highest average rent -- $1,759 a month -- among 43 metro regions monitored by RealFacts, a Novato apartment rental research company that released a report on second-quarter rental prices Thursday. The region also saw the biggest year-over-year increase, up 12.6 percent. The San Francisco metro area -- encompassing the Peninsula, East Bay and Marin County -- had the second-highest rents in the survey, at $1,644, and the third-highest year-over-year increase, at 7.6 percent.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/21/BU3N1KCQS1.DTL&type=business\">AT&T's U-verse: SF battle over boxes far from over\u003c/a> (Andrew S. Ross, SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>...While attempts by some neighborhood groups to further delay the project via a mandatory environmental impact report was turned down by the board, the rollout is likely to be subject to fits and starts. A minimum two-year time frame is envisaged by AT&T. 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Jerry Brown placed himself at odds with both parties in the Legislature by rejecting a Democratic budget he called unbalanced and “legally questionable.” The Democratic governor’s budget veto on Thursday, believed to be the first in state history, leaves the spending plan in limbo as Brown resumes his search for Republican tax votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/17/BAB31JV1QP.DTL&tsp=1\">Cash-strapped Muni defends severance pay for chief\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>San Francisco transportation officials Thursday defended the proposal to pay Muni chief Nathaniel Ford a $384,000 severance package for an early exit, even as the cash-strapped agency is set to raise the cost of the monthly transit pass and parking fees. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency faces a $22 million deficit heading into the new fiscal year.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_18295632\">Oakland moves quickly after lawmakers vote to eliminate redevelopment agencies\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>City Hall officials were reeling Thursday from the news that lawmakers in Sacramento had voted to eliminate the state’s redevelopment agencies. The idea to cut the agencies from the state budget has been around since at least January, when Gov. Jerry Brown included it in his earliest proposal to close a multibillion dollar deficit. Wednesday night’s news, which came as legislators also approved a budget package, threw many Oakland city staffers into survival mode and the city began moving more than $100 million around through property transfers, leases and project proposals, in hopes of protecting Oakland should the ax fall on the agency.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_18293668\">San Jose school parents say bigger, not better, is bad plan for parent volunteer program\u003c/a> (San Jose Mercury News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a conflict studded with racial pitfalls and playing out at Trace Elementary School, a program to lure middle-class families back to public schools has run head-on into San Jose Unified’s three-decade-old promise to integrate its classrooms. And as the district teeters along a fine legal line, it may end up alienating the very parents it once hoped to recruit. At issue is a parent-participation program that created separate classes for students whose parents volunteered to help out at school. The problem: Parents from the largely white Rose Garden neighborhood turned out in droves, while far fewer parents from poorer, mostly Latino neighborhoods were present. As a result, the school ended up with mostly white students in its Parent Involvement in Education classrooms. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/17/BU2A1JUJ27.DTL&type=business\">Amazon tax bill makes it to Gov. Brown’s desk\u003c/a> (Andrew S. Ross, SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Amazon tax has made it to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. It survived the first round of gubernatorial vetoes, the two main budget bills he turned down on Thursday. But when asked what they think Brown will do now, the unanimous answer from the offices of lawmakers pushing for the measure is, “We don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/environment/pge-green-program-helps-preserve-forests-so-did-taxpayers-10789\">PG&E green program helps preserve forests, but so did taxpayers\u003c/a> (California Watch)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(PG&E promises for) every bit of energy a… ratepayer uses – from turning on a vacuum cleaner to powering up a computer or heating up an oven – a little part of a tree or forest is saved to erase the carbon sins of the customer. The voluntary program costs participants about $60 a year. But the company isn’t telling its customers one crucial fact: Those forests were purchased years ago by a Virginia conservation group that used nearly $50 million in loans and grants from California taxpayers. The Conservation Fund then sold PG&E carbon credits on land it had purchased for preservation and selective logging.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/story/next-muni-chief-be-local-hire/\">Next Muni Chief to Be Local Hire\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>…A day after the announcement that much-maligned Muni CEO Nat Ford would step down, support is building to install the head of San Francisco’s public works department. The political forces that shape Muni — City Hall, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board, and transportation advocates – are trumpeting Ed Reiskin as Ford’s replacement.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/17/BA5F1JV3LJ.DTL\">Reasoning for SFO sagging-pants arrest debated\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As prosecutors mulled whether to file charges against a college football player who allegedly refused to pull up his sagging pants at San Francisco International Airport, the outside world seized the incident to debate broader questions about respect, fashion policies and racial stereotyping. Deshon Marman, 20, a defensive player for the University of New Mexico and graduate of Lincoln High in San Francisco, was arrested and removed from US Airways flight 488 Wednesday after police said he ignored an airline employee’s request to pull up sweatpants that exposed his underwear below the buttocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/06/another-delay-rate-hikes-angers-san-francisco-cabbies\">Another delay in rate hikes angers San Francisco cabbies\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As if San Francisco cabbies weren’t angry enough, the fare increases they have long awaited will be delayed for another month and a half — a setback expected to exacerbate Tuesday’s planned taxi strike. It has been eight years since The City’s last taxi rate hike, and during that time, gas prices, car-leasing fees and the cost of living have all climbed. So the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency recently recommended increasing base fares by 40 cents, mileage rates by 50 cent, and waiting rates by 10 cents per minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20110617/ARTICLES/110619600/1350?Title=-1-2-billion-Sonoma-County-budget-OK-d-5-0-despite-disagreements\">$1.2 billion Sonoma County budget OK’d 5-0 despite disagreements\u003c/a> (Santa Rosa Press Democrat)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors Thursday unanimously approved a $1.2 billion spending plan that relies on across-the-board cuts at all departments, increased fees for services and a number of last-minute funding shifts to stave off the most unpopular reductions. The formal vote on the 2011-2012 budget, which takes effect July 1, came in the fourth day of hearings aimed a closing a $42.8 million gap in the county’s projected $379 million general fund, which supports mainly public safety, administrative services and to a lesser degree other local programs. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/17/BA2M1JUT72.DTL\">Transit services for seniors earn best-in-nation rating \u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>According to a study by Transportation for America, a transportation-reform advocacy group… (of) 40 metropolitan areas with populations between 1 million and 3 million, the San Francisco area had the best transit access for seniors, with only 12 percent projected to face poor transit access by 2015. San Jose was second with 15 percent projected to have inadequate transit, and the Oakland area was fourth, with poor public transportation predicted for 18 percent of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18293866\">Devaughndre Broussard: I want the families to know I am sorry\u003c/a> (Chauncey Bailey Project)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The man who gunned down journalist Chauncey Bailey and a second man in 2007 knows forgiveness is too much to ask, but he wants his victims’ families to know he is sorry for the pain he caused. “I don’t expect them to forgive me,” Devaughndre Broussard said Thursday. “But I hope they hear me. “It was morally wrong,” Broussard, 23, said in the interview at North County Jail in Oakland, where he has been held in isolation for nearly four years after his arrest for shooting Bailey, editor of the Oakland Post, on Aug. 2, 2007, and Odell Roberson, a 31-year-old homeless man, on July 8, 2007. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_18284864?source=most_viewed\">Oakland Coliseum operator defends planning leading up to U2 concert\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In July 2010, an Alameda County grand jury stepped up criticism over operations at the municipally owned sports and entertainment complex in Oakland, now called O.co Coliseum. …Management improved incrementally since, but a June 7 U2 concert sparked criticism over operations after concertgoers found themselves stranded in a traffic snarl on Interstate 880 or fruitlessly searching for parking in sight of the Coliseum. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18292424\">Shining Internet star Pandora could be a boost for downtown Oakland\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While Oakland-based Pandora Media’s shares nose-dived Thursday, the Internet radio company likely will be a long-term boon for the city despite near-term struggles for its stock. 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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.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/06/14/MNRD1JTCEI.DTL\">Arbitrator imposes contract rejected by Muni workers\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Muni operators must work under the contract they overwhelmingly rejected last week, an independent arbitrator ruled Monday night. The decision, announced during a union membership meeting, infuriated many Muni operators. Under the City Charter, if the Municipal Transportation Agency and Transport Workers Union Local 250-A fail to reach an agreement, an arbitrator determines the terms of the contract the 2,200 operators will work under for the next three years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/MNHU1JTAJT.DTL\">Skepticism over tossing gay judge's Prop. 8 ruling\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage tried to convince an apparently skeptical federal judge Monday that the jurist who overturned their ballot measure should have been disqualified because he failed to disclose his longtime relationship with a male partner. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling last year throwing out the ballot measure should itself be overturned because the judge didn't reveal his relationship, attorney Charles Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/BAK31JTBLI.DTL\">S.F. supervisors get earful on tree maintenance\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The city's budget-balancing plan to force individual property owners to maintain nearly 24,000 city-owned street trees may be pruned back amid mounting public anger and concerns raised by members of the Board of Supervisors. The proposal, tucked in Mayor Ed Lee's $6.8 billion budget proposal for the new fiscal year that starts July 1, would save the city an estimated $600,000 by transferring maintenance responsibility from the city's Department of Public Works. The tree plan got its first public airing Monday before a board committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/14/3698450/jerry-brown-opens-door-to-gimmicks.html\">Jerry Brown opens door to gimmicks budget\u003c/a> (Sacramento Bee)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Two days before the state budget deadline and with no sign of a deal, Gov. Jerry Brown said Monday he would consider using accounting gimmicks to balance California's budget deficit, despite his longstanding promise not to. His changing rhetoric, following months of failed talks with Republicans, comes as Brown braces for the Legislature to send him a budget that does not include the tax revenue he is seeking.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/14/BUTQ1JTD7A.DTL&type=business\">Cap and trade rated higher than air alternatives\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Under orders from a judge, California air quality regulators released a study Monday of potential greenhouse-gas-cutting measures, including alternatives to a controversial cap-and-trade system due to begin operations in the state next year. But the analysis, from the California Air Resources Board, still gives cap and trade higher marks than any of the alternatives, including a carbon tax. As a result, the study is unlikely to settle the lingering debate over the state's cap-and-trade system, which will set a limit on greenhouse gas emissions and create a market for trading the right to produce those gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/crime/story/lawsuit-oakland-police-violated-mesherle/\">Lawsuit: Oakland Police Violated Mesherle Protesters' Rights\u003c/a> (Bay City News)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A class action lawsuit was filed against the Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office today alleging that they violated the rights of 150 people who were arrested after former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was sentenced last Nov. 5. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court only hours after Mesherle, 29, was released from the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail at about 12:30 a.m. today.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/06/san-franciscos-pension-reform-turning-pricey-duel\">San Francisco's pension reform turning into a pricey duel\u003c/a> (SF Examiner)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the battle over pension reform in San Francisco, two high-profile millionaires are throwing their names — and their money — at a controversial measure proposed by Public Defender Jeff Adachi that is opposed by labor unions. Businessman George Hume and venture capitalist Michael Moritz have already donated $450,000 to Adachi’s campaign to reform city workers’ retirement benefits, according to paperwork filed last week. 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The BART \"tunnel\" between Oakland and San Francisco is actually not really a tunnel, but a pre-constructed tube that sits on the bay floor.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_18265264\">Bey brother released from jail after meeting terms of plea bargain\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A half brother of convicted killer and former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV has been freed from jail after spending nearly four years in custody -- a term that exceeded the conditions of a plea bargain he agreed to in 2008. Joshua Bey, 23, was the first of Bey IV's followers to strike a deal with prosecutors. 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