Our mistakes. I think people need to be held accountable. Reporter state senator mark is pushing for more information why the bay bridge was ten years late and over budget. He is calling for investigations and criminal charges. There is not a specific crime that i can name right now. The question is we have a lot of unanswered question. Reporter in the hot seat, caltrans and its partners that built the eastern span. Quality was compromised because of time and budget constraints, say reports, and whistle belowers were silent. Safety issues on this bridge were not ignored. A report titled competing against time, and the project manager said they were under pressured to finish it before the next earthquake. This was the eighth hearing on the bridge concerning the construction and it is fair to say there is testiness between lawmakers and the bridge makers. There are challenges and cultural issues brought up. Prudent people disagreed on how to move forward on the bridge at different times
Would be appropriate for me to talk about how to convince voters to do one thing or another. To clarify the at least the current proposed use of the additional general Fund Revenues that increase in the vehicle license fee would create would be the majority would be for street resurfacing. The balance would be for improving muni and improving bike and Pedestrian Safety. Not to convince anybody but everybody benefits from smoother streets in terms of why there is an impact and to the cost to your vehicle to the unsafety of having deteriorating crosswalks for pedestrians and also everybody including drivers benefit from a stronger muni system and safer streets for bikes and pedestrians. The more people that are riding muni or riding a bike or choosing to get around on foot that is you as a driver competing for that space or parking space as well as the fact that safer we can make our streets, the more we can rationalize and better allocate the space so we are reducing conflicts. That ben
Transportation commission has already taken. We are assuming these, at least in the first 2 pieces in our Capital Budget, if those revenues dont come forth and there absolutely is uncertainty, well have to bring that back in the Capital Planning process and regroup and see if there is a different way to close the gap. Before we had no plan to close the gap and now we have a plan a and well have to see what comes in november to determine the extent to which we need to go to a plan b. The task force they did look at a number of solutions. These were the ones that rows rose to the top. Its what we have at the moment. Okay. Supervisor wiener . Supervisor scott weiner im going to actually reframe mr. Riskins response. Plan b is that muni continues on its depth spiral. We have the capital state of repair needs for decades. We have not put the finishing ed funding in that this system needs and this system that now carries 700,000 rides a day. We have a 10 billion need in the next 15 years. Th
Your extended forecast is complete up of 50 bids. george we are starting with a look at the bay bridge west ball. Them back up is not so bad. Drive times are well under 20 minutes. We are looking at slowly and additions, seeing things really start to slow down to 70 minutes drive times. 17 min, for the Golden Gate Bridge we are seeing more fault of the spirit. If you are heading it to corporate you will start to see a backup for across lanes. james are said investigators are on their way to the scene of the fire. will . Developing news this morning. they need our said investigators because the school and shut down for the night. The school is not in operation right now. The fire started around 530 a l u and see some of the damage right there are the quarter. The Fire Department received a phone call from one of the neighbors. They died of the slaves put out the fire and right now theyre pretty balky of. They are going to have investigators go through the building to find out what cause
Is in tampa. President trump won florida in 2016, his new home state and it is critical to his path to victory in 2020. Reporter no doubt about that. Youd be hard pressed to find a path to victory is that doesnt include the 29 electoral votes here in florida. The race here is extraordinarily tight and in the past when the race has been tight, it has tended to lean republican and they are hoping that it does as to again in 2020. As a result, the president is spending a lot of time me, spending a lot of money and a lot of energy in getting the vote out here in florida. And he is doing it in part by continuing to hold these makes suff massive rallies despite the fact that the coronavirus continues to be a bigger and bigger problem here in the sunshine state. 4,000 indicaticases announced f third day in a row, 79 people died because of the coronavirus yet the president continues to hold these rallies with folks packed in shoulder to shoulder and hardly any masks. Yet his message to the cro