Good evening, everybody, im pam moore and im ken wayne, the better Market Street project was supposed to make the busy boulevard safer from both pedestrians and cyclists but with the project being scaled down cyclists say organizers are leaving out elements that are essential for safety from 0. 4 per second joins us now live from Market Street with more on this big story taylor. Ken pam is called the better market project and you know some say some of these changes are in for the better remember more than a decade of planning and collaboration went into this project and now some of the biggest changes that stick out our for the people its supposed to help that is for bicyclists in one of the main changes is that a sidewalk level dedicated bikeway. By now youve probably noticed parts of Market Street shut off to personal parks as part of the better Market Street project. However, other changes in its 2019 plans to make it more walkable and bike friendly are now lost 2020 plans. Its all
Financial issues brought on by the pandemic project leaders now have to make some big adjustment kron fours Taylor Force Act he has more from Market Street. After a decade of planning and collaboration. The bitter Market Street project launched its plans to transform the citys busiest transit corridor and now less than a year later. Those plans to make marquetry more walkable and bike friendly are changing. Its in an effort to cut costs during the pandemic and address an increase in bicyclists, this plan needs to make Market Streets safer. For people who walk by can take transit. The new design i think for a lot of is questionable as to whether it does that well enough for the cost some of those changes compared here instead of a sidewalk level dedicated bikeway seeing green on the left 2020 plans on the right could bicyclists back on a slightly larger roadway shared with other vehicles disappointing and several certainly from the perspective of people who buy on Market Street are peop
Later on today across the bay area we get a look for to this day time highs back into the 70s for San Francisco, oakland and san jose and all under abundantly sunny skies. Robin and we enjoy that sunshine. Thank you john, lets check in on the traffic we like when we can have a smooth quiet commute right. Were starting off with a look at 6. 80 this time around taking a look at the drivethru wanted creek. The shot not too far from the 24 split. Were looking at 14 minutes thats a cute direction for south 6. 80 from the highway 4 split through 24 and out danville youre clocking in at 14 minutes here the richmond sandra fell bridge. Its just now getting busy so were seeing the traffic come to a crawl leading up to the toll plaza typical commuters hitting the road heading into the north bay, but only 9 minutes for your total drive times so thats still good. Checking in on the bay bridge commute. We have a little bit of a backup in that car pool lanes its gone, its gonna come back youll see a
Yet another string of high winds dry conditions over the next couple of days. Thanks for being with us at 10 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis for the north bay mountains, this is the second red flag warning to be issued this week so lets go ahead kick it off here with chief meteorologist Lawrence Karnow he is tracking the dangerous weather conditions out there for us laurent boy it is been a long fire season right now theres no end in sight in fact these winds going to be picking up in fact i think these are red flag warnings are in effect so far feel friday but theyre going to be in effect all the way i think until the weekend weve got a series of wind events that are going to be affecting the bay area and boy it is going to howl around parts of the bay area. Look at the winds expected over the Santa Cruz Mountains this between now and friday, the red flag warnings up even along the coastline, 3040 mile an hour wind gusts probably some 50 mile an hour wind gusts o
About 37,000 customers. Across 15 Northern California counties that they could be losing power. Of the 15 counties 5 hour here in the bay, they are alameda contra costa Napa Santa Clara and sonoma. More than 4,000 customers in the bay area could be affected here. Napa county appears to be hit the hardest the most customers in the bay area affected are in napa some of the outages have already started but most of them are expected as we move through the overnight hours pg and e says the hot and dry weather combined with really high wind gusts pose an increased risk for damage to their electrical system that has the potential to start fires can you want to be on guard. We have Team Coverage for you tonight, Lawrence Karnow is in the Weather Center. Monitoring the red flag warning that goes into effect in about an hour but first we turn to kron fours gayle ong who is live tonight in where people are preparing for another round of shut off scale. Grant and vicki nearly 3300 pg e customers a