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The city said it had completed 33 Quick Build projects since 2019 and added more than 50 miles of safety enhancements on high-injury corridors. The SFMTA has also reset most of the city’s traffic signals to give pedestrians more time to cross streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Breed’s event on Thursday, SFMTA chief Jeffrey Tumlin said the city is facing two major challenges in working to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries: funding and local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the last four years, we lost $40 million a year from our capital budget, and we lost $240 million a year from our operating budget,” Tumlin said. He said he was “amazed” that agency staffers have managed to continue installing safe street infrastructure despite the scarcity of funds. But he added that the city urgently needs help from the state and federal governments, as well as city voters, to be able to achieve its safety goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin also pointed to the difficulty of dealing with local resistance to street infrastructure changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11956244,news_11929172,news_11958918\"]“In order to advance traffic safety, particularly for pedestrians, it means reordering the right of way, it means taking space away from someone else in order to advance safety,” Tumlin said. “And here in San Francisco, political trade-offs are challenging, and that is why we are so grateful to the mayor’s strong commitment for us to keep doing this work and to accelerate it, even when we run into people who complain about a loss of a few parking spaces or a loss of a lane of traffic to advance safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the initiatives Breed mentioned Thursday are programs the city has already embarked on and also include projects previously launched under state law or are steps officials promised long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-traffic-ban-right-turn-on-red-rules-18405065.php\">unanimously approved a resolution\u003c/a> last October asking the SFMTA to develop a plan for banning vehicles from making right turns on red lights at most city intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police vowed a decade ago to increase enforcement against speeding and other dangerous traffic offenses as part of the city’s Vision Zero campaign, though Police Department statistics show the overall number of citations officers have written has declined by more than 95% in the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jodie Medeiros, executive director of Walk San Francisco, thanked Breed during the event for observing the 10-year anniversary of Vision Zero “when it’s not yet a success story.” She added that there are many hopeful signs of change in the city, including the permanent conversion of John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park to a parkway for pedestrians and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready to work together to fight together like we did for JFK Promenade,” Medeiros said. “So we are also here asking Mayor Breed, we need your bold action during this very dark time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The initiatives — announced on the 10th anniversary of Vision Zero — include fewer intersections with right turns on red lights, beefed up police enforcement of the most dangerous infractions, and expedited completion of Muni projects.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711682507,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1000},"headData":{"title":"SF Mayor Breed Advances Citywide Traffic Safety Improvements in Wake of Deadly West Portal Collision | KQED","description":"The initiatives — announced on the 10th anniversary of Vision Zero — include fewer intersections with right turns on red lights, beefed up police enforcement of the most dangerous infractions, and expedited completion of Muni projects.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981195/in-wake-of-deadly-west-portal-collision-breed-announces-initiatives-to-improve-traffic-safety","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Amid lasting grief and shock after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-west-portal-crash-investigation-19256389.php\">March 16 vehicle crash\u003c/a> in which a driver killed a mother, father and their two young children outside Muni’s West Portal station, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced a series of initiatives meant to prevent a recurrence of such a tragedy and to spur progress in the city’s 10-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.visionzerosf.org/\">Vision Zero campaign\u003c/a> to end traffic fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures the mayor outlined Thursday at a midday conference outside City Hall include reducing the number of intersections where right turns are permitted on red lights, beefing up police enforcement of the most dangerous traffic infractions, and expediting the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s completion of urgent “Quick Build” safety projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond those immediate actions and others, Breed also noted that the city’s street infrastructure is badly outdated and needs “a complete overhaul, period” to make it safe for all users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our systems are long overdue for a physical modernization. And this is going to take a lot of time, a lot of resources, and a lot of understanding.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The mayor addressed the March 16 accident at the very beginning of her remarks. The family of four was waiting at the West Portal station when a 78-year-old driver who was going the wrong way sped through a sidewalk bus stop, crashing directly into them. Police are still investigating the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today is a moment for us to come together as a community in light of the tragedy that struck our city,” Breed said. “I don’t need to repeat the details of the moments to all of you — what happened, the pain, the terror, the hopelessness, the frustration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She thanked pedestrian and traffic safety advocates who responded by demanding the city treat the tragedy as an emergency requiring immediate action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment that we never want to live through again. Not just a family loss, but two lives of young people. Unimaginable,” Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also said she believes that the city needs to reimagine the role that streets play in the life of communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These streets were built for another time, a smaller population and designed for a world we no longer want to live in, where cars are prioritized and the only option,” she said. “Our systems are long overdue for a physical modernization. And this is going to take a lot of time, a lot of resources, and a lot of understanding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor also acknowledged that the city has done much to become safer despite the reality that dozens of people still die each year in traffic crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those accomplishments include instituting the SFMTA’s “Quick Build” program, which fast-tracks safety improvements in areas where there have been serious safety incidents. The city said it had completed 33 Quick Build projects since 2019 and added more than 50 miles of safety enhancements on high-injury corridors. The SFMTA has also reset most of the city’s traffic signals to give pedestrians more time to cross streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Breed’s event on Thursday, SFMTA chief Jeffrey Tumlin said the city is facing two major challenges in working to reduce traffic deaths and serious injuries: funding and local politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the last four years, we lost $40 million a year from our capital budget, and we lost $240 million a year from our operating budget,” Tumlin said. He said he was “amazed” that agency staffers have managed to continue installing safe street infrastructure despite the scarcity of funds. But he added that the city urgently needs help from the state and federal governments, as well as city voters, to be able to achieve its safety goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin also pointed to the difficulty of dealing with local resistance to street infrastructure changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11956244,news_11929172,news_11958918"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In order to advance traffic safety, particularly for pedestrians, it means reordering the right of way, it means taking space away from someone else in order to advance safety,” Tumlin said. “And here in San Francisco, political trade-offs are challenging, and that is why we are so grateful to the mayor’s strong commitment for us to keep doing this work and to accelerate it, even when we run into people who complain about a loss of a few parking spaces or a loss of a lane of traffic to advance safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the initiatives Breed mentioned Thursday are programs the city has already embarked on and also include projects previously launched under state law or are steps officials promised long ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-traffic-ban-right-turn-on-red-rules-18405065.php\">unanimously approved a resolution\u003c/a> last October asking the SFMTA to develop a plan for banning vehicles from making right turns on red lights at most city intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police vowed a decade ago to increase enforcement against speeding and other dangerous traffic offenses as part of the city’s Vision Zero campaign, though Police Department statistics show the overall number of citations officers have written has declined by more than 95% in the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jodie Medeiros, executive director of Walk San Francisco, thanked Breed during the event for observing the 10-year anniversary of Vision Zero “when it’s not yet a success story.” She added that there are many hopeful signs of change in the city, including the permanent conversion of John F. Kennedy Drive in Golden Gate Park to a parkway for pedestrians and cyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ready to work together to fight together like we did for JFK Promenade,” Medeiros said. “So we are also here asking Mayor Breed, we need your bold action during this very dark time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981195/in-wake-of-deadly-west-portal-collision-breed-announces-initiatives-to-improve-traffic-safety","authors":["222","11897"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_23690","news_320","news_38","news_92","news_18120"],"featImg":"news_11981196","label":"news"},"news_11958604":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11958604","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11958604","score":null,"sort":[1692640857000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bridge-toll-increase-would-help-transit-how-much-will-it-hurt-commuters","title":"Bill to Raise Bay Area Bridge Tolls to Help Transit Put on Hold Amid Local Opposition","publishDate":1692640857,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bill to Raise Bay Area Bridge Tolls to Help Transit Put on Hold Amid Local Opposition | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, Aug. 21: \u003c/strong>State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced early Monday he’s “pausing” \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532\">SB 532\u003c/a>, a proposal to impose a $1.50 bridge toll increase to support Bay Area transit agencies facing a fiscal crisis because of pandemic-related ridership losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which would have required a two-thirds majority to pass both houses of the state Legislature, caused a split in the Bay Area’s Assembly and Senate delegations. Seven members joined Wiener as co-authors while half a dozen lawmakers from the region said they opposed the toll increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been trying to build more consensus within our Bay Area legislative delegation, and it became apparent last week that we did not have enough time to do the consensus building that we needed to do for this bill to be able to pass before the end of session,” Wiener told KQED in an interview Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he’ll work with Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City), one of the bill’s opponents, to consider new transit-funding proposals to help Bay Area transit agencies avoid service cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assemblymember Wilson and I have committed to each other that we will co-facilitate a process over the fall recess to try to come up with a solution,” Wiener said. “And the fact that I’m the author of this bill and she was a skeptic of the bill, that’s a powerful combination and she’s a very constructive partner. And I’m optimistic we’ll be able to get something done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said in a Monday interview that she recognizes the magnitude of the fiscal crisis facing transit agencies. But she said she opposed the toll increase because of its impact on drivers in her district — which includes Solano County and far eastern Contra Costa County — and because it would deliver little direct benefit to transit agencies there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, she said, a portion of tolls collected from drivers in a given county is reinvested in that county to support its public transit and other transportation needs. But that wouldn’t have been the case with SB 532.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this particular toll, it is need-based, and so it is going to those [transit agencies] that have the highest need currently,” Wilson said. “That’s BART, Muni and AC Transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that would mean that residents who currently drive because there are few robust public transit options in their communities would be put in the position of subsidizing agencies to which they have little access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I struggled with that quite a deal,” Wilson said, especially when tolls are already scheduled to increase from $7 to $8 per crossing in January 2025. The toll to help transit would have raised the fee to $9.50 through the end of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Muni spokesperson Erica Kato said the withdrawal of SB 532 was “very disappointing, and it’s a blow to our efforts to maintain Muni service after federal pandemic relief funds run out next year. But we’re going to keep fighting for the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on Muni every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART, whose elected board voted to support SB 532 in June, said it anticipates being involved in further discussions with Sen. Wiener and other legislators on funding ideas. Many who opposed the proposed toll increase were critical of the measure because it did not come along with formal guarantees that BART would improve its performance on public safety, cleanliness and fiscal accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BART will continue to work with legislators on accountability measures in the future,” a BART spokesperson said in an email. “BART staff will continue to offer our assistance to the Senator and other lawmakers as they work to find a consensus solution to this regional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART board member Debora Allen, who represents central Contra Costa County, had voted against supporting SB 532. She said the agency and the Legislature need to focus on long-term measures that address not only revenue needs but also deficits that will exceed $300 million a year after 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think SB 532 was the wrong approach for funding BART, and I am glad to see it being placed on hold because I think the Legislature and BART need to come together with a comprehensive plan for both funding and reducing spending,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, which has called on BART to make urgent improvements to passenger safety and overall customer experience, also applauded Wiener’s suspension of SB 532.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our transit operators to make the necessary structural changes to bring their operations and budgets in line with both today’s fiscal realities and the tectonic changes that decimated ridership and have kept riders away from our transit systems, including addressing crime, safety and cleanliness,” Jim Wunderman, the council’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “We can’t continue to fund unsustainable transit operations that aren’t meeting the needs of riders for a safe, convenient and seamless commute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Saturday, Aug. 19: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Bridge Toll Increase Would Help Transit. How Much Would It Hurt Drivers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that would impose a $1.50 toll increase on Bay Area bridges to provide emergency funding for BART, Muni and other transit operators has sparked a debate over whether the added charge will fall disproportionately on lower-income commuters already struggling with the region’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That issue was at the top of a list of concerns raised in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23919424/congressional-letter-on-sb-532-bridge-toll-increase.pdf\">a letter last month from seven Bay Area members of Congress (PDF)\u003c/a>, led by Rep. Mark De Saulnier (D-Walnut Creek), that urged Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders to oppose the bill. The Bay Area Council, a group counting 300 businesses and institutions as members, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/transportation/seven-bay-area-congressional-representatives-decry-bridge-toll-increase-as-not-in-best-interests-of-residents/\">expressed similar displeasure \u003c/a>with the toll increase bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532\">SB 532\u003c/a>, by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many employees now have the advantage to do their work from home,” the letter concluded. “There are others, the working people of the Bay Area, that don’t share this advantage, and the proposed toll hike comes straight out of their wallets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2023-08-16/who-will-be-helped-and-harmed-proposed-toll-increase-bay-area-bridges\">a new analysis from SPUR\u003c/a>, a regional planning and public policy think tank, challenges some of the assumptions behind that argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23919428/spur-analysis-who-will-be-helped-and-harmed-by-a-proposed-toll-increase-for-bay-area-bridges.pdf\">a report (PDF)\u003c/a> released this week, SPUR said a study of traffic patterns on the region’s seven state-owned bridges shows that two-thirds of drivers make just one toll crossing a week. That finding would mean those drivers’ weekly exposure to higher tolls would be limited to a single $1.50 charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also found just a small fraction of bridge users — 8% — cross more than one bridge per trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, SPUR said a side-by-side comparison of bridge users and BART passengers shows that, in general, those driving over the bridges have significantly higher incomes than people taking the train. At the same time, BART customers are more likely to be traveling to work than those crossing the toll bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken as a whole, SPUR says the analysis shows that those who drive across the bridges are more likely to be able to absorb the cost of the higher bridge tolls while lower-income transit users, like those who use BART, would lose out if a lack of funding forces agencies to slash service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis is based on modeling by Replica, a big-data firm with offices in Oakland that used census, toll payment, cell phone, credit card and other public and private information to create a “synthetic representation” of travel patterns.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sebastian Petty, transportation policy manager, SPUR\"]‘When you’re looking at the bridge and the people driving across it, a lot of those folks are not engaged in their day-to-day commute … It’s people making regional trips, people making occasional work trips, people going to the airport, people visiting, shopping.’[/pullquote]Sebastian Petty, transportation policy manager at SPUR, said in an interview he was surprised at the high number of drivers who make a toll crossing just once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re looking at the bridge and the people driving across it, a lot of those folks are not engaged in their day-to-day commute,” he said. “Certainly many of them are, but it’s not as though, you know, 80 out of 100 cars are doing their day-to-day commute trip. It’s people making regional trips, people making occasional work trips, people going to the airport, people visiting, shopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petty said the data in the report suggest a number of ways SB 532 could be amended to reduce the impact on lower-income drivers who make more frequent trips across the toll bridges. One way to do that, he said, was to cap the number of weekly toll crossings for which individual drivers would be charged the extra $1.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to make sure that you weren’t over cost-burdening lower-income folks who are working an in-person job and need to show up five days a week, you could still capture a significant majority of the bridge traffic if you were to cap the toll at something like a maximum of three crossings per week,” Petty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, drivers who must use two or more bridges could be given a “long-distance discount” and only charged for one toll crossing per trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 532 would hike tolls by $1.50 for five years starting next Jan. 1. Sen. Wiener says the increase would raise as much as $900 million for Bay Area transit operators who face major deficits beginning in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters include BART, AC Transit, public transportation advocacy groups, environmental activists, nine YIMBY chapters and the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. Seven state lawmakers from the region have signed on to the bill as co-authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has acknowledged the equity issue posed by the proposed toll increases and has amended his bill to direct the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to devise a program over the next two years to reduce the hike’s impact on lower-income drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that amendment has done little to soften the opposition from some elected officials. In addition to the seven House members who raised objections to the bill, several state lawmakers, mostly from outlying parts of the Bay Area, have also said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-lawmakers-oppose-raising-bridge-tolls-18176112.php\">they’re against the toll increase\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the chief concerns is that the $1.50 toll increase will come on top of a series of other increases \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11672904/bay-area-bridge-toll-increase-appears-headed-for-passage\">approved by Bay Area voters in 2018\u003c/a>. Regional Measure 3 has raised tolls on the Antioch, Benicia, Carquinez, Richmond-San Rafael, Bay, San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges to $7 over the last several years. If SB 532 passes, the rate will go up to $8.50 in January. And the next toll increase under RM3 will add a dollar to that on New Year’s Day 2025.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11952821,news_11942359,news_11954314\"]With the bill needing a two-thirds majority in both the state Assembly and Senate to pass, the split in the regional delegation raises questions about prospects for the bill’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council has been the leading voice in opposing the measure. Besides expressing concerns about the higher tolls’ impact on lower-income drivers, the group has insisted that public transit agencies must improve performance on a range of issues — including public safety, cleanliness, reliability and offering more “seamless” service for passengers — before new public funding is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the council’s attention has been focused on BART, with the group issuing several calls in recent months for the agency to toughen enforcement of passenger conduct rules and to speed up installation of a new generation of fare gates to deter those who enter the system without paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has responded by approving a 22% pay increase for its police force, a step meant to retain officers and help fill nearly 30 vacant positions in its Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ahead of a crucial Assembly Appropriations Committee vote on SB 532 this week, BART General Manager Robert Powers will host a ride-along with Sen. Wiener to show off the agency’s recent “safety, cleanliness and reliability improvements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ride-along will begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22, at Civic Center station and visit West Oakland station and the BART police “integrated security response center,” a facility that handles police dispatch calls and includes monitors for the system’s 4,000 surveillance cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The bill, which author Sen. Scott Wiener has 'paused' in the face of opposition, would have raised tolls on bridges by $1.50. A new analysis argued the impact on lower-income drivers would be limited.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692741450,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":2199},"headData":{"title":"Bill to Raise Bay Area Bridge Tolls to Help Transit Put on Hold Amid Local Opposition | KQED","description":"The bill, which author Sen. Scott Wiener has 'paused' in the face of opposition, would have raised tolls on bridges by $1.50. A new analysis argued the impact on lower-income drivers would be limited.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958604/bridge-toll-increase-would-help-transit-how-much-will-it-hurt-commuters","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday, Aug. 21: \u003c/strong>State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced early Monday he’s “pausing” \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532\">SB 532\u003c/a>, a proposal to impose a $1.50 bridge toll increase to support Bay Area transit agencies facing a fiscal crisis because of pandemic-related ridership losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, which would have required a two-thirds majority to pass both houses of the state Legislature, caused a split in the Bay Area’s Assembly and Senate delegations. Seven members joined Wiener as co-authors while half a dozen lawmakers from the region said they opposed the toll increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been trying to build more consensus within our Bay Area legislative delegation, and it became apparent last week that we did not have enough time to do the consensus building that we needed to do for this bill to be able to pass before the end of session,” Wiener told KQED in an interview Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said he’ll work with Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City), one of the bill’s opponents, to consider new transit-funding proposals to help Bay Area transit agencies avoid service cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Assemblymember Wilson and I have committed to each other that we will co-facilitate a process over the fall recess to try to come up with a solution,” Wiener said. “And the fact that I’m the author of this bill and she was a skeptic of the bill, that’s a powerful combination and she’s a very constructive partner. And I’m optimistic we’ll be able to get something done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson said in a Monday interview that she recognizes the magnitude of the fiscal crisis facing transit agencies. But she said she opposed the toll increase because of its impact on drivers in her district — which includes Solano County and far eastern Contra Costa County — and because it would deliver little direct benefit to transit agencies there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, she said, a portion of tolls collected from drivers in a given county is reinvested in that county to support its public transit and other transportation needs. But that wouldn’t have been the case with SB 532.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With this particular toll, it is need-based, and so it is going to those [transit agencies] that have the highest need currently,” Wilson said. “That’s BART, Muni and AC Transit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that would mean that residents who currently drive because there are few robust public transit options in their communities would be put in the position of subsidizing agencies to which they have little access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I struggled with that quite a deal,” Wilson said, especially when tolls are already scheduled to increase from $7 to $8 per crossing in January 2025. The toll to help transit would have raised the fee to $9.50 through the end of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Muni spokesperson Erica Kato said the withdrawal of SB 532 was “very disappointing, and it’s a blow to our efforts to maintain Muni service after federal pandemic relief funds run out next year. But we’re going to keep fighting for the hundreds of thousands of people who rely on Muni every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART, whose elected board voted to support SB 532 in June, said it anticipates being involved in further discussions with Sen. Wiener and other legislators on funding ideas. Many who opposed the proposed toll increase were critical of the measure because it did not come along with formal guarantees that BART would improve its performance on public safety, cleanliness and fiscal accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BART will continue to work with legislators on accountability measures in the future,” a BART spokesperson said in an email. “BART staff will continue to offer our assistance to the Senator and other lawmakers as they work to find a consensus solution to this regional issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART board member Debora Allen, who represents central Contra Costa County, had voted against supporting SB 532. She said the agency and the Legislature need to focus on long-term measures that address not only revenue needs but also deficits that will exceed $300 million a year after 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think SB 532 was the wrong approach for funding BART, and I am glad to see it being placed on hold because I think the Legislature and BART need to come together with a comprehensive plan for both funding and reducing spending,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council, which has called on BART to make urgent improvements to passenger safety and overall customer experience, also applauded Wiener’s suspension of SB 532.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need our transit operators to make the necessary structural changes to bring their operations and budgets in line with both today’s fiscal realities and the tectonic changes that decimated ridership and have kept riders away from our transit systems, including addressing crime, safety and cleanliness,” Jim Wunderman, the council’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “We can’t continue to fund unsustainable transit operations that aren’t meeting the needs of riders for a safe, convenient and seamless commute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, Saturday, Aug. 19: \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>Bridge Toll Increase Would Help Transit. How Much Would It Hurt Drivers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bill that would impose a $1.50 toll increase on Bay Area bridges to provide emergency funding for BART, Muni and other transit operators has sparked a debate over whether the added charge will fall disproportionately on lower-income commuters already struggling with the region’s high cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That issue was at the top of a list of concerns raised in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23919424/congressional-letter-on-sb-532-bridge-toll-increase.pdf\">a letter last month from seven Bay Area members of Congress (PDF)\u003c/a>, led by Rep. Mark De Saulnier (D-Walnut Creek), that urged Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders to oppose the bill. The Bay Area Council, a group counting 300 businesses and institutions as members, has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/transportation/seven-bay-area-congressional-representatives-decry-bridge-toll-increase-as-not-in-best-interests-of-residents/\">expressed similar displeasure \u003c/a>with the toll increase bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532\">SB 532\u003c/a>, by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many employees now have the advantage to do their work from home,” the letter concluded. “There are others, the working people of the Bay Area, that don’t share this advantage, and the proposed toll hike comes straight out of their wallets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2023-08-16/who-will-be-helped-and-harmed-proposed-toll-increase-bay-area-bridges\">a new analysis from SPUR\u003c/a>, a regional planning and public policy think tank, challenges some of the assumptions behind that argument.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23919428/spur-analysis-who-will-be-helped-and-harmed-by-a-proposed-toll-increase-for-bay-area-bridges.pdf\">a report (PDF)\u003c/a> released this week, SPUR said a study of traffic patterns on the region’s seven state-owned bridges shows that two-thirds of drivers make just one toll crossing a week. That finding would mean those drivers’ weekly exposure to higher tolls would be limited to a single $1.50 charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also found just a small fraction of bridge users — 8% — cross more than one bridge per trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, SPUR said a side-by-side comparison of bridge users and BART passengers shows that, in general, those driving over the bridges have significantly higher incomes than people taking the train. At the same time, BART customers are more likely to be traveling to work than those crossing the toll bridges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taken as a whole, SPUR says the analysis shows that those who drive across the bridges are more likely to be able to absorb the cost of the higher bridge tolls while lower-income transit users, like those who use BART, would lose out if a lack of funding forces agencies to slash service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis is based on modeling by Replica, a big-data firm with offices in Oakland that used census, toll payment, cell phone, credit card and other public and private information to create a “synthetic representation” of travel patterns.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When you’re looking at the bridge and the people driving across it, a lot of those folks are not engaged in their day-to-day commute … It’s people making regional trips, people making occasional work trips, people going to the airport, people visiting, shopping.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sebastian Petty, transportation policy manager, SPUR","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Sebastian Petty, transportation policy manager at SPUR, said in an interview he was surprised at the high number of drivers who make a toll crossing just once a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re looking at the bridge and the people driving across it, a lot of those folks are not engaged in their day-to-day commute,” he said. “Certainly many of them are, but it’s not as though, you know, 80 out of 100 cars are doing their day-to-day commute trip. It’s people making regional trips, people making occasional work trips, people going to the airport, people visiting, shopping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petty said the data in the report suggest a number of ways SB 532 could be amended to reduce the impact on lower-income drivers who make more frequent trips across the toll bridges. One way to do that, he said, was to cap the number of weekly toll crossings for which individual drivers would be charged the extra $1.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to make sure that you weren’t over cost-burdening lower-income folks who are working an in-person job and need to show up five days a week, you could still capture a significant majority of the bridge traffic if you were to cap the toll at something like a maximum of three crossings per week,” Petty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, drivers who must use two or more bridges could be given a “long-distance discount” and only charged for one toll crossing per trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 532 would hike tolls by $1.50 for five years starting next Jan. 1. Sen. Wiener says the increase would raise as much as $900 million for Bay Area transit operators who face major deficits beginning in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters include BART, AC Transit, public transportation advocacy groups, environmental activists, nine YIMBY chapters and the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley. Seven state lawmakers from the region have signed on to the bill as co-authors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has acknowledged the equity issue posed by the proposed toll increases and has amended his bill to direct the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to devise a program over the next two years to reduce the hike’s impact on lower-income drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that amendment has done little to soften the opposition from some elected officials. In addition to the seven House members who raised objections to the bill, several state lawmakers, mostly from outlying parts of the Bay Area, have also said \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-lawmakers-oppose-raising-bridge-tolls-18176112.php\">they’re against the toll increase\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the chief concerns is that the $1.50 toll increase will come on top of a series of other increases \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11672904/bay-area-bridge-toll-increase-appears-headed-for-passage\">approved by Bay Area voters in 2018\u003c/a>. Regional Measure 3 has raised tolls on the Antioch, Benicia, Carquinez, Richmond-San Rafael, Bay, San Mateo and Dumbarton bridges to $7 over the last several years. If SB 532 passes, the rate will go up to $8.50 in January. And the next toll increase under RM3 will add a dollar to that on New Year’s Day 2025.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11952821,news_11942359,news_11954314"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>With the bill needing a two-thirds majority in both the state Assembly and Senate to pass, the split in the regional delegation raises questions about prospects for the bill’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Council has been the leading voice in opposing the measure. Besides expressing concerns about the higher tolls’ impact on lower-income drivers, the group has insisted that public transit agencies must improve performance on a range of issues — including public safety, cleanliness, reliability and offering more “seamless” service for passengers — before new public funding is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the council’s attention has been focused on BART, with the group issuing several calls in recent months for the agency to toughen enforcement of passenger conduct rules and to speed up installation of a new generation of fare gates to deter those who enter the system without paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has responded by approving a 22% pay increase for its police force, a step meant to retain officers and help fill nearly 30 vacant positions in its Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ahead of a crucial Assembly Appropriations Committee vote on SB 532 this week, BART General Manager Robert Powers will host a ride-along with Sen. Wiener to show off the agency’s recent “safety, cleanliness and reliability improvements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ride-along will begin at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 22, at Civic Center station and visit West Oakland station and the BART police “integrated security response center,” a facility that handles police dispatch calls and includes monitors for the system’s 4,000 surveillance cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958604/bridge-toll-increase-would-help-transit-how-much-will-it-hurt-commuters","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_23368","news_320","news_33052","news_6031","news_32029","news_33051"],"featImg":"news_11958608","label":"news"},"news_11954314":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11954314","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11954314","score":null,"sort":[1687979755000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"3-big-takeaways-from-californias-311-billion-budget-deal","title":"3 Big Takeaways from California's $311 Billion Budget Deal","publishDate":1687979755,"format":"standard","headTitle":"3 Big Takeaways from California’s $311 Billion Budget Deal | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control the California Legislature agreed late Monday on how to spend $310.8 billion over the next year, endorsing a plan that covers a nearly $32 billion budget deficit without raiding the state’s savings account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has had combined \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874125/californias-historic-budget-surplus-is-it-76-billion-or-38-billion\">budget surpluses\u003c/a> of well over $100 billion in the past few years, using that money to greatly expand government programs. But this year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-business-1035e53f9f5c0ebad2565a34192e2e13\">revenues slowed\u003c/a> as inflation soared and the stock market struggled. California gets most of its revenue from taxes paid by the wealthy, making it more vulnerable to changes in the economy than other states. Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949333/gov-newsom-says-california-budget-deficit-has-grown-to-nearly-32-billion\">the Newsom administration estimated the state’s spending would exceed revenues by over $30 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chris Hoene, California Budget and Policy Center\"]‘They took one-time investments that they had made commitments to in earlier budget years … and they basically took some of that money back.’[/pullquote]The final budget, which lawmakers are scheduled to vote on later this week, covers that deficit by cutting some spending — about $8 billion — while delaying other spending and shifting certain expenses to other funds. The plan would borrow $6.1 billion and set aside $37.8 billion in reserves, the most ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of continued global economic uncertainty, this budget increases our fiscal discipline by growing our budget reserves to a record $38 billion, while preserving historic investments in public education, health care, climate and public safety,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republicans criticized the budget plan as unsustainable, noting it would leave the state with projected multibillion-dollar deficits over the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some big takeaways from the deal:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Closing the deficit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Hoene, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/\">the California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>, said lawmakers were able to balance the budget without tapping reserves or increasing taxes, by canceling some future spending plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took one-time investments that they had made commitments to in earlier budget years, big pots of funding that they had set aside for climate change investments and infrastructure investments — and they basically took some of that money back,” Hoene said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trims include over $5 billion targeted toward infrastructure to reduce climate change, such as electric vehicle chargers. However, Hoene said, there’s still $40 billion in earlier years’ surplus committed to investments in climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that the state is confronting a deficit of $30-plus billion, state leaders did an adequate job of protecting the investments that they’ve made over the past decade,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the budget does not raise income taxes to cover the deficit, it does impose a new tax on managed-care organizations — private companies that contract with the state to administer Medicaid benefits. The tax would generate an estimated $32 billion over the next four years, some of which would go toward increasing how much money doctors get for treating Medicaid patients. It would also offer $150 million in loans to hospitals that are at risk of failing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No fast track for Delta tunnel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More contentious than any single spending issue was Newsom’s proposal to reform state environmental laws in order to expedite the construction of major infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor argued that new clean energy developments and upgrades to water infrastructure were being derailed by the California Environmental Quality Act, and would lead to the state missing out on future federal funding. His plan would have required all CEQA court challenges to be resolved within 270 days, among other changes.[aside postID=science_1983092]Lawmakers, however, were wary of grappling with such major reforms against the rapidly-approaching budget deadline. And those representing the Sacramento Delta region feared the plan would fast-track approval of a giant tunnel to move Delta water to Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149\">The final agreement\u003c/a> threads the needle with a single line, which specifies that a project qualifying for streamlined approval “does not include the design or construction of through-Delta conveyance facilities of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, a Napa Democrat whose district includes Delta communities in Solano and Yolo counties, said although he largely agreed with the governor’s reforms, “I really worked hard to make sure [the tunnel plan] wasn’t included in the package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a highly problematic proposal that has incredible environmental implications and impact on the Delta communities that I serve,” Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Survival funds for transit agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The budget agreement incorporates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950403/some-bay-area-public-transit-lines-could-be-cut-this-summer-as-california-budget-deficit-looms\">a long-debated emergency relief package for transit agencies across the state\u003c/a>, including BART and Muni, that the Legislature passed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding is designed to help those agencies maintain current operating levels as they develop strategies to deal with a deepening pandemic-related financial crisis — a situation that’s come to be known as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952821/1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff\">transit fiscal cliff\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes $1.1 billion, from the state’s cap-and-trade program, that transit agencies can use over the next four years for day-to-day operating expenses like salaries, maintenance and supplies.[aside postID=news_11952821,news_11950403,forum_2010101891806 label='Transit Funding']The pact also scraps Newsom’s proposed $2 billion cut to the state’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program. Those funds are typically used for long-term system improvements and infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TIRCP deal restores $400 million to Bay Area projects, including the VTA-BART extension through downtown San José. The agreement allows transit operators to use their TIRCP funds for operating expenses under certain circumstances. But spending those capital dollars to keep systems running would carry a high cost in the loss of matching federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pulled a rabbit out of the hat by getting the transit money back,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), chair of the Budget Committee. “We should hopefully help the transit operators from not falling over the ‘fiscal cliff.’ So that was a major win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) led the campaign to secure those transit survival funds, which he called “a critical lifeline that will help transit agencies maintain service while making critical improvements to cleanliness and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those improvements are spelled out in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB125\">an accompanying trailer bill\u003c/a> listing “accountability” requirements for the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission and for transit operators who want a share of the state funding. The transit agencies must also detail plans to improve public safety and system cleanliness and simplify fare structures and payment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area bus, rail and ferry operators still face a five-year deficit of $2.5 billion, according to MTC estimates, so the budget agreement is far from the last word the region will hear on transit funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Wiener introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532\">SB 532\u003c/a>, a bill that would tack on $1.50 to tolls on the region’s seven state-owned bridges and earmark the proceeds for transit operations. Under the proposal, which requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to pass, the toll increase would take effect next Jan. 1, and continue through the end of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that the toll hike, along with the emergency state cash and other funding the MTC has identified, would still leave the region about $900 million short of closing its five-year transit deficit. That means a broad range of public transportation advocates will likely join in a push for a 2026 ballot measure aimed at providing stable long-term funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a more detailed breakdown of the budget proposals — including how it will affect childcare subsidies, education spending, and programs for homebuyers: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-deal-what-you-need-to-know/\">What You Need to Know in the California Budget Deal\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from Adam Beam of The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The agreement closes California's formidable budget deficit, sidelines a controversial new Delta tunnel proposal, and delivers desperately needed funds to the state's embattled transit agencies. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1687991914,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1331},"headData":{"title":"3 Big Takeaways from California's $311 Billion Budget Deal | KQED","description":"The agreement closes California's formidable budget deficit, sidelines a controversial new Delta tunnel proposal, and delivers desperately needed funds to the state's embattled transit agencies. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11954314/3-big-takeaways-from-californias-311-billion-budget-deal","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control the California Legislature agreed late Monday on how to spend $310.8 billion over the next year, endorsing a plan that covers a nearly $32 billion budget deficit without raiding the state’s savings account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has had combined \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874125/californias-historic-budget-surplus-is-it-76-billion-or-38-billion\">budget surpluses\u003c/a> of well over $100 billion in the past few years, using that money to greatly expand government programs. But this year, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-business-1035e53f9f5c0ebad2565a34192e2e13\">revenues slowed\u003c/a> as inflation soared and the stock market struggled. California gets most of its revenue from taxes paid by the wealthy, making it more vulnerable to changes in the economy than other states. Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949333/gov-newsom-says-california-budget-deficit-has-grown-to-nearly-32-billion\">the Newsom administration estimated the state’s spending would exceed revenues by over $30 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They took one-time investments that they had made commitments to in earlier budget years … and they basically took some of that money back.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Chris Hoene, California Budget and Policy Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The final budget, which lawmakers are scheduled to vote on later this week, covers that deficit by cutting some spending — about $8 billion — while delaying other spending and shifting certain expenses to other funds. The plan would borrow $6.1 billion and set aside $37.8 billion in reserves, the most ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the face of continued global economic uncertainty, this budget increases our fiscal discipline by growing our budget reserves to a record $38 billion, while preserving historic investments in public education, health care, climate and public safety,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Republicans criticized the budget plan as unsustainable, noting it would leave the state with projected multibillion-dollar deficits over the next few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some big takeaways from the deal:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Closing the deficit\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chris Hoene, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/\">the California Budget and Policy Center\u003c/a>, said lawmakers were able to balance the budget without tapping reserves or increasing taxes, by canceling some future spending plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took one-time investments that they had made commitments to in earlier budget years, big pots of funding that they had set aside for climate change investments and infrastructure investments — and they basically took some of that money back,” Hoene said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trims include over $5 billion targeted toward infrastructure to reduce climate change, such as electric vehicle chargers. However, Hoene said, there’s still $40 billion in earlier years’ surplus committed to investments in climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given that the state is confronting a deficit of $30-plus billion, state leaders did an adequate job of protecting the investments that they’ve made over the past decade,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the budget does not raise income taxes to cover the deficit, it does impose a new tax on managed-care organizations — private companies that contract with the state to administer Medicaid benefits. The tax would generate an estimated $32 billion over the next four years, some of which would go toward increasing how much money doctors get for treating Medicaid patients. It would also offer $150 million in loans to hospitals that are at risk of failing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>No fast track for Delta tunnel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More contentious than any single spending issue was Newsom’s proposal to reform state environmental laws in order to expedite the construction of major infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor argued that new clean energy developments and upgrades to water infrastructure were being derailed by the California Environmental Quality Act, and would lead to the state missing out on future federal funding. His plan would have required all CEQA court challenges to be resolved within 270 days, among other changes.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1983092","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Lawmakers, however, were wary of grappling with such major reforms against the rapidly-approaching budget deadline. And those representing the Sacramento Delta region feared the plan would fast-track approval of a giant tunnel to move Delta water to Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB149\">The final agreement\u003c/a> threads the needle with a single line, which specifies that a project qualifying for streamlined approval “does not include the design or construction of through-Delta conveyance facilities of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Bill Dodd, a Napa Democrat whose district includes Delta communities in Solano and Yolo counties, said although he largely agreed with the governor’s reforms, “I really worked hard to make sure [the tunnel plan] wasn’t included in the package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a highly problematic proposal that has incredible environmental implications and impact on the Delta communities that I serve,” Dodd said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Survival funds for transit agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The budget agreement incorporates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950403/some-bay-area-public-transit-lines-could-be-cut-this-summer-as-california-budget-deficit-looms\">a long-debated emergency relief package for transit agencies across the state\u003c/a>, including BART and Muni, that the Legislature passed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funding is designed to help those agencies maintain current operating levels as they develop strategies to deal with a deepening pandemic-related financial crisis — a situation that’s come to be known as the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11952821/1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff\">transit fiscal cliff\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal includes $1.1 billion, from the state’s cap-and-trade program, that transit agencies can use over the next four years for day-to-day operating expenses like salaries, maintenance and supplies.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11952821,news_11950403,forum_2010101891806","label":"Transit Funding "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The pact also scraps Newsom’s proposed $2 billion cut to the state’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program. Those funds are typically used for long-term system improvements and infrastructure projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TIRCP deal restores $400 million to Bay Area projects, including the VTA-BART extension through downtown San José. The agreement allows transit operators to use their TIRCP funds for operating expenses under certain circumstances. But spending those capital dollars to keep systems running would carry a high cost in the loss of matching federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We pulled a rabbit out of the hat by getting the transit money back,” said Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), chair of the Budget Committee. “We should hopefully help the transit operators from not falling over the ‘fiscal cliff.’ So that was a major win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) led the campaign to secure those transit survival funds, which he called “a critical lifeline that will help transit agencies maintain service while making critical improvements to cleanliness and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those improvements are spelled out in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB125\">an accompanying trailer bill\u003c/a> listing “accountability” requirements for the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission and for transit operators who want a share of the state funding. The transit agencies must also detail plans to improve public safety and system cleanliness and simplify fare structures and payment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area bus, rail and ferry operators still face a five-year deficit of $2.5 billion, according to MTC estimates, so the budget agreement is far from the last word the region will hear on transit funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Wiener introduced \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB532\">SB 532\u003c/a>, a bill that would tack on $1.50 to tolls on the region’s seven state-owned bridges and earmark the proceeds for transit operations. Under the proposal, which requires a two-thirds vote in the Legislature to pass, the toll increase would take effect next Jan. 1, and continue through the end of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener said that the toll hike, along with the emergency state cash and other funding the MTC has identified, would still leave the region about $900 million short of closing its five-year transit deficit. That means a broad range of public transportation advocates will likely join in a push for a 2026 ballot measure aimed at providing stable long-term funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a more detailed breakdown of the budget proposals — including how it will affect childcare subsidies, education spending, and programs for homebuyers: \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-deal-what-you-need-to-know/\">What You Need to Know in the California Budget Deal\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article includes reporting from Adam Beam of The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11954314/3-big-takeaways-from-californias-311-billion-budget-deal","authors":["227","222"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_269","news_6179","news_2704","news_22178","news_24695","news_27626","news_16","news_320","news_2684"],"featImg":"news_11954323","label":"news"},"news_11952821":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11952821","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11952821","score":null,"sort":[1686611265000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff","title":"$1.1 Billion State Bailout Proposed for Transit Agencies Facing 'Fiscal Cliff'","publishDate":1686611265,"format":"standard","headTitle":"$1.1 Billion State Bailout Proposed for Transit Agencies Facing ‘Fiscal Cliff’ | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After months of pleas from transit agencies and public transportation advocates, California lawmakers have released an emergency funding plan to help commuter rail and bus operators deal with their deepening financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal released late Sunday would allocate $1.1 billion from the state’s cap-and-trade funds over the next three years to help agencies facing major deficits because of the continuing effects of post-pandemic ridership and revenue losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount represents just a fraction of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/04/california-public-transit-budget/\">$5 billion that local transit agencies have been seeking\u003c/a> over the next five years to avoid what’s come to be known as their fiscal cliff. That would be enough funding over a long enough period of time to allow operators to develop new sources of revenue to finance their day-to-day operations, agencies say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear exactly how the new funding will be shared among operators, whose deficit projections vary dramatically. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state’s biggest transit district, for instance, is facing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-budget-public-transit/\">even bigger deficits\u003c/a> than its Bay Area peers in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who has led the campaign to find new state support to help pay for day-to-day transit operations, called the plan a big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"public-transportation\"]“This is a very, very positive step,” Wiener told KQED Monday morning. “We anticipate that this will address about half the Bay Area’s fiscal cliff over the next three years. So, of course, it would have been great to solve the entire problem in one fell swoop, but solving probably half of it is still extremely positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener added that he will keep pushing the state to increase support for public transportation during ongoing budget negotiations with the governor’s office. The state Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a balanced budget by midnight June 15. But lawmakers and the governor will negotiate final details — including the possibility of finding more transit funding — for the state’s 2023–24 budget, which takes effect July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential source for more transit dollars is an approximately $1 billion surplus in federal highway funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Muni and BART, the Bay Area’s biggest transit operators, face deficits ranging into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years. Like other agencies statewide, both have relied on federal COVID relief funding to restore service close to 2019 levels. Also similar to other operators, they will exhaust those federal funds sometime in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, Muni chief Jeffrey Tumlin said the plan will buy time for transit operators to work on “other solutions.” Those other solutions could well involve tax measures — either region-wide or floated by BART and/or San Francisco alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jeffreytumlin/status/1668269777691852802\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART Board President Janice Li told KQED the proposal “is the first good news we’ve had around the transit fiscal cliff in months. It gives me a lot more hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with uncertainty about how funds will be allocated, she said, “We’re still all really untangling what this means and what the continued need is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s proposal also restores $2 billion in capital funding — money used for long-term needs like buying new vehicles or improving and maintaining infrastructure — that was cut in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget blueprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would allow flexibility for transit agencies to use that capital funding for immediate operating needs — an idea adopted by budget committees in both the state Assembly and Senate. But Wiener and others have warned that flexibility would carry a heavy price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really bad policy to cannibalize transit capital funds for operations for two reasons,” Wiener said. “First, obviously, it prevents us from making all the capital improvements we need to have better and better transit. But even more important, if we use these capital funds for operations, we will forfeit billions of dollars of federal matching funds. And so it’s really important to keep the infrastructure funds for infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The plan would give the funds to bus and rail operators over the next three years to keep services running. Still unknown: exactly how much agencies like BART and Muni would get.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1686672216,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":721},"headData":{"title":"$1.1 Billion State Bailout Proposed for Transit Agencies Facing 'Fiscal Cliff' | KQED","description":"The plan would give the funds to bus and rail operators over the next three years to keep services running. Still unknown: exactly how much agencies like BART and Muni would get.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11952821/1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After months of pleas from transit agencies and public transportation advocates, California lawmakers have released an emergency funding plan to help commuter rail and bus operators deal with their deepening financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal released late Sunday would allocate $1.1 billion from the state’s cap-and-trade funds over the next three years to help agencies facing major deficits because of the continuing effects of post-pandemic ridership and revenue losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That amount represents just a fraction of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/04/california-public-transit-budget/\">$5 billion that local transit agencies have been seeking\u003c/a> over the next five years to avoid what’s come to be known as their fiscal cliff. That would be enough funding over a long enough period of time to allow operators to develop new sources of revenue to finance their day-to-day operations, agencies say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear exactly how the new funding will be shared among operators, whose deficit projections vary dramatically. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state’s biggest transit district, for instance, is facing \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/02/california-budget-public-transit/\">even bigger deficits\u003c/a> than its Bay Area peers in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco, who has led the campaign to find new state support to help pay for day-to-day transit operations, called the plan a big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"public-transportation"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is a very, very positive step,” Wiener told KQED Monday morning. “We anticipate that this will address about half the Bay Area’s fiscal cliff over the next three years. So, of course, it would have been great to solve the entire problem in one fell swoop, but solving probably half of it is still extremely positive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener added that he will keep pushing the state to increase support for public transportation during ongoing budget negotiations with the governor’s office. The state Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a balanced budget by midnight June 15. But lawmakers and the governor will negotiate final details — including the possibility of finding more transit funding — for the state’s 2023–24 budget, which takes effect July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One potential source for more transit dollars is an approximately $1 billion surplus in federal highway funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Muni and BART, the Bay Area’s biggest transit operators, face deficits ranging into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years. Like other agencies statewide, both have relied on federal COVID relief funding to restore service close to 2019 levels. Also similar to other operators, they will exhaust those federal funds sometime in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tweet, Muni chief Jeffrey Tumlin said the plan will buy time for transit operators to work on “other solutions.” Those other solutions could well involve tax measures — either region-wide or floated by BART and/or San Francisco alone.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1668269777691852802"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>BART Board President Janice Li told KQED the proposal “is the first good news we’ve had around the transit fiscal cliff in months. It gives me a lot more hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with uncertainty about how funds will be allocated, she said, “We’re still all really untangling what this means and what the continued need is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature’s proposal also restores $2 billion in capital funding — money used for long-term needs like buying new vehicles or improving and maintaining infrastructure — that was cut in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget blueprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would allow flexibility for transit agencies to use that capital funding for immediate operating needs — an idea adopted by budget committees in both the state Assembly and Senate. But Wiener and others have warned that flexibility would carry a heavy price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really bad policy to cannibalize transit capital funds for operations for two reasons,” Wiener said. “First, obviously, it prevents us from making all the capital improvements we need to have better and better transit. But even more important, if we use these capital funds for operations, we will forfeit billions of dollars of federal matching funds. And so it’s really important to keep the infrastructure funds for infrastructure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11952821/1-1-billion-state-bailout-proposed-for-transit-agencies-facing-fiscal-cliff","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_31535","news_27626","news_320","news_1764","news_1533","news_30642","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11952005","label":"news"},"news_11911549":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11911549","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11911549","score":null,"sort":[1659126658000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mask-mandate-bart-bay-area-transit","title":"BART's Mask Mandate Reinstated — Which Other Bay Area Transit Agencies Still Require Masks?","publishDate":1659126658,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay up to date on the latest developments on mask mandates in the Bay Area with our daily newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">Sign up for the News Daily here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:45 p.m. Friday, July 29\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART board of directors approved a resolution Thursday night reinstating a mask requirement on the transit system effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a federal judge in Florida struck down an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requiring masks on public transit nationwide, BART broke ranks with most other operators in late April and adopted its own mask mandate. The agency allowed that requirement, which was incorporated into its customer code of conduct, to lapse on July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#maskmandate\">What your local Bay Area transit agency says about masks\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Board member Bevan Dufty proposed renewing the mandate because of the highly contagious nature of the currently dominant coronavirus variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think COVID is at its most transmissible right now, and I think our responsibility is to stay the course and to ensure our riders, many of whom are immunocompromised, are safe and feel welcome in our system,\" Dufty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushback came from board members Robert Raburn of Oakland and Debora Allen of Clayton. Raburn argued that mask mandates are not supported by current guidance from health authorities. Allen questioned the wisdom and effectiveness of having BART police enforce a mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing public comment, the board agreed to reinstate the mask requirement through Oct. 1 by a vote of 7-2. The board will consider extending the mandate further at its Sept. 22 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is the only other major Bay Area transit agency currently requiring riders to wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1552835835069755393\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Masks on transit: How we got here\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies imposed a mask mandate for passengers on most modes of transportation at the outset of the pandemic. And following guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended nationwide mask requirements on planes, buses, trains and ferries through May 3, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on April 18, a federal judge in Florida \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911526/tsa-will-no-longer-enforce-travel-mask-mandate-after-federal-judge-strikes-it-down\">struck down the CDC mask mandate\u003c/a>. A few hours later, the TSA announced it would no longer enforce mask rules inside airports and airplanes and on public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ruling meant private and public transportation agencies could drop their own mask mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most major airlines, along with the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose international airports, now have made masks optional. Rideshare giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/safety/\">Uber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/update-to-lyfts-health-safety-guidelines\">Lyft\u003c/a> also have dropped their masking requirements for passengers and drivers. And private bus companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FlixBus_USA/status/1516446461671714820\">FlixBus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/megabus/status/1516415898168532992\">Megabus\u003c/a>, have followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART and AC Transit are the only Bay Area public transit agencies that currently require face masks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area transit agencies — including Caltrain and Muni — initially retained their mask rules after the TSA announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on April 20, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\">the state's mask requirements for public transit — and transportation hubs, like stations — also \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\">were \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\"> terminated\u003c/a> \"effective immediately.\" The statement nonetheless still \"strongly\" recommended that California residents keep wearing their masks in these settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#maskmandate\">Every Bay Area public transit agency subsequently dropped their mask requirements\u003c/a> for riders following the state's announcement. However, AC Transit, which operates in both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, announced June 2 that its passengers would once again be required to wear face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could we see more agencies or regions reintroducing their own mask rules for public transit — regardless of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/20/1093927926/mask-mandate-appeal-doj\">the Justice Department's own appeal against the original decision by the Florida judge\u003c/a>? Right now, it's unclear. CDC officials declined to comment on the status of that appeal, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-travel-health-business-3b819aa097b4e642a97d39f606924203\">The Associated Press reports that DOJ officials did not immediately respond\u003c/a> to a request for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/los-angeles-county-masks-mandate-bring-back-face-public-transit/11779646/\">Los Angeles County independently introduced a new health order that once again requires masks\u003c/a> on all public transit within the county. LA County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer cited the CDC's continued guidance that masking on public transit remains a key way of preventing the spread of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, remember: Regardless of whether a transit agency has dropped its mask requirement, you can always choose to keep wearing your mask in whichever setting you please. NPR has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/25/1083046757/coronavirus-faq-im-a-one-way-masker-what-strategy-will-give-me-optimal-protectio\">tips on figuring out whether wearing a mask when others around you are not (aka \"one-way masking\") is the right call\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"maskmandate\">\u003c/a>Face mask requirements of all Bay Area transit agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on BART?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapid transit system, which serves five Bay Area counties, now requires riders to wear masks in all its facilities beyond the fare gates. This includes any waiting areas, platforms and trains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1552835835069755393\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART riders are required to wear face masks when waiting at a station and when riding a train. The rule is set to expire Oct. 1. The BART board of directors will review the mask requirement at a meeting on Sept. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Caltrain?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain updated riders Wednesday afternoon that it will no longer require face masks on trains. The agency \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1516926371573866496\">stated on Twitter that while its mandate has ended\u003c/a>, \"guests can and are strongly encouraged to continue wearing them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>AC Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on AC Transit?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit, which serves both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, brought back its mandate in June. \u003ca href=\"https://www.actransit.org/mask-mandate-policy-restored-june-2022\">Wearing a face mask is required whenever riding an AC Transit bus.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials stressed that the return of the mandate is due to the recent spike in new COVID-19 cases in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11911715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers on the F Muni car in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Muni?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is still \"strongly recommending\" that people who ride Muni continue to wear a mask. The agency emphasizes what it called \"excellent air flow\" on its vehicles, noting that \"the Muni fleet HVAC systems turn the air over once every minute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>VTA (Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on VTA?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County's public transit agency is still \"strongly recommending\" passengers wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>SamTrans\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on SamTrans?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County's public transit system says masks are not required but are still \"strongly encouraged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Golden Gate Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Golden Gate Transit?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11911716\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bank of BART turnstiles at 24th Street Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>SMART\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on SMART?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz METRO\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Santa Cruz METRO?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No — but this only applies to vaccinated people.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz METRO — which serves both Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties — announced on Tuesday it will no longer require individuals fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to wear face masks in agency vehicles and transit centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unvaccinated passengers are still required to wear face masks on Santa Cruz METRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Bay Ferry\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on the San Francisco Bay Ferry?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, which oversees the Bay Ferry network, says masks are still \"strongly recommended,\" though not required. The agency also urges patrons: \"Be kind to fellow ferry passengers whether they choose to wear a mask or not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED's Carly Severn and the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Now that the federal travel mask mandate has been removed, what's your local Bay Area transit agency enforcing? From BART to Muni and Caltrain, check our list.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1659464229,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":45,"wordCount":1228},"headData":{"title":"BART's Mask Mandate Reinstated — Which Other Bay Area Transit Agencies Still Require Masks? | KQED","description":"Now that the federal travel mask mandate has been removed, what's your local Bay Area transit agency enforcing? From BART to Muni and Caltrain, check our list.","ogTitle":"BART's Mask Mandate Reinstated — What Other Bay Area Transit Agencies Still Require Masks?","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"BART's Mask Mandate Reinstated — What Other Bay Area Transit Agencies Still Require Masks?","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11911549 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11911549","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/07/29/mask-mandate-bart-bay-area-transit/","disqusTitle":"BART's Mask Mandate Reinstated — Which Other Bay Area Transit Agencies Still Require Masks?","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11911549/mask-mandate-bart-bay-area-transit","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Stay up to date on the latest developments on mask mandates in the Bay Area with our daily newsletter. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters\">Sign up for the News Daily here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:45 p.m. Friday, July 29\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BART board of directors approved a resolution Thursday night reinstating a mask requirement on the transit system effective immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a federal judge in Florida struck down an order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requiring masks on public transit nationwide, BART broke ranks with most other operators in late April and adopted its own mask mandate. The agency allowed that requirement, which was incorporated into its customer code of conduct, to lapse on July 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Skip to: \u003ca href=\"#maskmandate\">What your local Bay Area transit agency says about masks\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Board member Bevan Dufty proposed renewing the mandate because of the highly contagious nature of the currently dominant coronavirus variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think COVID is at its most transmissible right now, and I think our responsibility is to stay the course and to ensure our riders, many of whom are immunocompromised, are safe and feel welcome in our system,\" Dufty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushback came from board members Robert Raburn of Oakland and Debora Allen of Clayton. Raburn argued that mask mandates are not supported by current guidance from health authorities. Allen questioned the wisdom and effectiveness of having BART police enforce a mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing public comment, the board agreed to reinstate the mask requirement through Oct. 1 by a vote of 7-2. The board will consider extending the mandate further at its Sept. 22 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit is the only other major Bay Area transit agency currently requiring riders to wear masks.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1552835835069755393"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Masks on transit: How we got here\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal agencies imposed a mask mandate for passengers on most modes of transportation at the outset of the pandemic. And following guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) extended nationwide mask requirements on planes, buses, trains and ferries through May 3, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on April 18, a federal judge in Florida \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11911526/tsa-will-no-longer-enforce-travel-mask-mandate-after-federal-judge-strikes-it-down\">struck down the CDC mask mandate\u003c/a>. A few hours later, the TSA announced it would no longer enforce mask rules inside airports and airplanes and on public transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ruling meant private and public transportation agencies could drop their own mask mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most major airlines, along with the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose international airports, now have made masks optional. Rideshare giants \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/safety/\">Uber\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/update-to-lyfts-health-safety-guidelines\">Lyft\u003c/a> also have dropped their masking requirements for passengers and drivers. And private bus companies, like \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/FlixBus_USA/status/1516446461671714820\">FlixBus\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/megabus/status/1516415898168532992\">Megabus\u003c/a>, have followed suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART and AC Transit are the only Bay Area public transit agencies that currently require face masks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several Bay Area transit agencies — including Caltrain and Muni — initially retained their mask rules after the TSA announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on April 20, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced that \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\">the state's mask requirements for public transit — and transportation hubs, like stations — also \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\">were \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx\"> terminated\u003c/a> \"effective immediately.\" The statement nonetheless still \"strongly\" recommended that California residents keep wearing their masks in these settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#maskmandate\">Every Bay Area public transit agency subsequently dropped their mask requirements\u003c/a> for riders following the state's announcement. However, AC Transit, which operates in both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, announced June 2 that its passengers would once again be required to wear face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could we see more agencies or regions reintroducing their own mask rules for public transit — regardless of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/20/1093927926/mask-mandate-appeal-doj\">the Justice Department's own appeal against the original decision by the Florida judge\u003c/a>? Right now, it's unclear. CDC officials declined to comment on the status of that appeal, and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-travel-health-business-3b819aa097b4e642a97d39f606924203\">The Associated Press reports that DOJ officials did not immediately respond\u003c/a> to a request for information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 22, \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/los-angeles-county-masks-mandate-bring-back-face-public-transit/11779646/\">Los Angeles County independently introduced a new health order that once again requires masks\u003c/a> on all public transit within the county. LA County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer cited the CDC's continued guidance that masking on public transit remains a key way of preventing the spread of COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, remember: Regardless of whether a transit agency has dropped its mask requirement, you can always choose to keep wearing your mask in whichever setting you please. NPR has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/02/25/1083046757/coronavirus-faq-im-a-one-way-masker-what-strategy-will-give-me-optimal-protectio\">tips on figuring out whether wearing a mask when others around you are not (aka \"one-way masking\") is the right call\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"maskmandate\">\u003c/a>Face mask requirements of all Bay Area transit agencies\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>BART\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on BART?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rapid transit system, which serves five Bay Area counties, now requires riders to wear masks in all its facilities beyond the fare gates. This includes any waiting areas, platforms and trains.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1552835835069755393"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>BART riders are required to wear face masks when waiting at a station and when riding a train. The rule is set to expire Oct. 1. The BART board of directors will review the mask requirement at a meeting on Sept. 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Caltrain\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Caltrain?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrain updated riders Wednesday afternoon that it will no longer require face masks on trains. The agency \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1516926371573866496\">stated on Twitter that while its mandate has ended\u003c/a>, \"guests can and are strongly encouraged to continue wearing them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>AC Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on AC Transit?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Yes.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AC Transit, which serves both Alameda and Contra Costa counties, brought back its mandate in June. \u003ca href=\"https://www.actransit.org/mask-mandate-policy-restored-june-2022\">Wearing a face mask is required whenever riding an AC Transit bus.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials stressed that the return of the mandate is due to the recent spike in new COVID-19 cases in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11911715\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11911715\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS41958_008_KQED_PublicTransit_03102020_6529-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers on the F Muni car in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Muni\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Muni?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which operates Muni, is still \"strongly recommending\" that people who ride Muni continue to wear a mask. The agency emphasizes what it called \"excellent air flow\" on its vehicles, noting that \"the Muni fleet HVAC systems turn the air over once every minute.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>VTA (Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority)\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on VTA?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County's public transit agency is still \"strongly recommending\" passengers wear masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>SamTrans\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on SamTrans?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County's public transit system says masks are not required but are still \"strongly encouraged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Golden Gate Transit\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Golden Gate Transit?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11911716\" style=\"font-weight: bold;background-color: transparent;color: #767676\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/RS42256_030_KQED_SanFrancisco_Mission_03202020_9678-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bank of BART turnstiles at 24th Street Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>SMART\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on SMART?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz METRO\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on Santa Cruz METRO?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No — but this only applies to vaccinated people.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz METRO — which serves both Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties — announced on Tuesday it will no longer require individuals fully vaccinated for COVID-19 to wear face masks in agency vehicles and transit centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unvaccinated passengers are still required to wear face masks on Santa Cruz METRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Bay Ferry\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are masks required on the San Francisco Bay Ferry?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority, which oversees the Bay Ferry network, says masks are still \"strongly recommended,\" though not required. The agency also urges patrons: \"Be kind to fellow ferry passengers whether they choose to wear a mask or not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting by KQED's Carly Severn and the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11911549/mask-mandate-bart-bay-area-transit","authors":["11708","222"],"categories":["news_457","news_28250","news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_2505","news_269","news_510","news_2493","news_21010","news_320","news_1764","news_1533","news_3636","news_20887","news_30958","news_21108","news_20675"],"featImg":"news_11911714","label":"news"},"news_11911992":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11911992","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11911992","score":null,"sort":[1650663010000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heres-why-you-might-still-want-to-wear-masks-on-public-transport","title":"Here's Why You Might Still Want to Wear Masks on Public Transport","publishDate":1650663010,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Just how likely are you to pick up a case of COVID-19 on that upcoming flight, bus commute or train ride?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what many Americans are trying to gauge after a Florida judge's ruling halted the federal requirement to wear a mask on most forms of public transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden administration is appealing the court's decision, but for now masking has become entirely optional for U.S. travelers – leaving them to decide how risky travel is for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a legal decision — not a scientific decision,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.unmc.edu/pathology/faculty/bios/santarpia.html\">Joshua Santarpia\u003c/a>, a microbiologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center who studies aerosol transmission of disease. \"People should not take this as a sign that something has magically changed overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Infectious disease experts tell NPR they generally plan to keep covering their faces regardless of what the rules are. It's not as though all public transit poses the \u003cem>same \u003c/em>risk, though. Scientists say certain forms of transportation are more worrisome than others, and different legs of a journey can also present different risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11909026' label='Finding a Free COVID Test Without Insurance Just Got Harder. Here's How to Get One']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very important to distinguish travel as a continuum,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.astmh.org/blog/november-2021/2021-elected-officers\">Dr. David Freedman\u003c/a>, president-elect of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wherever you go, pay attention to how many passengers there are, how close together they are, and how well the air is moving through the space. Understanding these differences can guide your own personal decisions about what risks you can and cannot afford to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Airplanes can be safe spaces, but there's a catch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It may seem counterintuitive, but flying in a small, enclosed metal tube can actually be safer from a COVID standpoint than many other indoor activities like eating in restaurants, or going to stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's considerably better than those spaces,\" says Santarpia. In fact, the air gets exchanged every few minutes in airplane cabins like those of the Boeing 767s and 777s — even putting them ahead of the standards for operating rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that tiny respiratory particles, or aerosols, that can carry the virus get sucked away quite quickly. Santarpia has \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246916\">actually studied\u003c/a> this by sampling air while a plane is in flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The particles are not dispersed widely in the cabin, so your exposure level to people, even in your immediate area by aerosols alone, is not particularly high,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This finding is supported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ustranscom.mil/cmd/docs/TRANSCOM%20Report%20Final.pdf\">other\u003c/a> research, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/canadas-reponse/summaries-recent-evidence/evidence-risk-covid-19-transmission-flight-update-3.html\">review of the evidence\u003c/a> undertaken by Canada's health agency and updated in November 2021, which concluded that \"the risk of infection during a flight is low.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman, who also reviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543400/\">the evidence\u003c/a> of in-flight transmission in late 2020, says major outbreaks are \"relatively uncommon\" and that they tended to happen on the flights without masking requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The number of flights with larger outbreaks did seem to go down once there was universal masking,\" says Freedman; however, he notes it's hard to truly quantify the risk because these studies are challenging to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this lines up with an \u003ca href=\"https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2443/2020/10/Phase-I-Report-Highlights.pdf\">assessment \u003c/a>by Harvard researchers that also found, when people wear masks, flying can be safer than going to the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Danger areas when flying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Air travel would be fairly safe if passengers were magically transported into their seats mid-flight, wore a well-fitted mask and stayed put during the entire flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, we all know this is a fantasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not just the airplane — airports are a nightmare,\" says Freedman. \"Airports have done very little to change any of their procedures at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are innumerable opportunities to catch the virus while hauling your luggage from the curb through security and onto the plane, among a crowd of other travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even once you're onboard, the risk can be higher while the plane is taxiing or sitting on the runway, because the ventilation systems may not be fully running, says Freedman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeing says its guidance to airlines is to keep the air flow system turned on with HEPA filters and air circulating at all times while passengers are on board, but several experts \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1517086886963167232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">have pointed out\u003c/a> this \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932639/\">doesn't\u003c/a> always happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on the flight, you can still be at risk if you're seated close to someone who's infected and unmasked. Research generally \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35331931/\">shows\u003c/a> that people seated within two to three rows from an infected person are at the highest risk of catching the virus, says Freedman. But even people seated farther away can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7706937/\">be infected\u003c/a> according to some studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all of this, Santarpia recommends continuing to wear a high-quality respirator, like an N95 or K95, when flying and while in the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if cases are generally low where you live, air travel could expose you to people from other regions where more virus might be circulating. And remember: the longer the flight, the greater the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Buses and subways: Risk for you and those around you\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Data from the subway systems in New York City and San Francisco show they have good ventilation, says Linsey Marr, an airborne disease transmission researcher at Virginia Tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even that isn't enough to prevent transmission in a situation where riders are packed tightly together in each other's faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marr says if a subway car is crowded, she's keeping her mask on. But if there's \"fewer than 10 people on a train, I probably wouldn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts said ventilation is more of a concern on city buses, where \"you're really breathing in what almost everyone else is breathing out,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://me.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/jesse-capecelatro/\">Jesse Capecelatro\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan who studies the flow physics of particles and droplets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capecelatro has researched how \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7976046/\">air flow affects disease transmission on urban buses\u003c/a>. \"What we found was if the windows are closed, due to the recirculation of the air in the bus, whatever someone breathes out, in about 45 seconds, everyone in the bus is breathing in a portion of that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues published models, using data from earlier in the pandemic, that showed when everyone on a bus is wearing a high-quality mask – assuming they're wearing it without big gaps around the nose and mouth – that dramatically reduces transmission risks. If no one was wearing a mask, and there was a highly contagious person on board, the modelling found that under certain conditions, about half the passengers on the bus could potentially get infected within 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says opening windows on a bus can make a big difference, but that's not always possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that buses tend to have less ventilation than other means of public transportation raises real equity concerns, says \u003ca href=\"https://sph.umd.edu/people/neil-j-sehgal\">Neil Sehgal\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of health policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>Hispanic and Black people are more than twice as likely to take public transit than white people, and people with lower incomes are also disproportionately more likely to take public transit than people with higher incomes,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seghal says the end of mask mandates on buses means that people with fewer options for safer travel are now facing increased risk – including people who are medically vulnerable. For instance, people with cancer might need to ride a bus to their chemotherapy or oncology appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've increased the level of risk for these people without consideration that their risk tolerance may not be the same as ours,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cabs and ride-sharing: Get some air in there\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you've ever been in a passenger car with a smoker, you know that the cabin will quickly fill up with smoke when the windows are up. (Some people call this hotboxing, with cigarettes and ahem, other substances.) Infectious aerosols behave like smoke, so in an enclosed car, they're also going to build up quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you consider the fact that ride-share drivers are picking up different passengers all day long, it's hard to predict what kinds of viral particles you might be breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you're in a cab or ride-sharing vehicle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe0166\">research has found\u003c/a> that your best bet to is to open the windows all the way to clear the air and lower your risk of transmission. If you're cruising along at a good clip, \"partially open windows also do a lot more than you might think,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.physics.umass.edu/people/varghese-mathai\">Varghese Mathai\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who has studied aerosol transmission in passenger car cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8939464/\">His research has found that when you're stuck in traffic\u003c/a>, in addition to opening windows, turning the AC on at full blast will allow for more air circulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, shorter rides are better. \"The longer the time you spend [in the car], the more aerosols you risk inhaling,\" Mathai notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathai says his research was inspired in part by his own use of ride-sharing services, and he plans to keep on masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Here%27s+why+you+might+still+want+to+wear+masks+on+public+transport&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sure, you don't have to wear a mask on airplanes, buses and ride shares anymore, but you still might want to depending on the circumstances. Here's what experts say about the risks.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1650665971,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1539},"headData":{"title":"Here's Why You Might Still Want to Wear Masks on Public Transport | KQED","description":"Sure, you don't have to wear a mask on airplanes, buses and ride shares anymore, but you still might want to depending on the circumstances. 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It's not as though all public transit poses the \u003cem>same \u003c/em>risk, though. Scientists say certain forms of transportation are more worrisome than others, and different legs of a journey can also present different risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11909026","label":"label='Finding a Free COVID Test Without Insurance Just Got Harder. 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Understanding these differences can guide your own personal decisions about what risks you can and cannot afford to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Airplanes can be safe spaces, but there's a catch\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It may seem counterintuitive, but flying in a small, enclosed metal tube can actually be safer from a COVID standpoint than many other indoor activities like eating in restaurants, or going to stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's considerably better than those spaces,\" says Santarpia. In fact, the air gets exchanged every few minutes in airplane cabins like those of the Boeing 767s and 777s — even putting them ahead of the standards for operating rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that tiny respiratory particles, or aerosols, that can carry the virus get sucked away quite quickly. Santarpia has \u003ca href=\"https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0246916\">actually studied\u003c/a> this by sampling air while a plane is in flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The particles are not dispersed widely in the cabin, so your exposure level to people, even in your immediate area by aerosols alone, is not particularly high,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This finding is supported by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ustranscom.mil/cmd/docs/TRANSCOM%20Report%20Final.pdf\">other\u003c/a> research, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/canadas-reponse/summaries-recent-evidence/evidence-risk-covid-19-transmission-flight-update-3.html\">review of the evidence\u003c/a> undertaken by Canada's health agency and updated in November 2021, which concluded that \"the risk of infection during a flight is low.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freedman, who also reviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543400/\">the evidence\u003c/a> of in-flight transmission in late 2020, says major outbreaks are \"relatively uncommon\" and that they tended to happen on the flights without masking requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The number of flights with larger outbreaks did seem to go down once there was universal masking,\" says Freedman; however, he notes it's hard to truly quantify the risk because these studies are challenging to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, this lines up with an \u003ca href=\"https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2443/2020/10/Phase-I-Report-Highlights.pdf\">assessment \u003c/a>by Harvard researchers that also found, when people wear masks, flying can be safer than going to the grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Danger areas when flying\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Air travel would be fairly safe if passengers were magically transported into their seats mid-flight, wore a well-fitted mask and stayed put during the entire flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, we all know this is a fantasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not just the airplane — airports are a nightmare,\" says Freedman. \"Airports have done very little to change any of their procedures at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are innumerable opportunities to catch the virus while hauling your luggage from the curb through security and onto the plane, among a crowd of other travelers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even once you're onboard, the risk can be higher while the plane is taxiing or sitting on the runway, because the ventilation systems may not be fully running, says Freedman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boeing says its guidance to airlines is to keep the air flow system turned on with HEPA filters and air circulating at all times while passengers are on board, but several experts \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/j_g_allen/status/1517086886963167232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">have pointed out\u003c/a> this \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8932639/\">doesn't\u003c/a> always happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even on the flight, you can still be at risk if you're seated close to someone who's infected and unmasked. Research generally \u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35331931/\">shows\u003c/a> that people seated within two to three rows from an infected person are at the highest risk of catching the virus, says Freedman. But even people seated farther away can \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7706937/\">be infected\u003c/a> according to some studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all of this, Santarpia recommends continuing to wear a high-quality respirator, like an N95 or K95, when flying and while in the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if cases are generally low where you live, air travel could expose you to people from other regions where more virus might be circulating. And remember: the longer the flight, the greater the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Buses and subways: Risk for you and those around you\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Data from the subway systems in New York City and San Francisco show they have good ventilation, says Linsey Marr, an airborne disease transmission researcher at Virginia Tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even that isn't enough to prevent transmission in a situation where riders are packed tightly together in each other's faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marr says if a subway car is crowded, she's keeping her mask on. But if there's \"fewer than 10 people on a train, I probably wouldn't.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several experts said ventilation is more of a concern on city buses, where \"you're really breathing in what almost everyone else is breathing out,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://me.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/jesse-capecelatro/\">Jesse Capecelatro\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan who studies the flow physics of particles and droplets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capecelatro has researched how \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7976046/\">air flow affects disease transmission on urban buses\u003c/a>. \"What we found was if the windows are closed, due to the recirculation of the air in the bus, whatever someone breathes out, in about 45 seconds, everyone in the bus is breathing in a portion of that,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his colleagues published models, using data from earlier in the pandemic, that showed when everyone on a bus is wearing a high-quality mask – assuming they're wearing it without big gaps around the nose and mouth – that dramatically reduces transmission risks. If no one was wearing a mask, and there was a highly contagious person on board, the modelling found that under certain conditions, about half the passengers on the bus could potentially get infected within 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says opening windows on a bus can make a big difference, but that's not always possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that buses tend to have less ventilation than other means of public transportation raises real equity concerns, says \u003ca href=\"https://sph.umd.edu/people/neil-j-sehgal\">Neil Sehgal\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of health policy at the University of Maryland School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"\u003c/strong>Hispanic and Black people are more than twice as likely to take public transit than white people, and people with lower incomes are also disproportionately more likely to take public transit than people with higher incomes,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seghal says the end of mask mandates on buses means that people with fewer options for safer travel are now facing increased risk – including people who are medically vulnerable. For instance, people with cancer might need to ride a bus to their chemotherapy or oncology appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've increased the level of risk for these people without consideration that their risk tolerance may not be the same as ours,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cabs and ride-sharing: Get some air in there\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>If you've ever been in a passenger car with a smoker, you know that the cabin will quickly fill up with smoke when the windows are up. (Some people call this hotboxing, with cigarettes and ahem, other substances.) Infectious aerosols behave like smoke, so in an enclosed car, they're also going to build up quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you consider the fact that ride-share drivers are picking up different passengers all day long, it's hard to predict what kinds of viral particles you might be breathing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you're in a cab or ride-sharing vehicle, \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe0166\">research has found\u003c/a> that your best bet to is to open the windows all the way to clear the air and lower your risk of transmission. If you're cruising along at a good clip, \"partially open windows also do a lot more than you might think,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.physics.umass.edu/people/varghese-mathai\">Varghese Mathai\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who has studied aerosol transmission in passenger car cabins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8939464/\">His research has found that when you're stuck in traffic\u003c/a>, in addition to opening windows, turning the AC on at full blast will allow for more air circulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remember, shorter rides are better. \"The longer the time you spend [in the car], the more aerosols you risk inhaling,\" Mathai notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mathai says his research was inspired in part by his own use of ride-sharing services, and he plans to keep on masking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Here%27s+why+you+might+still+want+to+wear+masks+on+public+transport&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11911992/heres-why-you-might-still-want-to-wear-masks-on-public-transport","authors":["byline_news_11911992"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25200","news_269","news_27350","news_27504","news_320","news_25675"],"featImg":"news_11912009","label":"source_news_11911992"},"news_11911849":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11911849","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11911849","score":null,"sort":[1650621647000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"masks-are-optional-but-not-for-the-medically-vulnerable","title":"Masks Are Optional. But Not For the Medically Vulnerable.","publishDate":1650621647,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Masks Are Optional. But Not For the Medically Vulnerable. | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":28779,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A federal judge in Florida ruled on Monday that the federal mask mandate was unlawful. Hours later, the Transportation Security Administration lifted mask rules inside airports, airplanes and on public transportation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transportation agencies around the Bay soon followed suit, raising concerns among disability rights and medically vulnerable communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In light of the recent changes to public mask mandates, we revisit an episode we aired in January. Two years into the pandemic, as restrictions loosened disabled, immunocompromised, and medically vulnerable people feared that their health would be further jeopardized.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guest: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lesleywmcclurg\">Lesley McClurg\u003c/a>, KQED health reporter\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3113777065\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902639/what-itll-take-to-make-a-covid-endemic-world-safe-for-the-medically-vulnerable\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> first aired \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">January 26, 2022\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Following the explosive allegation this week, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin called for local and state legislation to prohibit the practice. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700690636,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":104},"headData":{"title":"Masks Are Optional. But Not For the Medically Vulnerable. | KQED","description":"Following the explosive allegation this week, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin called for local and state legislation to prohibit the practice. 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Hours later, the Transportation Security Administration lifted mask rules inside airports, airplanes and on public transportation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Transportation agencies around the Bay soon followed suit, raising concerns among disability rights and medically vulnerable communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In light of the recent changes to public mask mandates, we revisit an episode we aired in January. Two years into the pandemic, as restrictions loosened disabled, immunocompromised, and medically vulnerable people feared that their health would be further jeopardized.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Guest: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lesleywmcclurg\">Lesley McClurg\u003c/a>, KQED health reporter\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3113777065\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11902639/what-itll-take-to-make-a-covid-endemic-world-safe-for-the-medically-vulnerable\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> first aired \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">January 26, 2022\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11911849/masks-are-optional-but-not-for-the-medically-vulnerable","authors":["8654","11229","11649"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_269","news_29660","news_29535","news_320","news_1533","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11902363","label":"news_28779"},"news_11904449":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11904449","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11904449","score":null,"sort":[1644436077000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"transit-breakdown-literally-barts-big-budget-trouble-anemic-ridership-and-whether-the-normal-commute-will-ever-return","title":"Transit Breakdown (Literally): BART's Big Budget Trouble, Anemic Ridership and Whether the 'Normal' Commute Will Ever Return","publishDate":1644436077,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s far as we know, the coronavirus can't get inside the machinery of a train or bus or ferry boat and actually shut them down. But it might as well be able to. By disrupting the world of work and our travel routines, COVID-19 in all its endless variants is proving to be an affliction from which it will take public transportation years and years to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example of the malady — you could call it \"long transit COVID\" — will be on display Thursday and Friday when BART will give the world a glimpse of what its bleak fiscal future holds. Some details, and related transit developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will ridership (and revenues and budgets) ever return to 'normal'?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The BART board of directors will hear \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21199224/bart-fiscal-outlook-february-2022-presentation.pdf\">a presentation Thursday\u003c/a> showing that due in large part to the continued very slow return of ridership, the district will exhaust federal emergency funding over the next two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, BART doesn't see ridership numbers recovering to pre-pandemic levels for many years. Under its best-case projection, that won't happen until 2029-30. The \"base case\" budget assumption — midway between the worst-case and best-case scenarios — doesn't forecast that happening within the next decade, period, even with the addition of new service to downtown San Jose sometime around 2030. In terms of budget forecasts, BART staff says that without some major new revenue sources, the agency will begin running a deficit sometime in the first half of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Search for transit cash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11900732 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg\" alt=\"A large white building seen from a distance with trees and people around the outside.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California state Capitol building. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Near term, BART and other transit agencies are looking for more bailouts like the repeated cash infusions they've received from the federal government over the past two years. California, for instance, has a big general fund surplus, and BART and other operators hope the Newsom administration and state Legislature can be persuaded to provide additional resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the longer term, a handful of Bay Area agencies, including BART and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, have started making noise about a 2024 ballot measure that would include some form of tax to sustain regional transit long into the future. But Bay Area voters seem hostile to the idea. Recent polling shows more than \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/Metropolitan_Transportation_Commission_Listening_Session_Packet.pdf\">60% of voters think \"taxes are high enough\"\u003c/a> and would \"vote against any tax increase.\" At the same time, public transportation ranked last among 11 issues likely voters were asked about, with only 22% ranking it a \"very high\" priority. In fact, a former incarnation of this idea, a \"mega-measure\" known as \u003ca href=\"https://fasterbayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FASTER Bay Area\u003c/a>, would have raised $100 billion or more over the next couple of decades, but was scrubbed from the 2020 ballot after failing to attract widespread support.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11895999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The BART passenger wears a facemask and is the only passenger visible within the train.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART passenger rides in an empty train car on April 8, 2020, in San Francisco. At the start of the pandemic, BART announced that it would slash daily service as ridership dramatically dropped due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, overall BART ridership was down 76% from its pre-pandemic baseline. And the recent month-to-month trend is even more depressing, with January ridership down 18% from December, and December ridership down 4% from November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the initial drop was probably due to December's continually wet weather. BART is also attributing the sharp January decline to the omicron surge. If you're looking for a sliver of good news, BART ridership is looking like it's bouncing back from its recent nadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But all transit ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904525 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg\" alt=\"A largely empty wide, hilly San Francisco street with cable car tracks.\" width=\"1240\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg 1240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-800x517.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-1020x660.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-160x103.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Few pedestrians walk along Powell Street during commute hours in San Francisco on March 16, 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Companies continuing to delay a return to the office — \u003cem>really \u003c/em>returning to the office — is the long-term issue suppressing ridership and one that doesn't seem likely to change in the foreseeable future. In the Bay Area Council's \u003ca href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/story/1114459/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January employer survey\u003c/a>, more than two-thirds of respondents said they expected their workers will be on site three days per week or fewer \"once the pandemic is behind us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/transportation/survey-fewer-days-at-the-office-more-traffic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An earlier council analysis\u003c/a> said that could mean a lasting cut of 1.1 million daily commute trips region-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Muni: 'Expect extended waits and likely crowding'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11894599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg\" alt=\"People wear masks as they wait in a bus shelter as a red and gray bus pulls up.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wear masks as they wait in a shelter for a San Francisco MUNI bus on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's busiest transit system began experiencing staff shortages early in the omicron surge, and the problem has intensified in the last couple of weeks amid Lunar New Year celebrations. In its daily rider alerts, the agency has recently named as many as 30 lines (of 50 or so that are currently running) that would experience \"extended waits and likely crowding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing shortages are due to \"regular old sick calls,\" according to agency spokesperson Erica Kato, who said the agency is attempting to fill schedule gaps by offering overtime to operators. And just how many sick calls is Muni getting, and how many bus and train runs are being missed? On Monday of last week, it reported 355 sick calls, with 268 \"open\" runs — scheduled runs for which no operator was available. Last Tuesday it was 259 sick calls and 220 open runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new and improved CEQA exemption for transportation projects\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg\" alt=\"A large underground transit construction site\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction on the BART Silicon Valley Berryessa extension. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Transmetrics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener's \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 922\u003c/a> is a follow-up to his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 288\u003c/a>, legislation that succeeded in speeding up transit and bike projects by making most of them exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 288, the exemption ends next Jan. 1; the new bill would make the exemption permanent and expand its scope to new pedestrian projects — think programs like \"slow streets\" in San Francisco and Oakland, bus-only freeway lanes (under discussion, but still far from reality, on the Bay Bridge) and new carpool lanes on city streets. The bill would also extend the exemption to projects in non-urbanized areas and require a new equity analysis for exempted transit projects slated for areas with a high potential for community displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Caltrain 'governance' struggle drags on\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San Jose's Diridon Station, Dec. 28, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The saga continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ad hoc committee of the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, aka the Caltrain board, is working with a March 3 deadline to produce an agreement that will resolve outstanding governance issues. One sticking point: San Mateo County's recent announcement that it will require a $15.2 million payment as part of settling the governance dispute. That sum, along with $19.6 million from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, would finally settle a debt incurred by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties when San Mateo fronted the cash for buying Caltrain's right-of-way from Southern Pacific more than three decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sticking point: how a more independent Caltrain will share staff with SamTrans, which has managed the railroad since its long-ago acquisition. Meantime, Caltrain's ridership in December was down 82% from pre-pandemic levels, and the agency is looking for $410 million to finish its electrification project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In court next week\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Amalgamated Transit Union and the Biden administration's Department of Transportation face off in a Sacramento courtroom next Thursday (Feb. 17) over the DOT's plan, announced abruptly in late October, to block release of emergency operating funds to BART, AC Transit and other agencies because of an ongoing dispute over a 2013 California law that limits pension benefits for newly hired union workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller granted a preliminary injunction to the state in late December that cleared the way for release of emergency funds. At stake now is whether the DOT may block future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"By disrupting the world of work and our travel routines, COVID-19 in all its endless variants is proving to be an affliction from which it will take public transportation years and years to recover.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644510856,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1358},"headData":{"title":"Transit Breakdown (Literally): BART's Big Budget Trouble, Anemic Ridership and Whether the 'Normal' Commute Will Ever Return | KQED","description":"By disrupting the world of work and our travel routines, COVID-19 in all its endless variants is proving to be an affliction from which it will take public transportation years and years to recover.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11904449 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904449","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/09/transit-breakdown-literally-barts-big-budget-trouble-anemic-ridership-and-whether-the-normal-commute-will-ever-return/","disqusTitle":"Transit Breakdown (Literally): BART's Big Budget Trouble, Anemic Ridership and Whether the 'Normal' Commute Will Ever Return","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11904449/transit-breakdown-literally-barts-big-budget-trouble-anemic-ridership-and-whether-the-normal-commute-will-ever-return","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>s far as we know, the coronavirus can't get inside the machinery of a train or bus or ferry boat and actually shut them down. But it might as well be able to. By disrupting the world of work and our travel routines, COVID-19 in all its endless variants is proving to be an affliction from which it will take public transportation years and years to recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest example of the malady — you could call it \"long transit COVID\" — will be on display Thursday and Friday when BART will give the world a glimpse of what its bleak fiscal future holds. Some details, and related transit developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will ridership (and revenues and budgets) ever return to 'normal'?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The BART board of directors will hear \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21199224/bart-fiscal-outlook-february-2022-presentation.pdf\">a presentation Thursday\u003c/a> showing that due in large part to the continued very slow return of ridership, the district will exhaust federal emergency funding over the next two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going forward, BART doesn't see ridership numbers recovering to pre-pandemic levels for many years. Under its best-case projection, that won't happen until 2029-30. The \"base case\" budget assumption — midway between the worst-case and best-case scenarios — doesn't forecast that happening within the next decade, period, even with the addition of new service to downtown San Jose sometime around 2030. In terms of budget forecasts, BART staff says that without some major new revenue sources, the agency will begin running a deficit sometime in the first half of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Search for transit cash\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11900732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11900732 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg\" alt=\"A large white building seen from a distance with trees and people around the outside.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-800x521.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/01/GettyImages-2576287-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California state Capitol building. \u003ccite>(David Paul Morris/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Near term, BART and other transit agencies are looking for more bailouts like the repeated cash infusions they've received from the federal government over the past two years. California, for instance, has a big general fund surplus, and BART and other operators hope the Newsom administration and state Legislature can be persuaded to provide additional resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the longer term, a handful of Bay Area agencies, including BART and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, have started making noise about a 2024 ballot measure that would include some form of tax to sustain regional transit long into the future. But Bay Area voters seem hostile to the idea. Recent polling shows more than \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021-12/Metropolitan_Transportation_Commission_Listening_Session_Packet.pdf\">60% of voters think \"taxes are high enough\"\u003c/a> and would \"vote against any tax increase.\" At the same time, public transportation ranked last among 11 issues likely voters were asked about, with only 22% ranking it a \"very high\" priority. In fact, a former incarnation of this idea, a \"mega-measure\" known as \u003ca href=\"https://fasterbayarea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FASTER Bay Area\u003c/a>, would have raised $100 billion or more over the next couple of decades, but was scrubbed from the 2020 ballot after failing to attract widespread support.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11895999\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"The BART passenger wears a facemask and is the only passenger visible within the train.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217663387-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BART passenger rides in an empty train car on April 8, 2020, in San Francisco. At the start of the pandemic, BART announced that it would slash daily service as ridership dramatically dropped due to the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In January, overall BART ridership was down 76% from its pre-pandemic baseline. And the recent month-to-month trend is even more depressing, with January ridership down 18% from December, and December ridership down 4% from November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the initial drop was probably due to December's continually wet weather. BART is also attributing the sharp January decline to the omicron surge. If you're looking for a sliver of good news, BART ridership is looking like it's bouncing back from its recent nadir.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But all transit ridership is anemic\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1240px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904525 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg\" alt=\"A largely empty wide, hilly San Francisco street with cable car tracks.\" width=\"1240\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p.jpeg 1240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-800x517.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-1020x660.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/200316-coronavirus-san-francisco-se-613p-160x103.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1240px) 100vw, 1240px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Few pedestrians walk along Powell Street during commute hours in San Francisco on March 16, 2020, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Companies continuing to delay a return to the office — \u003cem>really \u003c/em>returning to the office — is the long-term issue suppressing ridership and one that doesn't seem likely to change in the foreseeable future. In the Bay Area Council's \u003ca href=\"https://public.flourish.studio/story/1114459/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January employer survey\u003c/a>, more than two-thirds of respondents said they expected their workers will be on site three days per week or fewer \"once the pandemic is behind us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/transportation/survey-fewer-days-at-the-office-more-traffic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">An earlier council analysis\u003c/a> said that could mean a lasting cut of 1.1 million daily commute trips region-wide.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Muni: 'Expect extended waits and likely crowding'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894599\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11894599\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg\" alt=\"People wear masks as they wait in a bus shelter as a red and gray bus pulls up.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1217248287-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wear masks as they wait in a shelter for a San Francisco MUNI bus on April 6, 2020. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area's busiest transit system began experiencing staff shortages early in the omicron surge, and the problem has intensified in the last couple of weeks amid Lunar New Year celebrations. In its daily rider alerts, the agency has recently named as many as 30 lines (of 50 or so that are currently running) that would experience \"extended waits and likely crowding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing shortages are due to \"regular old sick calls,\" according to agency spokesperson Erica Kato, who said the agency is attempting to fill schedule gaps by offering overtime to operators. And just how many sick calls is Muni getting, and how many bus and train runs are being missed? On Monday of last week, it reported 355 sick calls, with 268 \"open\" runs — scheduled runs for which no operator was available. Last Tuesday it was 259 sick calls and 220 open runs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new and improved CEQA exemption for transportation projects\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904532\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11904532 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg\" alt=\"A large underground transit construction site\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/04Project-Management-SVBX-copy-2-160x120.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction on the BART Silicon Valley Berryessa extension. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Transmetrics)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco state Sen. Scott Wiener's \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 922\u003c/a> is a follow-up to his \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 288\u003c/a>, legislation that succeeded in speeding up transit and bike projects by making most of them exempt from review under the California Environmental Quality Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 288, the exemption ends next Jan. 1; the new bill would make the exemption permanent and expand its scope to new pedestrian projects — think programs like \"slow streets\" in San Francisco and Oakland, bus-only freeway lanes (under discussion, but still far from reality, on the Bay Bridge) and new carpool lanes on city streets. The bill would also extend the exemption to projects in non-urbanized areas and require a new equity analysis for exempted transit projects slated for areas with a high potential for community displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Caltrain 'governance' struggle drags on\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11254007\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11254007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/31909760916_d88814d339_o-e1483581327477.jpg\" alt=\"The side of a Caltrain train as it enters a station.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caltrain cars at San Jose's Diridon Station, Dec. 28, 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The saga continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ad hoc committee of the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board, aka the Caltrain board, is working with a March 3 deadline to produce an agreement that will resolve outstanding governance issues. One sticking point: San Mateo County's recent announcement that it will require a $15.2 million payment as part of settling the governance dispute. That sum, along with $19.6 million from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, would finally settle a debt incurred by San Francisco and Santa Clara counties when San Mateo fronted the cash for buying Caltrain's right-of-way from Southern Pacific more than three decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sticking point: how a more independent Caltrain will share staff with SamTrans, which has managed the railroad since its long-ago acquisition. Meantime, Caltrain's ridership in December was down 82% from pre-pandemic levels, and the agency is looking for $410 million to finish its electrification project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In court next week\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Amalgamated Transit Union and the Biden administration's Department of Transportation face off in a Sacramento courtroom next Thursday (Feb. 17) over the DOT's plan, announced abruptly in late October, to block release of emergency operating funds to BART, AC Transit and other agencies because of an ongoing dispute over a 2013 California law that limits pension benefits for newly hired union workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller granted a preliminary injunction to the state in late December that cleared the way for release of emergency funds. At stake now is whether the DOT may block future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11904449/transit-breakdown-literally-barts-big-budget-trouble-anemic-ridership-and-whether-the-normal-commute-will-ever-return","authors":["222"],"categories":["news_8","news_1397"],"tags":["news_269","news_510","news_4248","news_27504","news_20008","news_320","news_30642","news_1217","news_1334","news_2684","news_20517"],"featImg":"news_11904554","label":"news"},"news_11900729":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11900729","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11900729","score":null,"sort":[1641424922000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"omicron-leaves-sf-with-hundreds-of-public-employees-out-sick","title":"Omicron Leaves SF With Hundreds of Public Employees Out Sick","publishDate":1641424922,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>With the number of new COVID-19 cases rapidly increasing once again, San Francisco is seeing its public services short-staffed, city officials said at a virtual press conference on Tuesday. The surge, directly linked to the omicron variant, has affected key city agencies, from Muni to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Tuesday, 167 police officers were reported to be in quarantine — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/published-reports/demographics\">that's roughly 8% of the city's police force\u003c/a>. One hundred and thirty-five members of the fire department and 68 SFMTA employees also are isolating due to COVID-19 infections. And the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) confirmed separately with KQED that 626 educators across the city's public schools called in sick on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed said during the conference that the current challenge is keeping the city's workforce numbers up through the surge. But she stressed that public services will continue to operate as normal and that the city is not planning to impose any new restrictions on indoor dining, shopping or social events despite the uptick in cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11896107\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/GettyImages-1234850823-1020x680.jpg\"]\"Frontline workers will be putting in overtime to make up for their quarantined colleagues,\" she said. \"Trash is still being picked up, police are still on patrol and firefighters stand ready to respond.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Muni users could see longer wait times, SFMTA officials shared. Twenty-eight Muni operators are in quarantine while others are out supporting family members affected by the surge. At the moment, no announcement has been made of any bus lines being canceled or route schedules permanently changing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the city registered a weekly average of 941 new cases per day — \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-cases-and-deaths\">an all-time high that is more than double what public officials registered during the surge of January 2021\u003c/a>, when the city still had in place strict restrictions on indoor public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed added that San Francisco finds itself in a very different situation from past surges thanks to its high vaccination rate — \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-vaccinations\">85% of the city's eligible population has been vaccinated\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-vaccine-boosters\">59% have already received their booster shot as of Wednesday\u003c/a>. While researchers have found that omicron has the ability to bypass immune protection and cause breakthrough infections, vaccines and booster shots are still highly successful at preventing serious illness and hospitalization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]'Frontline workers will be putting in overtime to make up for their quarantined colleagues.'[/pullquote]\"Omicron is facing a wall of immunity as it moves through the city,\" said City Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax. \"Our vaccinations and boosters are doing what we need them to do right now, which is preventing many people from getting sick and being hospitalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sheer number of new infections does affect hospitalizations, he explained. According to the latest city data on Wednesday, 91 patients are receiving intensive care. That's much fewer than the historic peak of 256 from January 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-hospitalizations\">but still represents a 54% increase from the week prior\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city currently has enough beds to manage this volume, said Colfax, and added that health officials expect cases to peak in the next couple of weeks, partly due to gatherings during the holiday season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The large number of people contracting COVID has an impact on our hospitals, businesses, schools and essential city services,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='related Coverage' tag='omicron']However, many essential workers have expressed their frustration with city officials at what they feel is a lack of preparedness and attention to the risks of omicron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Department of Public Health conducting approximately 25,000 coronavirus tests last week — nearly double its capacity from the start of December — many testing sites are still struggling with an increased demand for tests that results in long lines and waiting times that can stretch for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UESF officials \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/UESF/status/1478478513606848513\">announced via Twitter that they are ready to negotiate with the school district\u003c/a> to secure COVID-19 sick leave and improve access to testing and KN95 masks. The union expects to meet with district officials on Thursday morning.\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/UESF/status/1478478513606848513\u003cbr>\nFor now, SFUSD does not plan a return to distance learning. Colfax announced his support of this decision at Tuesday's conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even with the increase of additional cases, we have learned that the mental health and educational impacts on students due to social isolation far outweigh the challenges of in-person learning,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, for her part, insisted that the current surge will be brief and asked residents to avoid activities that may result in COVID-19 exposure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To put it simply,\" she said, \"right now, we're learning what it means to live with COVID.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With COVID-19 cases on the rise, San Francisco is seeing its public services short-staffed, from Muni to the police department. 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