Lanes and begun striping. East bound paving is complete. The focus will be on switching out the lighting in the tunnels from the traditional lights that have been there to led lights. They will continue that work over the next 24 hours. They are also going to wash the inside of the tunnel. Gordon says the main goals are eefficiency and safety. Asked whether it would open early, they say so far they are planning on tuesday at 5 00. The bridge closure is impacting the commute as bart runs around the cloud this weekend, yesterday was its third busiest day ever, with 475,000 riders. The ferry reports passenger loads are up. This morning, more than 2000 took the ferry. Here is a look at two bridges. Here is the san san mateo bridge, where traffic is higher. The Highway Patrol says the hef iest is during noncommute hours. A lot of people are heading out of town. As David Stevenson said, some travelers planned ahead. Reporter labor day kicked off with a trickle of traffic. They are surprised
We have Team Coverage beginning with debra. She is live at the toll plaza to show us the flurry of activity going on. Reporter frank, its so busy, they could turn on the metering lights here. The white pile johns were just installed. They are working on paving and striping the westbound approach to the toll plaza. This is another notch in the timeline which caltran said is right on schedule. Its the rare day you can cruise toward the city with the bay bridge this empty. The only traffic now is construction and media care vans. A tremendous amount of excitement. Everyone is feeling very confident. We are on track. Reporter on track demolishing thousand feet of the old upper deck, looking east, you can see is crumbling. By this time tomorrow, a crane will be ready to replace it with the sections of pedestrian and bypass. A straight shot in. 50miles an hour from one end of the bridge to the other. Out with the old means no more braking for the dreaded s turn. You wont have to slow down go
Reporter crewing are taking out all the lights and replacing the lights with led lights. At this hour, one huge section of the old span is being demolished. Well talk about where and why so fast for you coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock. Reporting live here at the toll plaza for ktvu channel 2 news. Thank you for that update. I know the commute wasnt that bad this morning. What about this evening . Reporter you were here with us. Some people may have been lulled into a false sense of security since this mornings commute was much better than yesterdays. This afternoon, not quite. Lets look at what we have. First of all, with all the road sensors showing up with a lot of red, right now from San Francisco kind of a ridiculous commute. Backed up into San Franciscos marine district. Were also looking at San Francisco, northbound 101 is not bad, but east 80 is a little slow. Eastbound 92 is slow. We have a look from news chopper 2 at this same area. Showing us live pictures of whats going on
Activity going on. Reporter frank, its so busy, they could turn on the metering lights here. The white pile johns were just installed. They are working on paving and striping the westbound approach to the toll plaza. This is another notch in the timeline which caltran said is right on schedule. Its the rare day you can cruise toward the city with the bay bridge this empty. The only traffic now is construction and media care vans. A tremendous amount of excitement. Everyone is feeling very confident. We are on track. Reporter on track demolishing thousand feet of the old upper deck, looking east, you can see is crumbling. By this time tomorrow, a crane will be ready to replace it with the sections of pedestrian and bypass. A straight shot in. 50miles an hour from one end of the bridge to the other. Out with the old means no more braking for the dreaded s turn. You wont have to slow down going into the tunnel or coming out of the tunnel. Reporter now, chp has a shoulder to pull people ov