evaluating transportation strategies along the embarcadero which will include bicycle access. and your forward calendar is item of the waterfront trust petition assessment which takes a lot of information and strategies that have come up in the people plan development process and looking at how do we apply these needs and strategies that we have tested out the longer-term transportation demand and development along the waterfront. with that i will be happy to take any questions. again thank you for your time and attention. >> thank you kelly. we do have public comments. >> i'm sorry, my bad for not having finished before. i want to recognize commissioner katz for the idea to have this item and for you carly for coming today. now, -- i'm done, i promise. >> we have public comment. bob isaacson. i'm sorry. that's on the next item. is there any public comment? on the people plan and america's cup update. >> thank you for presenting. also thank you for acknowledging that he would make sense to have bi-directional lanes so people don't ride bikes one-way and not have a way to get b

we're going to pilot a temporary bike corridor along the embarcadero and along the northern terminus of van ness through aquatic park and bike parking, so if you bicycle to events you can leave your bikes much like you do at at&t park for a giant's game and have somebody watch it and secure it. on transportation demand management, we're really trying to get the message out early, the best way to get to and from these events prior to people getting there and we have a series of maps and brochures that are actually due to be delivered today and we'll get that out to your staff, which indicates maps for enhanced transit routes, bike lanes, pedestrian paths. there is a dedicated site on 501 whether you are coming from caltrain, bart, muni or other modes how to get to those enhanced services to get to the venues . we have been making some clipper improvements and there is a graphic on your screen of the new clipper card with the america's cup catamaran on it. we have developed parking site with the last-mile transit connections and training mta and america's cup event authorities and amba

we will go to a different operation at the embarcadero and we are calling it a fall back operation, but why we are worried about it at all is what we found was that three lines k, l, and m all turn around there. and we looked at the schedule time this they were all schedule to have five minutes to make that turn. and only ten percent of the cases were they able to do it on schedule. >> so you have a train coming out of there leaving late and it leads to bunches and gaps. it leads to everything, being late behind it. is he we were able to take a look at the operation to analyze both using the control, and the train control system and the two pocket tracks where they turn around and we now believe that we will be in the position with this new fall back operation to reduce the time by two minutes which will be significant. and all of the trains picked that up and we have gone through it and through the exercise and the walk through and it does not require, additional investment and we will be a critical first step, and we also need to move decisively to deal with the bottle necks in the sy

we have improved the crosswalk in front of the exploratorium on the embarcadero on green tv an area that was a very arched turn and speed could provide a dangerous path of travel for those crossing the street the muni erline from the cal train station to fisherman's wharf. this was a pilot project during the event. this is an accessible historic streetcar and the mini platforms, along the embarcadero are often chained off and those chains will come down to access the historic streetcars in the summer and we have changed some of the signal timing and some of the streetcars themselves to make that happen. and also bike sharing, something that we have been talking for a long time. where you can check out a bicycle, like a library book for a half an hour, an hour or a day and return it to a different location and use it to get about town k. we have made some enhancements to the transit system, the e-line, the finish line that we just discussed. and another one from the marina green area to market street and market to pier 27-29 shuttle to follow the f-line tracks, all accessible muni vehicle

i'm here at fulsom street at the embarcadero. this point here all the way up to mission street and completely blocked off and you have to go through a security point. if you look to my right you see the security checkpoint i'm talking about. there are guys who will actually go through your bags and if you have something like a stroller, that we will see come through, they have to check the stroller too. they are checking bags and strollers and all of this is because they want to make sure no unauthorized items make it on to the course. there were only three access points to the secure areas, one on mission, one on howard and the entrance here on fulsom street. runners also had new rules to follow about what they could carry with them during the race. the goal, said city officials, is to keep each of them safe and free from distractions while competing. the marathon's top female finisher is a 28-year-old former san francisco yan and mother of three. she had an unofficial time of 2:42:25. >> feels like home to me and i love this co

embarcadero currently supplying power from the mid-market substations and through those soils. repair could take eight hours to several weeks. maintaining the embarcadero station is critical to the san francisco downtown and waterfront region. the system of reliability was raised during the study interview with pg&e in november 2011 and pg&e followed up with the council getting support to ada third connection to the embarcadero station with this going to the portero substation and improve system reliability particularly into the downtown area in a major earthquake and allow pg&e more flexibility with work and unexpected equipment outages. they gave three routes and options to provide feedback and you can see from the box, the green, red and blue routes so pg&e is continuing to work with the city and the project design and the approval process and hopes to begin work in 2014 or 2015. so looking ahead we will be completing the life line interdependences study in 2013. we are also in the process of developing a work program then. in the last meeting in september we asked participa

the course starts and finishes on the embarcadero. officials tell abc7 news about 5,000 fewer registrants entered for the race. the roster list, the number at close to 20,000 runners. again, we have watched steady waves of runners take off. we will continue to follow this, and i'll have a report that i will file later in the day. at the embarcadero, nick smith, abc7 news. >> thank you, nick. for people when want to get around the road closers, they should use our abc7 waze app. >>> a group in the east bay has raised money to help sexually exploited children recover from that trauma. the organization "missy" hosted their second annual inspire change gala at the rotunda in oakland. it featured a guest speaker, silent auction and plus dinner and dancing. new york city mayor michael bloomberg will be the commencement speaker at the at graduation ceremonies at stanford. he said their ideas fall in line with the university's entrepreneurial spirit. last week he met with ed lee. the two have plans to co-host a technology summit this year in

and then for some of the specific initiatives that john was talking about, such as the embarcadero turnaround, we're going to be measuring the actual turnaround time. we have the analysis that john's team did to determine what the current turnaround time is on average and what the extremes are. we're going to be measuring specifically that. i think we have the ability through the next bus system to evaluate the delay -- some of the days you were talking about, such as the average time to get from church to van ness station and to get from church to embarcadero station. so there are a lot of ways that we have and use on a regular basis to measure the performance, to evaluate the changes that we're making. >> can i ask about that? >> yes. >> mean distance between failure and on-time performance. we are doing them and they are good measures. two objective criteria had a that are most important are time between west portal and montgomery -- excuse me embarcadero, and visa rsa and number of trains on a daily basis. >> the number of trains we measure daily and we have the ability to get travel time

not so much on the embarcadero, but wait a little bit. by tomorrow morning we should see overcast conditions across this part of san francisco. san francisco by the way 53. 59 in mountain view and san jose 56. santa cruz56. there is the fog, the span of the golden gate bridge a little murky there. if you are traveling the span allow some extra time. santa rosa 56 degrees. by the way this is 16 degrees cooler than where you were this time yesterday. definitely a cooling trend on tap. 62 in livermore and los gatos. our forecast highlights, folks, goes with the low qlowdz -- low clouds and fog overnight. and then it should burn back around midday. really just seasonal temps. the next few days as we gleet into thursday, friday and -- as we get into thursday, friday and saturday the things warm up. we lost a little heating for the day. we have the high pressure that brought us excessive heat and that pushed off toward the east. low pressure being replaced. counter clockwise spin and the strong, on shore wind component is pushing it up and bank

they took off around 5:30 this morning in embarcadero. there is increased security because of the boston marathon bombings. runners may notice bomb-sniffing dogs and bag checks and a finished area that is closed. people have confident it will go off without a hitch. >> no, i have full confidence in the people putting together the race and in san francisco. i think it's going to go smoothly and we're going to have a great day. >> it's fun. everybody is here for the love of the sport, really. having a good time. who else gets up at 5:30 in the morning to run a half marathon, 36 miles. nobody is as crazy as these people here. >> this morning's event include as full and a half marathon as well as a 5k and a kid's race. if you're headed to the city, you can expect closures through most of the morning. a section of the embarcadero will be closed this morning as well as two lanes across the golden gate bridge. there will be significant delays around the city. it should all clear up by midday. >>> still ahead on "today in the bay," a ruling on ca

not so much on the embarcadero, but wait a little bit. by tomorrow morning we should see overcast conditions across this part of san francisco. san francisco by the way 53. 59 in mountain view and san jose 56. santa cruz56. there is the fog, the span of the golden gate bridge a little murky there. if you are traveling the span allow some extra time. santa rosa 56 degrees. by the way this is 16 degrees cooler than where you were this time yesterday. definitely a cooling trend on tap. 62 in livermore and los gatos. our forecast highlights, folks, goes with the low qlowdz -- low clouds and fog overnight. and then it should burn back around midday. really just seasonal temps. the next few days as we gleet into thursday, friday and -- as we get into thursday, friday and saturday the things warm up. we lost a little heating for the day. we have the high pressure that brought us excessive heat and that pushed off toward the east. low pressure being replaced. counter clockwise spin and the strong, on shore wind component is pushing it up and bank

we just finished this and came back to the embarcadero. one of the most noticeable changes just to get into this area and this is all in light of the boston bombings to make sure everybody will be safe for everybody taking part in this race. a good crowd as we turn you around and you can see a nice crowd gathered around the finish line not that long ago and the winners were crowned right here. this was the scene a little over an hour ago as the men's team crossed the finish line. from france, he ran this in two minutes and 25 seconds -- excuse me two hours and 25 minutes and 14 seconds. a few minutes after that, 20 minutes or so after that the first crossed the finish line and she spoke to me about what helped heroin today. >> it really helpedden and it is such a great experience out here, i love this race. spectators had to deal with this and all of it are dealing with extra police presence and bomb-sniffing dogs and they have been searching all of the bags coming into the finish line area coming into the embarcadero and they are limiting

and they do and have done a great service to the embarcadero and to the shipping industry. when we had the 150th anniversary, i was here at one of the commission meetings just like this, and i do not hear too much about the contribution of the blacks here on the embarcadero which is a fact. we need jobs. they are not begging for jobs. we need jobs given to all san franciscans because they contributed to the making of this area, 7.5 miles of the public trust land. the public trust land belongs to all of the format. someone from san diego could come here and ask you whatever they want to ask you and you have every right to give them the right type of information that is what the public trust land is. i am here to state clearly that there is much to be done in the representation. there is much to be done in the history, not only of the blacks, not only of the chinese, not only of the irish, not only of the longshoremen who lay their lives but everybody who contributed to the seven-point five-mile area so when the developers come of course you have to make a lot of money but th

a few runners beginning to make their way back into the embarcadero area. and the weather forecast in about 60 seconds. >>> raise your hand! raise your voice! >> a nationwide tour of nuns. they are preaching the gospel of immigration reform. yesterday, nuns on the bus marched in bakersfield to support comprehensive immigration reform. tomorrow they are taking their message here to silicon valley. the senate is currently debating a bipartisan immigration bill. >>> and this week, state officials will make their case again on why they should be allowed to charge for parking at sonoma county beaches. the state wants to install 15 self-pay machines and charge a flat fee of $7. the money would go toward rest room maintenance, garbage collection and water treatment and other jobs that need to be done. >>> well, just because products are made here doesn't mean they have to cost more. >> that is the message behind the third annual "made in america" event. congresswoman jackie speer is hosting the exhibit. she told us "made in america" translates into job opportuniti

workers will be out here in about two hours at the embarcadero b.a.r.t. station in san francisco talking with riders trying to make their case. at the same time this letter is going out to employers letting them know it would be very smart to start planning now, that b.a.r.t. is negotiating with labor unions of a contract that expires sunday. if those negotiations fail, we could possibly see service disruptions as early as monday. b.a.r.t.'s two biggest unions authorized a strike, but negotiations are still happening. the mtc is saying commuters get ready. caltran riders expect a lot of company. the ferries could be busy, too. car also be crowded, freeways, bridges. we spoke with one commuter who said even if you all these commuters, it will be awfully inconvenient. >> all the oakland staff takes the b.a.r.t. over and vice versa. we also work with the youth and the youth we employ work at the coliseum and they take b.a.r.t. >> ac transit is offering up buses, but it has a labor contract expiring on june 30th. union leaders sent a letter citing safety conc

full marathon finishes along the embarcadero near mission. as you can see on the map the race goes up to the north side of city and back through golden gate park and winds east. we have this map along with road closures at our website. navigating all those roadblocks, get waze. >>> still ahead, why police and protestors clashed outside of a 2014 world cup stadium. also, how google plans to use these strange objects to get the world online. >> why protestors nearly bared it all outside a victoria secret today. >> temperatures took a tumble but what about father's day. take a look at the forecast and tell you when you can expect a warmup. >> traffic reporter, we've picked two big winners of abc7 giveaway. we have five more to go. you have a chance to win $700 in free gas cards from shell. all you have to do is click the but the like button on our facebook page. if you are already a fan, you need to fill out that farmers presents: 15 seconds of smart. so you're worried about house fires? stop smoking. manage your wires. watch out for space heate

to the embarcadero and the broadway street pier, very nice. the temperatures in the mid- 50s, i think they like and there is some sun out. there the numbers are, you know, pleasant enough for us. climbing to near 80 degrees by the end of the day. inland and as we look to san jose, plenty of blue. some low clouds in there along the shore line and we'll go with status quo. the usual low clouds are the time of the year and sunshine in the afternoon. we'll cool it more on monday and warm it up by thursday and this is the -- the culprit or the hero, depending on how you look at these things. the low pressure is spinning out in the pacific and finally moved the high pressure offshore and it's the heights in the atmosphere, the temperatures came along with them. we fell 15 degrees yesterday. today, we meet warm up a degree or two. getting more sun than yesterday and so, we'll be sunny and mild the next three, four days. pinpoint forecast out of the bay area, the central valley is warm, near 90 degrees on average, from redding to fresno and that is a

embarcadero station we have a looming bart strike, tara? >> we will be out here along the embarcadero, they are hoping to educate them about rider safety staffing levels and wagers this comes after a unanimous strike vote this week from two unions representing 2300 workers and there are 400,000 riders every day. we have been talking about it since they surfaced but she said the strike was done to let bart know they are serious about bargaining they hope it does not get to the point where workers walk off the job. riders are worried. >> the only way they can have access to go wherever they have to go, for example i have to go to san francisco every single day. >> the last bart work out, a 6 day stoppage was a nightmare for the region and the economy. now workers will be handing out of flyers and more workers will be out in oakland doing the same thing at 4:30 tonight. coming up, we will break down exactly what these two sides are arguing about. ktvu channel 2 morning news. >> the union representing ac transit workers could warn they are argu

located at -- and embarcadero. >> good afternoon i am john -- i would like to introduce you to the two responses to the rfp. last september the port commission authorize an rfp for pier 38 with intent to rehabilitate and retenant the bulkhead on pier 38 but also qualify the development team with the possibility of a long-term reuse of the entire pier. the intent of the solicitation was to find respondents with experience in rehabilitating, developing and operating facilities comparable to pier 38. the ideal respondent would consist of a development team that has experienced with one historic rehabilitation of waterfront structure; two, and ability to identify and secure potential tenant; and three, and ability to maintain real estate projects when completed. with this in mind on march 25th port staff received two very qualified proposals from two very qualified development teams. one was san francisco development partners. san francisco pacific waterfront partners iii, the company to be formed and to be wholly-owned by san francisco waterfront partners llc. the other team is tmg pier 3

work with sfmta, it is a pilot for opportunities that we may have for creating bike lanes along the embarcadero. from the numbers that i have seen it looked like it was successful encouraging people to take their bicycles with all the bicycle parking that was provided for free on marina green, seem to fill up pretty well. this is a great opportunity for all of us to look at this as a pilot for how we may want to expand bicycling lanes or restripe them to encourage the use along the embarcadero. >> thank you so much for the presentation. a lot of work has gone into this. i have one question. that is, as far as the local community, and how people who live and owrk in this area are going to get around the city during this time, and if they will be enhanced local transit along with this, and how will people know when this is happening? >> several questions there. first, will there be local enhanced transit? the transit services that we have designed our intended to build on our existing transit lines, and so if somebody is waiting for a 47x and our special shuttle comes, bringing them where they wa

on embarcadero on mission street. >>> vice president joe biden on his way back to washington, d.c. after a two-day visit to san francisco. he surprised diners at n- sunnyvale with an uncommand stop. mr. biden spent about an hour at the restaurant this morning along with south bay congressman mike honda. meet meeting the vice president was a thrill for many people. >> i think what is moving is that i am meeting him in the setting and not meeting at a big rally. it's so homey this setting here and for him to come in like a regular person, it made it all perfect. >> the vice president has arrived bay area last night to raise money for democratic congressional candidates and today he had a more personal agenda. >> i enjoy the bay area. my niece casey owens is graduating from stanford and getting masters degree today and i'm heading ovthere right now. so it's going to be a good day. >> mr. biden took off from san francisco airport at about 7:30 tonight. in an off-camera interview he dead the government's contraverse whyial phone data collection and told the mercury news his criticism in

and one big factor to that was the course the federal investment in the embarcadero roadway. we haven't been as fortunate in the southern waterfront to have that type of economic spur, but we're really sitting on it right now with the development of 337 property and pier 70. and i think it's imperative that the port commission, we have got a great commission, but kimberly brandon is the one with the institutional memory, more so than myself and i think that is really valuable to the port at this very important time. so i thank you for the opportunity to speak and i support her nomination very much. thanks. >> thank you. >> supervisor breed

the marathon starts and finishes along the embarcadero near mission. as you can see the race goes up the north side of the city and across the golden gate bridge and back through golden gate park and then winds east which means there will be a lot of road closures throughout the city on sunday. we have this map along with a list of closures on sunday on our website, abc7news.com. for help navigating, get the ways app on your smart phone. download our excludive is abc7 news traffic app for free from the app store or from google play. it works really well. >>> coming up, breaking news, three people shot at a fast-food restaurant. >> and the battle against that mammoth fire burning in colorado. ferocious. firefighters explain how it is being fought on the ground. >> three, two, one, fire. >> and here is one way to spend your weekend. for all those who sleep too hot or too cool, and struggle to sleep comfortably together, now there's a solution. introducing sleep number dual temp, the revolutionary temperature-balancing layer with active air technology tha

the embarcadero is empty. we will tell you why the traffic is light. could be it is friday, and the weather forecast is coming up. >> at the capital they 8 approve a new budget for california voting on the $96.3 billion spending plan the next fiscal year including a republiccal to reduce tuition by 40 percent for 100,000 students in the uc systems for those earning $80,000 to $150,000 a year will qualify for the tuition cuts on a sliding scale going down to 10 percent at the low end. the program will start in the fall of 2013. authorities are wanting members of the indian american community of a scheme targeting them claiming to be i.r.s. agents recently called a couple who did not want to be identified, and they were told they did not pay all the taxes. the husband said he didn't understand, another man who spoke his native language got on the phone and demanded the victim rush to buy reloadable debit cards and victim bought 30 of them and gave them to the man, the phone access, to all of them. >> the trusting community and they bring in that guy who

the marathon starts and finishes along the embarcadero near mission. as you can see the race goes up the north side of the city and across the golden gate bridge and back through golden gate park and then winds east which means there will be a lot of road closures throughout the cit sunday. we have this map along with a list of closures on sunday on our website, abc7news.com. for help navigating, get the ways app on your smart phone. download our excludive is abc7 news traffic app for free from the app store or from google play. it works really well. >>> coming up, breaking news, three people shot at a fast-food restaurant. >> and the battle against that mammoth fire burning in colorado. ferocious. firefighters explain how it is being fought on the ground. >> three, two, one, fire. >> and here is one way to spend your weekend. the county fair with a t >> i'm abc7 traffic reporter and it is time to congratulate the winner of the big shell gas card give away. he just won $700 in free gas cards from shell. by just liking abc7 news on facebook. we have fiv

. >> allen is on the embarcadero live with new details of is going on there. allen? >> the last 3 towers if you lack seem to be having the most issues. now there's actually a mathematic set offal go rhythm that create non-repeating pattern of water fall. streak of light so troubleshooting this hasn't been easy. 25,000 sparkling led lights on the we were span of the bay bridge are still mesmerizing onlooker but look closely several hundred lights are stuck in the on or off position. doing nothing there looks lick it's part of the lighting for the bridge for the traffic. >> ben davis chirac for the privately if you saided limb newt nature the art project knew unique maintenance challenge. >> let's face it. electronic 500 fee in the air on the bay bridge that vibrate with high wednesday which is exposed to salty air and rain. >> like an annoying strand of christmas let's. technician are combing through the system looking for the problem but this strand of latest one.8 miles long and electron he can system is much more complicate complicated. >> but it's just as vexing w

as you hid over to the embarcadero, the bayview district, headed out to the marina district and sunset district we have the better radar returns. and muir beach has a little sprinkle and same in mill valley and product -- broadway and sausalito. >> the storms are pulling it over the ocean and pulling away from us over the high country. with the low to the south it is clockwise flow, it rotated to us. that means we are going to have some storms because the slow below us, but fading with the cooler conditions we will deal with that. more sun, but still cool tomorrow and a slow warming trend headed to the weekend. now, at look at your seven-day forecast, temperatures right now are in the 50's and we will stay that way at the host in the mid-to-upper 60's around the bay and lower to upper 70's inland neighborhood and we jump to degrees tomorrow, and two our four degrees more on wednesday, same on thursday, and we hold steady all the way through the weekend, so, today, we are getting the biggest bang for the weather buck of the now, traffic with leyla gulen? >> we have a few bangs, 4:49 as

the marathon starts and finishes along the embarcadero near mission. as you can see the race goes up the north side of the city and across the golden gate bridge and back through golden gate park and then winds east which means there will be a lot of road closures throughout the city on sunday. we have this map along with a list of closures on sunday on our website, abc7news.com. for help navigating, get the ways app on your smart phone. download our excludive is abc7 news traffic app for free from the app store or from google play. it works really well. >>> coming up, breaking news, three people shot at a fast-food restaurant. >> and the battle against that mammoth fire burning in colorado. ferocious. firefighters explain how it is being fought on the ground. >> three, two, one, fire. >> and here is one way to spend your weekend. >> i'm abc7 traffic reporter and it is time to congratulate the winner of the big shell gas card give away. he just won $700 in free gas cards from shell. by just liking abc7 news on facebook. we have five winners to go so yo