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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Third Street Light Rail
Although we have come to expect that any public works project in San Francisco will invariably reach completion late and be heavily over budget, it is still significant sticker-shock to note that the Third Street Light Rail Project is $120-million over budget.
The Third Street line is now complete and it is currently designated as theT-Third line. TheT stands for "Test". MUNI is currently running shakedown trips on the line, a necessary precaution before full passenger service begins sometime in January.
Running streetcars along Third Street is nothing new. Back in the first few decades of the Twentieth Century streetcar service along what was known as theBayshore Corridorhelped encourage the development of the Bayviewiew community. Today, the BV-HP communities are in need of a complete makeover. Hopefully the new light rail service will drive efforts to remold and remodel the Bayview and Hunters Point communites.
The line will cross the Fourth Street Bridge and run along Third Street and Bayshore Boulevard, ending at the in Visitacion Valley. MUNI has provided 19 stops for the new service. The map at the upper right shows the location of the stops. Click on the map once to open in a separate window. Click again to enlarge.
Running Beneath Chinatown
Phase 2 of the lightrail extension plan is construction of the Central Subway. MUNI will bring tracks north from King Street along Third Street, where the tracks will enter a new Central Subway station at Bryant Street. The line will proceed underground, crossing beneath Market Street and running under Geary and Stockton Streets to Stockton and Clay Streets. There are plans for underground subway station Moscone Center, Market Street (where the new line will cross existing lightrail lines beneath Market Street at the Montgomery Street Station, and then on toward a new Union Square subway station and terminating at a new underground station at Clay Street in Chinatown.
For more information on the Third Street Light Rail project please contact the following:
Third Street Light Rail Construction Office
501 Cesar Chavez Street, Suite 200 (near Third)
San Francisco, CA 94124
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Third Street Light Rail Project
501 Cesar Chavez Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, CA 94103
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