behind me is the transbay terminal. if you see the sign, you can see this is being funded by the american recovery act. and the truck drivers say they are not getting jobs from that act. and they are very upset about it. right now, they are staging them and menville and cargo. i just spoke to the spokesperson for the bay area truckers association. they have about 15 big rigs. they are gonna be driving over. this is at mission between first and second. since a lot of people get off on freemont street there is the potential of blocking some traffic down here. in addition to the politics of this protest you might be interested in the traffic as well. from here, they are gonna go over to city hall because they say the truckers say that city hall is not following through with their agreements to offer the prevailing wage to truck drivers. what this all means is truckers feel like they are getting undercut, the people who will work for less and that's how they are being cut out of these jobs. not only is it a trucker protest

francis circle or transbay terminal -- it depletes our ranks. we have these folks working on a lot of overtime, and that is one of the challenges we have to deal with. we could conceivably add more pco's but then you get to a point of diminishing returns. some of the work is temporary. >> i understand, and that is why i would suggest you fill it with temporary workers, but i can see if you are constrained on that. >> you do have two members of the public who have indicated their interest. >> i was not going to come up for this, but some really huge red flags came up for me. i'm going to ask some questions because some of you refused to ask them. i appreciate director heinicke asked a similar question that i was going to ask. i think we need to find out what happened to sonali bose. i am suspicious as to what happened to her. i think she had a battle -- better handle of what was going on, and i think we need to know, as the public who pays her a lot of money, what happened to her. the next is about taxi services. the taxi budget is paid a differe

the transbay transit center has a capacity of almost 20,000, but we have to get the buses there.ight now, caltrans has put together a very effective system. our model, we mimic what caltrans did. the measures that they took were very successful with the current level of traffic. the question is what happens in the future. there is a metering flight which holds the traffic backed so that traffic does not exceed capacity of the bridge. the metering lights are activated around 6:30 every morning. the queue starts spilling back about three-quarters of the way back. as you can see, the hov bypass extends beyond that. so the question is, is that going to work in the future? just a few caveat on what we did not study. these are all conceptual ideas. there do not seem to be any fatal flaws to the design, but by no means have they been thoroughly analyzed. congestion pricing in our forecast is not considered. on the other hand, bart capacity is also not considered. travel models do not assume that bart has a capacity limit, so of the model keeps on dumping people on to bart, even if they

it is very adjacent to transbay terminal. this large building will be able to house the offices and commercial environment that these people will be transporting for. this will create job hours move and shake. which makes our entire industry move and shake. and we are definitely in favor of this project. thank you. >> good evening. i'm the chief estimator with turner construction. i've been working with the last four years on this particular project. worked with them on 555, i've worked on 560 so i know this area. what i can speak to is the number of workmen that are going to be hired. we're going to have roughly 150 union workers on this on an average. peak out at 300. the building is going to hold 1,700 people. so it adds a lot of jobs to this area. the other thingky speak to is i'm a lead accredited professional. the building's going to go to the lead gold standard. that's what we want to try to build. i urge you to approve this. thank you. >> hi, my name is justin. i worked with curbman and wakefield in san francisco. it'

so to actually make it work in the design of the transbay terminal system, we need to do some improvements on the essex street ramp and that will allow vehicles to get into the new transit center reps. the good news is it does not affect the current design. cost estimates for the improvements. these do not include contingencies. including contingencies, near $250 million. again, requires more study. this slide goes through performance metrics. under current conditions, everything is working fine. there is an occasional case where there is a stall, things break down, but on the average day, the system works pretty well. it continues to work well until 2020. then it starts degrading. in 2030, we get degradation where every one of our performance metrics fails. we get congestion all the way back to the distribution structure and slow transit speeds across the bridge. we looked at just changing the metering rates, which is generally what caltrans does on a saturday when traffic is really bad. you are pumping more cars onto the bridge. that reduces the gridlock in the distribution structure but

truckers are supposed toison the transbay terminal.ccording to the truckers they will be coming out here at 7:00 a.m.. they will caravan when they meet here between mission street and first and second street. they will caravan to city hall. think goal is to gain -- would be hired for these jobs but they have been contracted out to foreign workers that will work for less than minimum wage. they are supposed to go to city hall after this protest here to protest the cities what they are calling the cities practice of under cutting the prevailing wage agreement that they have with truckers. if you take a look here at the transbay terminal you can see construction workers behind that green wind stream. i tried to contact the bay year situation. it's not that far away from the protest. about 20 minutes. no sign of the truckers yet. we'll keep an eye on that for you. reporting live in san francisco ktvu channel few new. >>> right now we are also going to be watching. but there is other streets that could be effected if this protest does indee

bus service to the transbay transit center will need to meet our goals and we need to look at improvement to make the highway system as effective as possible. we want to reduce the queue on first street, essex street. we did various models. that is the area. our desired outcomes is to push the queue back to where it does not extend beyond folsom and howard. we also wanted to increase speeds in the area. we only tested the model of a couple of times. we do not have a validated model, but we have turned it over to the city, and they are excited to be using it to work at some other options. these are the existing conditions which shows queues as far as the eye can see. this is what happens when the giants have a game in the afternoon. we have a proposal to turn up the sixth straight into southbound. the other thing we are doing, we are talking with caltrans. we want to move the hov lanes on the sterling ramp to the north side. we think we can do all of this and keep things in balance and even improve the situation. what we found working with this, the way the freeway is configured eastbound,

we're talking about this train that was stuck inside the transbay tube. it seems as if they've cleared. getting reports that it's been cleared out of the tube. so those people who were stuck are gone. however, there are major delays because they were single tracking for a while. they had to slow all the trains down. and we are hearing of delays on the platforms as well. trains have not been going into san francisco at their normal rate. ktvu's kraig debro is at the oakland west station right now. we'll have a report coming up on mornings on 2. this is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza because of earlier problems on 80 we had lighter than usual commute because a lot of people are stuck on interstate 80 this morning. if you drive from richmond and trying to make it down to oakland give yourself extra time on interstate 80 westbound. it's 6:56. go to steve. >>> sal, thank you. mostly clear skies this morning. rather chilly readings. 30s and 40s on the lows instead of the 50s, 60s or 70s we had about two days ago. highs today under mostly sunny conditions s

-- at transbay as well as the ongoing evolution of the neighborhood in mission bay. she has all those components. she is a perfect match for the need we have at the commission right now, which is why i support her appointment. supervisor campos: thank you. next speaker please. good morning. welcome to the rules committee. >> i am the executive director for employment house south of market, and i'm here to support agnes. she has always been a good person, always called me and asked for my opinion. as the service provider for the job referrals, i think her addition to the commission would be important. with the economy the way it is any need to get everything going as far as jobs are concerned, we need a really good, strong compliance program with redevelopment. they are the model for that compliance system, and i would like to be able to work with agnes on that, and i think she provides a unique perspective in the she balances out the membership. she will be the third woman in that commission. more importantly, filipino. we have had a long history in the south of mark

next week we're gonna try to have at least 50 trucks. >> in a statement released just morning, the transbay power authority disputed the claims. they listed several companies and said prevailing wages are being paid for all work. >>> rolls royce is reportedly said to temporarily replace engines leaking oil on all boeing jumbo jets currently in service. the move comes after a frightening moment on a qantas when an oil leak caused one of the engines to catch fire. rolls royce will temporarily replace all a-380 engines, fix the leak and return the engines to the plane. qantas has grounded all of its super jets and they hope have to them -- help to have them back in service. and then today, a qantas jet returned to sydney on its way to argentina because of smoke in the cockpit. that was a different boeing than the a-380. qantas has about the best safety record in the industry. >>> turning back to the weather, did you hear that student talking about putting all of her flip-flops and summer clothes away and having to get them out again? >> i did. temperatures are gonna die down and then we'll hav

an amendment to the construction manager/general contractor services for the construction of the transbay transit center building and related structures to update the terms of the agreement to incorporate construction of the rail levels of the transit center in the project of the bottom of sequence to clarify which elements are now included in phase one and phase two of construction, to revise the construction schedule to seven years and cm/gc fixed fee to $71 million, and to modify related contract language. >> this is a resolution authorizing the tjpa to amend contract the 08-04-cmgc-000. with the joint venture joint -- of webcor builders and obayashi, this comes from the successful attainment of a grant to construct the rail levels of the transit center in phase one. the amendment of dates the terms of the agreement to incorporate construction of the rail levels in a bottom-up construction sequence, to clarify the scope of construction, to revise the construction schedule and cmgc fee and modify related contract language. in march 2009, you approved the initial contract reward and dire

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there are major delays because of a problem inside the transbay tube. we will tell you what happened and what it is causing the system to do now. >>> about 2% of 11th graders say they've been drunk or high at school. that compares to 28% in the last survey. it also shows that while students are drinking less, they are using marijuana more. according to district superintendent janice adams, they are likely getting those substances from older friends or even parents. >>> 7:23. muni officials are complaining they have disbanded -- they have to spend almost $500,000 extra because of the giants winning in the postseason. they say the extra costs were about $73,000 to add extra buses to get the fans to the playoff games. about $150,000 for the victory parade. they say with that figure, nearly $100,000 of expenses were lee late -- related to vandalism during the big victory parade. >>> we want to check in with sal and get an update on the commute and the situation for b.a.r.t. >> it's been a tough one for for b.a.r.t. earlier there was -- earlier there was a t