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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco could launch a major makeover of its voting systems this year, an effort that supporters say will lead to cheaper, more transparent elections in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Supervisor Scott Wiener will call for a Board of Supervisors hearing into the city's efforts to adopt a voting system that would use off-the-shelf hardware and open-source software. Elections officials, politicians and voter-participation activists have all touted such publicly owned balloting systems as cheaper and more trustworthy than using products supplied by private vendors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to set a trend here and around the country toward more open and transparent voting systems,\" Wiener said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you rely on an outside vendor, it's their technology which is proprietary and confidential, and the public really doesn't have access to the code that they're relying on,\" said Wiener, who's running for state Senate. \"It's very 'black box,' so we just have to have faith that their machines are producing accurate results.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Jerdonek, vice president of the San Francisco Elections Commission, is also a proponent of open-source voting systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a huge opportunity and San Francisco has a chance to take a real leadership role,\" Jerdonek said in an interview. If the city succeeds in building and certifying an open-source system, other counties and states could follow suit, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live in the center of technology innovation, and every successful startup or technology company uses a lot of open source. And government is pretty much the only part of our society that doesn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting equipment companies do not want local governments to move in that direction. They say their software is more secure and that open-source systems would make it easier for people to hack into elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years Dominion Voting, formerly known as Sequoia Voting, has supplied the city's elections hardware and software and made its staff available to support using those programs. But its contract expires at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's certainly a threat to our business,\" Steven Bennett, the company's regional sales manager, said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Dominion plans to fight to keep its contract with San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, we will be a lower-cost solution to the city, \" Bennett said. \"Our new voting system has a tremendous amount of efficiency that cuts the cost and increases the transparency of running an election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for open source say it allows the public to see the computer code used for vote-counting and to point out its flaws. While its proponents say that leads to more secure systems, some \u003ca href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/article/six-open-source-security-myths-debunked-and-eight-real-challenges-to-consider/\" target=\"_blank\">experts \u003c/a>say there's no evidence that having more eyes on a voting system makes it less susceptible to cyber attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No local government in the country has fully implemented open-source voting. Los Angeles County and Travis County, Texas, are working to build their own voting systems, but they have yet to commit to open source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerdonek says that many jurisdictions have been reluctant to move forward on the idea because of its initial costs and the work their elections agencies would need to accomplish to satisfy state and federal certifications. \"There's an inertia to stay with closed source,\" Jerdonek said. \"It takes a real vision and leadership to do something new.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Arntz, the city's director of elections, supports the idea of an open-source voting system, but says he's concerned that there's no other jurisdiction it can model its program after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing in a new system is never easy,\" Arntz said in an interview. \"It's not simple. It's not like you just plug it in and you're done. It's a culture change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the governor signed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB360\" target=\"_blank\">SB360\u003c/a> which, among other things, encouraged the development of voting systems that have more accessible source code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago the Board of Supervisors passed a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3421958&GUID=7615B01B-0CEF-4D1C-8BF4-FE23BEB15182\" target=\"_blank\">resolution\u003c/a> that required the city to study open-source voting. Last November, the Department of Elections approved a \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/electionscommission/sites/default/files/Documents/Miscellaneous/Elections_Comm_Open_Source_Voting_Res.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">plan\u003c/a> asking the mayor and the board to start and fund the work. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a huge opportunity and San Francisco has a chance to take a real leadership role,\" Jerdonek said in an interview. If the city succeeds in building and certifying an open-source system, other counties and states could follow suit, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We live in the center of technology innovation, and every successful startup or technology company uses a lot of open source. And government is pretty much the only part of our society that doesn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voting equipment companies do not want local governments to move in that direction. They say their software is more secure and that open-source systems would make it easier for people to hack into elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years Dominion Voting, formerly known as Sequoia Voting, has supplied the city's elections hardware and software and made its staff available to support using those programs. But its contract expires at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's certainly a threat to our business,\" Steven Bennett, the company's regional sales manager, said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that Dominion plans to fight to keep its contract with San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, we will be a lower-cost solution to the city, \" Bennett said. \"Our new voting system has a tremendous amount of efficiency that cuts the cost and increases the transparency of running an election.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for open source say it allows the public to see the computer code used for vote-counting and to point out its flaws. While its proponents say that leads to more secure systems, some \u003ca href=\"http://www.zdnet.com/article/six-open-source-security-myths-debunked-and-eight-real-challenges-to-consider/\" target=\"_blank\">experts \u003c/a>say there's no evidence that having more eyes on a voting system makes it less susceptible to cyber attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No local government in the country has fully implemented open-source voting. Los Angeles County and Travis County, Texas, are working to build their own voting systems, but they have yet to commit to open source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerdonek says that many jurisdictions have been reluctant to move forward on the idea because of its initial costs and the work their elections agencies would need to accomplish to satisfy state and federal certifications. \"There's an inertia to stay with closed source,\" Jerdonek said. \"It takes a real vision and leadership to do something new.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Arntz, the city's director of elections, supports the idea of an open-source voting system, but says he's concerned that there's no other jurisdiction it can model its program after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing in a new system is never easy,\" Arntz said in an interview. \"It's not simple. It's not like you just plug it in and you're done. It's a culture change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the governor signed \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB360\" target=\"_blank\">SB360\u003c/a> which, among other things, encouraged the development of voting systems that have more accessible source code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over a year ago the Board of Supervisors passed a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3421958&GUID=7615B01B-0CEF-4D1C-8BF4-FE23BEB15182\" target=\"_blank\">resolution\u003c/a> that required the city to study open-source voting. Last November, the Department of Elections approved a \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/electionscommission/sites/default/files/Documents/Miscellaneous/Elections_Comm_Open_Source_Voting_Res.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">plan\u003c/a> asking the mayor and the board to start and fund the work. Arntz said the agency plans to submit a budget request to Mayor Ed Lee at the end of the month, proposing spending $2.3 million toward an open-source system.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco plans to keep up its \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1105\" target=\"_blank\">pace of street renovations \u003c/a>in 2016 as long-awaited transit and safety projects begin construction on some of the city's busiest and most dangerous corridors for traffic deaths and injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring and summer, work is scheduled to get underway on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/van-ness-corridor-transit-improvement-project\" target=\"_blank\">Van Ness\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1765\" target=\"_blank\">Masonic\u003c/a> avenues, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/polk-streetscape-project\" target=\"_blank\">Polk\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1489\" target=\"_blank\">Second\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1753\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1696\" target=\"_blank\">Irving\u003c/a> streets. Construction is already underway on \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1789\" target=\"_blank\">Mansell\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1673\" target=\"_blank\">Potrero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many San Franciscans have become begrudgingly accustomed to the disruptions and detours caused by the city's ongoing construction boom. The message from public works officials to residents and businesses on upcoming street work is that the short-term pain will be worth the long-term gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Public Works, said city officials are about to begin door-to-door outreach to merchants in business districts where construction later this year is likely to cause some pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re not going to be happy with us, but we want to make it so they’re not angry with us,\" said Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some streets, such as Van Ness Avenue, the renovations will take up to two years, but public works and transportation officials hope to minimize the impact by tearing up small segments at a time. Crews will also be replacing century-old water and sewage pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects will likely cause disruptions for Muni riders and drivers, along with ongoing construction. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is working on traffic and transit management plans in an effort to lessen delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon said city officials plan to work with residents and merchants to address concerns before, during and after construction, similar to the process used during the renovation of Castro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10831637\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Crews work on the Castro streetscape project in 2014. City officials say lessons learned during this project will inform future efforts to help merchants deal with disruptions during street construction.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews work on the Castro streetscape project in 2014. City officials say lessons learned during this project will inform future efforts to help merchants deal with disruptions during street construction. \u003ccite>( \u003ca href=\"%E2%80%9Chttps://www.flickr.com/photos/gazeronly/%E2%80%9D\">torbakhopper/Flickr\u003c/a>.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel Bergerac, president of Castro Merchants, said public works officials were \"very responsive and went the extra mile to make concessions and work around the merchants' schedule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my business and merchant members feel that the construction was long and arduous, but the payoff is that we have beautiful sidewalks,\" said Bergerac. \"I like that we've reclaimed part of the streets from cars for the pedestrians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have already heard from many concerned merchants along the corridors, said Joaquin Torres, deputy director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said the city has a program to offer some assistance, such as loans and grants to merchant or neighborhood organizations for a marketing blitz that lets customers know businesses are open during construction. He said city officials are trying to improve the process with each new street project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we're coordinating in the right way, if we're supporting in the right way and we're responsive in the right way, we can make it go a little faster and make the experience a little bit better,\" said Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main issue for many merchants is parking, said Henry Karnilowicz, the president of the San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations. At least, that's what he said he's hearing from some merchant groups on corridors scheduled for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people can't shop and can't park, then most of the time they'll give up and they'll go somewhere else,\" said Karnilowicz, although he acknowledged that many people don't drive to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Polk Street, a \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/03/29/85-percent-of-people-on-polk-street-arrive-without-a-car/\">2013 survey found\u003c/a> that a majority of people walk, take Muni or bike to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madeleine Savit, a safe streets advocate who fought for the Polk Street improvements and heads up the group Folks for Polk, said the city should help merchants develop business plans and potentially provide low-cost loans and other financial support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no single aspect of this project or other projects that will make or break the vitality of the corridor. It's an accumulation of changes, and the more median and long-term planning we can do, the stronger that will be,\" Savit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most anticipated projects will be along a 2-mile stretch of Van Ness Avenue, where construction is scheduled to start in March on bus rapid transit, which has been in the works for nearly a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it's complete, new low-floor Muni buses will glide along red transit lanes in the center of the street, next to a landscaped median, free of car traffic. Transportation officials say it will reduce travel times by 32 percent, and boost the number of riders from 16,000 to 22,000 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The makeover is also expected to transform the dangerous corridor into a much friendlier street for pedestrians. Over the years the busy, wide avenue has been the scene of a number of fatal and serious injury collisions involving pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10834875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 725px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10834875 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-16-at-1.48.04-PM.png\" alt=\"2nd Street rendering \" width=\"725\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-16-at-1.48.04-PM.png 725w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-16-at-1.48.04-PM-400x302.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second Street is scheduled to get raised, protected bike lanes and wider sidewalks. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Public Works )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the projects are on streets that have been identified as high-injury corridors under the city's Vision Zero program, which has a goal of ending all traffic deaths by 2024. Along with wider sidewalks, enhanced crosswalks and new lights and landscaping on some streets, busy corridors like Masonic, Polk and Second will get some \u003ca href=\"http://www.peopleforbikes.org/green-lane-project/pages/protected-bike-lanes-101\" target=\"_blank\">protected bike lanes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe streets advocates say they are excited projects are finally nearing construction after being mired in red tape for years. When crews break ground on\u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2011/05/06/how-many-deaths-will-it-take-to-fix-masonic-avenue/\" target=\"_blank\"> Masonic Avenue\u003c/a> in July, it will have taken more than a decade to see the hard-won project become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Making Masonic safe means fixing a deadly street, and it's long overdue,\" said Chris Cassidy of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. \"We're hopeful that safety improvements slated for Second and Polk Streets don't also fall victim to our city's tradition of bureaucratic delays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most recent delays have involved appeals by groups opposed to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/trees-historic-trolley-polls-to-be-removed-for-bus-project/\" target=\"_blank\">removal of trees along Van Ness\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/09/03/human-life-wins-masonic-ave-redesign-survives-tree-removal-appeal/\" target=\"_blank\">Masonic\u003c/a> avenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco, said the organization will be excited to see these projects come to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're really fantastic examples of how we can re-envision our streets as shared public spaces for everyone to enjoy,\" said Ferrara. \"These projects will demonstrate that multiple benefits -- from safety, to walkability, to transit reliability -- don't have to be at odds.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco plans to keep up its \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1105\" target=\"_blank\">pace of street renovations \u003c/a>in 2016 as long-awaited transit and safety projects begin construction on some of the city's busiest and most dangerous corridors for traffic deaths and injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This spring and summer, work is scheduled to get underway on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/van-ness-corridor-transit-improvement-project\" target=\"_blank\">Van Ness\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1765\" target=\"_blank\">Masonic\u003c/a> avenues, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/polk-streetscape-project\" target=\"_blank\">Polk\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1489\" target=\"_blank\">Second\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1753\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1696\" target=\"_blank\">Irving\u003c/a> streets. Construction is already underway on \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1789\" target=\"_blank\">Mansell\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1673\" target=\"_blank\">Potrero\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many San Franciscans have become begrudgingly accustomed to the disruptions and detours caused by the city's ongoing construction boom. The message from public works officials to residents and businesses on upcoming street work is that the short-term pain will be worth the long-term gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Public Works, said city officials are about to begin door-to-door outreach to merchants in business districts where construction later this year is likely to cause some pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re not going to be happy with us, but we want to make it so they’re not angry with us,\" said Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On some streets, such as Van Ness Avenue, the renovations will take up to two years, but public works and transportation officials hope to minimize the impact by tearing up small segments at a time. Crews will also be replacing century-old water and sewage pipes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The projects will likely cause disruptions for Muni riders and drivers, along with ongoing construction. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is working on traffic and transit management plans in an effort to lessen delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon said city officials plan to work with residents and merchants to address concerns before, during and after construction, similar to the process used during the renovation of Castro Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10831637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10831637\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b.jpg\" alt=\"Crews work on the Castro streetscape project in 2014. City officials say lessons learned during this project will inform future efforts to help merchants deal with disruptions during street construction.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/14897327066_af468ac1a4_b-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crews work on the Castro streetscape project in 2014. City officials say lessons learned during this project will inform future efforts to help merchants deal with disruptions during street construction. \u003ccite>( \u003ca href=\"%E2%80%9Chttps://www.flickr.com/photos/gazeronly/%E2%80%9D\">torbakhopper/Flickr\u003c/a>.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Daniel Bergerac, president of Castro Merchants, said public works officials were \"very responsive and went the extra mile to make concessions and work around the merchants' schedule.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most of my business and merchant members feel that the construction was long and arduous, but the payoff is that we have beautiful sidewalks,\" said Bergerac. \"I like that we've reclaimed part of the streets from cars for the pedestrians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have already heard from many concerned merchants along the corridors, said Joaquin Torres, deputy director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said the city has a program to offer some assistance, such as loans and grants to merchant or neighborhood organizations for a marketing blitz that lets customers know businesses are open during construction. He said city officials are trying to improve the process with each new street project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we're coordinating in the right way, if we're supporting in the right way and we're responsive in the right way, we can make it go a little faster and make the experience a little bit better,\" said Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main issue for many merchants is parking, said Henry Karnilowicz, the president of the San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations. At least, that's what he said he's hearing from some merchant groups on corridors scheduled for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people can't shop and can't park, then most of the time they'll give up and they'll go somewhere else,\" said Karnilowicz, although he acknowledged that many people don't drive to shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Polk Street, a \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/03/29/85-percent-of-people-on-polk-street-arrive-without-a-car/\">2013 survey found\u003c/a> that a majority of people walk, take Muni or bike to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madeleine Savit, a safe streets advocate who fought for the Polk Street improvements and heads up the group Folks for Polk, said the city should help merchants develop business plans and potentially provide low-cost loans and other financial support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no single aspect of this project or other projects that will make or break the vitality of the corridor. It's an accumulation of changes, and the more median and long-term planning we can do, the stronger that will be,\" Savit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most anticipated projects will be along a 2-mile stretch of Van Ness Avenue, where construction is scheduled to start in March on bus rapid transit, which has been in the works for nearly a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it's complete, new low-floor Muni buses will glide along red transit lanes in the center of the street, next to a landscaped median, free of car traffic. Transportation officials say it will reduce travel times by 32 percent, and boost the number of riders from 16,000 to 22,000 a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The makeover is also expected to transform the dangerous corridor into a much friendlier street for pedestrians. Over the years the busy, wide avenue has been the scene of a number of fatal and serious injury collisions involving pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10834875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 725px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10834875 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-16-at-1.48.04-PM.png\" alt=\"2nd Street rendering \" width=\"725\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-16-at-1.48.04-PM.png 725w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-16-at-1.48.04-PM-400x302.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second Street is scheduled to get raised, protected bike lanes and wider sidewalks. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Public Works )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the projects are on streets that have been identified as high-injury corridors under the city's Vision Zero program, which has a goal of ending all traffic deaths by 2024. Along with wider sidewalks, enhanced crosswalks and new lights and landscaping on some streets, busy corridors like Masonic, Polk and Second will get some \u003ca href=\"http://www.peopleforbikes.org/green-lane-project/pages/protected-bike-lanes-101\" target=\"_blank\">protected bike lanes.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safe streets advocates say they are excited projects are finally nearing construction after being mired in red tape for years. When crews break ground on\u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2011/05/06/how-many-deaths-will-it-take-to-fix-masonic-avenue/\" target=\"_blank\"> Masonic Avenue\u003c/a> in July, it will have taken more than a decade to see the hard-won project become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Making Masonic safe means fixing a deadly street, and it's long overdue,\" said Chris Cassidy of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. \"We're hopeful that safety improvements slated for Second and Polk Streets don't also fall victim to our city's tradition of bureaucratic delays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the most recent delays have involved appeals by groups opposed to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/trees-historic-trolley-polls-to-be-removed-for-bus-project/\" target=\"_blank\">removal of trees along Van Ness\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/09/03/human-life-wins-masonic-ave-redesign-survives-tree-removal-appeal/\" target=\"_blank\">Masonic\u003c/a> avenues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicole Ferrara, executive director of Walk San Francisco, said the organization will be excited to see these projects come to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener says the city needs to find a prompt and \"humane\" way to eliminate tent encampments that house a growing number of homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing presence of tent camps in San Francisco \"represents our city's failure to provide adequate housing/shelter and assistance for those who want help, as well as a failure to make clear to those who refuse help that tents on our sidewalks and in our public spaces are unacceptable\" Wiener wrote in a letter last week (\u003ca href=\"#wienerletter\">embedded below\u003c/a>) to the heads of six city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tents are a public safety and a public health problem for the people living in them and for our neighborhoods,\" Wiener added in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His remarks provoked outrage from one of the city's leading homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My chin dropped,\" said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"xV8J32tslxHUmn5TxTbqPm5e9UppY3gz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was in particular bad taste given how much people are suffering,\" Friedenbach said. \"He's talking about ripping those tents from people who have no other choice but to sleep on the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tents give the homeless cover from the rain, Friedenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking away people's tents right now in the middle of these storms, that's about as mean-spirited as you can get,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other requests, Wiener is asking city agencies for an estimate of how many tents are on the streets and the number of people living in them. While tents have appeared on city streets for decades, city officials say the number has grown in recent years and the onset of this winter's rains has expanded their presence even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission alone, tent encampments have grown along parts of Division, Cesar Chavez, Vermont, 13th and 16th streets, as well as San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has increased the visibility of San Francisco's homeless but does not necessarily mean a large increase in the population of people living on the streets. There were 6,686 homeless people in San Francisco at the beginning of 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">last year's count\u003c/a>. That's up 250 from two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who as director of Mayor Ed Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=907\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement\u003c/a> is the city's point man on homeless issues, says his counterparts in Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle have noticed similar growth in tent encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says he's not talking about bulldozing the tents. Instead, he wants the city to create a plan to transition homeless people living in tents into shelters or other forms of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tents need to go away as part of that process,\" he said. \"It's not an acceptable state of affairs and we need to put an end to it in a very humane way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and other city officials say San Francisco needs more facilities like the Navigation Center in the Mission district, a service center that aims to provide homeless people with permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10844046\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10844046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-400x408.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Scott Wiener says a constituent emailed this picture of a propane tank inside a tent on a sidewalk near 16th and Pond streets. \" width=\"400\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-400x408.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-800x817.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-768x784.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-1440x1470.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-1920x1960.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-1180x1204.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-960x980.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Scott Wiener says a constituent emailed this picture of a propane tank inside a tent on a sidewalk near 16th and Pond streets. \u003ccite>(Supervisor Scott Wiener )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It makes sense that homeless people would use tents for cover from the rain, Dodge said, but they can make people living on the street more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen at least four different times where someone burnt out someone else's tent,\" Dodge said. \"I've heard reports of women living in the streets and being assaulted in their tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Allison Sparrow, a 33-year-old homeless woman, was \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/shooting-claims-33-year-old-womans-life-in-sf-mission/\" target=\"_blank\">an apparent homicide victim\u003c/a> in a tent near 16th and Harrison streets on Dec. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say there are beds in shelters that are not always used at night that could serve homeless people now living in tents. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener says the city needs to find a prompt and \"humane\" way to eliminate tent encampments that house a growing number of homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growing presence of tent camps in San Francisco \"represents our city's failure to provide adequate housing/shelter and assistance for those who want help, as well as a failure to make clear to those who refuse help that tents on our sidewalks and in our public spaces are unacceptable\" Wiener wrote in a letter last week (\u003ca href=\"#wienerletter\">embedded below\u003c/a>) to the heads of six city agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These tents are a public safety and a public health problem for the people living in them and for our neighborhoods,\" Wiener added in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His remarks provoked outrage from one of the city's leading homeless advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My chin dropped,\" said Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought it was in particular bad taste given how much people are suffering,\" Friedenbach said. \"He's talking about ripping those tents from people who have no other choice but to sleep on the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tents give the homeless cover from the rain, Friedenbach said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking away people's tents right now in the middle of these storms, that's about as mean-spirited as you can get,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other requests, Wiener is asking city agencies for an estimate of how many tents are on the streets and the number of people living in them. While tents have appeared on city streets for decades, city officials say the number has grown in recent years and the onset of this winter's rains has expanded their presence even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Mission alone, tent encampments have grown along parts of Division, Cesar Chavez, Vermont, 13th and 16th streets, as well as San Bruno Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has increased the visibility of San Francisco's homeless but does not necessarily mean a large increase in the population of people living on the streets. There were 6,686 homeless people in San Francisco at the beginning of 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">last year's count\u003c/a>. That's up 250 from two years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Dodge, who as director of Mayor Ed Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=907\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement\u003c/a> is the city's point man on homeless issues, says his counterparts in Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle have noticed similar growth in tent encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener says he's not talking about bulldozing the tents. Instead, he wants the city to create a plan to transition homeless people living in tents into shelters or other forms of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tents need to go away as part of that process,\" he said. \"It's not an acceptable state of affairs and we need to put an end to it in a very humane way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and other city officials say San Francisco needs more facilities like the Navigation Center in the Mission district, a service center that aims to provide homeless people with permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10844046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10844046\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10844046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-400x408.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Scott Wiener says a constituent emailed this picture of a propane tank inside a tent on a sidewalk near 16th and Pond streets. \" width=\"400\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-400x408.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-800x817.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-768x784.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-1440x1470.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-1920x1960.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-1180x1204.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-960x980.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/propanetentIMG_0744-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Scott Wiener says a constituent emailed this picture of a propane tank inside a tent on a sidewalk near 16th and Pond streets. \u003ccite>(Supervisor Scott Wiener )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It makes sense that homeless people would use tents for cover from the rain, Dodge said, but they can make people living on the street more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've seen at least four different times where someone burnt out someone else's tent,\" Dodge said. \"I've heard reports of women living in the streets and being assaulted in their tents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Allison Sparrow, a 33-year-old homeless woman, was \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2015/12/shooting-claims-33-year-old-womans-life-in-sf-mission/\" target=\"_blank\">an apparent homicide victim\u003c/a> in a tent near 16th and Harrison streets on Dec. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say there are beds in shelters that are not always used at night that could serve homeless people now living in tents. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco has succeeded in firing a subcontractor whose workers repeatedly breached natural gas lines and disrupted a major infrastructure project in the city’s Haight neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, Synergy Project Management, was also involved in several episodes that raised questions about its safety practices — including one in which workers dangled a foreman head first into a Haight Street manhole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, a city administrative hearing officer rejected an appeal by \u003ca href=\"http://synergypm.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Synergy\u003c/a> months after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/09/san-francisco-halts-construction-project-after-repeated-gas-leaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Public Works halted\u003c/a> a $13.7 million job involving sewage replacement, street repaving and water main installations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the agency first tried to remove Synergy from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project,\u003c/a> the company appealed, leading to a hearing in early December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firing a company working on a public works job is rare, the city says. “I’m not aware of this happening on a street excavation project [in the past],” Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about freakin’ time,” Board of Supervisors President London Breed, who represents the Haight, said in an email after learning of the hearing officer’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Synergy’s president reacted angrily to the city’s move and said he’s contemplating a lawsuit against the city and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company contends the repeated breaches of gas distribution lines — five in all — happened because PG&E had not provided accurate information about their locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Synergy is being made a scapegoat for PG&E’s inaccurate and incomplete information about where the gas lines are,” Javad Mirsaidi said in an email to KQED. “It’s not fair to blame Synergy for all of the problems on the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has disputed that claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10830324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10830324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-1440x811.jpg\" alt=\"construction site\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite.jpg 1574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at Haight Street construction site on July 21, 2015. (San Francisco Public Works)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Work on the Haight Street project began late last April. Two days into the work, Synergy employees hit a 2-inch plastic gas line at Haight Street and Masonic Avenue as they dug into the pavement. The resulting leak led the Fire Department to evacuate nearby businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early October, Synergy crews hit gas lines four more times, prompting street closures, shelter-in-place orders for local businesses and gas outages for some customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S.F. Public Works stopped work on the project in mid-September after the third gas leak and again after the fifth leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing officer, Tim Leung, found that at least four of the leaks were the result of Synergy’s unsafe practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung also found that the company “improperly shored trenches on multiple occasions, which could have led to street collapse, trench collapse, and the injury or death of workers or members to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incident, city officials said, put Synergy workers in grave danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That episode occurred around 8:30 p.m. last July 21, when Synergy employees decided they needed to remove a plug that had been left in a sewer line. Several company employees opened up a manhole at Haight and Pierce streets. Then two of them dangled a project foreman into the manhole by holding onto his ankles. That scene is shown in a picture provided to Public Works by Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident took place just after sunset, and Public Works says workers didn’t attempt to provide traffic control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That one incident was extremely disturbing on a number of fronts,” department spokeswoman Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA did not investigate the incident because no one filed a complaint or referred the case, agency spokesman Julia Bernstein said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state workplace regulator did cite Synergy last year when an employee was hurt in an incident involving an excavator at a project at Fourth and Harrison streets. Cal/OSHA issued a $5,150 fine that’s been appealed, Bernstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later a pedestrian slipped and fell on a forklift that Synergy left sitting on a wheelchair ramp at Haight Street and Buena Vista Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main contractor on the project is \u003ca href=\"http://ghilottibros.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghilotti Bros.\u003c/a>, a century-old firm based in San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Ghilotti, the company’s president and co-owner, supported Synergy during the city’s administrative hearing and argued that the city had no right to kick the subcontractor off the job and that the firm did its work exactly as the city instructed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghilotti noted that the city must have been happy with the work because it made a progress payment to the company three days before it asked that Synergy be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Synergy’s Mirsaidi testified that his company provided extra training and safety communication to its workers. But he described the episode involving a worker being dangled inside a manhole as “unexcusable” and said he took full responsibility for the pedestrian tripping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirsaidi says he believes the hearing officer, a city employee, was biased. Public Works spokeswoman Gordon describes the officer as “independent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the department sent a letter to Ghilotti Bros. asking the firm to submit a list of potential new subcontractors to replace Synergy by this Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon said the department wants the project restarted soon and emphasized the new subcontractor would need to follow stringent safety rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Ghilotti Bros. said the company has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works wants the rest of the industry to take notice of the firing. “Is it a message to the contracting community? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about freakin’ time,” Board of Supervisors President London Breed, who represents the Haight, said in an email after learning of the hearing officer’s decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Synergy’s president reacted angrily to the city’s move and said he’s contemplating a lawsuit against the city and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company contends the repeated breaches of gas distribution lines — five in all — happened because PG&E had not provided accurate information about their locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Synergy is being made a scapegoat for PG&E’s inaccurate and incomplete information about where the gas lines are,” Javad Mirsaidi said in an email to KQED. “It’s not fair to blame Synergy for all of the problems on the job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E has disputed that claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10830324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10830324\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-1440x811.jpg\" alt=\"construction site\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/constructionsite.jpg 1574w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at Haight Street construction site on July 21, 2015. 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Public Works stopped work on the project in mid-September after the third gas leak and again after the fifth leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing officer, Tim Leung, found that at least four of the leaks were the result of Synergy’s unsafe practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leung also found that the company “improperly shored trenches on multiple occasions, which could have led to street collapse, trench collapse, and the injury or death of workers or members to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incident, city officials said, put Synergy workers in grave danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That episode occurred around 8:30 p.m. last July 21, when Synergy employees decided they needed to remove a plug that had been left in a sewer line. Several company employees opened up a manhole at Haight and Pierce streets. Then two of them dangled a project foreman into the manhole by holding onto his ankles. That scene is shown in a picture provided to Public Works by Muni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident took place just after sunset, and Public Works says workers didn’t attempt to provide traffic control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That one incident was extremely disturbing on a number of fronts,” department spokeswoman Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA did not investigate the incident because no one filed a complaint or referred the case, agency spokesman Julia Bernstein said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state workplace regulator did cite Synergy last year when an employee was hurt in an incident involving an excavator at a project at Fourth and Harrison streets. Cal/OSHA issued a $5,150 fine that’s been appealed, Bernstein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week later a pedestrian slipped and fell on a forklift that Synergy left sitting on a wheelchair ramp at Haight Street and Buena Vista Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main contractor on the project is \u003ca href=\"http://ghilottibros.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghilotti Bros.\u003c/a>, a century-old firm based in San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Ghilotti, the company’s president and co-owner, supported Synergy during the city’s administrative hearing and argued that the city had no right to kick the subcontractor off the job and that the firm did its work exactly as the city instructed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghilotti noted that the city must have been happy with the work because it made a progress payment to the company three days before it asked that Synergy be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Synergy’s Mirsaidi testified that his company provided extra training and safety communication to its workers. But he described the episode involving a worker being dangled inside a manhole as “unexcusable” and said he took full responsibility for the pedestrian tripping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirsaidi says he believes the hearing officer, a city employee, was biased. Public Works spokeswoman Gordon describes the officer as “independent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the department sent a letter to Ghilotti Bros. asking the firm to submit a list of potential new subcontractors to replace Synergy by this Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon said the department wants the project restarted soon and emphasized the new subcontractor would need to follow stringent safety rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for Ghilotti Bros. said the company has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Works wants the rest of the industry to take notice of the firing. “Is it a message to the contracting community? 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"content": "\u003cp>A closely divided Board of Supervisors has passed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/proposed-bike-yield-law-passes-first-test-at-san-francisco-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\">an ordinance\u003c/a> that would direct police to make ticketing bicyclists who safely roll through stop signs their lowest priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's 6-5 vote to approve the ordinance by Supervisor John Avalos was two votes shy of the supermajority needed to override Mayor Ed Lee's threatened veto. The ordinance is expected to pass a second reading Jan. 12. Lee would then have until Jan. 22 to veto it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos' \"San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy\" would not legalize rolling stops and does not discourage police from ticketing cyclists. Bicyclists would still be required to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and vehicles at intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nobody condones unsafe bicycling by cyclists, but common-sense enforcement of the law would make our streets safer and more predictable,\" Avalos said before the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that strict enforcement of bicyclists who safely pedal through stop signs \"takes scarce enforcement away from more dangerous violations\" and \"is contrary to the way most bicyclists and drivers currently navigate intersections.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates say the San Francisco Police Department should be focused on dangerous drivers, who cause most serious injuries and fatalities on the city's streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation was sparked by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/17/san-francisco-police-plan-crackdown-on-bicyclists-on-popular-routes\" target=\"_blank\">an ongoing crackdown\u003c/a> of bicyclists who roll through stop signs along The Wiggle, the popular, non-hilly route between Market Street and Golden Gate Park. At one point, hundreds of bike riders held a protest along the route to prove that having every cyclist stop at every stop sign slows traffic and causes more congestion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener, a co-sponsor, said it was unrealistic to expect that bicyclists were going to stop at every stop sign, especially on streets where there is little traffic and \"so little risk of anything happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cyclists are not going to stop at every single intersection, and that is the reality of the world, not just in San Francisco, but in every city that I have ever seen. It is a fantasy for us to think they are going to do so,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Avalos cited the example of a cyclist, Katrina Sostek, who said she was recently given a ticket on The Wiggle for rolling through a stop sign while riding less than 5 mph. The fine for the violation: $200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The time and effort the police spent giving me a ticket would have been far better spent focusing on legitimately unsafe drivers and cyclists,\" Sostek wrote in a letter to the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos noted that Vision Zero, the city's program to end all traffic deaths by 2024, requires police captains to focus traffic enforcement on the top five most dangerous intersections in their districts. None of those intersections, he said, are along The Wiggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors David Campos, London Breed, Jane Kim and Eric Mar also co-sponsored the ordinance and voted yes. Supervisors Malia Cohen, Mark Farrell, Aaron Peskin, Katie Tang and Norman Yee voted against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It sends a message to everybody in San Francisco that one mode of transportation in our city has a different set of rules than everybody else,\" said Farrell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disability advocates have been among the staunchest opponents. The Mayor's Disability Council opposed the legislation and said it would be \"counterproductive\" to Vision Zero. Some advocates worried it might endanger people with disabilities, a concern echoed at the meeting by Supervisor Cohen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this ordinance passes, it will potentially put them in harm's way,\" Cohen said. \"I have a real concern that this ordinance will confuse the issue and further create an even greater misunderstanding between cyclists, between drivers and also pedestrians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natalie Burdick with Walk San Francisco said the pedestrian advocacy organization has taken a neutral position because there are no data about how the bike yield law would impact pedestrian safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Walk SF did succeed in tacking on some amendments, including evaluating the effect on pedestrians and requiring that bicyclists slow to no more than 6 mph when approaching a stop sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would also require the Police Department to issue quarterly reports on traffic stops that would list the citation and mode of transportation for each offense and include a breakdown of stops by race or ethnicity, age and sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/09/28/mayor-lee-vows-to-veto-bike-yield-law/\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter to the board in September\u003c/a> saying he would veto the legislation: \"The so-called 'Idaho Stop', while expedient for some bicyclists, directly endangers pedestrians and other cyclists, and I cannot allow it to become law. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you rent in a newer San Francisco building -- anything built since 1979 -- your landlords can raise your rent as much as they want. Supervisor Aaron Peskin says that means even people who can afford one of San Francisco's expensive new apartments may eventually be priced out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of the big buildings that are being built today are not subject to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sftu.org/rentcontrol/\">rent control\u003c/a>,\" says Peskin. \"And, even if you're paying top dollar, the next year, your rent can be raised another thousand dollars a month. It's not equitable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfaa.org/pdf/CAA-Insights-Costa-Hawkins-Rental-Housing-Act.pdf\">1995 state law\u003c/a> bars cities from expanding their rent-control laws. But Peskin, moving forward with \u003ca href=\"http://aaron2015.com/policy/#stop-evictions-and-protect-our-neighborhoods\" target=\"_blank\">a proposal\u003c/a> he made during his campaign for the District 3 seat on the Board of Supervisors, is exploring ways to expand rent control to newer buildings in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says the situation in the city today \"is not equitable. We have people who are in rent-control buildings and people who are not in rent-control buildings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, who was sworn in as a supervisor last week, says he will ask the City Attorney's Office to study an idea he thinks will get around the state ban on extending rent control. He wants to explore the possibility of imposing controls on new developments for which the city has granted some \"added benefit,\" such as adjustments in zoning to allow bigger or taller buildings than have previously existed at the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're proposing is that ... those new units be subject to rent control,\" Peskin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how many projects would be affected by the proposal, but Peskin estimated that as many as 30,000 units could become rent-controlled under his proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Iglesias, a University of San Francisco law professor who specializes in housing law, says the City Attorney's Office may well be receptive to Peskin's proposal. But even so, it will face some serious pushback from the housing industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And if it does get passed, I would immediately expect that they would bring a lawsuit to stop it,\" Iglesias said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Apartment Association endorsed Peskin, who's a landlord himself, even though his platform included expanded rent control. Janan New, the group's executive director, says it's too soon to say whether it will file suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she says, Peskin should ask the city controller to consider the economic downside to his proposal \"and what potential chilling effect that that would send to potential investors that want to come to San Francisco to do the right thing to build affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says owners of new buildings are making plenty from the high rents they're already charging. As for people who can afford what look like sky-high rents now, he says, they may be in for a shock when it's time to renew their leases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says he wants to get out ahead of what could be a future wave of displacement.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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