extra money from rising bridge tolls is going the metropolitan transportation commission setting aside more than $9 million from bridge tolls to build commuter parking lot and alameda county. so there you go. one new parking garage will be near the dublin pleasanton bart station construction on the garage is expected to begin next spring with the opening scheduled for some time in 2021. and then you have 3 other parking lot settle be built in oakland albany. also or alameda and contra costa county transit buses. and those are scheduled to open by the end of the year. so agency officials say that this should actually help reduce congestion on the freeways make it a little more convenient for phones to take public transit. well for major automakers have reached a deal with california into increasing gas mileage and greenhouse gas emissions standards so ford bmw honda, and volkswagen they signed the deal with the california air resources board anass the trump administration's push to freeze requirements at 2021 levels about 30 miles per gallon. so under this new deal. the new cars would h

randy with the metropolitan transportation commission says the tax is necessary. >> what you are going to have is a car rebuild bills. that's more expensive. >> reporter: many drivers wouldn't mind paying more if the potholes go away. they haven't seen much improvement. >> let's take a picture of the roads. where is the money? some of the streets you don't want to go up and down. >> critics say it will hurt low income families and ride sharing. >> that's going to suck up a lot of money every month. it's like, don't know what to do besides roll with the punches. >> reporter: drivers don't have much of a choice but to pay up and budget more. >> what are you going to do? get a hybrid or a bicycle or grocery cart? >> bay area, i guess it's expected. something else we have to pay higher prices for. >> reporter: azenith smith, ktvu, fox 2 news. >> the average price is $2.72 a gallon. california is the highest average in the country, $3.76. the highest average in the state and in the country is in center will partially re-open. it was closed back in september after cracks were found in the st

community development to accept and expend a grant the amount of $5 million from the metropolitan transportation commission for the affordable housing jumpstart gran program for the term of july 1, 2019 through june 30, 2029. >> supervisor fewer: i believe that we have jonathan gagan here. >> thank you very much. good morning, i am a multifamily project manager. item number 16 before you is a resolution to approve and to authorize the director of property to acquire the site located at 1515 south van necessarnessavenue. and the total purchase price is $19 million which is subjected by an appraisal and to develop the site as a 100% affordable housing. i am also here to present item number 17, which is approval of a resolution to accept and extend $5 million from the metropolitan transportation commission as part of their affordable housing jumpstart program. these funds will go towards the acquisition costs of 1515 south van ness. and m.t.c. selected the city and county of san francisco as a recipient for the jumpstart funding in 2017. the following requirements apply to the grant -- the jumpstart funds mus

fremont street but after a review by the trans-bay joint powers authority and the metropolitan transportation commission they concluded the issue was specific to the fremont street location and that is why the transit center is reopened to the public. so today the rooftop park, the grand hall, food trucks and arte spoke to, they're glad everything appears to be back to normal. >> i was frustd that they had to spend money and time fixing it but i'm glad now that it is open. it is wonderful. can't wait to see it all working with the buses and everything. >> i'm glad they took the time to figure out what was wrong, make sure everything else is okay. all of the steel is okay and anything else they needed to check out. a little bit surprising that they didn't check it out better before the original opening. >> i'm always safety first. i would rather be closed and make sure she got all of the nuts and bolts together before they open it back up or something happens. so i was fine with it, really. >> reporter: taking you back out here live to the salesforce transit center where they're still working on the bus

we spoke with the metropolitan transportation commission. they don't want any accidents like this on the street of san francisco. often in many cases though not necessarily in this case, they say speed is a factor. in san francisco, wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> thank you. >> in the east bay, both oakland's police commission and the federal monitor overseeing the department are recommending that five officers be fired for their roles in the shooting death of a man last year. body camera video captured the confrontation between officers and joshua pollock in march of 2018. police received a report that he had a semi-automatic gun. the officers claim they fired at him after he refused to drop the weapon. tonight, the union representing the officers release a statement saying "the commission's decision is obviously borne from a desperate politically driven need to prosecute police officers regardless of the facts." >>> and we are getting our first look tonight at body camera footage from a deadly shooting involving san leandro police last month

>>levine's request caltrans and the metropolitan transportation commission have designated billions of dollars to figuring out how much longer the 65 year-old bridge can last from from an engineering standpoint you can keep maintaining a bridge like that for. >>and right now we're doing is evaluating what type of maintenance we need to do he can't go. >>as for those joint replacements on the upper deck, the joints are in however, crews still need to go and put in the seals to the joints that's going to take the next couple of weeks. so drivers can expect some nighttime lane closures at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza noel bellow kron 4 news. on to national news now an undocumented immigrant and his son forced to sit in a van for hours. >>as ice agents waited for them to get out so that they could be detained, but eventually a group of neighbors. they saw what was happening they came together they formed a human chain to help get the man into his home just enough sun has the story. >>these are a couple of ice officers for 4 hours a man and his son sat inside of this car is to

the term communities of concern abbreviated here as c.o.c.s is the metropolitan transportation commission's measurement of disadvantage. when we apply that to our commute time results we see jobs access increase is less in these communities if we don't improve the transportation system. it reaffirms for us our continued focus on equity and jobs access will be a critical part of connectsf going forward. san francisco is already one of the most sustainable cities in the country when it comes transportation. we set aggressive goals for ourselves like 80% sustainable trips by the year 2030. the model results show driving is still projects to comprise a significant share of travel in san francisco in 2050. so we'll need to invest further in our sustainable loads to achieve our goals. in particular, we'll need to create more capacity on our highly used transit systems to make room for the additional sustainable trips we expect to see in the future. the model results also project an increase in traffic congestion on many corridors in the year 2050. it tells us we'll need policies to manage congest

housing and community development to accept and expend 5 million-dollar grant for the metropolitan transportation commission for the affordable housing jumpstart grant program through june 30th , 2029. >> can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call the next item. >> item 40 is an ordinance to amend the environment code to raise the amounts stores style charge for checkout bags from 10 cents to 25 cents per bag to require that precheckup backs provided by customers before they reach a point of sale be recyclable or compostable and to affirm the secret determination. >> supervisor brown? >> thank you. i would like to first thank my cosponsor, supervisor peskin and safai, and the department of environment. this legislation updates and strengthens our checkout back ordinance. in 2012, we were the first city in california to introduce the checkout bag charge. we have been a leader when it comes to plastic and 20 waste and we are still struggling to reduce waste. san francisco generates 3 million tons of waste a year. despite our efforts to date,

the tax is a burden on some drivers, randy with the metropolitan transportation commission says the tax is necessary. >> what you are going to have is a car repair bill, that is more expensive than paying a little few pennies at the pump. gallon in california is in nsiv southern california imperial county for $3.58 the most expensive is in the sierra, alpine county, that's over $5 a gallon. >>> starting today, increase for the golden gate bridge. most tolls including fast track and car pool rates will go up $0.35. fast tracker ands will pay $7.35, fares on the golden gate ferry and transit bus are going up. they were approved to close a $75 million budget gap. >>> other agencies increasing fares, single-ride cash fares increasing by $0.25 to $3 >>> fares increasing on ac transit in alameda, adult fares going up to $2.50. clipper card receive a 25% discount. they plan to use the revenue to improve service and address rising operational costs. >>> san francisco's sales force transit center will partially re-open. it was closed back in september after cracks were found in the steel beams o

randy with the metropolitan transportation commission says the money is crucial. >> we've been neglecting it for have to make up now it will cost us way more in drive how the money is spent but wishes there was ney but i think we need to find other ways to achieve these things and set of taxing something that is, at this point, necessary. >>> this 5.6 and boost comes on top of a $.12 per gallon increase in november 2017, voter shutdown republican effort to repeal the law last year and now they are paying more at the pump. driver albence as he found his own solution. >> electric cars right now, the gas car i have, because of the gas prices. >>> sara zendehnam, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> this week millions of drivers heading the road for the fourth of july holiday, aaa predicting a record year for travel this fourth of july with a 4% jump over last year and of the nearly 49 million traveling for the holidays 41 1/2 will be driving. organization says in the bay area, wednesday day for the roads for traffic especially just after 1:30 pm. aaa says sfo will be one of the 5 busiest country for rental

the project was approved by the board with $3.41 million bay area grant from the metropolitan transportation commission. also, during the 2019 prop k. five your prioritization program update, the board program 436,000 and local match to the funds which will be funding the construction phase. federal funds federal funds come with requirements including strict fund requirements established by m.p.c., with the intent of encouraging kindly project delivery and avoiding federal funds, a loss of federal funds to the region. we are proposing an exchange of 3.366 million in funds from the project with an equivalent amount of prop k. funds from the better market street project, which i will describe in the next few slides. the project is at 95% design and public works will be ready to advertise the construction project in september. the project has seen a 12 month delay due to a prolonged process in obtaining the right-of-way certification from caltrain which is a requirement for federal highways. public works missed the obligation deadline for the funds, which put the funds at risk of being lost to the project

getting a better idea about where the extra money from rising bridge tolls is going the metropolitan transportation commission is setting aside 9.3 million dollars from the bridge tolls to build commuter parking lot in alameda county. one new parking garage will go near the dublin pleasanton bart station construction on the garage is expected to begin next spring with the opening scheduled for mid 2021. 3 other parking lots will be built in oakland and albany for alameda contra costa transit buses. those are scheduled to open by the end of the year. agency officials say this should all help reduce congestion on the freeways and make it more convenient for people to take public transit or major automakers have reac ed a deal with california to increase gas mileage in greenhouse, gas emissions standards. >>ford bmw honda and volkswagen signed the deal with california air resources board. the steel bypasses the trump administration's push to freeze requirements at 2021 levels of about 30 miles a gallon. under the new deal fuel economy and corresponding greenhouse gas standards would rise 3.7% per year from 2020

considerations and actions for the construction contract as well as funding process on metropolitan transportation commission. it should be noted that the major constraint for piledriving and dredging in any given year. a significant delay of construction starts after june one may not allow us to drive enough sacrificing another year and exposing us to cost escalation as mentioned to be around 12-1,900,000 dollars. make us forfeit 8,400,000 dollars of fund required to be spent by august 2020. in addition lending there stair float they will neither float returned by early 2020 - - early 2022 thereby not having ferry service in the area. >> good afternoon i was asked to brief the commission on the slide. as part of the overall the project envisions a subcontract requirement of a percent. this is the overall participation across the 38,000,000 dollars worth of work that is envisioned on the project. what you see in front of you is basically the rough breakdown of the scopes of work from which we were able to derive the eight percent. we recommend the eight percent subcontracting requirement that includes both t

>>levine's request caltrans and the metropolitan transportation commission have designated billions of dollars to figuring out how much longer the 65 year-old bridge can last from from an engineering standpoint you can keep maintaining a bridge like that. >>and right now we're doing is evaluating what type of maintenance we need to do he can't go. >>as for those joint replacement on the upper deck, the joints are in however, crews still need to go and put in the seals to the joints that's going to take the next couple of weeks so drivers can expect some nighttime lane closures at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza noel bellow kron 4 news. >>still to come would various civil rights groups are saying after learning ice agents may have used the oakland airport to deport thousands of immigrants plus playing for big money would you let your kids delay college to play video games. how the students say it will help them eventually get to school debt free and 150 million americans including 15 million californians all hit with that equifax data breach now the company is settled at at&t

>>levine's request caltrans and the metropolitan transportation commission have designated billions of to figuring out how much longer the 65 year-old bridge can last from from an engineering standpoint you can keep maintaining a bridge like that. >>and right now we're doing is evaluating what type of maintenance we need to do he can't go. >>now levine is hoping to receive those reports from the ntc and caltrans by early next year as for the joint replacements the joints or end, however, crews still need to go in and put the seals into the joints that is going to take the next couple of weeks and will require some nighttime lane closures at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza noel bellow kron 4 news. >>and time for a check on the weather as we look live outside of the embarcadero. >>very nice on this monday night and lawrence he said you're sticking your neck out a little bit on the forecast tonight. i like to go bold yes ago bull tonight with my forecast yet why not that's right. but i think we're looking at some triple digits ahead so yeah we've got some hot weather head. you

>>levine's request caltrans and the metropolitan transportation commission have designated billions of dollars to figuring out how much longer the 65 year-old bridge can last from from an engineering standpoint you can keep maintaining a bridge like that. >>and right now we're doing is evaluating what type of maintenance we need to do he can't go. >>as for those joint replacement on the upper deck, the joints are in however, crews still need to go and put in the seals to the joints that's going to take the next couple of weeks so drivers can expect some nighttime lane closures at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza noel bellow kron 4 news. >>to san francisco supervisors want to ban natural gas from all new municipal construction and major renovations. sally brown and raphael man-to-man pran to introduce the legislation in september hoping to get it signed by the new year the supervisors say the proposal would reduce emissions a new city buildings to 0 and demonstrate the city's commitment to leading the transition to an all electric future. berkeley recently became the first cit

extra money is that you're paying for extra tolls these days on the bridges, the metropolitan transportation commission>>is using morth bridge tolls. >>to build commuter parking lots in alameda county. a new garage is going to be going up at the doubation and that one t will start on it next pring it should be open around 2020 3 other parking lots are going up in oakland and albany for alameda contra costa transit buses. though should open by the end of the year. they're hoping that all of this will help reduce freeway congestion and make it more convenient for people to take public transit. >>new this morning police in san francisco have arrested a man accused of stealing a dog in japan town. it happened earlier this month you may remember this surveillance video we showed it to you and it depicts as you can see in the upper right hand corner a man and tying a dog's leash and then walking away with the animal that dog has since been returned to its owner after was found by a couple in the tenderloin and here's the man who police say stole the dog. he's been identified as 53 year-old leave and lock. he

>>levine's request caltrans and the metropolitan transportation commission have designated billions ofo figuring out how much longer the 65 year-old bridge can last from from an engineering standpoint you can keep maintaining a bridge like that for. >>and right now we're doing is evaluating what type of maintenance we need to do he can't go. >>as for those joint replacements on the upper deck, the joints are in however, crews still need to go and put in the seals to the joints that's going to take the next couple of weeks. so drivers can expect some nighttime lane closures at the richmond sandra fell bridge toll plaza noel bellow kron 4 news. >>university of california has admitted a record number of freshmen at all 9 of its campuses more than a 108,000 freshman were admitted for the upcoming school year including more than 70,000 californians and nearly 15,000 were accepted to u c berkeley alone. >>and the space city at the center of the sanctuary movement now finds itself possibly in conflict with its own policies, new research from the university of washington center for human right

getting a better idea where all that money and pay for rising bridge tolls is going the metropolitan transportation commissions setting aside more than million from bridge tolls to build commuter parking lots in alameda county. one new parking garage is going to go near the dublin pleasanton bart station and they're going to have construction starting this spring that will open sometime in 2021 3 other parking lots will be built in oakland and albany for alameda contra costa transit buses. and those are set to open by the end of the year. agency officials say this should help reduce congestion on freeways and make it more convenient for people to take public transit. >>for your money this morning if you're one of the 147 million americans whose credit data was compromised back in 2017 when equifax was breached we are now eligible for compensation. if you are affected by that breach you can now get free credit monitoring for 10 years. but if you already have credit monitoring than you can get a t time or money dealing with the breach. well, then you're eligible for up to $20,000. all claims must be filed by ja

getting a better idea about where the extra money from rising bridge tolls is going the metropolitan transportation commissionrom bridge tolls to build commuter parking lots in alameda county one new parking garages going going near the dublin pleasanton bart station construction on that garage is expected to start next spring and the opening set for some time in 2021, 3 other parking lots are going to be built in oakland and albany. for alameda contra costa transit buses. those are scheduled to open by the end of the year and agency officials say this should help reduce congestion on the freeways and make it more convenient for people to take public transit. >>coming up on the kron 4% morning news, new fuel economy standards has a few automakers jumping to comply with california law will explain. and here's a quick live look outside at the embarcadero where our camera here shows us but touch cloudy overhead that marine layer pushing back in bringing us some cooler temperatures overnight but expect another hot afternoon will have your full forecast in just a moment. er have a battery that delivers extra life

transportation projects. randy with the metropolitan asportation commission said the money is crucial. >> we have been neglecting it for years and years and we have to make up for it. if we don't make up for it now it will cost way more into the future. >> reporter: this driver agrees with how the money is spent but wishes there was another way. >> it is a great use of the money but i think we've got to find other ways to achieve these things instead of taxing something that at this point is necessary. >> reporter: this boost comes on top of a $.12 per gallon increase in november 2017. voters shot down a republican effort to repeal the law last year and now are paying more at the pump. this driver says he found his own solution. >> electric cars -- this is the last gas car i have because of gas prices. >>> this week, millions of drivers are hitting the roads for the fourth of july holiday. aaa is predicting another record year for travel. with a 4% jump over last fourth of july. and of the nearly 49 million people, traveling for this holiday, 421.5 million of them will be driving. aaa says here in the bay area w