SF News OMG: The Central Subway Has Been Delayed Again, Pushed to 2021 The Central Subway now will not be opening until mid-2021, a full three years behind schedule, and a year and a half later than we were last told. Construction isn't even set to be finished until the middle of next year, and then a year of train testing begins.
SF Politics SFMTA Votes To Name Chinatown Station For Rose Pak, Despite Protests After loud objections and six hours of public comment, Chinatown's station on the new Central Subway line will be called Rose Pak-Chinatown Station, following a 4-3 vote by the SFMTA board on Tuesday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Central Subway Opening Still Up In The Air Juul co-founder James Monsees testifies before Congress, the SFMTA already made changes to intersection where deadly crash occurred, and the SF Marathon is this Sunday, complete with road closures.
SF News SFMTA Wants Your Input About Extending The Central Subway Past Chinatown Want to take a train from Union Square to the Presidio? That could be an option. Someday.
SF News Supervisors Make Second Push To Name Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Beloved/feared Chinatown power broker Rose Pak, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 68, was one of the singular, unstoppable forces in getting the Central Subway project built. And the Board of Supervisors believes her name needs to be attached to some piece of it.
SF News Central Subway Likely Won't Open Until February 2020 The scheduled opening of the Central Subway, which was supposed to be in December, has been pushed back once again to February of next year, according to the latest progress report.
SF News Central Subway Is Almost A Year Behind Schedule All of San Francisco has been anxiously awaiting the completion of the $1.6 billion Central Subway, and the agonizing construction required to build it. But we're going to have to wait just
SF News Video: Check Out The Progress On The Central Subway Though it may not seem like the thing will ever be done, underground work on the Central Subway and its three subterranean stations is ongoing, and will be through next year. The SFMTA
SF News Station Names Should Indicate Geographic Location, Transit Officials Decide, Ruling Out Rose Pak Station Rejecting the Board of Supervisors' unanimous recommendation that the SFMTA name the Chinatown Central Subway station after Rose Pak, an idea some protesters begged the SFMTA Citizens' Advisory Council to ignore, transit officials
SF News Protesters Urge SFMTA Not To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak As she was in life, Rose Pak is controversial even in death. The local political power-broker passed away in September at the age of 68, and was quickly mourned and honored by the
SF News Supes Pass Resolution Urging SFMTA To Name Chinatown Central Subway Station After Rose Pak Rose Pak will be remembered for the Central Subway one way or another. After all, she pushed for the project as forcefully as the boring machine that drilled the 1.7-mile tunnel from
SF News Proposed Condos At Pagoda Theater Site Could Stymie Central Subway Extension Plan With the goal of expanding the Central Subway project from Chinatown to Fisherman's Wharf, an oft-cited item on the SFMTA's future project "wish list," Supervisor Julie Christensen is pushing the City of San
SF News Supervisor Wiener Really Set On Subway Construction, Introduces 'Master Plan' Legislation Supervisor Scott Wiener prides himself on having his finger to the pulse of San Francisco public transit. But that pulse, he notes, can sometimes be faint. We aren't doing enough, Wiener says, to
SF News Large Sinkhole On Fourth Street, Caused By Central Subway Construction, May Take Weeks To Fix A pretty significant sinkhole that appeared at Fourth and Jessie Streets over the weekend, which the SFMTA is euphemistically referring to as a "void in the street," may take two weeks or more
SF News Study Eyes Extended Central Subway To Fisherman's Wharf Construction is well underway on SF's Central Subway from the Caltrain Station all 1.7 miles to Chinatown (expected 2019). But a new city-commissioned study says maybe we should shoot for an extended
SF News Neiman-Marcus, Chanel, Other Union Square Stores Flooded After Central Subway Crews Break Water Main A number of high-end shops in the vicinity of Geary and Stockton Streets had their basements flooded Saturday after Central Subway construction crews busted open an eight-inch water main that unleashed thousands of
SF News Digging Done In Central Subway Project, Ratpocalypse Over? The two big tunnel-boring machines, which were nicknamed Mom Chung and Big Alma after two female figures in S.F. history, just completed excavating twin, 8,300-foot long tunnels beneath downtown San Francisco
SF News 'Waterfall Full Of Rats' Plague SoMa, Your Dreams "Scal[ing] fences with the dexterity of a mountain climber," rats have all but taken over SoMa and North Beach. No, not really. But close. As construction proceeds on the $1.578 billion
SF News Central Subway Rat Army Now Invading North Beach The army of rats that plagued work sites along the $1.578 billion Central Subway route in SoMa has apparently grown in strength as construction moves into North Beach. Residents in the neighborhood,
SF News Some Perspective On SF's Impending Ratpocalypse From An Urban Rodentologist Last week came word that construction of the far-off Central Subway project may be displacing an urban rat army. But before freaking out completely (and just slightly after reading the Wikipedia entry on
SF News Central Subway Construction Stirs Subterranean Rat Army As construction continues on the $1.578 billion Central Subway project that will connect Chinatown to Muni's light-rail system, all that excavation has stirred more than just the ire of fiscally conservative Muni
SF News Stockton Street Apple Store Moving To Levi's Space Perhaps wisely, given the multi-year clusterfuck of the Central Subway construction on their doorstep, the Apple Store at 1 Stockton Street is relocating next year to the big space currently occupied by Levi's
Arts & Entertainment Dramatic Roxy Paine Sculpture Coming To 4th Street Central Subway Station Yes. The city needs more public art like this and less aerosol emoji sprayed on alley walls by dudes wearing Giants caps. The San Francisco Arts Commission voted to approve a new $1.
Arts & Entertainment What: Muni Contest To Name Tunnel-boring Machines After Historic Women Muni wants to name their tunnel-boring machines, and now is your chance to help name them! These state-of-the-art, 300-foot-long excavators will be named after historic San Francisco women. And because San Francisco is
SF News Meanwhile, on Fourth Street... DNA Lounge owner Jamie Zawinski noticed something a little strange about the Central Subway construction going down at 4th and Harrison. Our knowledge of best practices for subway-building isn't great, so we'll let
