this shows the future location of transbay transit center and oci future development in the transbay project area. as a reminder of the key highlights of the transbay project. the public owned unit are redeveloped [inaudible] 1200 will be affordable. these parcels feature over 2.6 million square feet of new office development, 200 thousand of retail space, 9 acres of new parks including the transbay transit center roof top park. the privately owned parcels will add more residential units recollect office development and retail space. we went over this the last time i was here 2 weeks ago but i would like to just explain the development process for the transpay district. so, the project was originally part of the blocks 6 and 7 master development in the transbay redevelopment pauject area. the transbay redevelopment area was adopted in 2005 with the purpose of redeveloping 10 acres including transbay blocks 6 and 7 that were owned by the state of california to generate funding to construct the new transbay transit sent squr meet the affordable housing requirements of assembly bill ab

transbay sener. each of the developers hire their own broker. gallb for their tower on block 6 they hired collier so we are engaging in a coordination effort to make sure as the projects are built it provides the necessary suvss people need. >> i would add the range of service because when you look at page 15 of the report, trade area dem ographics, it looks like it is diverse. i would like to see better numbers on the african american and hispanic category but when you look at average house hold income at 17 aith8, 506thality is a wealthy district and wouldn't want decisions to be made on the idea that people with a lot of money can afford certain choices. that is why i keep pushing for price points across all spectrums because if we have a lot of affordable households there, to your point especially with no cars, maybe they leave the kids at the childcare center. i know. that is an amazing average of household income >> what we work with the developer-this thir first report, making sure plan projec

transbay sener. each of the developers hire their own broker. gallb for their tower on block 6 they hired collier so we are engaging in a coordination effort to make sure as the projects are built it provides the necessary suvss people need. >> i would add the range of service because when you look at page 15 of the report, trade area dem ographics, it looks like it is diverse. i would like to see better numbers on the african american and hispanic category but when you look at average house hold income at 17 aith8, 506thality is a wealthy district and wouldn't want decisions to be made on the idea that people with a lot of money can afford certain choices. that is why i keep pushing for price points across all spectrums because if we have a lot of affordable households there, to your point especially with no cars, maybe they leave the kids at the childcare center. i know. that is an amazing average of household income >> what we work with the developer-this thir first report, making sure plan projec

this shows the future location of transbay transit center and oci future development in the transbay project area. as a reminder of the key highlights of the transbay project. the public owned unit are redeveloped [inaudible] 1200 will be affordable. these parcels feature over 2.6 million square feet of new office development, 200 thousand of retail space, 9 acres of new parks including the transbay transit center roof top park. the privately owned parcels will add more residential units recollect office development and retail space. we went over this the last time i was here 2 weeks ago but i would like to just explain the development process for the transpay district. so, the project was originally part of the blocks 6 and 7 master development in the transbay redevelopment pauject area. the transbay redevelopment area was adopted in 2005 with the purpose of redeveloping 10 acres including transbay blocks 6 and 7 that were owned by the state of california to generate funding to construct the new transbay transit sent squr meet the affordable housing requirements of assembly bill ab

transbay sener. each of the developers hire their own broker. gallb for their tower on block 6 they hired collier so we are engaging in a coordination effort to make sure as the projects are built it provides the necessary suvss people need. >> i would add the range of service because when you look at page 15 of the report, trade area dem ographics, it looks like it is diverse. i would like to see better numbers on the african american and hispanic category but when you look at average house hold income at 17 aith8, 506thality is a wealthy district and wouldn't want decisions to be made on the idea that people with a lot of money can afford certain choices. that is why i keep pushing for price points across all spectrums because if we have a lot of affordable households there, to your point especially with no cars, maybe they leave the kids at the childcare center. i know. that is an amazing average of household income >> what we work with the developer-this thir first report, making sure plan projec

transbay sener. each of the developers hire their own broker. gallb for their tower on block 6 they hired collier so we are engaging in a coordination effort to make sure as the projects are built it provides the necessary suvss people need. >> i would add the range of service because when you look at page 15 of the report, trade area dem ographics, it looks like it is diverse. i would like to see better numbers on the african american and hispanic category but when you look at average house hold income at 17 aith8, 506thality is a wealthy district and wouldn't want decisions to be made on the idea that people with a lot of money can afford certain choices. that is why i keep pushing for price points across all spectrums because if we have a lot of affordable households there, to your point especially with no cars, maybe they leave the kids at the childcare center. i know. that is an amazing average of household income >> what we work with the developer-this thir first report, making sure plan projec

there's a preference but the impacts would be because we're talking about mission bay and then transbay i think that would be important. >> we can follow-up with data and jeff white occ project manager has additional fvndz. >> good afternoon jeff what did they housing manager i checked hundred and 36 ellis act housing certificates issued and hundred and 36, 9 from folks in describe codes some from bruno heights. >> do we have any tloins why interest are so few i'm pretty much there were thousands and thousands of victims. >> those are the folks that went through the process getting the certificates so, yeah i don't have the why the answer to the why. >> yeah. >> the malice that will give us a report. >> that's correct. >> all right. maybe we can do a followup okay my last question i know it's early about the retail concepts but interested in finding what the retail concepts we might be looked at or the process will unfold whether groceries amendments to the groceries grocery stores anywhere here. >> i know the developer has been working with mission bay specification brokers and an enti

this shows the future location of transbay transit center and oci future development in the transbay project area. as a reminder of the key highlights of the transbay project. the public owned unit are redeveloped [inaudible] 1200 will be affordable. these parcels feature over 2.6 million square feet of new office development, 200 thousand of retail space, 9 acres of new parks including the transbay transit center roof top park. the privately owned parcels will add more residential units recollect office development and retail space. we went over this the last time i was here 2 weeks ago but i would like to just explain the development process for the transpay district. so, the project was originally part of the blocks 6 and 7 master development in the transbay redevelopment pauject area. the transbay redevelopment area was adopted in 2005 with the purpose of redeveloping 10 acres including transbay blocks 6 and 7 that were owned by the state of california to generate funding to construct the new transbay transit sent squr meet the affordable housing requirements of assembly bill ab

even though we did have the transbay tube shut down. it didn't cause too much of a problem for those who needed to get out of the east bay. or between the east bay and san francisco. the shuttle service worked beautifully. and this morning, the transbay tube did reopen, trains are rolling through there and b.a.r.t. reports no delays on their system. as we check in on the bay bridge commute, westbound traffic is extremely quiet. you can expect the usual 19 minute drive time between the carquinez bridge and the maze maze but not too far -- macarthur maze but not too far from the maze we have street closures in oakland. martin luther king jr. remains shut down between west macarthur and 40th. this is about a block west of the macarthur b.a.r.t. station. that station remains open and they don't think the street closures will affect the b.a.r.t. service in the area. but remember we have the same road work at the dublin interchange it's caused some delays both ramps leading towards westbound 580 will be closed to let at least 5:00 this mornin

transbay service is scheduled to be shut down again though over labor day weekend.ransit agency says the shut downs may be inconvenient but the maintenance will benefit passengers in the future. >> what we're doing is rebuilding a mechanism on the track called an interlocking. helps us mitigate delays and gives us operational flexibility. >> b.a.r.t. board member joel keller told kpix 5 sunday morning that there's also talk of a eventually building a second transbay tube. >> number of officials have stated their support for it. it's going to be a huge undertaking a lot of money and a lot of planning and a lot of timing. so we have the start looking at that as an option. >> before that can happen, b.a.r.t. needs about $9 billion to maintain the current system. a bond measure to fund part of that could be on the ballot next year. >>> 5:35 now. a pleasanton couple is now in jail accused of carjacking a vehicle during a test drive in vacaville. investigators zeisian woodcock and -- say shane woodcock and sauna mclemore sped away. there was a similar incident in concord

project area transbay redevelopment was adapted in 2005 with the purpose of repeating 10 acres with block 8 that were owned by the state of california to generate funding for the tjpa to constrict the new transbay center and meet the affordable housing requirements assembly bill 812 is an combooshl obligation it requires the occ as the development agency to insure that 85 percent the new housing units are occupied by very low, low and moderate income households the project implementation agreements is another enforceable obligation to accept the to third party's for development including affordable housing in november of 2013 pursuant to the agency they issued a request are for the development for a high density mixed use on block 8 in june of 2014 after a competitive process we entered into the negotiation with related california as the market rate development and the tenderloin development corporation and the nonprofits developer along with the office of metropolitan and architecture as the leads designer with the small business entrepreneurs as the architect to the low rise build

for your approval of the $16 million permanent loan the source of the requested funds will be the transbay development team on july 16, 2015, the citywide loan committee recommended approval of this request affordable project 80 unit development that includes one managers unit the project has 41 one bedrooms and 16, 2 bedrooms and 3 bedroom units with 3 roof decks and a laundry room 20 space in the underground garage is retired for the affordable project affordable project units will located in two mid-rise building one of 5 foot building is connected to the transbay twenty-four hour with two affordable units and one 85 foot tall with units and finally others that are connected to the building. >> and here's a description of the population in case restriction levels and the marketing preferences the 80 affordable units will serve families blow 50 percent middle-income a family of 4 earning $51,000 per year first marketing preference will the the certificate of preference and second the ellis act holders and next the san francisco workers and the general public in addition to the ocii subsi

sir gentlemen quinn tan nice live from san francisco's transbay terminal with more on how things are going. >> reporter: so far those passenger whose have taken the bus bridge tell us not much of a problem. they're getting plenty of directions on the ground by a small army of street guides guides and the buses of the bay bridge have their own dedicated lanes. a lot of the street guides have been here since early this morning to help passengers to connect bart trains to the embarcadero and then walk to the transbay terminal to continue to trains to downtown oakland. passengers from oakland told us the bus rise was not crowded. 25 to 30 minutes across the bridge. bart says typical ridership is down 50 and they have a fleet of buses to provide shuttle service. >> we have a total of 94 buses leaving every 45 seconds so we're doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and we're still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. >> reporter: in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work replacing a series of aging tr

project area transbay redevelopment was adapted in 2005 with the purpose of repeating 10 acres with block 8 that were owned by the state of california to generate funding for the tjpa to constrict the new transbay center and meet the affordable housing requirements assembly bill 812 is an combooshl obligation it requires the occ as the development agency to insure that 85 percent the new housing units are occupied by very low, low and moderate income households the project implementation agreements is another enforceable obligation to accept the to third party's for development including affordable housing in november of 2013 pursuant to the agency they issued a request are for the development for a high density mixed use on block 8 in june of 2014 after a competitive process we entered into the negotiation with related california as the market rate development and the tenderloin development corporation and the nonprofits developer along with the office of metropolitan and architecture as the leads designer with the small business entrepreneurs as the architect to the low rise build

to do that, they have had to shut down the transbay tube for the weekend. christian hartnett is at the temporary transbay terminal in san francisco with the battle to get across the bay. hi christian. >> reporter: hi brian. at this point, it has thinned out but for the most part today, pretty busy over here. with the absence of shuttle service this week, bart is providing bus service over the bay bridge. some confused travelers today, but for the most part, travel time wasn't bad at all. a helpful bart worker points east bay commuter to this bus outside the 19th street station. on its way across the bay bridge into san francisco. >> i like the fast act that is going on. and it is great. keep it up. >> reporter: bart has 94 buses chipping in this weekend. one running every 45 seconds from the 19th street station in oakland to the temporary transbay terminal in san francisco. and vice versa. >> i thought it was going to take a long time. an hour or something, but it was 15 minutes. it was pretty quick. >> reporter: as bart workers try to make sure everyone kn

the transbay train service actually stops in just about two hours here.ng that if you are trying to get to or from san francisco, you have to do it on water ore wheels. brace yourself for a bumpy commute this weekend. >> this weekend. oh no. not this weekend. >> yes. >> reporter: yes, this weekend. the transbay tube, the stretch of track under san francisco bay from oakland to san francisco and back is getting repaired. >> it is what helps us get around delays. we are not using the component because we don't think it is in a safe enough condition. >> reporter: but officials say not to worry. there are plan bs . a number of them. you can just drive like jacqueline flag told us her mother plans to do tomorrow. >> she is prepared to sit in traffic. close to maybe about two hours. >> reporter: bart says factor in at least an extra hour of travel time. then again, there is always the bus. bart will be running 94 buses every 45 seconds if needed. they will leave from oakland's 19th street station and drop you off at the temporary transbay terminal two blocks fr

this is the second straight day of the transbay tube closure. i it started saturday and 94 free buses have been made available for bart riders to get across the bay. there have been no reports of problems. bart riders say it's been straightforward as far as where they need to go the buses available at the transbay terminal in san francisco me and 19th street bart station in oakland the reason for the transbay tube closure is so crews can do some much needed track repairs. bart released video of the work being done. farm he closure didn't cause delays that many were predicting. >> it worked. really well. surprisingly -- they said an hour to two hours delays and i got there faster than when usually take bart. >> it was perfect. had enough time to take the kids out, see the water on the bus. it was fun, rather than do it on the bus than the bart because you have to be in the tube. the bus is more fun for the kids. >> reporter: the ferries have increased service. the alameda-oakland-san francisco ferry saw a 25% jump in ridership yesterday. so peopl

. >>> crews are working on the transbay tube before it reopens tomorrow. regular bart lines are running but the tube shutdown means you can't cross the bay by bart. sergio quintana said there are plenty of alternatives. >> bart shuttles easily made the ride over the bay bridge. traffic for everyone else eased a lot but shuttle riders had an easy trip. >> super easy, only 20, 25 minutes. they have a whole lane dedicated just to the bus. everybody in traffic on the busy roads i feel bad for because it was so easy and it was free. matt spencer came into the city from oakland and managed to make it into san francisco before friends. >> you said you actually had friends who were carpooling? >> yeah, and they will be stuck on the bridge for a while. >> bart dispatched a small army of street guides to direct passengers from trains that stopped in downtown san francisco to the temporary transbay terminal and they were you also in oakland to make sure passengers got on the right bus. >> i asked are you going to san francisco? and they said yes, so i said get on the

there's no transbay tube service this way but bart ranked to keep things moving. sergio is live. >> reporter: to make sure that passengers are able to navigate their way from the market street train here to the transbay terminal they have dispatched a small army of people in fluorescent vests which you can't see through the big group of people are walking to the temporary trapsbay terminal. some of the works have been here since this morning to help direct passengers to the dropoff and loading opinions for the shuttle buses. they connect bart train requireds who get to embarcadero station and then walk here to the temporary trapsbay terminal to continue on to trains through downtown oakland. bart has marshaled nearly 100 buses from bay area transit areas to provide the free service. passengers from oakland told us the bus ride was not crowded actually fast, 20 to 25 minutes and bart says a drop in erodership has helped. >> typically on a saturday we see 100,000 people using bart to get across the bay. so far the ridership numbers show that's down by 50%. which is

. >>> the transbay tube is shut down this weekend for repair on the tracks. cristina rendon is live at the bay bridge toll plaza with more. >> reporter: heather, we are seeing traffic, but it's no different than any other saturday when people are trying to get into the city, so this is typical right now, but there is an increase in ridership on the ferries. the weekend we've been warned about is here. bart's closure of the transbay tube means many are finding an alternative mode of transportation. it's why the san francisco bay doubled routes, already seeing a 24% increase in ridership compared to a normal weekend day and a 6% increase on the route between vallejo and san francisco. >> it's working quite well. we have four boats in constant operation at alameda-oakland service. we have three boats on the vallejo service. >> reporter: they have been at capacity on nearly every ferry leaving the east bay, and with that comes long lines. >> it hasn't been too bad. i mean, it's a longer wait than expected. we've been here about an hour and 15 minutes. >> reporter

early this morning to help passengers to connect bart trains to the embarcadero and then walk to the transbay terminal to continue to trains to downtown oakland. passengers from oakland told us the bus rise was not crowded. 25 to 30 minutes across the bridge. bart says typical ridership is down 50 and they have a fleet of buses to provide shuttle service. >> we have a total of 94 buses leaving every 45 seconds so we're doing everything we can to move as many people as we can and we're still encouraging people to use alternate means of transportation if they have them. >> reporter: in this video provided by bart you can see crews have been hard at work replacing a series of aging transfer rails floor the west oakland bart station that leaded to to transbay tube. that is why train service under the bay had to at the stopped this weekend. according to bart the crews are making pretty good progress and bus bridges will continue through regular service tomorrow and then monday morning trains will continue their regular service through the transbay tube. they'll be doing this again labor day weeken

project area transbay redevelopment was adapted in 2005 with the purpose of repeating 10 acres with block 8 that were owned by the state of california to generate funding for the tjpa to constrict the new transbay center and meet the affordable housing requirements assembly bill 812 is an combooshl obligation it requires the occ as the development agency to insure that 85 percent the new housing units are occupied by very low, low and moderate income households the project implementation agreements is another enforceable obligation to accept the to third party's for development including affordable housing in november of 2013 pursuant to the agency they issued a request are for the development for a high density mixed use on block 8 in june of 2014 after a competitive process we entered into the negotiation with related california as the market rate development and the tenderloin development corporation and the nonprofits developer along with the office of metropolitan and architecture as the leads designer with the small business entrepreneurs as the architect to the low rise build

. >>> crews are working on the transbay tube before it reopens tomorrow. regular bart lines are running but the tube shut down means you can't cross the bay. however, abc7 news reporter sergio quintana said there are plenty of alternatives. >> bart shuttles easily made the ride over the bay bridge. traffic for everyone else eased a lot but shuttle riders had an easy trip. >> super easy, only 20, 25 minutes. they have a whole lane dedicated just to the bus. everybody in traffic on the busy roads i feel bad for because it was so easy and it was free. >> he came in from oakland and managed to make it into san francisco before friends. >> you said you actually had friends who were carpooling? >> yeah, and they will be stuck on the bridge for a while. >> bart dispatched a small army of street guides to direct passengers who stopped in downtown san francisco to the temporary transbay terminal and they were you also in oakland to make sure passengers got on the right bus. >> i asked are you going to san francisco? and they said yes, so i said get on the bus. >> m

transbay tube is shut down.e will show you how 10s of thousands of people are getting around during that closure. >>> outside our door, i'm updating your current conditions and what you can expect for the afternoon coming up. >>> welcome back. 7:30. here's a look at some of our top stories we are following this morning. >> california's wildfire season has turned deadly. a u.s. forest service firefighter was killed while battling the frog fire in the modoc national forest. 38-year-old david ruhl of rapid city, south dakota was on temporary assignment. his body was found yesterday morning. an investigation now underway. >>> and governor jerry brown has declared a state of emergency as 18 fires burn dangerously out of control in our state. one of the biggest fires is the rocky fire which is burning in lake county. we got an update on that fire, 22,500 acres has burned and it's 5% contained. three houses have already been destroyed. >>> and there are signs at all b.a.r.t. stations notifying riders that -- there are

. >>> crews are working on the transbay tube before it reopens tomorrow. the tube shout down means you can't cross the bay. however, abc7 news reporter sergio quintana said there are plenty of alternatives. >> we easily made the ride over the bay bridge. traffic for everyone else eased a lot but shuttle riders had an easy trip. >> super easy, only 20, 25 minutes. they have a whole lane dedicated just to the bus. everybody in traffic on the busy feel bad for because it was easy and it was free. >> he came in from oakland and managed to make it into san francisco before friends. >> you said you actually had friends who were carpooling? >> yeah, and they will be stuck on the bridge for a while. >> there was a small army of street guides to guide passengers from downtown san francisco to the temporary transbay terminal and they were you also in oakland to make sure passengers got on the right bus. and i asked are you going to san francisco? and they said yes so i said get on the bus. >> he got a free bus ride. >> it was cool. instead of driving i got to look o

this is the second straight day of the transbay tube closure. i it started saturday and 94 free buses have been made available for bart riders to get across the bay. there have been no reports of problems. bart riders say it's been straightforward as far as where they need to go the buses available at the transbay terminal in san francisco me and 19th street bart station in oakland the reason for the transbay tube closure is so crews can do some much needed track repairs. bart released video of the work being done. farm he closure didn't cause delays that many were predicting. >> it worked. really well. surprisingly -- they said an hour to two hours delays and i got there faster than when usually take bart. >> it was perfect. had enough time to take the kids out, see the water on the bus. it was fun, rather than do it on the bus than the bart because you have to be in the tube. the bus is more fun for the kids. >> reporter: the ferries have increased service. the alameda-oakland-san francisco ferry saw a 25% jump in ridership yesterday. so peopl

that includes transbay tube service. we know it was down this weekend. we are back up. let's go out and take a looks at the commute with the freeways here. you can see traffic in san francisco looks good along northbound 101. no major problems. traffic is moving along okay at the bay bridge toll plaza. usually about 5:30 is when we see the big backups here. in san jose northbound 101, 280 and 85 looking pretty good as you drive through. >>> 5:18 let's go to steve in the weather center. >> all right, sal, thank you, sir. we have a big fog bank and roaring breeze. it will be a cooler pattern up there and more of a westerly breeze. the temperature has come way down. the wind is out of the west, southwest. the humidity is up. it's way up. the fire creates its own conditions there and can be swirling. at least the temperatures will get a release from the temperatures. probably today and tomorrow as well. it will be warmer wednesday and thursday but nothing compared to last week. there is a lot of low clouds making a strong push inland. we have a system moving to the north. 6

s transbay service is not running. there's a bridge in place that seems like people have gotten the message. >> this evening, traffic headed to the bay bridge was hardly the big back-up kevin godson expected to see. >> no i didn't. typically, it's bad for a saturday afternoon. so i guess everybody's staying home. >> all right. loading to san francisco. >> outside the 19th street b.a.r.t. station, 90 buss take riders from oakland to san francisco and back. >> one rider told us he didn't know and was sfrus rated. >> so what did you have to do? >> take the bus. >> how did you find out? >> he just told me. they said that there's no train i gesz, for the weekend. >> but b.a.r.t. is running. ridership is down by half without the transbay ii. the workers are replacing ageing crossover tracks and doing maintenance. >> i don't want to sit in traffic for an hour, hour and a half. >> san francisco bay expanded its service and saw an increase in passengers. >> now, this is probably the biggest back-up that we've seen and we've bee

the transbay tube opened on time.lems this morning for the ferries, caltrain or the altamonte commuter express. traffic has been stacked up solid at the bay bridge toll plaza where we have the spider hanging out there. a 30 minute drive time between the bridge and the macarthur maze in oakland. the san mateo bridge also checking in with delays now in that westbound direction. it's a 19 minute drive time between 880 and 101 in san mateo. and for the richmond bridge, problems now in very slow traffic for the toll plaza. roberta. >>> thank you so much for me borrowing your shoes today. really appreciate it. >> you're welcome. they look great on you. >> i forgot my shoes to work. good morning everyone. [ laughter ] you want sunshine? i got your sunshine right there. the mount vaca area good morning temperatures 50s and 60s. it is currently 65 degrees in livermore. today's numbers we with l see sunshine -- will see sunshine back to the coast once the marine layer scours out. 60 as the beaches and 70s and 80s around the pen

and the rest of the weekend bart trains will not run through the transbay tube. workers have already started setting up signs to direct passengers to the temporary bus bridge. but they recommend people just avoid a weekend trip across the bay if possible. >> don't depend on that for your trip to san francisco. it will delay your trip by an average of 1 to 2 hours extra from what it normally takes from the transbay. >> it may not be an option for weekend workers and for some visitors the shutdown was surprise. this man is visiting from toronto and staying in san francisco. he wanted to go to a second a's game this weekend his friend. >> it's under construction for the next two days, so we will have to take uber or a cab. that's one headache. >> the transbay tube will be shut down until monday morning so they can replace rail near the bart station. they will do it again labor day weekend to finish the job. abc7 news. >>> bart has a lot of information about how to get around without transbay service. we have put that information on our website, abc7news.com. >>> pol

i have to remind you no transbay b.a.r.t. service this weekend but our friends with oakland art and soul want you to know there's b.a.r.t. service around the east bay and $5 parking awaits if you decide to drive. however you choose, try to get there to this celebration in downtown oakland. you'll get music, food, fun and art all weekend long but the downtown oak town throwdown barbecue competition is only today and judging starts at high noon. just fyi, i don't judge barbecue, i just inhale it in any form thus this form. i do the same with a tamale too. there will be live music all weekend too. and today they'll have a performance and also a good meal. after a long fast, which is what happens after ramadan, which ended a couple weeks ago, this festival celebrates the breaking of the fast and the permissible food allowed by islamic law. you'll find world cuisine. go and eat and learn a little bit. come back fed, rested and ready on monday we'll have what you need to know right here on "today in the bay." hey foster farms! look

bart has shut down the transbay two. regular bart lines are running. if you want to cross the bay you are going to need an alternative. sergio, buses of course one option? >> reporter: yeah. and bart tells us they have seen bart ridership drop by about what have of half of what it is on a sachlt that still means about 50,000 peoplery relying on the bus bridges that connect downtown san francisco to downtown oakland and a lot of the commuters are going to have to take that trip again tomorrow. by evening, bart shuttles easily made the ride over the bay bridge. traffic for everyone else also eased a lot but shuttle riders had an easy trip all day long. >> it was super easy. only took 20, 25 minutes. they have got a whole lane dedicated just to the bus. everybody that's in traffic in their cars i feel bad because it was so easy. and it was free. >> matt spencer came into the city from oakland and managed to make it into san francisco before friends. you said you have friends car pooling? >> yeah, they are going to be stuck on the bridge for a while. >> re

. >> the good news is the transbay tube re-opened.the bad news is it is recovering from a ten-minute delay because of track inspection taking place to the east bay through the transbay tube there is track inspection happening and everyone else is running on time so for delays. as we look at walnut creek the southbound side away from mosten hill is pleasanton and bumping up ever-so-slightly near the 24 junction but you are in good shape. we move over the altamont pass at 15 miles per hour where traffic is heavy and back from tracy boulevard. over the altamont pass, speeds are starting to dip down and they climb back up again as you go closer to vasco only to slow down again and beyond dublin interchange you have a clear drive into hayward and 880, as well south from hayward. but right now between tracy and sundlun it will take you an hour. >> happening today if you look for a job you may want to suit up and head to the south bay. organizes hundreds of positions are at the silicon valley hire event at the biltmore hotel from noon to 4:0

transit center communication overview the transbay joint powers authority is requesting money for the overview program math and property management formals f 2015-2016 this might look familiar the work that is fund similar to pass the allocations to the transbay joint powers authority that the transportation authority has made those funds are programmed for this purpose within prop k during item 10 on the agenda eel you'll hear an update on the cost increase for phase one that didn't impact the current request next is the given brt faeshltd study the prop k funds provide as part of the november transportation authority appropriation you'll hear more on 9 agenda recommending the report to that project with that, i'm going to turn it over to chief suhr take care for the geary project. >> morning supervisor tang and members of the board this is for the geary bus rapt project this is in the environmental review stage 10 percent engineering design level transportation authority is the lead for this peace of the project but sfmta is is the leading agency and an individual from the mta is he

crews getting ready to shut down the transbay tube. passengers to make new plans. >> i made plans. >> reporter: [ inaudible question ] >> yeah. now they are out the window, of course. >> friday service is still underway but after tonight people hoping to use b.a.r.t. to cross the bay will be out of luck. good evening. >>> i am julie haener. >> and i am frank somerville. >> we are hours away from b.a.r.t.'s biggest planned closure to date. after tonight's regular service ends the transbay tube will be closed till monday morning, halting service. ktvu's john sasaki is here now with the work planned east of the tube during the weekend closure. >> reporter: the closure is six hours away. crews will repair the track west of the b.a.r.t. station. if you use b.a.r.t. between san francisco and the east bay you need to find an alternate mode of transportation. >> at the b.a.r.t. station, a a flood of riders. -- a flood of riders. with this weekend's closure of the transbay tube riders will have to find other ways to get to and from san francisc

ma'am, vice chair colleagues like many of i've been a strong supporter of transbay transit project i want to thank supervisor kim for her work as the transbay joint powers authority this is the first of a two-phase project that includes the downtown extension of caltrans that is led by the transbay joint powers authority bus terminal is scheduled to open late 2017 and eventually the train will be constructed below the terminal will house the transbay serve enacting los angeles to san francisco for the reason i can't overstate the importance of delivering those promotions in a timely and cost effective marijuana the transbay joint powers authority was a strong supporter and early funder having set aside $270 million in the prop k plan and allocating over $70 million to the project to date the reason has contributed hundred and $50 million to the project unfortunately after approving a $310 million increase to the budget in 2013, the tjpa board is asked to rise it as the tjpa staff right to left $260 million gap in just like this brings the total to twice it's original budget this brin

after tonight's regular service ends the transbay tube will be closed till monday morning, halting service. ktvu's john sasaki is here now with the work planned east of the tube during the weekend closure. >> reporter: the closure is six hours away. crews will repair the track west of the b.a.r.t. station. if you use b.a.r.t. between san francisco and the east bay you need to find an alternate mode of transportation. >> at the b.a.r.t. station, a a flood of riders. -- a flood of riders. with this weekend's closure of the transbay tube riders will have to find other ways to get to and from san francisco or not. >> i will stay home. >> reporter: what would you be doing? >> going back and forth. i have family. >> reporter: the station have signs informing riders. some heard nothing and were annoyed. >> made plans. with my friends. >> reporter: those plans -- [ talking at the same time ] >> now they are out the window, of course. >> reporter: some people visiting from southern california heard about the closure. >> bummer. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: a worker said his saturday commute will

the golden gate has taken the grunt of the traffic all weekend long with the transbay tube closure. looking at delays getting to and across the golden gate bridge. sanfrancisco, getting to the bridge. traffic backed up from 19th avenue at this hour. south 101. crowded from beyond. getting into san francisco and as we mentioned b.a.r.t tells us they ex pect to resume full- service including service in the tube at 4:00 tomorrow morning. if you are one of those folks who took a shuttle bus across the bay remember the last bus leaves san francisco terminal 1:30 this morning and the last bus leaves 19th street station at 1:00 a.m. >> all right, thank you. >>> it is weekends like this, remind us how vital the transbay service really is. and ann shows us there is a dream project in the works that could prevent another closure like this weekends from ever happening again. >> a number of officials stated their support for it. a huge under taking. a lot of money planning, timing. we have to look at that. >> i think they should of started years ago. to begin building this. >> b.a.r.t riders ar

transit center communication overview the transbay joint powers authority is requesting money for the overview program math and property management formals f 2015-2016 this might look familiar the work that is fund similar to pass the allocations to the transbay joint powers authority that the transportation authority has made those funds are programmed for this purpose within prop k during item 10 on the agenda eel you'll hear an update on the cost increase for phase one that didn't impact the current request next is the given brt faeshltd study the prop k funds provide as part of the november transportation authority appropriation you'll hear more on 9 agenda recommending the report to that project with that i'm going to turn it over to chief suhr take care for the geary project. >> morning supervisor tang and members of the board this is for the geary bus rapt project this is in the environmental review stage 10 percent engineering design level transportation authority is the lead for this peace of the project but sfmta is is the leading agency and an individual from the mta is her