these are very congested areas.it is a very gigantic project with an enormous amount of money invested in it. i know that it has been an enormous disruption to the city, to do that for seven blocks worth of line is almost a waste of money. i would like people to seriously consider extending it at least two north beach in washington square. thank you. >> good evening, mr. mayor, and everyone. my name is ernestine. district 3 and the financial district is the densest part of the city and needs attention. rec and park wastes lighting that does not work. this creates crime and does not serve the needs of the people. no. 2, the cut in rocks that are $40,000 and serve no purpose whatsoever. the muni is losing theirs. i am on the muni trying to check that. they have not enough enforcement. so, what where is the budget? we are not having money because it is wasted. poor kid should be helped, but not the rich. paying for the rich and the poor? that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard of. and the name needs to be r

there is new debate about how to handle traffic congestion and northern convict -- traffic congestion -- congests june in northern virginia. it is no secret traffic in the b.c. region is notoriously bad. some believe driving less or using public transportation more are better methods of reducing congestion. >> one thing we try to do is a good thing. >> the head of transportation recently said tolls are the future. they allowed the biggest and quickest impact on managing capacity. >> my opinion is they work. >> polls are becoming a part of life in the area. there is the longstanding policy toll road. talk of creating high occupancy toll lanes on i-95 in virginia. then there are the hot plains from springfield to the dulles toll road. that project has been named the 495 express lane. the busier the traffic, the more you will have to pay. the goal is to maintain a minimum speed of the 45 miles per hour. >> i am hoping with hot lanes being introduced people will take advantage of it and will pay little extra to get there faster with less crowding. spending hundreds of millions of dollars

my issue concerns congestion and safety. regarding congestion, understand that they have to have loading and unloading its own. i suggest the lower st. is a better solution. other trafford could much more easily it pass the loading zone -- other trafford could more easily pass the loading zone. dangerous behavior by children running into the street can be avoided but does happen sometimes. get around 8:00 a.m. in the morning, people need to leave by car, and the street is already very croed. although they say they will monitor, it is difficult to control behavior sometimes, and i think with 25 cars coming in the morning, you would have a real firestorm, so we would be looking at more traffic, and i want to give kudos for not having a drop off at the end of today, but only at the beginning, because i think that we would be able to return more spots to the streets. there is an extremely dangerous intersection. i walk my dog there every morning. we have to be careful about cars, and with children at the school, we need a stop s

and there's no major congestion here, but traffic has picked up a little bit. the left lanes at 29th street in both directions were shut down on friday for repairs. now the jfx is a heavily traveled road with 6,000 cars per hour during rush hour. now the lane closures are needed for emergency repairs to collapse drainage pipes underneath the expressway. so the department of transportation says you need the closures for safety reasons. the closures will mean serious traffic congestion especially during rush hour. and we talked to drivers who are already planning alternate routes for this morning. many are looking at liberty road and falls road and charles street. >> it will be a little diversion at first. and it is an opportunity to check out hampden and other neighborhoods and run errands i wouldn't normally run. >> reporter: the repairs and construction is expected to take 6 to 8 weeks. reporting live, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> and don't forget to see latest details and check out live cameras throughout the area by logging onto abc2news.com and click on t

we were talking last night in oakland about various cities and the congestion issues and congestion pricingversus perhaps parking pricing. i was wondering if he could tell us the politics of pricing automobile parking versus congestion parking. in at san francisco, one of the biggest challenges is car is going past you at 40 m.p.h. and getting cars to go slower and not be in the city as we were looking at on market street. a lot of it is about reducing cars. i know in copenhagen, we look at what has been done with diminishing car parking, but maybe speak to car parking as part of this. >> in copenhagen, the cars cost double price because of taxes. not so many people have a car. copenhagen is like new york, i guess, people do not need cars as much. many people want to commute into the center from the suburbs. that is what we want to prevent. that is why we have such high costs, high taxes on parking your car. the closer that you get to the center, the more expensive. but there is a limit how much we can turn away. that is why we also want to have some systems. i think if we're going to read

as far as congestion goes, we are okay for the most part around the baltimore beltway. not moving too bad in both directions as we loo live at green spring. -- we look live at green spring avenue. for those of you traveling through ellicott city on i-95, it's a pretty slow ride right now. you may want to consider 295 the bw parkway flowing freely and at a good pace between 695 and the capital beltway on 259. but you will tap -- 295. but you will tap the breaks on 95 heading -- brakes on 95 heading to ellicott city. things are backing up a little bit on the jones falls expressway. sherrie johnson is here with more on the lane construction. how is it going since we spoke last about 30 minutes ago? >> reporter: good morning. yes, traffic is still picking

my issue concerns congestion and safety. regarding congestion, understand that they have to have loading and unloading its own.

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even with these units, the congestion has not gotten worse. it is actually not. there are 416 in that project, far more dense. you have people going to and from the bay bridge. that has actually been an interesting thing that i found in that case. i also find it funny because people say there will be a lot more congested but they say the people will buy these places and never lived in them. if they never lived in them, there will be no congestion. it is not work to have it both ways. there was also the issue around affordable housing and obviously we like to have affordable housing on site. we know that this would not have affordable housing and as it is, we have heard in other projects that they are in desperate need of money because they can leverage it to get more housing. it was compelling and mr. stewart got up and said that they leverage at $10 million to get $48 million. we have had affordable on-site housing, hoa's and the like make it difficult. it is not preferable to have it, even if it was possible, because it sounds like there would be constraints. i

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we're talking about putting a hospital in one of the most congested corridors in the city. whether or not emergency vehicles can bypass gridlock, this is a concern that needs to be looked at a lot more closely. even with impacts understated or omitted, it is clear that the project would have serious and detrimental consequences. in particular to the proposed van ness area. the final eir recognizes that building a hospital of this size and magnitude of the cathedral hill campus would result in over 30 significant and unavoidable impact just to traffic. you would think, given all these significant impacts, there would be a thorough look at alternatives to reduce these impacts. this was absolutely not the case. the eir violated every alternative legal requirement in that type of analysis. it set forth a narrow set of project objectives. it failed to analyze a reasonable range of alternatives. and it set forth really disingenuous reasons for not following through with the alternatives. under ceqa, the lead agency may not give the project's purpose and artificially narrow defini

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he has congestive heart failure. a window, i had to nearly, i had to run red lights, put other people in danger to get my dad there on time before he died of congestive heart failure. i would also move at the end of the city when any of you have meetings or plans on that end of the city and fate steps in, you might get hit by another car, car crash, drunk driver. if you're on that end of the city and it falls on you to come into this hospital, where would you want to be, hospital access at this point or having to fight the whole city to get to cpmc? so, again, please don't ignore a large part of the city and the demographics are changing as well as drug use, san francisco is one of the highest drug use cities in the nation, possibly the world. people from all over the world getting addicted causing mental health illness. if they don't have any access, the prison population will rise and those people will be in prison. thank you. president fong: thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you. president fong, members

it is congested. commissioner dooley: i agree, i don't see why c.u.'s which work should not be applied. it's not like someone is going to a deny a c.u. for formula retail in there. i don't feel comfortable with creating a special zone. it's like then why not everybody who has a lot of formula retail have this zone for no c.u.'s. i mean, even a lot of small businesses here, they go through the c.u. process, why not your tenants? >> you also can look at it this way, too, that target space on masonic and gerrie, that sat vacant when mervyn's went out for a long time. in the market, we're sitting with an empty tower records when who knows when we're going to get something in there. so sometimes it works the other way, too. that's what i worry about is what if bed bath, something would happen or nordstroms rack, we may be stuck there with vacant space for a long time. that helps no one else. commissioner dooley: do you think a c.u. process, to a fairly large company, will prevent them from going in? it seems like they have the resources to deal with it. >>

nothing relieves allergy congestion faster. get claritin-d at the pharmacy counter.claritin clear. >>> talking about farmers tans and how you can get them this weekend. >> absolutely right. just put your short sleeved shirt on. i still recommend sun -- the best way is not to have sun block on. that's also the worst thing to do for your skin. >> we're not advising that. >> that's right. it is the month of april and the sun is getting stronger every day until summer solstice time. if you're going to be out through the end of september, don't forget your spf. the good folks always recommend 15 or higher this time of the year. bigger number than that towards memorial day weekend. meanwhile, though, it is going to be a beautiful weekend to be outside enjoying the great weather. we do have some cloud cover outside this morning. i do think on the whole you're going to like your weekend. today and tomorrow 95% rain free. no worries. now, we will have a chance for sprinkles tonight into the front half of the day tomorrow. but then by tomorrow late morning, lunchtime or so, dr

road closures and congestion could mean long waits and sherrie johnson is live with more. what's going on, on i-83. >> reporter: good morning angela. right now, traffic is starting to pick up just a little bit here. take a look. i am at the north avenue mount royal exit here off and you know i got to tell you, traffic is start being to pick up a little bit. still, no backup right now. but, hey, it's early. this is a first true test for the jones falls expressway closures. the left lanes at 28th street in both directions were shut down on friday for repairs. now, the lane closures are needed for emergency repairs to collapse drainage pipes underneath expressway. the department of transportation says you need closures for safety reasons. and as you can imagine, these closures will mean serious traffic congestion especially during rush hour. now we talked to drivers who are planning alternate routes and many are looking at liberty road, falls road and charles street. >> take either liberty road which is the furtherrest west i brie -- fartherest west you can go or falls road a

major congestion. and i thought i had a sinus infection or ear infection. >> forget the runny nose or itchy eyes. lynn says the severity of her allergy congestion hit an all-time high. >> i didn't want to do anything on the weekend. i would stay home for a little bit. it was really getting depressing. >> reporter: the desperate 34-year-old turned to something she was skeptical about. the focus is building up the patients' immune system. april is peak time for allergy pain. and especially bad in year. >> we have pollens and mold spores combined with a very windy season. this winter was a dry, warm winter. so, the plants are confused. they started releasing pollen early. >> reporter: this appears to be a trend across the country. this allergy season is on-track to be the worst in recent years. nearly 23% of americans polled report allergies. up 2% from a year ago. >> i think people are stressed and run down. and when we're more likely to be stressed and run down, our immune system is going to be more rea

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you're going to see just a little congestion there. the average speed, ten minutes now. 95 all the way to 270. back to you. >> all right. thank you. >>> 6:22 now. a sweet bust. the creative way someone tried to smuggle drugs through a local airport. >>> next, a drive-thru surprise. a cow shows up. switching to progressive could mean hundreds more in your wallet year after year. feed me! saving you money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> never seen a big mac attack like this before. that is darcy in the window. the colorado dairy cow decided to make a stop at the drive-thru recently. she even butted her head again the window to place her order. darcy must have really wanted a burger and fries. she walked half a mile from her farm to get to the mickey d's. and the fries were calling. >> worked up an appetite, you know? >> milkshake. >>> customs agents found drugs hidden in chocolate bars and juice boxes at dulles airport. the agents found more than four pounds of cocaine stuffed inside a woman's luggage over the weeken

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no major congestion or backups right now. but traffic is moving along. the left lanes at 28th street in both directions were shut down on friday for repairs. now the lane closures are needed for emergency repairs to collapsed drainage pipes underneath the expresswaych the department of transportation says you need the closures for safety reasons. these closures will mean serious traffic congestion especially during rush hour. now we talked to drivers who are planning alternate routes because of this. and many are looking at liberty road, falls road and charles street. >> [audio not understandable] >> what i will be doing is driving downtown to. [audio not understandable] >> reporter: now these repairs and construction are expected to last anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks. reporting live in downtown baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >> news time 6:05. >>> another traffic alert this morning. joint replacement work is beginning on the southbound of i-95 over to de soto road. it's expected to last three months. single, double and triple lane closures may be i

reporter: you're right, lynette. , so far in terms of congestion. we do have a couple of accidents to watch for. if you're traveling on maryland 175 between the bw parkway and ridge road is where you'll slow down for that collision. also annapolis police on the scene of a crash. that's going to be on jennifer and medical parkway. in the meantime, as far as delays go, we are seeing just a few backups out there. for those of you traveling around the beltway, this is what you'll encounter, for the most part, very light flow of traffic on both the inner and outer loop. as you can see on the north side here at bel aire road. but as expected, now you're hitting the brakes on southbound 95 on your approach to white marsh boulevard. that sluggish traffic continues off and on southbound 95 as you make your way to the fort mchenry tunnel. back over to you, charley. >>> widespread salmonella outbreak now making people sick. >> so far 19 states including here in maryland and washington d.c. have been affected by this. >> abc 2 news' linda stow is here now with

now the lower deck going to get a lot more congested over the weekend.tarting at 8:00 tonight, we told you doyle drive closes cutting off folks to the golden gate bridge. that affects you. the beautiful palace of fine arts if you plan on going there this weekend, for example, here's the golden gate bridge. doyle drive would connect you between these two major tourist spots cut off again. i'll explain those in a few minutes. >> thank you very much. >>> 5:20 right now. coming up, no luck, mainly skill required on this one. stanford's standout goes pro. but first he has to finish his finals. talking about andrew luck. talking about his big plans before heading to indy just ahead. >> kid's got a bright future. >>> and a live look outside. not quite bright yet in san jose or anywhere for that matter on the west coast. the sun still waiting to peak up. but going to be a beautiful day out there. hang in there. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days is-- is huge. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk

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at that time, we came to the board of commissioners with a request to transfer the federal congest and agency blocked a grant. at the time, we were unable to meet the deadlines on the project. in order to preserve the $4.8 million for the city, we needed to transfer the funds a project that could meet applicable deadlines. the cesar chavez project was able to absorb the $3.4 million of the $4.8 million. the fund also went to two other mta projects. we have gone to the transportation authority board to approve the reprogramming. we have also met the deadline to request the construction authorization of the cesar chavez project. this resolution is the last up in finalizing the transfer of funds. it is required for all projects that received the block grant. i can answer any questions about the resolution that he might have. supervisor mar: are there any questions, colleagues? supervisor cohen? no questions. thank you for the great work on this. let's open this up for public comment. there is no one from the public here. i will close public comment. colleagues, can we move this forward wi

now you are seeing congestion coming south on 270. all local lanes, through lanes have reopened there. a little congestion over by connecticut avenue on the beltway. no major slowing. at this point, we've got a good go. 59 miles per hour from 95 all the way to the 270 exchange. and that's running with about ten minutes travel time there. eun? aaron? >> thank you. >>> 6:02. metro is taking steps to protect passengers this morning after learning one of its drivers has viral meningitis. while you were sleeping, the agency spent the night cleaning dozens of its buses. tracee wilkins is live in northwest washington now with more on the driver and the route that he last worked. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, this driver had just gotten back from vacation. and on friday apparently was sick. so yes, metro's taken plenty of precautions. they want to make sure that folks who were on his bus are aware of the fact that this driver is sick. so let's look at his route so that folks can know for sure. metro officials say that

van ness is already highly congested. so these cars will surely find other ways through the tenderloin, and that will cause more traffic and jeopardize the safety of our pedestrians alas, who once a hospital that does not plan to help address the health care needs of the low- income residents in our community? cpmc should be held accountable to the people. we demand that cpmc do its fair share of serving low-income patients. we should not let them pass on their responsibilities to the city. cpmc has the obligation to prioritize service rather than being a non-profit entity. i urge and ask the planning commissioners insurer cpmc do its fair share for low-income people in our community. thank you. commissioner fong: i am going to call some names. gloria, -- carina, henry. >> good afternoon. i am currently enrolled in a city built. i think the hospital will be a wonderful job, because we need more hospitals in our community. also, we, as san francisco residents, can come together and provide healthcare, more jobs, and a safe

and those cities have less traffic congestion than we do. it is hard because what we often want and what we often need are not going to be met in any individual project. obviously, there are other issues of schering this overall -- obscuring the overall process that make it more complicated, but at the end of the day, i am going to support the rebuild and i hope that it does make us all proud when it is finally built with all of the provisions that we put into place, that it is the hospital that everyone wanted it to be. i just wanted to say that on the record. i have been very outspoken about this project. commissioner sugaya: based on all of the testimony that was presented, both today and at the initiation, other hearings that we have had, i have always been surprised, maybe i should not be. there does not seem to be much cooperation, sympathy, support between the unions themselves. i understand that the trades are really in trouble and have been in trouble. they are pushing for jobs. at the same time, their brothers and sisters, nurses a

nothing relieves allergy congestion faster. get claritin-d at the pharmacy counter. live claritin clear. >>> welcome back to 9news now. it's 5:46. i took a walk yesterday. i was hot starting to glisten. >> women don't sweat. >> you've got an aura about you on a cold day, so. >> oh, yeah, right, sure. >> the newing gis are back this morning -- the muggies are back this morning. temperatures yesterday was 83. 86 in baltimore, probably about five degrees above that this afternoon. today is going to be the warmest day before a front slips through tonight and fortunately it -- unfortunately it doesn't have much rain opportunity with it. i think our rain chances go up through the week into the weekend. here's the bus stop forecast. we are looking at temperatures mainly in the 60s this morning. a few exceptions either side of that with sunrise at 6:30. sets at 7:43. we'll see sunshine, perhaps some high clouds here and there but a warm day. even by lunch time well eab 80. if you're -- we'll be 80. andrea, if you're going to be out for lunch, you'll be doing more glistening.