Vectorial map bus muni san francisco6/7/2023 ![]() Rail service resumed on the Embarcadero–Sunnydale section of the T Third Street line on January 23, 2021. Light rail service was re-replaced with buses on August 25 due to issues with malfunctioning overhead wire splices and the need to quarantine control center staff after a COVID-19 case. T Third Street and M Ocean View light rail lines were interlined, running between Sunnydale station and Balboa Park station. Rail service returned on August 22, with the routes reconfigured to improve reliability in the subway. On March 30, 2020, Muni Metro service was replaced with buses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These had been used to provide more consistent service on the inner portion of the line, but had caused inconsistent and less frequent service in the Hunters Point-Bayview and Visitacion Valley neighborhoods. In April 2019, the SFMTA ended the use of unscheduled short turns. The line was shut down again, from January 22, 2019, until April 1, 2019, for construction of a new platform at UCSF/Mission Bay station. ![]() On August 25, 2018, at the conclusion of the shutdown, Muni began running permanently two-car trains on the K/T line (as had been used east of Castro during the shutdown). The underground section of the line was closed west of Castro station from June 25 to August 24, 2018, due to the Twin Peaks Tunnel shutdown. Ĭonstruction of the new UCSF/Chase Center station in March 2019 Another loop at 25th and Illinois is proposed to increase short-line service frequency between Downtown and Dogpatch. Construction started in July 2016 and was completed in 2019. A $3.5 million construction contract was issued in 2014. The loop was originally designed in 1998 as part of the Third Street Light Rail project, but was deferred due to insufficient funding. The Mission Bay Loop project, which added a short turn loop using 18th, Illinois, and 19th, was constructed to supplement the Central Subway project. Following service changes on June 30, 2007, the T Third Street and the K Ingleside lines were interlined through the Market Street subway and Twin Peaks tunnels, resulting in a combined route from Balboa Park, through downtown, to the Visitacion Valley neighborhood. T Third Street service was initially operated between Castro station and Sunnydale station. Testing on the line took place in summer 2006, with limited service starting on January 13, 2007, and full service beginning on April 7, 2007. The line was constructed as the Third Street Light Rail Project. The southern terminus of the line is at Sunnydale station in the Visitacion Valley neighborhood. Route 101 freeway, where Third Street becomes Bayshore Boulevard, and continues south in the median. A wye, occasionally used for short turning trains, is located at Armstrong Avenue. It runs in mixed traffic for 1⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) from Kirkwood Avenue to Shafter Avenue, then returns to dedicated lanes. The line continues south through Dogpatch and across Islais Creek into the Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods. The line runs south through the Mission Bay neighborhood in a dedicated median, passing the Mission Bay Loop between 18th and 19th Streets, which is used to allow trains to turn around at Mission Bay or to hold special trains to serve events at Chase Center. Additional short turn service between Chinatown and Mission Bay Loop will be later added. ![]() The T then crosses the existing N tracks at 4th and King and continues south to 3rd Street. The line then tunnels underneath 4th Street to serve Yerba Buena/Moscone station in the SoMA district before surfacing south of the Interstate 80 bypass, where it serves a stop at Brannan Street. Trains operate south below Stockton Street to Union Square/Market Street station, which offers a connection to Powell Street station as the line does not enter the Market Street subway. The T Third Street's northern terminus is Chinatown station inside the Central Subway.
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