Even handle the extra passengers . Could you handle the traffic . Bart is already maxed out. Tomorrow, no, but bart, as you know, has a lot of plans to expand the system. What you are seeing is little pieces starting to come together, but the bigger whole is to connect the bay area to the Central Valley to the rest of california. Reporter towards that end, scott haggard andal meada county people got 2. 5 million to get the ball rolling. Well, it happened will it happen . Remains to be seen. Nobody thought it would get this far a couple of months ago. If it doesnt, is there some sort of plan b here . Just in case . Reporter as a matter of fact, there is, they are talking about if they cant connect, five miles down the way with ace, if the billion dollars is too much they might use the dublin station and extend bart or electronic rail to tracy. Either way, the plan is to hook up the Central Valley to the bay area in the coming years. Speaking of that, in dublin, phil matier, kpix 5, back
Years in the making. State and local leaders celebrated the start of construction on highway 4. Traffic will be backed up for miles and im in it. Reporter its where you will see a string of brake lights as car after car comes to a halt. The plans will replace the signal with a bridge crossing, loop onramp, and diagonal off ramp. People can continue to move instead of shopping at signal lights intersections. Reporter its all about of the 1. 3 billion highway 4 widen project. Where the population has boomed and over loaded highway 4. East county has been facing a headache for many, many years. And this is one of the final legs to totally alleviate that issue. Reporter the highway 4 corridor has been named one of the worst commutes in the nation. As you take surface streets sometimes. I do. And a lot of people do. Freeways is backed up, what do you do . Jump off and go to some boulevard. Reporter the primary funding for the 42 million interchange comes from measure j. It is heavily paid f
Right now, a killie start, in the 40s, clear skies outside, a beautiful shot of bay bridge this morning. Futurecast taking you through the day in the south bay starting off in the 40s today. As you can see, mostly clear skies through the day and plenty of sunshine for you. Temperatures warming up to near 70 degrees later on today. Really nice and dry and relatively warm weather but tomorrow things start to change. Were off to a clear start this morning, dry and mild for saturday, but showers on Easter Sunday and you can see that here with a futurecast skyline. Well time it out coming up in a bit. Over to you, devon. Bart is back up and running after a mystery glitch. The first train to San Francisco left an hour ago. Last night east bay riders had trouble getting around. The electrical issue blew out service on 24 cars. Over a year ago bart had a similar problem near North Concord and also between west oakland and the transbay 2. Power spikes hit trains knocking rail cars out of servic
Easton, 73 degrees even at this hour. Landon, 73. Reading already at 70 degrees. Theres nothing on the radar close by, but you want to keep the umbrellas with you because showers and thunderstorms may be developing later. Even the showers in delaware have pretty much moved out, but theres another area of moisture off shore thats moving in our direction and that could potentially affect us later today. So we get up into the mid 70s, but showers and storms developing during the afternoon, maybe even into the evening hours. You can see in the northern western suburbs, showers and storms by later in the afternoon. Were talking about affecting the afternoon rush. Lehigh valley as well, get into the mid 70s. Maybe a lesser chance of heavy thunderstorms, but were going to get it in delaware again. Thats had rain day after day after day, clouds 72 degrees there. It will be cooler at the jersey shore with lower rain chances. You can see, 66 degrees at 2 00. Well see just how much more were goin
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