13 minutes higher than it should be. highway 24 also been the leading to the bay bridge. worse than that, there is a stall on the upper deck westbound. on the suspensions man. it is a west of the island. it blocks the left-hand lane and the meeting lights will be slowed down. the backup will start to grow even more. the east shore of freeway, look at this ride on 80 westbound. from just a bit before going gate fields, some slowing and especially from 0580 all laydowns of the berkeley cares. the ride on 24 westbound, right from highway 13 all the way down to the maze, the westbound 580 traffic now back the beyond highway 24. the nimitz and northbound is slowing once again getting to the toll plaza. the san mateo bridge, an alternate route heavier than usual but still carrying traffic well. drive times are still only 13 minutes and westbound direction. another hot spot, this an old grade a second accident reported for 680 southbound. this one near much in boulevard. the acciden
request comes out closer to 23%. so we have some ways to go and have talking to do. reporter: sounds like it s still pretty far all out. we are still always away but we have not talked in a while so we need to get together and discuss the issues. reporter: this is a nightmare for the bay area region. the only way we re going to be able to get things back rolling is to get back to the local she asian table and that is what we are doing. reporter: coming up by talk to the bart union rep and i will tell you what she had to say coming up in a few minutes. kron4 s charles clifford is live in san francisco. pam: hundreds of thousands of bay area commuters want to see these bart trains moving again. this is the concord maintenece center.trains pretty much idle. however, bart warns people if you see trains running.that does not mean the strike has ended. the trains are running sporadically so that rust does not form on the tracks, and so the trains themselves are in good
approach from the of our run the side. the drive time from walnut creek in san francisco is 54 minutes. remember it was double that yesterday. the shore freeway is starting to slow from paul street. northbound a 80 is still your best approach. we want to update you on the occurring problem with a vehicle fire and brush fire. they both were extinguished but right hand lane is still shut down. the emergency vehicles have not left the scene. even interstate 580 from patterson is jammed up. the drive time is over an hour now to the dublin interchange from tracy. bart workers are officially in day two of striking, and once again other transit agencies are stepping up, to help accomodate thousands of commuters. kron four s will tran is live at 20th and broadway in oakland where commuters are boarding a-c transit busses to take them across the bay. good morning will. we did not see this until about 6:30 a.m. yesterday. there are an average of about 30 minutes a woman than they
(male announcer) live from the bay area here is your kron 4 news frustration build, the back of build, we re seeing all over again. they numbered two of the bart strike. how others are finding their way into san francisco. be applied team coverage of the commute beginning now. we continue to monitor big delays in the westbound ride to the bay bridge. the meeting lights are activated early and all of the approaches are backed up. the best one is the ride from the nimitz freeway. taking a here, battered news they have opened up more cash lanes at the top center of the toll plaza. we don t have the wasted lanes like we did yesterday that were restricted to fasttrack use only. much better use of the toll lanes today and that may help with the overall drive times. the approach to the bridge now, a look at interstate 80 is backed up beyond highway four. drive times to the upper east shore freeway from crockett vallejo and westbound direction are about 62 minutes. 66 minutes com
good morning. thank you for joining us monday morning, first day of july i m pam cook. and good morning, i m dave clark. we begin with breaking news. bart workers on r on strike. and now 400,000 bart riders need to find another way to get around. ktvu alex savidge begins our team coverage this morning. alex is in san francisco where some bart workers are walking the picket line. alex. reporter: they are. they have been out here for the last couple of hours this morning. striking bart workers tell me they really feel sorry for commuters it had to come to this. they said they had no other choice. i want to show you the scene. you can see a group of about a dozen or so striking bart workers. union employees with picket signs standing here outside of the civic center bart station right now. a total of about 2400 bart employees are on strike this morning. and service across the system is shut down. these employees include train operators, station agents, and maintenance work