San Francisco Transit Coverage

Transit Coverage within the city of San Francisco (radii are a 10-minute walk, ~ 1/2 mile from each station) charting the coverage of the Market Street Subway, the South Beach Extension, and the Central Subway.

Central Subway to Fisherman's Wharf

It's official - the extension of the Central Subway to Fisherman's Wharf garnered $150,000 of local funding for a feasibility study and design development. While the current scope of work does not include stations north of Chinatown, this study will look at station opportunities in North Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, and points Northwest of the current terminus, as championed by local advocacy group SF NexTstop.

Among the improvements NexTstop identifies for this extension:

• NE Residents can access jobs (especially in growth areas like Mid-Market, Central Corridor, Mission Bay and the new Transbay Core) and services (like Mission Bay medical centers) without fighting their way through the City’s crowded core. 
• Expanded convention business opportunities by connecting Moscone Center to the Wharf’s 3,400 hotel rooms and 90,000 sq. ft. of meeting space.
• The Wharf’s 7,400 workers have reliable connections to BART, Caltrain and Priority Development Area neighborhoods planned for residential expansion.

Inclusive San Francisco Transit

Rail transit in San Francisco is a moiré of interlocking systems in various states of elevation, electrification and accessibility, unified only by a common system of fare collection. Rather than allow each of the balkanized providers to promote their systems separately, it would be a public boon to provide unified system maps which clearly indicate points of transfer between systems and the geographical areas served by each (Caltrain and BART on the east side, Muni Metro on the west).

Muni Metro with BART and Caltrain lines and stops indicated (with Central Subway shown complete).

And a crazy hopeful animation into the Mutative future of Muni Metro.

Mutative Muni Metro Futures (G-Geary Northern Subway, O-Divisadero Central Loop, T-Third extensions to Fisherman's Wharf and Marina, S-Van Ness-Excelsior and R-Van Ness-Hunters Point)

G-Geary: Phasing of Northern San Francisco Subways

The Northern terminus of the T-Third line at Chinatown is a temporary condition: with the decision to terminate the Central Subway tunnel at Washington Square, not in Chinatown where the last operating station will be located, it is a logical deduction that Muni intends to continue Metro service to the Northern waterfront at some point in the future. Similarly, the transfer of Westbound proposed G-Geary passengers from Light Rail to Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) at Webster Station is a stop-gap measure, a condition to change once support for mass transit on Western Geary Boulevard strengthens.

Muni after construction of G-Geary Phase 1 and T-Third Phase 2. The (temporary) northern terminus of  the T-Third at Chinatown is made functional with transfer to the G; westbound traffic at Webster transfers to BRT below the aerial platform.

Ultimately, the T-Third will head north to Fisherman's Wharf at the very least; an alternative alignment proceeds through a number of stops along the Northern Waterfront and Russian Hill with a Western terminal at the Marina Green, thereby serving a much larger cross-section of the northern population.

Muni with G-Geary Phase 2 extension to Sutro Heights; T-Third Phase 3 to Fishermans Wharf and (speculative) Phase 4 to the Marina; F-Market extension through the Fort Mason tunnel and beyond to Chrissy Fields / Golden Gate. (view mutative Muni Metro evolution)

The G-Geary would ultimately continue through two more right-of-way-separated stations before becoming a streetcar on Geary Boulevard and continuing through the Inner and Outer Richmond districts to a terminus at Sutro Heights.