Adam Shanks

1 day ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has identified the problem — insufficient beds for the homeless and people struggling with mental health — and has laid out a solution — more beds. What he lacks, at the moment, is a way to pay for them. Last week, Lurie announced the official formation of the Breaking the Cycle Fund, which is a publicly managed but privately funded account that hopes to rake in donations from private interests. He has a $37.5 million headstart with no end goal.

2 days ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s patience has paid off. As Police Chief Bill Scott heads off to a new gig in his old town, Lurie will now have a hand in selecting The City’s next police chief, without having to have publicly and painfully ousted the one he inherited. When he ran for office last year, Lurie could have matched his opponent’s signature promise to immediately fire Scott upon taking office.

5 days ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

BART resumed running its trains after the agency abruptly suspended all service for more than four hours early Friday morning due to an issue with its train-control system. The agency blamed the disruption on its network devices intermittently losing connectivity, which prevented it from safely dispatching trains.

5 days ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

BART abruptly suspended all service early Friday morning after what the agency described as an issue with its train-control system. Staff are being deployed to stations to help riders find alternative means of transportation, according to Chris Filippi, a BART spokesperson. The service outage affects all 50 BART stations. “We don’t have an estimate on when service will be restored,” Filippi said Friday morning on the agency’s media voicemail line.

5 days ago | sfexaminer.com | Adam Shanks

BART service was abruptly suspended systemwide on Friday morning after what the agency described as a “computer networking problem.”As of 7 a.m., the agency had not provided an estimate for when service would resume and was directing passengers to seek alternative means of transportation. The agency did not immediately release additional details about what led to the issue. The last time BART faced a similar problem it required several hours to fix, according to the agency.