lastly, the bus ramps, this is just a drawing showing the ramps. the structure is -- they are requesting a vacation where it passes over the street for a purpose of maintaining the structure. and like all the other vacations, it begins at about 18 feet above grade. so the street, actually as we use the streets today from the sidewalk up, will not be affected. it will still remain in city jurisdiction. city property. it is the part below it has the being vacated. the planning department, and working with the city attorney, they agreed to a series of deed restrictions regarding these vacations, which are very notable. the first is that these street vacations in the property can only be used for the purpose of the transbay project including the associated ramps and rail extension. the second tjpa cannot convey these vacated street portions to any other party except another government entity that may subsequently operate the transit center and lastly, that if any of these portion that are vacated, are ever sort of abandoned in terms of its use for the

the bus decks and a public park on the roof as well as a low grade train station as well as the bus rampseading to and from the bay bridge. so a series of strait -- are necessary to -- street -- are necessary to move forward with this project. first the transit center building itself above grade passes over primarily over two streets, freemont and first street. and additionally, the building, as it has been designed and is moving forward, has

the paper says a low-hanging bus ramp hangs over about a quarter of the temporary site. the temporary terminal opens on saturday. >>> time is 6:38. want to check in with mike who has been following a motorcycle accident in san francisco. >> that's right. the accident has cleared from the skyway. reports on the motorcyclists themselves, minor injuries to the drivers. that is cleared from the roadway. we have the slow drive coming off the upper deck, but that's typical for the area and time. no major issue on the oakland side. not a major backup but slowing coming through the s curve in treasure island and san francisco. the rest of the east bay looking nice. look at the times approaching the maze, close to the limit except the caldecott tunnel, and most of the slowing is because there is only one bore in the eastbound direction. folks starting to slow from the cash lanes approaching the toll plaza, maybe about a half dozen to a dozen cars waiting there. not a big issue if you have fastrak, most folks do. sunol, also in the east bay, a live look out there. southbound side

. >>> a long hanging bus ramp that hangs a quarter over the temporary site. >>> "today" show returns morning. >>> 8:30 now on a thursday morning. the 5th day of august, 2010. we've got a nice crowd on the plaza this morning. there will be a little less elbow room tomorrow when the musical group train rolls onto the plaza as part of our summer concert series. they will be here in our 8:30 half hour. they've been here before. we like them. and if you're in the area, get here early. >> it should be fun. >> yeah. >> out on the plaza i'm matt lauer along with meredith vieira. al roker and carl quintanilla are joining, as well. ann is off this week. we're going to meet a woman in this half hour who is changing the world one post-it note at a time. >> that's exactly right. she's having body image issues and self-esteem issues and she went into a public bathroom and kind of wrote this note to herself and anybody else who might be in there saying, you are beautiful. what she did was start an international movement. we're going to meet the woman behind operation beautiful coming up. it's quite

stanley roberts visits the essex street on ramp on san francisco where drivers are getting used to a new busriver is getting a ticket for an illegal right turn in san francisco. allow me to explain why. on at the essex street on ramp to the bay bridge where these two lanes lead to the bridge. but this third lane drivers are only permitted to go straight. no right turns, but many do, like this driver, and this driver, and this driver. drivers making this turn are passing people who have waited patiently so they can gain access to the bridge. making that right turn illegally puts the drivers right smack in this brand new bus only lane. the problem is so bad that the san francisco police can simply sit in plain view and wait for the violation. now for people who believe that cop on every corner would keep drivers honest, has not been here. because even with two san francisco police motorcycle officers watching drivers still make this illegal right hand turn. which brings me back to the driver in the beginning. he told the officer he did nothing wrong. >> where it says signature right there. >>

northern, the impact blew out the window of the tour bus and caused extensive damage to the hood of the toyota but no major injuries. >>> a new rampcting highway 24 west and highway 13 north will open tomorrow just in time for the morning commute. the old ramp was shut down this weekend. the new ramp is farther west, making it easier for drivers to merge into exiting traffic. this change is all part of the cal cut tunnel project. they said they moved up the ramp opening to accommodate fans attending the oakland football game next saturday. >>> some 500 east bay preschoolers depend on them for daycare and tonight their parents are vowing to keep them open. they say they plan to occupy the golden gate child development center starting tuesday when one of seven originally set to close because of budget cuts. five have been spared at least for now but parents say they want the state to come up with the money to keep them all open permanently. >> we want public education for every young person in oakland and we want the little ones, you know, aged 3 to 5 and the after school programs, to exist for children to develop and have an equal

the impact blew out the window of the tour bus and caused extensive damage to the hood of the toyota but fortunately there were no major injuries. >>> a new rampnecting highway 24 west and 13 north will open tomorrow just in time for the morning commute. the old ramp was shut down this weekend. the new ramp is farther west, making it easier for drivers to merge into exiting traffic. this change is all part of the caldicott tunnel project. they said they moved up the ramp opening to accommodate fans attending cal's opening football game next saturday. >>> parents announced their plans today to keep a pair of child care centers in the east bay open. they plan to occupy the child development center starting tuesday, one of seven originally set to close due to budget cuts. five have been spared, at least for now, but parents say they want the state to come up with the money to keep them all open permanently. >> we want public education for every young person in oakland and we want the little ones, you know, and 3 to 5 and after school programs to exist for children to develop and have an equal start in life. >> state budget cuts have reduced the o

the temporary terminal we constructed for bus services during the construction of the new facility is located a block away at howard and beal streets, but the ramps that currently access the terminal cut across that temporary site. so the first operation is tearing down those ramps, building out the last corner of the temporary terminal, that will run between now and october. by november we'll have the full temporary terminal open and ready for bus operations as it will be through the next five years -- seven years. >> so it will up the access, we will have changes even at the temporary terminal. of course we are talking about it being temporary. is that going to be big enough to handle the volume of traffic that goes through there as far as commuters are concerned? >> yeah. we have sized it to meet bus operations for ac transit, they are the largest operator there, as well as other operators that will be operating around the facility on city streets. and greyhound, which is also located at the temporary terminal. >> robert, thank you very much for the work. thanks for joining us. we'll have more on that project and maybe talk a bit about more as

bus line. >>insurance, registration? >> this driver is getting a ticket for an illegal right turn in san francisco. allow me to explain why. on at the essex street on rampdge where these two lanes lead to the bridge. but this third lane drivers are only permitted to go straight. no right turns, but many do, like this driver, and this driver, and this driver. drivers making this turn are passing people who have waited patiently so they can gain access to the bridge. making that right turn illegally puts the drivers right smack in this brand new bus only lane. the problem is so bad that the san francisco police can simply sit in plain view and wait for the violation. now for people who believe that cop on every corner would keep drivers honest, has not been here. because even with two san francisco police motorcycle officers watching drivers still make this illegal right hand turn. which brings me back to the driver in the beginning. he told the officer he did nothing wrong. >> where it says signature right there. >> except make an illegal right hand turn. he was issued a ticket, which counts as a moving violation. >> please pay attention to the signs. yo

toward the island we have the off ramp shutdown where we're accident still trying to clear that this point the entire offering is what you need to go, turnaround a tour bus and come back to use the. more traffic updates for you in a minute. check on market headlines u.s. stocks are headed for a choppy start this morning. at the history sharp drop we had some fears of global economic slowdown. trading really slumped down the dow ended the day to consist of reports to the downside and the a 10,00378. nasdaq lost 60 points. s&p lost $,d31. investors today are whittier report on weekly jobless claims they suspect of jobless claims to fall. it said the economists say new plants are to fall to a level of 425,000. member of homes fall lost. there is as nearly 93,000 properties but is up 9% from june and your forcers shoppers cut in their heels in july of nason of those veterans of did retail sales rose only 1%. that is according to mastercard. and an additional watch our panel says that $700 billion in u.s. bailout money have a far greater impact your season is a year in the u.s., and the report shows the billions of dollars in u.s. rescue funds on their in the