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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 york's 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 can't fathom the difficulties and benefits on that. it should be considered. >> reporter: the anger does not support privatization. >> i think keeping it public is fine. >> this is ...

contract. it's a fall back position. the meeting scheduled because the district required to give 24 hours notice and again, we'd 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, it's a sea of cars. some people telling us it's taken them 45 minutes to an hour to drive just four blocks. those people started their commute at 4:00 t...

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 cares. the ride on 24 westbound, right from highway 13 all the way down to the maze, the westbound 58...

request comes out closer to 23%. so we have some ways to go and have talking to do. >> reporter: sounds like it's 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 we're 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 bart union rep and i will tell you what she had to say coming up in a few minutes. kron4's charles c...

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 up. the drive time is over an hour now to the dublin interchange from tracy. >> bart workers are of...