and so in response to this, in 2009, and mtc created, the climate initiatives program, which includes3 million dollar test bed for innovative strategies aimed at reducing transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions. and this amount, and mtc is allocated over 7 million to the bay area bike share pilot program and is committed to making this program a success. and this pilot not only offers the last minute solutions for computers, in san francisco, san jose and along the cal tran corridor and also provides a fun alternative to driving around town, bicycling is also, incredibly healthy. and the us, and the surgeon general recommends 30 minutes a day. and finally the bike share, pilot program is one of the first multicity bike share systems in the nation, and so proven successful this system could expand to other cities in the future. and to all of the current and future cyclists, pedal on, and so again, at mtc, we are thrilled to bring bike share to the bay area, and i am looking forward to seeing all of these beautiful bicycles around town, there you go, and so i am pleased now, to

morning, some of our speakers, representing san francisco, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] representing mtc board chair, amy winhern. and representing redwood city, vice mayor jed geee and also the vice chair, of san transand also honored to be joined this morning by cyclists region nine, jared bloomenfeld. [ applause ] >> additionally i would like to recognize and thank the following elected representatives for their support of this program. supervisor john avalos. and san francisco, supervisor and commissionerer scott weiner. [ applause ] san francisco supervisor jane kim. [ applause ] sfmta board of directors tom nolan and cheyrlbrick man. >> and the mayor and director transportation policy, jilian gelet,. >> and mayor district, executive director jack broadbent. department of environment, melanie nutter. sfmta, bon ye. san francisco bike coalition, kit hodge. [ applause ] sfcta deputy director for policy and programming ana lafort. sfcta interim director maria lumabardo. and san francisco police chief greg sure. [ applause ] >> so how do we get here? as early as 2009, tda ban working to

been awarded more than 11 million dollars in public funds, including a 7.1 million dollar award from mtc, matched by 2.8 million in the bay area district and 1.3 in the partner agencies. and as a result of these grants, today, we are celebrating the availability of more than 600 bicycles and 64 stations. that within the next few months, it will be expanded to 700 and by early, 2014, will be expanded to a total of 1,000 bicycles and the main goal in the regional pilot program would be to evaluate the potential to reduce the traffic and improve the local air quality, as a result of these grants, actually this program, could not have been achieved, without the strong commitment and partnership from the transportation commission, the bay area air district, the transit district, the county of san mateo, and the city and county of san francisco transportation authority and municipal transportation agency. the valley trans, transportation and cal trans. and now it is my pleasure to welcome ed lee the mayor of san francisco to the podium and before mayor lee takes the podium, i would like to int

that but this is exciting with the first phase of over 7 million dollars of grants, and thank again to mtc and the air district for being great partners and i am excited to do this and we are going to have more safer lanes throughout the city, the city of san francisco is already completed over 217 miles, bicycle lanes, where we are putting hundreds of bike racks up and we are getting facilities, situated where the people need them and it should not be a big surprise that south of the market area, where jane kim represents, that that is the hottest area of bicycle use in all of san francisco. and it is concentrated in that area because that is where a lot of our technology workers and new small business workers are working and they need the state routes between the home and cal train and downtown and all of the areas and so we are working hard on that so this is a great exciting news and finally a bike sharing program that our mta is proud of. and the pass mayor, continued to call me up saying where are you getting my bike share program started? and so, of course, the governor we get to sa

program has for the entire bay area and i also wanted to give special recognition to my colleague on mtc, scott weiner who has been a tremendous advocate for this program, and that has been launched today and he is a great bike share advocate and helped us in this last year of moving those funds to enable this to all happen. and i also want to thank all of the hard working staff for making this day happen. and a special thanks to the air district, staff and our partners at sfmta, dta, and you know the beauty about launching this program in san jose and san francisco we are going to learn a lot. we are going to learn about how bike share works in the hills and on the flats and so we will be able to take that knowledge as we expand across the bay area and i want to extend a thanks to congratulations to the bicycle coalitions who are such incredible advocates for this program and we look forward to your help in expanding bike sharing throughout the bay area and as he mentioned, the bay area's single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions comes from transportations that represents about

mtc and cal train, and transportation built and any of these other government entity and some local and regional and state and some national. and we would be informed if the tjpa would be saying anything other than to get the money. >> and we are just out trying to get money and so we don't, you know, we don't take the positions we leave it up to the individual agencies. >> okay. >> we don't appear before bodies, and support the positions. we do appear before bodies when it involves the transbay project. >> i know tha, is what i am asking. >> and ask, and we are asked to give the presentations on our projector we are asked to respond to the questions when most recently, we have received the funding from mtc and that is when we appear. >> if we are asked to appear and there is a funding element. and we have an update on the project to appear. >> okay. >> does that answer your question? >> sure does. >> okay. >> i wanted to just confirm that i understand this correctly. and and negotiated with the original amount so that amount has not changed. and on the $12,500 per month, originally it

. >> traffic on the new eastern stand in the bay bridge continues slow but they mtc expects the traffic mtc executive director says the essence the news that has to shoulders in each direction, which means that stalls and accidents were not called the bridge. he also says that the drivers " gawk " at the new bridge and " over the long run there will be a dramatic improvement in traffic. " >> new this morning. a badly timed emergency drill had passengers on edge at boston's logan international airport. this video shows a training exercise at port authority conducted yesterday, the 12th anniversary of 911. therefore send out this week announcing that the fire department will be training this morning, smoke on their field is part of the training. governor deval patrick called it a dumb. he said the the timing could not have been worse. the port authority has since issued an apology san that it understands it offers those touched by the tragedy. >> the legislature has approved a compromise plan to deal with the state's prison crisis. they passed a bill asking federal judges to extend the de

continues to be slow but the mtc expects traffic to be faster in the long run. director says since the new span have to show others in each direction which means that stalls and accidents will clock bridge as often as they did in the past. he also says the drivers " doc " at the new bridge and " over the long run there will be a dramatic improvement traffic. " >>darya: the oakland a's did more than amazing. who will have more of yesterday's game. a good win for the giants as well friendswood in shifting his duties from the military to his royal duties. and a jam up continues at a hot spot along the creek. we will have an update coming up. -- walnut at farmers we make you smarter about insurance, because what you dont know can hurt you. what if you didn't know that it's smart to replace washing-machine hoses every five years? what if you didn't know that you might need extra coverage for more expensive items? and what if you didn't know that teen drivers are four times more likely to get into an accident? 'sup the more you know, the better you can plan for what's

we sat down approximate randy wrench her of the mtc. he said we want to stay on everything and that comes with a cost. one is time and now it's nearly 24 years later and two, money, $6.4 billion later. he says that process is good over all. it came out with a lot of positives and one was the bike path. he said it was a good idea and set a standard for the future. he said it's compare today the golden gate bridge. building that bridge wasn't a cake walk either. >> you i don't, the golden gate bridge was a tough one as well. they had design arguments, engineering arguments, cost went up too high. there was a notion that we're going to build big things. >> reporter: so a lot of similarities between this one and the golden gate bridge. >> i think we can all agree that the bridge is beautiful. image was always a factor in the design, right? >> reporter: you're right. it's beautiful this time of day all lit up. he said when we were building this we want add statement on the bay and i'm sure many will agree that's what we got. >> mark kelly, l

. >> i think one of the things that is different about this plan than past plans, mtc has been doingegional transportation plans. this is the fourth plan that has been integrated. so if you look at the kind of growth, really focused growth by transit, it's really incumbent on us to come up with a plan. there are a couple of ways that has been done. the plan goes to maintain the existing system. we want to know when our children and grandchildren are trying to get on the train or drive down a neighborhood street that it's in good working order. we also have a performance based plan that looks at projects and does a cost benefit assessment and really tries to maximize the use of public tax dollars and come up with an interconnected system that serves this growth pattern. a couple of the key projects in the system. one is something called bart metro. it's the highest scoring project. it would provide a lot more capacity in the core of the bart system that lead into this segment talks about our job growth. we are fort naunate to be bring in so many jobs. to support that, people have to g

morning, some of our speakers, representing san francisco, mayor ed lee. [ applause ] representing mtc board chair, amy winhern. and representing redwood city, vice mayor jed geee and also the vice chair, of san transand also honored to be joined this morning by cyclists region nine, jared bloomenfeld. [ applause ] >> additionally i would like to recognize and thank the following elected representatives for their support of this program. supervisor john avalos. and san francisco, supervisor and commissionerer scott weiner. [ applause ] san francisco supervisor jane kim. [ applause ] sfmta board of directors tom nolan and cheyrlbrick man. >> and the mayor and director transportation policy, jilian gelet,. >> and mayor district, executive director jack

projector we are asked to respond to the questions when most recently, we have received the funding from mtc and that is when we appear. >> if we are asked to appear and there is a funding element. and we have an update on the project to appear. >> okay. >> does that answer your question? >> sure does. >> okay. >> i wanted to just confirm that i understand this correctly. and and negotiated with the original amount so that amount has not changed. and on the $12,500 per month, originally it was 12,000 per month but it was negotiated at the time of the original contract, so there was 12,000 a month for the first three years and up to 12,500 for the next two option years and if it were extended there is a small increase for the last two option years and >> it is a monthly retainer so that does not mean that we get a statement of the hours? >> and one of them, and just a trait line, although there is a weekly call and so we do know what they are doing on a weekly basis and the other one does detail out the hours to some extent. >> okay. >> thank you. >> and sorry. >> and director sartipi? >> jus

the mtc is studying that topic right now. of course, if that happens, that is many more years away. live in oakland, mark kelly, kpix 5. >> take a look at all the work that went into this bridge. this time lapse foot and collapsed 42,000 hours of construction into just 4:00 minutes. 12 cameras first started recording in 2008. earth can construction cameras captured 42 angles of the big project. you can check out the full video at kpix.com. >>> new at 5:00, an exclusive kpix 5 survey usa poll shows bay area residents are split on whether the u.s. should take military action against syria. 29% say the u.s. should carry out air strikes to punish syria's president for the use of chemical weapons against his own people. 23% say the u.s. should take no action. 39% say the u.s. should only provide support for other countries military response. 470 people were questioned. the results have a margin of era of 4.6%. our poll also found 71% say congress should decide what response to make the. house minority leader pelosi says she is backing a military strike. >> this is the behavior outside th

. >> in the event of a strike, mtc said, the those funds can be redirected to train operators, includinges and ac transit. however, the union questions what management is willing to spend that much money on a contingencies' plant as of just using it to negotiate. >> as we wait to see a bart workers will walk off the job, and orinda city council and is pushing for legislation to ban on transit workers from striking. councilman steve glazer announced a petition, calling for a ban similar to the one in cities like new york and chicago. thatl continue to push for band regardless of whether a contract is reached. >> coming up on the kron4 morning news. police have made some arrests and that illegal house party involving hundreds of teenagers a a former nfl players and new york home. plus erica will be tracking your weekend forecast. unbelievable. shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep f

. >> but the spokes machine for the mtc says toll increases are not forecast for this project. >> carolyn tyler abc 7 news. >> well for the first time the bay bridge is open to pedestrians and bicyclist. get to the new designated path from shell mound street in emeryville or oakland. 7 news reporter wayne has that part of the story. >> you watch. you waited. you anticipated. and now. >> i just want to good to san francisco now. >> it is. how often have you walked on the bay bridge. >> any day now on in passing cars and spitting distance of the old eastern span. take a good long look. we used to drive on that? >> well, i'm looking at it from the outside now. start from the in. >> what's the difference? >> you realize how old it really is from the outside lacking in. >> the new walkway bike way stretches 2 miles along the bridge southern side. it doesn't yet extend to yurba buena island. but if you walk long enough far enough. >> i wanted to get a medal or ribbon or some kind of recognition you know. >> you don't get any of those but do you reach the end of the line. >> this will remain the

the mtc is actually studying the idea right now, but, of course, that could be many, many years away juliette. >> thanks so much, mark. >>> take a look at all the work that went into this bridge. there time lapse footage collapses 42,000 hours of construction in just four minutes. 12 cameras first started recording in 2008. earth cam constructionup construction cameras captured 42 angles of the big project. you can check out the full video on kpix.com. >>> a new twist in the troubled america's cup races. coming up, why oracle is already down 2-0, even though the racing hasn't started yet. >>> great month last month and told them all out. >> so why bay area car dealerships are running out of cars. >>> what a difference 24 hour makes. storm review from dublin looking toward mount diablo, nothing but blue sky. find out when you away from the water are likely to hit 100 degrees. that's coming up. >> i think there are more questions than answers at this point. >>> coming up at 6:30, how the crisis in syria is dividing congressional representatives in the bay area. plus, how the baffles ab

the mtc has studied it, of course it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars. but many i spoke to today say, hey, they still like the idea. >> it is amazing to be on a bike on this new bridge. >> reporter: renee rivera sees momentum for bike paths picking up speed. she is executive director of the east bay bicycle coalition and this idea of installing a bike path all the way to san francisco has her jazzed. >> people are so excited about the new bridge. and then they immediately ask, when is it going to connect to san francisco? >> reporter: the when is still years away. at this point, this design exists attaching the bike path alongside the bridge's western span. walkers and bikers could use it and this is important, maintenance crews could use it too keeping them from shutting down traffic lanes when the bridge needs a touchup. sounds like a win-win. cars are less likely to get held up. bikers get their path. so what's the catch? well, here it goes. >> now we have to come up with $500 million to complete the maintenance and bike path on the west span. >> repo

the mtc says that's enough to fill an entire freeway lane for about 48 minutes.r means that's a bad thing? according to the state eight employment development v, there were 93,000 more people employed in the bay area which could explain why you may have noticed traffic on other bridges as well. but, of course, the major setback is the commute times with the added features of the bay bridge. commuter times were supposed to decrease. what the chronicle found out from toll plaza to fifth straight, it takes about 15 minutes. it was 13 minutes on the old bridge. traffic running smoothly. that changes in the afternoon. traffic commute times have increased from 14 minutes to 17 minutes in the afternoon. and increased ridership as well on b.a.r.t. and other transit agencies as well. we're live here just west of the toll plaza, brn flores, vu chael 2 news. >> thank you. >>> 8:33. we now have exclusive new information about the horrific high-speed crash in san francisco on friday morning, the one that killed a 16-year- old boy. tara moriarty is joining us live from san fra

appeared >> and the shows that the average traffic was up 1625 vehicles over the last year appeared >> the mtcoing peak hour appeared >> time now is 9:47 a.m. first as a peek at the weather. >> the start out with a live ruth can lroof cam look outside pair >> this afternoon expect mostly cloudy skies with the pops of sun here and there appeared >> if you notice we have been tracking a very strong system in the pacific northwest in seattle saw about 5 1/2 inches of rain appeared which is more than what they see in december and january appear >> it is a very early start to the rainy steered season appeared >> now will perhaps see a few isolated showers over the golden gate bridge today appeared >> clouds will be scattered antipater's on the warmer side and is human and muggy outside right now. line afternoon highs mostly '70s in the south bay today appeared >> 77 in santa clara appear >> bone dry in the south bay we saw some scattered raindrops and east coast of contra county appeared >> fairfield 76 hi there >> 77 livermore appeared >> downtown san francisco high in the upper 60s and low '70's

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