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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 The streetcars which traverse from Fisherman s Wharf to the Castro have been replaced by bus service for much of the health crisis.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. ....
When will cable cars return? Future of San Francisco s iconic transit vehicles uncertain FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 2of5 San Francisco’s cable car tracks have been empty since March, when COVID restrictions started.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Cable car operator Val Lupiz stands outside of a cable car adorned in Lunar New Year decorations at Powell and Market streets, placed for photo opportunities.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 4of5 5of5 A cable car with tourists stops to let passengers take pictures at Lombard and Hyde streets last February, before the coronavirus shutdown.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less ....
Celebrating Black voices: Here s a look back at Dr. Maya Angelou s Bay Area connection, legacy KGO Share: OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) As millions of Americans clung to the poem flowing from National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman during President Joe Biden s inauguration, it was hard not to draw connections to a scene in that same spot decades earlier. In 1993, Dr. Maya Angelou became the first female inaugural poet in U.S. presidential history. In Gorman s words, If you can t see it. It s hard to become it. I think its beautifully poetic the way their work weaves together, but also the impact it has had just on our community at large, said Nia McAllister, public programs manager at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD). ....