It looks as though our warming trend really gets going again today with a little bit milder weather at the coast. We will detail the rest of the weekend in a few minutes. Katie. Lisa, thank you. And there appears to be no end in sight for traffic woes across the bay area. Bart and the union remain at odds. We have a report on how it is i am pocketing traffic. Reporter this is a line of cars wait to go get to the bay bridge about 8 00. It was a crawl all afternoon and through the evening. It takes me about 35 minutes. Literally two miles from here. How long it it take you . About 45 to an hour. To avoid the traffic backup, lots of people tried getting out of the city early. With no bart trains running, the afternoon commute turned into an evening odyssey. I could see the traffic from my office going over the bridge. Its more getting on to the bridge, which takes a long time. For casual carpoolers, it made for a long wait to get home. Usually its about 30 minutes to get home. Its usually
Labor dispute they have seven days to look into it and report back to him. And then, if he deems it necessary, he can petition a court to order a 60 day cooling off which is what we saw with bart. Live in oakland abc 7 news. Thank you, ama. Speaking of bart, trains are running for now. But the marathon talks between the Transit Agency and unions really starting to wear on commuters who dont know from one day to the next if there will be a strike here is the latest on the negotiations to keep bart trains running. Bart and unions in talks now. Union leaders guaranteed the public will know by 10 00 if there will be a strike tomorrow. Bart spokesperson says ridership has been down by 85,000 trips on friday, monday, and tuesday because of the uncertainty. There is word on a controversial negotiator. Well that would be thomas hawk. Yes, is he back inside of the building. arrived about 2 30, 3 00 and had been gone a couple days. Unions seemed happy about that. Other than there there is no upd
Well if you are head out early. But by 7 00 temperatures should be up to the upper 40s inland and around the bay. Bay side about 50. Noontime will be in the mid60s around the bay and already into the 70s in the inland spots. But if you head into the afternoon, we dont stop there. We are looking at 4080s inland and upper 60s at the coast and mid70s around the bay. The mild to warm weather continues for the first part of your weekend. We still have the second half of your weekend and this area of High Pressure that looks to stick around. We will let you know if theres any changes with the accuweather sevenday forecast coming up. Katie. Lisa. Thank you. There appears to be no end in sight for traffic woes across the bay area. Bart and the union remain at odds. We have more on how the bart strike is impacting traffic. Reporter this is a line of cars waiting to get to the bay bridge about 8 00. It was a crawl all afternoon and through the evening. It takes me about 35 minutes. Literally two
Continue tom this is kpix 5 news just a half hour ago, we got the word. The bart strike will continue tomorrow. Christin ayers tells u about a new proposal the union say could end this strike, but christin, just how new is the proposal . There are some tweaks but not quite enough to get management to agree to get the trains running again. Day one of the bart strike, and the union came out with a plan to end it. This plan would allow us to reach an agreement without going back to the bargaining table, and, therefore, it would allow us to end the strike immediately upon signing. The union offer to take the pay, pension, and healthcare issues that both sides agree on and send the Sticking Point the work rules to independent arbitrator to make a final decision, but in a hayeslycalled news conference, bart management slapped the down. Simply a repeat of the same unacceptable offer they made at the bargaining table yesterday. It is not the same thing. Bart management want it is union to come
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