Is for franklin signal upgrades our the request at a total of 32 locations on franklin and embarcadero some of the ones are on the walk first, they rank highly for the specific types of improvements the goal to bring the signals up to a higher standard of focus so the intersections will be upgraded to better view and maps installed to so the pedestrian signals will be at the intersection where no one exist other upgrades have the signal upgrades and the repairs of the ramps that were disabled during construction and this loots 6 hundred and plus with an allocation in the 20152016 and thats in order to allow the project to advertising for the construction for the streaming plan the sfmtas schedule was in 20152016 but the project is ahead of schedule and their accelerating the walk first projects by bike safety this allows the sfmta to provide continuity in the bike Safety Education contract by that standing that contract from february to november 2015 this extension allows the mind for
Expansion this is the largest bridge out of the 5 and is at a point to go ahead and build the bridge deck its a c of climates out there now as you can see basically that is a bridge looking east showing the column work thats completed and this is a one of the final pictures i have just the columns behind the area the entire area referred to as quarters one is historic so bottom line we need to stay out of there and preserve it making sure that all of the pile driving and the concrete construction work and Foundation Work has begun on without damage specifically. As i mentioned previously quarters 10 was a residence for Navy Personnel and part of the vial documentation process it was deemed historic and now in the National Register in late january we basically went ahead and relocated it quietly in the night down a windy narrow radio we had to do that to make sure there was no impacts a couple of pictures a large structure and now in place whats referred to as the clipper area as also t
In two one is the yerba buena project and the seconds referred to as the west side bridges it was important to note weve worked jointly with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority on all the thought approvals with caltrain and the costs to be railroads by the federal and state and tida you see a photo simulation of the completed project right now if youre driving from oakland to San Francisco to get ouch of Treasure Island you have to take the offramp on the lsd were building westbound on and offramps on the west side so if youre going towards Treasure Island youll take the offramp on the right side and a new loop on ramp to go ahead and go to the city westbound before you hit Treasure Island and merge. As i indicated weve been working for the last 8 years for the environmental approve by 2012 this credits the Transportation Authority board for over 49 million we received from the federal and state governments through federal highway bridging fund and state proposition b funds 26. 53 mill
Community we found that frankly not a lot of people want to bid this in terms of meeting the federal requirements we prepared the analysis because that project cost was something we wanted to see if we could lower and minimize the risk of construction and frankly, weve done just that we went to the analysis study that exclude the contractors as well as engineering experts they are recommendation to shift Hillcrest Road to the north and frankly push the roads into the hillside and build a tiered retaining wall this will approve the retrofitting and tida it will require additional jerry and an environmental analysis but the good news we over all project cost lore we see it 66 million and we believe that the Contracting Community will be very anxious more of the contracts to bid the job just the pictures here show whats in right the shifting to the north this is a Cross Section showing where in essence were going to build one bridge out of the 3 by shifting the roads into the hillside mor
You down. Otherwise end to end looks great across the east bay and San Francisco. Westbound 580 still slow out of tracy. You can see the brake lights from 205 and now they extend to north flynn but then it clears out all the way to the dublin interchange. Checking some other hot spots. Potential hot spots. Westbound 92 and eastbound 92 we have that overnight road bork and its still looking like that roadwork is still there in the eastbound lanes. You can see the flashing lights. No traffic break any longer but its between foster city boulevard and clawiter and westbound traffic also may slow you down a little bit trying to get out of hayward. So yeah were just kind of waiting for caltrans to give the wrap sign for that. Okay. Thank you liz. 5 01 now. On the news, two east bay women accused of stealing more than two dozen cars are now behind bars this morning. Jessica adkins of hayward and erin ellis of alameda are charged with vehicle theft. They were seen two days in a row in the same