Often times pair tra pair para transit is late. They are back at the door saying if you dont get on now you will miss your ride. You have to call in and wait for three or four hours to get picked up. The other thing is the paratransit card that you get where you pay 18 for taxi vampers. Paratransit will match it so you have 90. The problem is if your paratransit card is empty you have to go to the off office. There is no online way to load the cars. They go to the office so they can acquire the paratransit card to get reduced tax fee. I think that paratransit needs looked into, it needs to be on time. It means to be more thoughtful about the patients. In an emergency you can book within less than 24 hours if you are going to your healthcare provider. I think the paratransit card should be able to load it online versus going to an office somewhere. You are saying and it struck me and tell me if this is wrong. The cash fare is 3 with the clipper card it is 2. 50, is that right . So i wil
Addresses. They have to choose to not go to school or risk getting ticketed by sfmta. I get calls stating families are worried about free clipper and public charge. Caregivers keep little ones home because they have no bus fare for school. If you dont have bus fare you can get a ticketed. Undocumented families are afraid they are on a list when they hand over their passports to sfmta. I have heard about sfmta officials. While i am sure it is rare but it happened. Asking for immigration paperwork and searching back pats. Some encourage people to carry red cards to school to give it to officials. It is traditionally for ice agents. I have suggestions. To get the clipper cardses that we distribute and hand the paperwork over for approval. For the sfmta officials not to be able to question without a caregiver. Caregivers get passes when transporting young people. Make muni freeforall. Thank you. James johnson. I am James Johns Sana regular guy. I have a quick story. I will start with and i
A new survey shows just how much is the impact of u. S. Investment in china it may surprise you. And a moment of silence as the world remembers what happened on this fateful day 18 years ago, wednesday september 11, 2019 Worldwide Exchange begins right now. Good morning, a live shot of Downtown Manhattan as we remember this day 18 years ago it is quiet now. A lot of activity expected later today. The New York Stock Exchange and nasdaq will hold a moment of silence. Stock futures indicating the dow will be just about flat at the open blue chips are trying for a sixday winning streak the dow jones opened up about two points if these gains hold the s p down about two points and nasdaq as well breaking news on the u. S. china trade war. China announcing exemptions for 16 u. S. Products a sign of possible cooling of tensions the exemptions apply to goods from u. S. Cancer drugs and seed. Showing u. S. Direct investment into china is slowing down at a just growing clip slightly there. Watchi
Meanwhile at headingley, jofra archer dazzles for england, taking six australian wickets to give his side the edge, heading into day two of the third ashes test. After of the third ashes test. A mixed august, sunshine with after a mixed august, sunshine along with the heat going up. Join me with the full weekend forecast. Its friday 23rd august. Our top story Global Leaders have expressed alarm at the Record Number of wildfires in brazils amazon rainforest. French president Emmanuel Macron tweeted our house is burning and described the situation as an International Crisis that will be discussed at the g7 summit. The brazilian president , Jair Bolsonaro, says he is investigating the fires, but claims he does not have the resources to fight them. Ramzan kamarli has more. The fires in brazils rainforest rage on. This year there have been a Record Number. Satellites have identified over 75,000, most of them located in the amazon basin. The situation has become increasingly worse over the p
Is San Francisco one of them . San francisco is not but it did not need that much of a drop but concord and livermore who were sitting in the 100s are coming down 15 and San Francisco still have good news, cooler today as well but this is a live view from the camera back out over the bay bridge, 60 on the other side of the bridge in oakland, 59 San Francisco and 61 san jose San Francisco will go to 67 today and to be specific that is a 50 temperature drop from yesterday for the city, officially we made it up to 72 yesterday look inland, 87 and that is where we will see the 15 debris differences i will show you the specifics coming up in the complete forecast coming up and i will call out your part of the bay area and give you a specific number or how much cooler you will be today than yesterday. Cooler on sunday but another round of heat is coming back by mid to late week for this upcoming week. I will have all of that and the complete forecast in a few minutes, guys back over to you.