bay area researchers are hard at work developing a new kind of coronavirus test. how it could help americans get back to work. that will allow us to process new protocols in order to get people back into the work force, or at least back into society. santa clara county has the largest number of coronavirus cases in the bay area. now local leaders are offering a bounty for ventilators. just one hour until the start of more major service cutbacks to bay area transit. i think the cut was really dramatic and drastic. i don t want the buses to stop. tonight the potential impact on essential workers commuting during the coronavirus outbreak. now at 11:00, and streaming on cbsn bay area, california s governor feeling confident enough to send hundreds of ventilators away. good evening, i m ken bastida. and i m elizabeth cook. katie nielsen reports the move comes as one bay area county is helping to pay for old ones. reporter: ventilators are often the best chance of s
i do not want to contest what director brinkman said about the bad old days and how far we have come. reading this conversation together with the one we had at the last meeting with vision 0, and about how poorly we are doing, i wonder whether we out to have more people in the room mad at us than we do now, and it s a crazy thing to say in a way, but this is not a popularity contest, number one. number two, and look, this is trouble i ve encountered in my career. just because the road goes by your house does not mean you own the road. and the people who use that road, or bike lane, or railroad, whatever it is, the people would us an it live all over the city because transportation is a network. and you shouldn t let somebody who resides at part of the network to tell you how the whole network works, just because they accidentally live near it. and people move all the time, too, and their attitudes move with them, and we are seeing a demographic change in the city, younger fol
kevin stall, and a rider of the bus line. and a major advocate for pedestrian safety and a lot of the changes here will help improve the corridor a lot. one of the major thoroughfares south of market with a lot of people walk, ride their bikes, drive, and take muni down this street. and with the number of people who are going to be moving into the neighborhood with the new projects, the potential of having a lot of families with children and possibly seniors and maybe people who are disabled who frequent this corridor a lot, the changes will most definitely help the people feel safe, and unfortunately we have 22 people in our city killed, pedestrian fatalities and the number is growing. so, any and all improvements to make sure people feel safe is much needed, and i fully support the project in its entirety. thank you very much. thank you. paul, cat, simone. my name is courtney, here on behalf of supervisor matt haney, district 6. i think it s a rare evening when the
we worked for over two years to minimize the impacts, proposing turn lanes and signal changes and other small changes to accommodate the use along the streets. a thoughtful design that prioritizes to address critical safety needs, also taking into account unique character and needs of 5th street and the community. lastly, i would like to end by touching on the next steps for the corridor. following today s meeting if approve, preconstruction outreach prior to starting restriping in the fall and work with the shops to be cognizant. concrete work will then take place in the winter of 2020. we are collecting preproject data now and post project data collection in the fall of 2020, and publish the findings soon after. and looking towards making the quick build design more permanent. we see that in the fall of 2021. thanks very much for your i am too. happy to answer questions. kevin stall, and a rider of the bus line. and a major advocate for pedestrian safety and a lot of the
to get to and from the passenger load zone. so each of the three block faces has this configuration with very generous load zone, 8 foot wide. it accommodates all types of vehicles, multiple vehicles. i ll flip over this flier just to show the proximity of the metered parking to the market street corridor, so you can see that and those are the red with the metered spots proposed. the yellow lines with the corridors that are affected by the bike way, and we are also having to relocate a blue zone that was part of our previous proposal, but again, locating it directly adjacent to the institution that it serves. so with that, i will keep my remarks brief and available for any questions. thank you very much. directors, do i have any comments for mr. hill docto doctors hildredge? this project was approved on may 2nd, as you know, including protected bike lanes, a landscaped median, and pedestrian safety islands. these two blocks from octavia to the duboce parkway are not