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most public transit was publicly owned. >> reporter: the east bay ferries are publicly owned, a private company operates them. >> the answer is to let the ferry service run bart. >> reporter: some say -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: new yorks ferries, denver and atlantic city and allowing private competition in miami and atlanta. what do passengers think about privatizing bart? >> i should be considered. i cant fathom the difficulties and benefits on that. it should be considered. >> rep...

contract. its a fall back position. the meeting scheduled because the district required to give 24 hours notice and again, wed expect that to be cancelled if the negotiate yaigs continue. or if there is a settlement. >> well, as you may know the strike crippled the commute home only to get worse yesterday and tough again, today. folks are trying to get on to the bay bridge. >> there it is. people trying to get on the bay bridge, its a sea of cars. some people telling us its taken th...

13 minutes higher than it should be. highway 24 also been the leading to the bay bridge. worse than that, there is a stall on the upper deck westbound. on the suspensions man. it is a west of the island. it blocks the left-hand lane and the meeting lights will be slowed down. the backup will start to grow even more. the east shore of freeway, look at this ride on 80 westbound. from just a bit before going gate fields, some slowing and especially from 0580 all laydowns of the berkeley c...

request comes out closer to 23%. so we have some ways to go and have talking to do. >> reporter: sounds like its still pretty far all out. >> we are still always away but we have not talked in a while so we need to get together and discuss the issues. >> reporter: this is a nightmare for the bay area region. >> the only way were going to be able to get things back rolling is to get back to the local she asian table and that is what we are doing. >> reporter: coming up by talk to the ba...

approach from the of our run the side. the drive time from walnut creek in san francisco is 54 minutes. remember it was double that yesterday. the shore freeway is starting to slow from paul street. northbound a 80 is still your best approach. >> we want to update you on the occurring problem with a vehicle fire and brush fire. they both were extinguished but right hand lane is still shut down. the emergency vehicles have not left the scene. even interstate 580 from patterson is jammed...

(male announcer) live from the bay area here is your kron 4 news >> frustration build, the back of build, were seeing all over again. they numbered two of the bart strike. how others are finding their way into san francisco. be applied team coverage of the commute beginning now. >> we continue to monitor big delays in the westbound ride to the bay bridge. the meeting lights are activated early and all of the approaches are backed up. the best one is the ride from the nimitz freeway. ta...

good morning. thank you for joining us monday morning, first day of july im pam cook. >> and good morning, im dave clark. >> we begin with breaking news. bart workers on r on strike. and now 400,000 bart riders need to find another way to get around. ktvu alex savidge begins our team coverage this morning. alex is in san francisco where some bart workers are walking the picket line. alex. >> reporter: they are. they have been out here for the last couple of hours this morning. striking...

the bay bridge toll plaza. we will now go to george in the traffic center. >> it is already a much bigger traffic. the traffic is already backing up all the way through the macarthur mayes. this is highway 580 and 24. 24 is backed up all the way to the tunnel. we may have a shot from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. you are looking at the ride heading westward from highway 24. the two right- hand lanes are trying to merge. the right lane traffic is tried to exit to get alta ...

Already giving money to. it is so insane and so frustrating about moving out of state. >> belle is exempt from normal salary requirement because they created their own rt charter. it is crazy. >> it is nut the it makes no sense. from maywood to a mu sues. is al gore in doo-doo no more. maybe now that the woman who accused him of assaulting him in 2006 failed a lie detector test. thats in the union tribune. though they found out about the accu igs is as they didnt run the story because it lacke...