The fault of the trains but the people who were hit by them. This is not a training crisis. It is a Public Health crisis that we are dealing with. Some of the death has been ruled suicides and others from inattentiveness. The plan is to get help for the mentally ill and homeless that live alongside the tracks. First, they have to be kicked out. At the meeting this week, the city council banned overnight parking and five arcing lots, including this park and ride near a smart crossing where two people died this month. People get hit by the train. They werent even involved. Reporter about a dozen people live in rvs and campers in the lot. John hill said he and others work hard to keep it clean and free of trash. Residents have created a small memorial for one victim. A troubled young woman named joy. Hill said he resents that smart and the city are connecting her death to the homeless living here. The families and everyone has to live with it. To put that kind of blame on anyone ever is n
Things will help cool some of us down. We were in the low hundreds inland. Today we are holding back to the mid90s. It will still be hot but it will not be as hot. Lets get everyones numbers on here that a san jose looking at clear skies and the only area that is looking at any of the low grade from the marine layer is just on the western edge of San Francisco through the golden gate. Just about everyone has clear skies. 54 in santa rosa. 64 in san jose. We go to 68 in San Francisco. That is maybe 2 degrees cooler than yesterday. You will not notice a difference. Look at the inland number. 90 for. 100 to yesterday. 90 for is hot. At least it is not 100 to. That is coming back for the weekend. I will show you that, coming up. Lets take a live look out there. You can see this is past oracle, and this is low in the northbound direction. Here is the problem. There was an accident and compounded, road closures as a result of construction. To remain travel times are slow and go elsewhere. A
Appointed powers to his new position. He will make 380,000 a year to do the job. We have a problem. Our low Customer Satisfaction numbers are unacceptable. Reporter it is no secret that bob powers promotion comes at a time when bart is plagued with issues from overcrowded unsanitary train cars to fair evaders that cost the agency millions. Im going to build on the Foundation Laid by my predecessor. We really are on the path of a worldclass transit organization. There is a lot of work to do. Reporter powers has been there for seven years cooking as deputy manager for the last three. All sounds good. We will deliver on the promised projects we start with. And a fleet car replacement program. A new train control system. Rebuilding our infrastructure. Reducing coding. Increasing service, and a fully staffed bart police department. Reporter only time will tell if the words will lead to actual improvements. Powers says that bart will try to directly help the Homeless Population by providing
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B. A. R. T. Station. In both directions, not stopping at walnut creek, all because of that man who was threatening suicide at that walnut krek station. This is what b. A. R. T. Had to say about that. We want people to understand the severity of this and while its very frustrating to not be able to get home, we need to make sure this person doesnt harm himself. Its frustrating, but its unforeseen, and im going to be fine, im going to get hom, so think positively. And the people we talked to here all had that sort of same mind set that we couldnt foresee this happening, these strange things sort of happen periodically and well just ride with it. There are still cars coming, picking up people who have been riding b. A. R. T. To the lafayette station, were told the trains are going to be crowded for a while and there may be residual delays, so you should be prepared for that, if youre coming east. Prepare for crowded trains and a bit of a delay, but the crisis is over and the trains are mo