Of compressed bricks of marijuana ready to be sold or shipped. And there was Something Else thats gaining popularity. We found hundreds and hundreds of syringes that were pre loaded with that concentrated cannabis. They call it dab. You can take a small little bit of that, concentrated thc, and they smoke that. The Task Force Says they dont know exactly how much was seized at this one location but it was enough to fill up the back of a pickup truck. Developing news. A Third Straight rush hour commute with a bus bridge between two bart stations. An electrical problem forced bart to suspend service from the North Concord station to the pittsburg bay point station. It has led to commute delays ever since. Riders told us it makes trips about 15 minutes longer. This afternoon bart gave us a better idea of what is causing the problems and showed us the damage done to dozens of cars. Ktvus Cristina Rendon live at barts concord a minute naps facility where weve learned these delays may not be
A phantom electrical problem. Good evening. Im julie haener. Im frank somerville. A warning tonight for bart commuters. The delays that starts 36 hours ago are going to last through tomorrow and possibly beyond. Pittsburg bay point stations is currently out of service and a bus bridge has been set up to North Concord as part tries to figure out what caused that power surge on wednesday that damaged dozens of trains. We got the developing news now from ktvus amber lee in North Concord where bart passengers are complaining about a longer commute. Reporter thats right, frank. Bart spokesman tells me theres no clear timeline for when service will be restored. And the Transit Agency is asking for patients from passengers. During the evening commute, the line was long for passengers waiting for the bus bridge between the North Concord and pittsburg stations. We leave early, have to have patience. Frustrating. You know . A little bit late to work. Reporter passengers tell us its taking longer
Not running between pittsburgh and the North Concord station. We have a reporter who is going to talk about it. I want to mention the traffic angle. We have seen more people taking their cars because of troubles on bart. That affects traffic everywhere in the east bay. If people decide not to use bart they will be in the car. Looking at the san mateo bridge it looks okay if youre driving to the peninsula. If youre on highway four youre seeing slow traffic from pittsburgh over the hill into concord. Bart says system wide delays starting wednesday and could last longer. They are trying to figure out what caused the system failure. We are here at the bus bridge. The bus getting ready to leave. We have a passenger getting on here and getting ready to take the bus bridge from here at the station to the North Concord station. Hey sir, do why have a moment to find out what you think about the bus bridge . The bus is a nice ride it doesnt bother you . No, not that big of a deal. A lot of peopl
Ktvu christian is live with information on how long the repairs might take. Referee yeah. Check it out. We are on the bus bridge right now. The passengers here would ordinarily be on the battery on the way to North Concord station and beyond. Now we are headed towards concord. We took the ride over earlyier and about 10 minutes. We are expected to take about 20 minutes this morning. We are going to talk to the passengers this morning. How did this affect your morning . I have to wake up earlier just to be able to make it on tiemme to work. I right ride bart six days a6 days a week and this is probably the first time in three 3 years that this has been a Big Inconvenience for me. This could take up to five 1 2 weeks to get this, five 1 2 months to get this problem straightened out. We are learning now how long this problem might last. What do you think . Its very disheartening to think we are going to have to deal with this for five 1 2 months. Im going to have to make other arrangement
Director says issues like this highlight an overall need for improvement. Were seeing this across the nation. All of the large transit systems, they have billions of dollars in deferred maintenance. So we really need to rethirchg our country investment in transit. Reporter bart hopes voters will pass adds 3. 5 billion bond measure on the ballot this november to fix the current infrastructure. We really need this funding. We have the plan. We can do the work. It but we do need some additional funding to make it happen. Reporter but that money would not be for new cars. Workers continue to repair damaged cars with burned out thyristor devices, a process expected to take months. Bart plans to take eight cars out of service and repurpose multiple thyristors from those cars to help put 30 to 40 cars back in service while they wait for new devices to come in. . Oofg a spotlight on us in terms of what our needs are is always a good thing. This problem may not have anything to do with age. Rep