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You may have seen some out-of-service F-Market cars rolling on Market Street in recent days, as the SFMTA trains or retrains operators and prepares for the May 15 return of the historic streetcar service between the Wharves and the Castro. ....
The public deserves real answers from several city agencies and BART about the proposed phase 1 Better Market Street project, which would tear up Market Street, between Fifth and Eighth streets, for as long as two to four years to replace water, sewer, and rail lines. This would suspend service for the popular F Line historic streetcars, which will negatively impact Castro-area businesses already struggling to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic. As we reported last week, streetcar service would be replaced with buses, a less attractive experience that won t entice tourists with rides from Fisherman s Wharf to the Castro. On April 26, the Community Advisory Committee for Better Market Street held a virtual meeting it has been discussing the project for years and heard updated reports from San Francisco Public Works, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. Estimated to cost $80 million, the phase 1 project alr ....
Just as the historic streetcars are slated to resume service after being suspended during the COVID pandemic, a city plan to stop Muni s F Line service to the Castro for up to four years is eliciting strong negative reactions in the neighborhood. The streetcars which traverse from Fisherman s Wharf to the Castro have been replaced by bus service for much of the health crisis. They are scheduled to restart service May 15 along with the resumption of some subway service on the K and N lines. But as part of the multi-agency Better Market Street project, the F Line is slated to be substituted by bus service again for the duration of phase I construction, which is anticipated to take approximately two to four years, Coma Te, public affairs officer for San Francisco Public Works and the head of communication and outreach for Better Market Street, confirmed to the Bay Area Reporter April 12. ....
Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California. Unless noted in the story, GJEL Accident Attorneys is not consulted for the content or editorial direction of the sponsored content. At SFMTA’s board meeting yesterday, the agency approved a severely watered down “Better Market Street” plan. The tally was five to seven, with Directors Amanda Eaken and Manny Yekutiel voting “no.” From the One of the biggest points of contention in the new plan is the bike lane change. The originally proposed 5-foot to 8-foot lane on the sidewalk was replaced by an 11-foot shared bike lane on the street. The agency said that the original bike lane wouldn’t have been big enough to accommodate the 25 percent spike in cycling that hit the streets from January to March last year. ....