the west portal playground is in the west portal playground and in district 7, at west ulloa road and lennox way. the port westal renovation project is part of two clean and safe neighbor parks bond programs. the communities opportunities fund and the let's play s.f. initiative. the community outreach process was mainly conducted during the community opportunity fund program application between january and march 2014. on november 20, 2014, this commission adopted the resolution authorizing r.p.d. to produce with design development. the proposed -- the scope of work that we're bringing to you today for the project includes the new children's play area, accessibility improvements to the clubhouse rest rooms, replacement of paving and waterproofing, fencing, seating, accessible parking, an access pass, and a nature nook, featuring drinking fountain, landscape, and irrigation. the plan is handicapped accessible and meets all a.d.a. requirements in design. the project, beginning in fall 2019, is expect today last nine months. the staff requests the commission award a contract to treaty con

we have addressed west portal very well. from my reading of the data and my own anecdotal experience every morning, the embarcadero turnaround remains a choke point. i've given you my ideas how to address it. i know you're addressing those. in the next report or the one after, i would like to hear a more robust presentation about how we're going to solve that choke point, please. directors anything else? is there any public comment on item 14? >> mr. chair, yes. herbert reiner, bob finebom and dave fill dow. >> herbert weiner, it's the composition of this board that bothers me. there should be critics as well as supporters of m.t.a. on this board. you're going to have a biased report. secondly, at the meetings there are obviously going to be working groups, critics should be included in those working groups, and not lined up against the wall like the peanut gallery that i experienced previously. you really have to have a critical report. and also the bottom line is we need more buses. we need more drivers. we need less take-

we are on west portal playground award of contract. >> good morning, commissioners.he director of capital planning. i wanted to use this opportunity to introduce to you kelly rudnick who's the project planner. although she's new to us, she's not new to the city. she comes from public works. she has managed several projects that have come before this body, including washington square. we're happy to have her, and you'll be seeing a lot of her. thank you so much. >> good morning, commissioners. sitting in general manager and secretary, thank you for that production. i am today presenting west portal playground renovation contract for jackie ho, who is on vacation today. so we bring to you the west portal playground renovation possible action to award a contract treaty construction in the amount not to

which is a fairly new nutrition site in the west portal area. and then, we had a guest presentation by building together on their build the block program. and then, our meeting this month will be a presentation on the area plan for 2021 to 2025. six members of the council attended the workforce job fair on monday. it was excellent. the energy and the -- it was nice to see the public sector and the community-based organization and collaborative effort, and then, two supervisors were there, supervisor brown and supervisor fewer, as well as the mayor, and i think that gave it a lot of extra energy. >> okay. thank you, diane. diane, just a question on the pedestrian safety issue. i understand the logical focus on automobile accidents and streets and with the bike lanes, but the city keeps approving additional motorized vehicles. often, they are on you can sidewalks, and often, there seems to be very poor enforcement of bicycles on sidewalks. the sidewalks as you pointed out are treacherous enough without these motor vised vehicles, and when you add

. >> overnight subway service limited to buses due to track maintenance between embarcadero and west portal from 9:30 p.m. . overnight. >>> happening now in hong kong, a protest forced officials to close one of the world's busiest airports. this is new video in overnight. hong kong airport canceled all remaining departures for the rest of the day. that includes one flight on sing poor airlines due at sfo this evening. this is a live picture from hong kong. thousands of pro democracy protesters have crowded into the airport's main terminal. demonstrators have rallied for democratic reforms in the former british colony for the past few months. hong kong was returned to china in 1997 under a one country, two systems principle. >>> new this morning, we're waiting for information from he police presence. >> near 4th and brannanbrannan morning. amy hollyfield has an update for us. >> reporter: police sent quite a response to this crime. take a look. we have video from fourth and brannan where this happened. it looked like a car break-in. they spent a lot of time focusing on the car, taking finger

. >> a spinoff of original joe's in north beach is coming to the city's west portal neighborhood.icle reports that siblings john and elena duggan will open a pizza shop on west portal avenue. the brother and sister team are the owners of original joe's and original joe's westlake and daly city. the new smaller restaurant will be in the building long opera to occupied by paradise pisa work which closed last year . >> up next, oracle park changed into a launching pad with 4 home runs in today's finale of the bay bridge series. also, 49ers quarterback, jimmy calabro look with a terrible practice at training camp today . we will hear from the coach after the break . >> also had, a new episode of our bay area people podcast is out. k2 views candace wynn sat down with an athlete who is now fighting for college athletes to get paid. search for bay area people in your podcast player. ♪ ♪ >>> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and out of respect, we will let you make the first offer. thirty minutes. thirty minutes? objection! overruled. one hour. sweeten the deal by doing the dishes and i'll consider it. i would

next monday night at 9:30, the entire tunnel between embarcadero and west portal station will be shut down. it will be opened back up before the morning commute. the same routine will go on for two weeks. late-night train riders will have to use shuttle buses to get around the closure. >>> up next. you probably have never seen a basketball court quite like this one. meet the colorful east bay artist who help make it happen. alright, so this is how it's gonna go down. you are going to say... you'll get the best deal of the year on xfinity tv and internet. and you even get this. mike, you're on balloons. sarah, you're gonna high five everybody. ben, you're gonna be wowing them with your dance moves. don't miss the xfinity best deal of the year. now that's simple, easy, awesome. get amazing tv and internet during our best deal of the year. with huge savings of $600 over 2 years. plus a speed upgrade to 400 megs, free for 2 years. and ask about even more savings with xfinity mobile. click, call or visit a store today. >>> a nonprofit is transforming crumbling basketball courts around the

the underground between the embarcadero and west portal will close. and another will not run at all. shuttle buses will run on surface streets where lines are closed. >>> et cetera 4:34, another pedestrian has been killed on the san francisco streets. there are now more calls for change. we have video of the aftermath of a crash that happened saturday night. a woman this her 70s was hit and killed by a taxicab near fifth and market streets. the driver did stop and is cooperating. another person was killed in that same area last month. while there are many unknowns regarding saturday's crash the area needs improvement. >> this area can be very dark at nighttime. for a driver it is hard to see people. we need to think about increasing lighting and improving the daylighting of how turns are happening. we can narrow the lanes anddane of emergency for traffic safety. according to the group walk san francisco this is the 15th pedestrian killed this year. >>> 4:35. happening today, a veteran sheriff sergeant accused of secretly recording juvenile suspects is

and 1:00 a.m., substitute buts replace light rail service between the embarcadero and west portal stations. the shutdown will give crews time to work on overheadlines, tracks and signals. they said a similar shut down is planned for december. >> a car almost plowed through a building after a crash this afternoon in san francisco's outer mission. the t-bone collision happened on mission street and highland avenue around noon today. one of the vehicles was pushed into the sidewalk and hit the side of a building. ambulances responded to take injured people away to the hospital. the cause that have crash is still under investigation. >>> pedestrian safety advocates say they're devastating and furious after a taxi hit and killed a 79-year-old woman walking in san francisco last night. it happened just before 9:00 p.m. near fifth and market streets. police have not released details of what happened. this marks the city's 15th pedestrian or cyclist death this year. >> we asking that our mayor snep and intervene and gather and convene the city agencies committed to vision zero eliminating all pede

so make sure you plan your evening commute accordingly many service between the embarcadero and west portal stations will end at 00:30pm tonight. but there will be shuttle buses serving all affected many stop it's from 9.30 and running right on until 01:08am, so keep that in mind. well coming up next on the look for new city makes a ruling on allowing a straight pride parade. plus some bay area man arrested after saying he wanted to kill jews and that has some of the jewish community on edge edge. also after the break after last week's deadly mass shootings, protesters are saying enough is enough the message they have for house speaker nancy pelosi. outside before we go traffic looks it up the san mateo brid mom's finally finding her sea legs, and she's about 10 minutes from a hotel by wyndham. he's having the best. day. ever! and he's about 10 minutes from a wyndham. with over 6,000 hotels across the country, a great hotel by wyndham is closer than you think. visit wyndhamhotels.com. >>welcome back to the kron 00:04am morning news and happy monday. thank you for waking up with us, i hope y

the new service between the embarcadero and west portal stations will stop running at 00:30pm tonight there will be shuttle buses, serving all the affected many stops again starting at 9 30 in running through 01:00am these evening closures will happen for the next 2 weeks so plan your evening supporting. >>class is already back in session for a lot of bay area students and found 4 is getting you ready for school all week on kron on earlier today to resist asio visit with an east bay 5th grade classroom to see how the for sale classes going so far. >>i am here in the 5th grade if airlines elementary school in pleasanton and i just learned the coolest rick can't wait so the kids are like super. quiet which is fantastic. but you guys just did this like really cool thing that was the whole thing to get them to quite hawk. talk talk talk it was amazing i like the other one was the other one that. >>we've got a degree and a weird to have a day we've got 2 years. >>team. >>right so we're in this really spectacular and cool classroom that i'm learning all kinds of like really cold techniques

. >>> train service will be shut down between the embarcadero and west portal stations. at 9:30 am 9:30 pm starting august 12 for two weeks. until 1 am shuttle buses will replace light rail service. after 1 am muni network will return to its normal train schedule. the closures are part of muni's subway maintenance project. they extend the hours crews can work on the tracks and equipment underground. >>> give you a live look at the chase center. which according to a new report to be directly impacted by rising sea water in 30 years. the report from the low said $50 billion worth of bay area homes in the mission bay district are at risk of flooding from rising sea levels. but warriors officials say the chase center is built to withstand sea rise for the next 100 years. >>> by then the warriors will have a lot of banners hanging there. >>> what we see in the bay area being a place of so many hills and valleys and waterways. could potentially could look different. >>> we will talk about the weather for this week right now. that is a long-term issue that is not going away. we

starting next monday night at 9:30 pm uni-will shut down the embarcadero to the west portal tunnel so crews can repair old aging systems. this is the same tunnel where last spring 1000 feet of overhead line came loose, so nagging the train, shorting out nearly the entire length of market street. it took all day to make emergency repairs, while folks crammed into shuttle buses. the outage was a human and disrupted most of the city. my correct, that was involving our overhead lines and that's one of your major functions we will be addressing. >> reporter: another serious tunnel problem is automated train control system. computers are supposed to handle the trains when they enter the tunnels. is there something wrong with it right now? >> like i just mentioned, we do have some disruptions when a train does not connect to the system and it runs in manual at a slower's read. >> reporter: slower speeds means congestion and slower service that affects service operations when the trains are running late. although labeled routine, it is far from it. this nightly schedule is expected to last tw

subway service overnight, bus rails and light rails between the embarcadero and west portal.ing again starting at 9:30 tonight. >>> macy's is getting help from google to make warehouses more efficient. >>> a teenagers smart fridge to tweet. hee is tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, macy's teaming up with google. >> relying on google technology to power a new distribution center opening in ohio today. macy's says the google cloud platform will increase efficiency and speed. it will start being used in other distribution centers next year. at least three owners say their june smart ovens have turned on overnight. >> the ovens are believed to have turned on because of errors in how they received commands from connected devices. a software update will be issued. >>> a kentucky team named dorothy is trying her best to tweet despite her mom confiscating her phone. >> when she lost privileges, she started tweeting through her smart fridge prompting the #freedorothy. >> why does the refrigerator even have the ability to tweet? >> that's a very good question. humans evolved to lose

the glare is most acute at west portal, which is why 15 years ago, we actually put up a convex mirror to provide additional availability -- visibility for our operators, which is part of how they are currently trained. [please stand by] >> we have, as part of the costing package that we originally brought to you, we have some place holder costs for what we anticipate things to be, so something like the flat wheels, which is an issue that both operators and mechanics have been raising for a long time are already built into that overall package that we brought, and at this time, we do not anticipate that package changing significantly, but there's still a lot of work to do as we get to those final estimates. so that's essentially where we are today. i know you had a long meeting, so i won't -- i won't go into too much more detail. i am committed to continuing these conversations. i know there's not an august meeting, but we will be back in september and i'm very hopeful that we'll start to see some strong traction on those 90-day goals and really start to seeing these vehicles get to wh

according to the chronicle, the siblings will open little joe's pizza, pasta parmesan on west portal avenue. the brother and sister team are the owner of original joe's in daly city. the new smaller restaurant will be in the building long radise which closed last is nice to g where everyone knows your name. they have always been one of those spots. to celebrate 50 years, they are throwing a big bash on sunday. to talk about it all, we're happy have stephen here back in the house. welcome to both of you. >> i love what you've done with the place. >> love it. it looks terrific, nice to see you. >> congratulations. >> great to have you. >> the first time i was there i got my brothers id. >> i was 21. >> thank you. >> for some reason, we always stayed. >> is a great spot. >> exactly. >> great story. you are in new york in the mid 60s. you came out in 67 and advertising. >> i did it for one more year here. it wasn't really the bees knees. my first wife and i have this idea of sunday opening a restaurant. we moved back to the present time. it was by the seat of our pants. it was a crazy th

> muni riders, starting next monday, train service will be shutdown between the embarcadero and west portal stations at 9:30 every night for two weeks from 9:00 until 1:00 with shuttle buses replacing light rail service and after 1:00 a.m., the owl network will return to the normal train schedule and the closures are part of the mini subway maintenance network where the crews work on the tracks and the equipment. >>> let's check traffic to see how it's doing. >>> we had a traffic alert earlier that was slowing things down and now the lanes are open and the nimitz freeway is recovering. let's start with the overall look at the big picture with green and plenty of orange and even read. this was a traffic alert and ignore the text box because the lanes are open with residual delays in play from pleasanton on the southbound 680 commute with backups in the westbound direction of 84 and there is not really a good reroute. you might be late, unfortunately, this morning th triangle and back to a regular running speed that has recovered quite nicely with 38 minutes. you've gotten a couple of minutes

. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's [♪] >> i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldn't just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [♪] >> i would say i am a

to 1:00 a.m., there will be no train service between the embarcadero and west portal stations, and insteadiders will have to take bus shuttles, and that work is expected to last two weeks. >>> beating the cost of bay area housing, and we know it's out of and my side super soft? be firm? with the sleep number 360 smart bed you can both... adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. so, can it help us fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. will it help me keep up with him? yup. so, you can really promise better sleep? not promise... prove. and now, save up to $600 on select sleep number 360 smart beds. plus no interest until january 2022 on all smart beds. only for a limited time. >>> happening today, two united airline pilots accused of drinking on the job are set to appear in court in scotland. they were set to fly from glass could you to newark yesterday, but scottish police say breathalyzer tests led to their arrest

heads up, about to be a late night train shutdown was service stopping between the embarcadero and west portal stations at 9:30 every night starting august 12 for 2 weeks. from 9:30 until 1:30, shuttle buses will replace light rail service and after 1:00, the muni owl network will return to its normal schedule. it's part of a maintenance project where the crews will work on the tracks and on the equipment underground. >>> let's see how mass transit and the roads are looking. >>> so far, on time for mass transit but i feel like it will be busy with things popping up all morning, even starting at 4:30, and it might be the day to take mass transit as everything is running on time. the overall big picture for your maps, the roadways are looking good with a few exceptions that will slow you down. this cleared within the last few minutes with a car fire westbound on 24 and it looks like they've gotten that out of the way. this accident is still in play westbound and right as you come across the carquinez bridge, it doesn't seem to be slowing anybody down and it might be early for those commuters. to

so many service between the embarcadero and west portal stations that's going to start running at 00:onight they will have shuttles in place and those shuttle buses will be serving all affected muni stops from 9.30 until one am so keep that next on the kron 4 news kids across the bay area are heading back to school and many parents are wondering how talk to your kids about gun violence on campus. we'll talk to some experts coming up. uh-oh, looks like yes it is. you know, maybe you'd worry less if you got geico to help with your heo i didn't know geico could helps with homeowners insurance. yep, they've been doing it for years. what are you doing? big steve? thanks, man. there he is. get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and renters insurance. >>welcome back to the kron 4 morning news, the time now 7.45 want to check in and i get a look at the forecast because 's one of days right, nice >>day like today, you're probably wishing there was fog to kind of shield you from the sun a bit yesterday but not today not today, no fog out there whatsoever guys crystal cl

service between the embarcadero and west portal stations ended at 9:30 tonight.huttle buses are serving passengers aboveground through 1:00 a.m. the work is aimed at preventing future breakdowns as crews work to improve your headlines, track signals and automated train control system. the early closures will continue through august 26th. >>> now to of a vegetation fire the moose fire is burning south of ukiah off moose road. it was reported about 5:15 this evening. cal fire said the fire had grown to more than 85 acres and was 25% contained. >>> all right. its heating up out there. heating up really in the inland bay valleys pretty significantly, today five degrees or so. these were the highs and they're going to continue in this realm. temperatures will be like today, 94 in santa rosa, on the east side of this line, the numbers in here, these numbers are going to, this week are going to stay in the upper and mid-90s and that's going to provide us with some significant heat obviously. air quality issues tomorrow, spare the air day, wednesday will be as well. it w

we've got muni service between embarcadero west portal station stopping their routes at 00:30pm tonightbut there will be shuttle buses servicing all the affected many stops beginning at 9.30 and running till about one in the morning so just give you a little it can take a little longer to this factor that in all right coming up on the proper morning news, a man caught on camera breaking into a hold while the. >>woman who owns the home was in the shower on the video on what happened coming up. >>fred around 9 45 this morning see a 15 minutes to get out the door by and just so you know it's going to be hot today while the rest of the week really and is yet now is your chance to get out there and enjoy before temperatures continue to rise into the afternoon. and if you like this weekend. well next weekend is a good chance to go back outside in the keep i try and right exactly see is going to be cranked up in many of our cars were driving around and not just in london, but out even towards the coast or temperatures. >>we're going to be warming up compared to where they've been for san franc