executive director reiskin: page eight shows what would happen when the transit fares -- the single fare is not shown here. that would not increase. but the adult fast pass would go from 62 to 64 to 66. the discount house would go to -- pass would go to 23. there are assumptions already built into the budget. some of them go up only a little. >> but the $2 cash fare under the indexing proposal would not go up absent further board action? executive director reiskin: that is correct. there is a rounding requirement. it continues to round down. director heinicke: thank you very much. chairperson nolan: let us hear from the public. >> public comment. vera hale followed by makr gr -- mark frueberg. chairperson nolan: why don't you read the third or fourth. >> cathy hale, revernd lang, jane martin. >> good afternoon. i am vera hale. i am going to encourage you not to increase the senior fair with your indexing. there are several reasons for this. one is that 45,000 elderly and disabled in san francisco have had their ssi checks cut. ssi is only for very low income people that have no more than

language] >> the children were returning from school, going home, and the driver asked them to pay the fare. only one of them could pay. >> [speaking for language] >> the child without money asked the driver if he could get on, he did not have the fair. >> [speaking foreign language] . >> probably it was a very busy time that was stressful for the driver, the driver yelled at the child to get off the bus. >> [speaking for language] >> one of the passengers offered to pay the fare of the child. the driver refused to accept the fair, the children had to get off the bus and not ride home. >> [speaking foreign language] >> by the time that they got home, they were tired and frustrated. she was obviously very desperate. she had already struggled a lot to cover the fare for the one child that she could. >> [speaking foreign language] >> this is one of many stories that we hear when we do outreach in the community -- [tone] and talk about this as a possibility for muni. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i think that as a community, we have a responsibility to find out what the options are to deal

she had already struggled a lot to cover the fare for the one child that she could. >> [speaking foreign language] >> this is one of many stories that we hear when we do outreach in the community -- [tone] and talk about this as a possibility for muni. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i think that as a community, we have a responsibility to find out what the options are to deal with this, because it is not right the children have to deal with this to get to school. >> [speaking foreign language] >> we need free passes for youth. thank you. >> the next speaker is [leads and names -- is [reads names] >> good afternoon. >> [speaking foreign language] >> good afternoon, my name is [unintelligible] and i am here to ask you to pre -- please approve the free passes. the economic has really -- economic crisis has really impacted poor families. we have the responsibility to help our children into schools, museums, the library. so that they can study, work, and contribute to society. what [speaking foreign language] -- >> [speaking foreign language] >> and also, the school buses, the yellow schoo

other -- a senate committee will hear a bill today that would increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from $2 2 $3. fares -- >> fair skies over the entire mid-atlantic. shaping up to be a beautiful afternoon. just a few clouds of toward the west and a little bit gusty. it may look beautiful but it may not feel as pleasant. southwest winds at 14 miles an hour. throughout the afternoon, we expect temperatures to warm and to the mid-60s with the winds coming down a little bit throughout the evening. we will stay pretty mild, with lows into the 40's. a fire danger across the area and warmer temperatures. we will detail that when we come back in the seven-day. >> maryland prosecutors have decided to dismiss murder charges against two abortion doctors. conflicts of expert testimony have been cited against the doctors charged under a new maryland law allowing prosecutors to pursue murder charges in the death of a fetus considered a viable outside the womb. in a federal court, a virginia man will spent time behind bars for his plot to smuggle heroin -- smuggle heroin in a cruise ship. he arranged for the transpo

depending on the fare, this anywhere from no increase to 15 cents on the cost of every ride.a.r.t. routes that cross and option 3 would increase the cost of every trip by 5 h officials say this increase will help raise money needed to replace its suite k 600 cars. depending on which option b.a.r.t. goes with some riders would have to pay more while others have to pay at b.a.r.t. plans to hold five community here riders can voi their concerns and offer feed bang on these proposed y2e" in san francisco, i'm nicole shana felt, chron 4 news, they í spoke to riders and they had mixed reactions. ña long as the stations are well maintained and trains operate ge better and run on schedule. cleaner station, safer stations would be awesome. >> interview: i have riding b.a.r.t. all my life and i just see it increasing every year and i h.lsid7urgg to get a little pricey. i mean it's already $1.75 in the city more. i understand that they need to upgrade and i wish they would íxqlu0çe, they need to upgrade, it's starting to get filthy in there. but, you know, -cquytlike every else, i don't

the fare increase would only apply to clipper car users. under the plan, one-way fares from larksburg to san francisco would increase from $5.70 to $7 by 2015. >>> coming up, the honeymoon may be over. if you just got married, there is some insight and projections for your 20th anniversary. the new study on the state of your marriage just ahead. >>> plus, the hunger games bites back at teen vampires. how the blockbuster movie has taken a chunk out of twilight's box office biz. >>> come over and check us out on facebook. search nbc bay area. >>> here's a live look at the famed golden gate bridge. looks to be a nice day outside. christina says you can expect temps in the 60s today and tomorrow before the rain hits this weekend. get out and enjoy it while you can. 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 60 miles. you just put one foot in front of the other, and you know that you're walking for such a great cause that you just keep g

think this is a much more regularized way, so i do not mind indexing the citations for indexing the fares, so that is what the policies as we are supposed to do. good >> you said there is a ceiling? >> i believe it is generally $100, so some of our citations are already of the cab region -- already at the cap, so we stop there. and >> do you have any comments at this point? >> i the guy got a good direction of -- i think i got a good direction of where people are out. gjust to remind that our current budget while we are locked in in terms of the labor agreement, the other half of the workforce agreements are open, and we will be negotiating them. we have correctly assumed no concessions of any sort that the contribution they made before would be restored. it is possible there would be a gap to close for labor recessions. >> that does not mean we resign ourselves to the fact there will not be concessions. >> thank you all for a thoughtful discussion. do we have anyone who wishes to speak? >> he asks about 10.2d, but i am not sure if he is still here, >> i am simply speaking on the item. yo

hasn't the party shifted. >> fareed, here's what i think happened. between 2002 and 2008 there were many close elections, gubernatorial elections in the united states, in which the republican lost narrowly. so had a few more of those elections gone a different way, we would be looking at an entirely different set of candidates. what i'm saying is that politics is extremely contingent. we try to draw out these larger lessons. you know, this person is moderate. it all depends on what are the things, what are the controversies that happen to blow up at a given time? mitt romney tried to offer a minimal plan on taxes, but then he saw that, well, this is not good enough. i have to move the needle, and that actually is a very awkward situation when you are actually governing. >> all right. we will talk about all this and more, if economics isn't sexy enough, we'll talk about religion and sex, i suppose, when we come back. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our town. [ dog barks ] for our country. ♪ for our future. ♪ this isn't just the car we wanted to build. it's th

you increase the fares, parking citations, so where do citizens have to go with that? the parking meter on sundays. goothe rev. made a crucial point that the faith based community will be impacted with this issue, and i know it runs the gamut. some run three hours, but i am sure various -- sure there is a safety net. we really should look at where we can reach a happy medium, because parking is very limited. did they do not have parking garages, so there is no way we can compromise -- there is the way we can compromise, so i would love get some compromise. youth passes, i want to applaud the yougth community. they showed solidarity. loi understand their plight, sot is something and now i said i would support, and i would like to show the weekend and not supported -- when i think we can support it. we have been to the other meetings were it has been cut, but if we can augment some kind of way where we can provide this service to our youth, that would be great, because i would hate to see them impacted because they cannot get to school or their parents cannot make a decis

welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. first up on a great show today, we'll tackle politics. tuesday in america is not just any tuesday. it's super tuesday when one-fifth of the states in the union will go to the primary polls. we have a great political panel. later in the show will israel attack iran? my guest says yes. he is a very well connected israeli reporter. you'll want to hear what he has to say. then the u.s. tax code is 70,000 pages long. do either president obama or mitt romney have good ideas for reforming it? nope. that's what a long-time republican says. i'll talk to him. also, china's growth is fueling a fair portion of the global economy. what happens if that growth slows down? we'll explore. first, here's my take. the controversy over the dececration of copies of iran and the murder of americans that follow is at one level, one moment in a long complicated war. it also highlights the difficult and ultimately unsustainable aspect of america's afghan policy. president obama wants to draw down u.s. troops, b

. >> can i asked about the cash fare increase? >> not too excited about that. >> can we circled back. it did not seem that was thought controversial. there was a gentle man who made a comment if we are going to have leaders were you can pay to park $8 an hour, about this not about revenue generation. i was speechless. of course it is about revenue generation. they are there to help the businesses make revenue. there are parking meters commo,f we were to turn our backs, that is not making wise use of our resources. i think it was pretty universally accepted at the stakeholders meeting, and the thing that is going to be interesting about sunday is those parishioners are probably going to be able to park closer than they are right now. and i think it is going to be easier. i do not want to be shy about saying we use parking meters to generate revenue, because we do in your gut -- because we do. that is part of the reason we are there. the parking policy has to sit with our goals overall, but i feel like it those who regard -- i feel

the concerns. i would favor increasing cash sir. with regard to all other fares, i would say we need to abide by indexing policy. and one that was not mentioned i think we need to be very clear about is the general fund payments for police protection of the system. the work order never made sense to me. now we are in a situation where we have the ability to assess stock. a police protect the city. i think we need to draw the line and say unless there is critical information we mean to not pay that we do we need to not paid out and build it into our work order. if it is necessary, i would favor service cuts to limited use lines, service cuts that will not affect sufficient amounts of writers. -- riders. we need to be as efficient of the service we are providing. i believe they gave us more latitude on this. i realize that is a harder thing to do within the timeframe of the budget, but this is something we have talked about, and i think we need to put it on the agenda but there are some lines that can be served with smaller vehicles, and on the revenue enhancement

the original proposal raised fairs by -- fares by 25 cents. ays only the base fa fare will go -- base fare will go up. >> people send to be more privatened -- frustrated and never understand what's going on. i know fuel costs are the problem. >> reporter: back out here live at the san francisco caltrain station, there is a catch-all. this has been aun of -- one of these evolving stories. the agency says these changes are contingent 0, and they want a -- contingent, and they want a lot of people to move over. they say at least 50% of passengers. if they don't move over, they will go back to the drawing board and consider raising that per cost joan again. for now, the fare takes -- per cost again. for now, the fare takes effect. >>> and let's if to -- to tara. >> we have an accident at 80 west on appian way. down in oakland, a dear is running along -- deer is running along. highway 24 in la fayette. finally at the san mateo bridge, we do have a couple of issues here, some pieces of good in the slow lane. also -- that's at the high rise and the nu

>> that's the level airlines can make money with fares at today's level. e the oil price up, obviously the airlines have to move the fares up, but there's a lag effect. so it takes about four weeks before they can move the price up to cover the higher energy price. so right now they're good to go to about 110 where we think they'll be profitable in the first quarter. >> some airlines have tried to push through some fare increases. a couple worked, a couple haven't. southwest and jetblue in the past week or so. do you think those fare increases which are in the order of $5 to $10 round trip are going to stick? >> yeah. that's the real question. i think generally speaking the major airlines like delta, united and united they like to raise fares. they can't necessarily do it unless the low fare guys go along with them. so the fact this is a jetblue and southwest led fare increase is really helpful to the cause. obviously at the same time as oil prices move higher, capacity moves lower. so demand for seats is still pretty high. we're flying 80% full. at the sam

the peninsula corridor approved higher fares. the goal is to encourage riders to switch to clipper cards. the price of the cards will not go up, but those that pay cash will fork over 25 cents more. >>> tickets lined up to take part of a white elephant sale. it benefit the museum. money will help support the museum's exhibitions and educational programs. >> what we don't use, we give away to women shelters and the growers and the pickers that need help and we have a wonderful system to recycle all of the pieces of merchandise that are given to us. >> in the even's history, it raised more than $16 million for the museum. >>> tim lincecum takes the mound for the giants first game of the spring and two bay area teams fight for a spot in the wcc finals. the minute is next. bay area ! here's big news from verizon wireless and xfinity from comcast. now get the xfinity triple play and verizon wireless together. call 855-704-7400 to sign up and get a free smartphone. choose one of our hottest phones. verizon wireless and xfinity. tv, home

following jetblue which raised prices $10 on thursday and many of the traditional carriers matched the fare hike over the weekend. airlines are racing fees to help they say with the rising fuel prices. >>> news time is 6:39. and it's 34 degrees outside. that is the low temperature. >> new developments in the shooting death of an unarmed florida teen. >> >> reporter: the calm for justice for trayvon martin. why his parents are headed to capitol hill today. >> and the historic health care debate resumes in a few hours at the supreme court. the arguments that will be taken up today on obama care. >> and we have a freeze warning in effect. i will it will you when the murkry soars back to the 70s coming up. >>> and an accident on the harbor tunnel freeway blocking a lane and causing major backupsch we will tell you another route you can take instead. >>> tuesday morning this is your abc2 news to go i am megan pringle. >> i am charley crowson. let's say hello, lynette charles. it's cold outside -- hello, to lynette charles. it's cold outside. >> we have a freeze warningee in effect until 9 for th

now for the fareed zakaria special. special. it begins right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome to a gps special, "global lessons: the gps road map for saving healthcare." i'm fareed zakaria. america's system of bringing us into this world, helping us stay alive, and supporting us as we die is at a major cross-roads. two years ago this week president obama signed the most comprehensive overhaul of american medicine since medicare. this month the highest court in the land will hear arguments for and against obama's law. and could soon strike it down. meanwhile, our out-of-control health care costs continue to climb. no other nation spends more than 12% of its economy on health care. america spends 17%. what's more, we don't really benefit from the huge price tag. our healthy life expectancy, the standard measurement, ranks only 29th in the world, behind slovenia. our infant mortality rate ranks 30th. it's more than twice that of sweden and japan. so what is our problem? in this hour and in a "time" magazine ess

cash fares and the ratios. on slide 12, the automatic indexing, one of the boxes, the 13-dollar fare, i believe sometimes in the past we were told that it cannot exceed twice or anything else on the system, which is cable cars, and the staff may want to look at that. i look forward for more detail on the operating budget so i can comment more use only on that. if i can have a moment on the capital budget, it is only a few dollars billion. there are 16 program categories here, but this does not list specific projects, those things that are at or below the line and at risk of not being funded, that when help understand how the prioritization plays out, and i have always believed that those projects that save operating and maintenance costs should be the highest priority, and those that expand the system or increase operating costs should be correspondingly a lower priority. it appears that that is calculated in here, and i certainly see director reiskin's philosophy about breaking down crotchets explained very we

there's been proposed to increase the fare only if you're paying with cash. now that we have the clipper card system, we want to encourage people to use clipper because it speeds the boarding process, and it's les costly for -- less costly for us than managing cash. >>> muni riders and city drivers have their last opportunity tonight to sound off to the transportation director about the proposed plan. >> if they get a ticket, they're not going to come on sunday. and here it's real easy just to go to stone's town. you're going to be forcing people out of the small businesses and into the malls. and i don't think that's what really -- maybe it'll bring money to you guy, but it's ultimately going to affect small businesses in a negative way. >> service on muni late at night is virtually nonexistent. my husband gets off at 11:30 at night. it's taking him an hour and a half to get home at night. 20 minutes driveing, an hour and a half on a bus with a $20,000 instrument on your back is not a good idea. >> muni officials will present the board with the public's inpu

in just the first three months of the year the biggest airlines already pushed through two fare hikes can this is the -- hikes and this is the slow season. i think it's safe to say, this is our new normal. >> i know. oh wow. >> i hate it. >> but i still want to go on vacation. >>> our time is 6:08. a college student's outburst is caught on tape. >> i will kill the [ bleep ] -- >> in five minutes, learn what local students are saying about this and how colleges protect students in cases like this. >> howard says it's going to be a sunny and warm friday. but the weekend's not looking as great. your weather first is next here on 9news now. >>> well, we've got some patchy dense fog this morning. but it's not as widespread and we're going to see a lot of sunshine. it's begin to be another very warm unseasonably warm day. highs up into the low 80s and changes for the weekend full forecast in just a few minutes. >>> howard, if you are making the drive out of connecticut avenue, into chevy chase, warning for folks on going crash investigation with the closure of connecticut avenue southbound

in the payment of the general fund, its parking meters, parking citations, a quarter of the budget is transit faresrter is the set aside from the general fund. the main levers that we can control in terms of adjusting our revenues are parking and transit. the baseline projections put us at $800 million in each of the next two fiscal years. the expenditure budget, what is presented here is starting from the baseline, 1st making or proposing a number of cuts which are shown on the right side, the management cuts are cuts that are already made. we just did that a few weeks ago that will have eliminated 12 management positions, 10 of which were filled. there will be a few of those that will be replaced by positions at lower levels but the net annual statement and this is and gold -- an ongoing savings will be $2 million a year. our overtime which you heard a lot about and read a lot about, while our budget is $32 million, we're running at $55 million or $60 million a year. what i am proposing in the first fiscal year is an overtime budget of $42 million, down from this year's projected at 55 and anothe

the nonprofit group that operates the fare is liquidating its assets and cancelling all of the planned events. the group says it failed to come to agreement with its creditors. the fair started with back in the 1850's. apple makes its big announcement. see what is new and different about the new ipad. a on a maker recalls 700,000 vehicles. plus, the lakers came to town. the wizards were down big, but you need to see what happens next. >> at the basketball game, a lot of redskins fans. we wanted to ask about the possibility the [ female announcer ] with xfinity you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework ♪ [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose xfinity over any other provider. ♪ love can be so mystical ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you are watching abc 7 news on your side. >> >>> new at 11:00 the washington redskins are in the headlines. it appears the team may be movi

he believes the fare increases will remain in check and reasonable because of the ever increasing expansion of low- fare airlines like southwest and virgin america. look! here she comes! ♪ she'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes... ♪ ♪ when she comes. ♪ it'll be spinning new chrome wheels when it comes. ♪ ♪ when it comes. ♪ custom spoiler, race grade pistons, ♪ ♪ gt35 turbo charger. ♪ and they'll all know that it's kevin's awesome car. ♪ bought em! ( clears throat ) sorry. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. >>stanley: clear looking ahead amtrak train pulling into the oakland coliseum train station. this is a sufficient supplies the commitment in the middle of nowhere include this very time parking lot. a decision hasn't, and there has been a rash of automotive preteens --break-ins. and then had been reports of vandalism and theft your report crashed and i heard then there was some man that was hitting the drivers for protection money for the safety of their automobiles. could this be him? currently it is my i am not sure that is his real name but the is a self- appointed prot

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the first would raise fares by 5 cents, the second would hike fares between the east bay and san francisco by 10 cents. the third, which would stick with inflation-based fare hikes, b.a.r.t. says fare hikes are necessary because it's facing a $7 billion shortfall for capital improvements including new rail cars. >> 4:37. tight security sin place for tonight's speech by shimon peres. a crowd of more than 2,000 will attend including leaders from several faiths. many are concerned about with israel's future as tensions rise over iran's nuclear program. >> when there's already war in the region and the threat of iran gaining nuclear capabilities, this is a time when people from across the religious and ethnic spectrum in the bay area are eager to hear and to meet president perez. >> president perez will spend time at facebook meeting mark zuckerberg and staging an online discussion. he is building ties for his own version of the silicon valley in israel. >> good morning to you. it's 4:38. we're noticing on our drive in a little sprinkles out and about. yeah. let's collect the forecast with met

one that no mention is that they're not using the fare card and before it is ruled out on to the small operators, we're asking that they standardize their policies as we roll this out on to those smaller operators. lastly, within the institutional, there are some consolidations that are under way or may make sense to consider in the future the two that are under way. one is the ferry system, with the exception of golden gate which is being consolidated and then there is also a merger of the two agencies in solano county. we would look to complete those and apply for the lessons learned from some institutional consolidation, especially as they may be inappropriate in the northern counties. another area to look at is a vertical integration of transportation agencies. then you have the valley transportation authority is the sales tax agency as well as the transit operator and that really does provide a lot of opportunity to make sure that your roadway investments are planned co peaceably and comprehensively to gather as well as to look at pricing strategies. in conclusion, we think that t

in december he got a cab ride home from new york and he didn't think that he should pay the fare that the cab driver told him that he needed to pay and according to the police reports he started to slur and enormous amount of racial or angry words at how the cab driver drove off trying to go find a cop and allegedly mr mr jennings when to stalham almost in the neck it's unclear he put his hand cut his hand this all stepped up so there was a soul there is a larceny charges and there's there's someone of a hate crime angle here. jennings it's interesting you know he lives down the street here from us maybe five minutes away from me as close house he chose an attorney who i understand is his next door neighbor jean. serrie just come out that major prostitution ring has been broken up in and apparently senior bankers are involved in paying for sex for minors and if you've been tracking this story at all does it relate to swinging in new canaan the projects are working on now you know i did i just see that come across my radar so far in this story. we do not have any situation. with the mi