Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Central Subway

Stockton Street “Winter Walk” Plaza to Return Next Holiday Season

By Aaron Bialick | Jan 28, 2015 | 4 Comments

The incredibly popular (but temporary) “Winter Walk” plaza will return to Stockton Street in Union Square for another holiday season in December, the local business improvement district announced. The news isn’t a huge surprise, given the boost to business brought by the plaza and the fact that the one-block section of Stockton is already filled with […]

Union Square’s “Winter Walk” Plaza on Stockton a Hit – Why Bring Cars Back?

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 8, 2014 | 33 Comments

Families are loving “Winter Walk SF,” the temporary holiday plaza filling two blocks of Stockton Street in Union Square. As CBS reporter John Ramos put it, the on-street downtown play space “represents the San Francisco everyone wants it to be.” “I didn’t expect to see this,” one smiling girl told Ramos, standing on the green […]

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Extending the Central Subway: Why Stop at Fisherman’s Wharf?

By Aaron Bialick | Dec 5, 2014 | 35 Comments

The nascent prospect of extending the Central Subway beyond Chinatown gained steam this week with the release of a preliminary city study [PDF] that lays out some conceptual proposals to bring the subway further into the city’s northern neighborhoods. North Beach neighbors, who are living with construction disruption as the tunnel’s drill is extracted in their backyards, […]

Warriors Arena Moving to Mission Bay: A Win for Transit Accessibility?

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 23, 2014 | 37 Comments

The Warriors announced this week that the site for the basketball team’s proposed arena would be moved from Piers 30-32 on the Embarcadero to Mission Bay, quelling opposition from waterfront development foes. Whether or not the new site will work out for better or worse in terms of accessibility to regional transit, however, is still […]

Central SoMa Plan Envisions Transitways and Safer Streets for SoMa

By Aaron Bialick | Jun 13, 2013 | 5 Comments

The Central Subway is coming, like it or not, and that means Fourth Street will get Muni Metro service starting in 2019. With that in mind, the SF Planning Department recently released the draft Central SoMa Plan (formerly known as the Central SoMa Plan), which sets the stage for upzoned transit-oriented development near new stations and […]

Central Subway Pagoda Deal Will Take $9 Million From Muni Operating Funds

By Aaron Bialick | Feb 20, 2013 | 23 Comments

Updated 2/23 A deal struck by the SF Municipal Transportation Agency to extract tunnel drills at the site of the abandoned Pagoda Theatre will cost the agency an estimated $9.15 million. While the lease deal with building owner Joel Campos allows the SFMTA to move forward with an extraction plan that’s less disruptive to the […]

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