San Francisco's Central Subway is 98% complete: Take a look
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2021
- San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is now testing Muni trains on the new Central Subway system. This project started in 2010 and has met with a number of delays and cost overruns.
Underground, crews have been hard at work, digging a trench in Stockton Street, a station beneath Union Square, and the deepest dig in the city: 12-stories underground for the station in Chinatown.
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In the beginning, the writing on the wall is "昔日漂洋采金矿 今朝劈地铸银龙", Loosely translate to " in old days, sail across sea to mine the gold; today, dig the ground to build silver dragon(subway)" Probably written by Chinese workers.
They probably should have added a translation to it lol. I would love to be able to read poems like this, but I dont understand Chinese
Beautiful
写得还挺有文采的
Ok chang
I’m more interested to know more about the underground river they’ve discovered.
It's not a river. It's a creek. SF is built over many old creeks.
Me too, and what did they do about it?
@@celebrityrog San Francisco was builit on old shipwrecks and landfield from the 1800s. No "river" was ever mentioned. That's why I am curious about the "underground river" the reporter mentioned.
@@tea98988 to much Curios for u 😂😂 its not a river its a Lake🤣🤣
Maybe it's the river Styx 🤣.
Let’s see if the elevators will remain clean as the mayor says!
elevators are just pooping booths for the homeless.
Very easy way to guarantee they will remain clean. Hire a full time attendant.
💩💩💩💩🤣
@@johnnykwon8173 - NOPE , a SINGLE Full Time attendent is NOT going to be able to keep even ONE Station clean.
@@markplott4820 never said station. I was referring to individual elevators.
An important part of the SF transportation infrastructure. Keep it clean and safe and people will use it.
@Baron Munchausen its not.
Projects under construction
London Crossrail: Hold my beer
Grand Paris Express: Hold my wine
Tokyo: hold my sake :)
Hold my urine. No place to use bathrooms except elevators.
Lol san Francisco is way better than city than any European city 🤣🖕🤡
It'll be one of the nicest homeless shelters in the city.
And in the USA!!!!!!
Underground river? I hope the buildings above it doesn't start sinking.
12 damn years to build a mile long subway?
Even the New York City MTA isn't that incompetent.
It’s close
2 miles:D
This projects a fluke
The 2nd Avenue Subway construction started in 1920. The 1st phase didn't open until 2017.
@@Undecided0 this is incorrect. No part of the 2nd Ave subway was started in 1920 considering the 2nd Ave elevated was running until about 1940. The 2nd Ave subway had parts constructed in the 70s and the portion that was opened 2 years back is all new construction. Phase 2 that is being built will use portions of the tunnels built in the 70s.
One of the overrun problems was that they laid the rails with the wrong grade iron/metal. They then had to rip out the wrong rails and install the correct rails. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Nice! We need a lot more public transportation - more than ever these days. Wish we had this in San Jose, CA.
Isn't BART being extended to downtown San Jose?
@@jamesparson - I think so - in the plans anyway.
Let’s see how long it stays clean
About 30 mins til the rats go there do tourism
@@Rabidanti for the lifetime
It will stay clean for as long as we keep it clean. Stop thinking that everybody owes you something and start working for the things you want. It's called democracy and it seems that too many people forgot what their rights and responsibilities are in our system of government.
In many new subway systems in other countries, safety barriers with gates are installed on the waiting platforms to protect riders from falling onto the tracks. MUNI should be have them too. It seems to me that somehow our transportation system often falls short of other world class systems.
Especially with all those Tiktok emos with first world problems that like to livestream their suicides! We got to keep them from falling into the tracks.
Have never seen that in any subway system I’ve seen in many countries. What countries have that?
@@hrussell9677 I know that Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok, Tokyo to name a few, have them for the underground and aboveground stations.
@@hrussell9677 Japan and U.K.
@@hrussell9677 Lots of countries are getting them for their new lines. The Elizabeth Line in London, for instance. In the US the only trains that have them are cable-hauled people movers (e.g. the Airtrain at SFO or the BART Oakland airport link).
just hope plenty of security cameras where add
With dedicated circuits.
@@jamalcole1985 🤔🥴😑
@@dahc5906 electrician lingo 😂
Took 10 years and $1.6b to build just for 1 muni stop!? Wow, the Japanese people could’ve done this 1/3 of the time and probably 1/3 of the cost also 😂
Yes especially for joggers
15% cost overrun isn't bad at all considering this is a municipal project. Minus the timing delays the cost overruns were very manageable.
Don't forget the 11 years worth of fees and kickbacks the developers and contractors were given due to delays.
@@BenChode-pf9br You got a point there. Those delays were very lucrative.
Especially when democrats are the ones running things! You’d think it’d be minimum double the projected price
@@abimbolaaku2709 Yeah, but when the Republicans run things you don't get any infrastructure at all, just endless "infrastructure week." They've gone completely nutso with their anti-government crap. You have no choice but to vote for the Dems if you want any improvement at all. At least most of them are sane. I need to emphasize *most*, definitely not all :))
@@abimbolaaku2709 name one subway system in America built by conservatives...
Bring Frank Somerville back he did nothing wrong!!!!
FRANK is a DRUNK.
KTVU is like a page right out of Ron Burgundy. Stay classy! Lmao
@@iakazul I love those drunk news casts!!
@@DARKJOE Beware the eyes of Julie Haener lol
FS was nothing more than a socialist mouth piece Indoctrinator
Looking forward to riding this! So cool to be able to get to Chinatown underground. This will help our city with more accessibility for tourists.
The homeless and the vaccine mandated will hurt tourism badly.
@@howardrich408 I went out all weekend and had a great time to two different venues and friends drove in to the city. The city is still very much beautiful and fun.
NEV IN SF: From what DERANGED planet are you from ???... I lived in SF from '83 until 2002. From the 80's until the mid 90's, SF was a pretty good city... But then it really started going down.... And now it's become a disgusting cesspool.... One of these days your luck will run out....
@Jean juju I feel like many Americans over dramatise California. Like you’d think that sidewalks are made out of dead bodies by the way they’re describing it
@Jean juju you say how wonderful it is then say you can’t have your guard down. So which is it? Oh dear 🤦♀️🤦♀️.
So what happened to that underground river?
new Disney park Attraction............LOL.
Drought
Diverted the river to Millennium Tower
turned out it was just a river of homeless urine collecting underground over the years
Is Willy wonkas chocolate river lol
They will take another two years testing then once it opens it will fill with bums.
Yup
I'm sure the local people will cherish it and keep it spotless.
Toilet.
I’ll tell you at the very least the elevators will not be spotless day 1.
@@markplott4820 In the downtown stations where they hired full-time elevator attendants, the elevators became fairly clean. Homeless people only shit in them when they were alone. Still, the people who do shit in elevators need to be removed from society to never shit in elevators again. That's even worse than shitting on the sidewalk.
@@NozomuYume - Agree.
@@markplott4820 yeah even if they try to keep it clean, it’ll be 100% failed.
Looks great !!
Are there gonna be flat escalators or some faster way to get from Powell to the new T station? It's not that close
Thank you for providing this article! Love it.
It looks cleaner than NY subway whcih looks like a sewer hole. Keep it clean, please. No graphity, no garbage, no homeless sleeping in the station.
those birds are very friendly and peaceful esp 0:30
SFMTA: How grey can you make the station?
Architect: Yes
I mean grey and red are munis colors
Jesus Christ. 2.7km of rail for 1.6billion dollars? Give me a break.
If you see the bright side it wasn't a trillion, it could be
That's amazing!!
The homeless will love their new home.
Exactly
Then have proper operation and maintenance personnel there with appropriate funding. Look to how Asian cities did it, since they are WAY better at maintaining their facilities.
@@ianhomerpura8937 Asian cities have Asian people living there and Asians are rarely homeless.
@@npc2480 ???
@@npc2480 have you not been to Asia?
Can't wait! It looks great.
Good luck stepping in human poop
for now 😆
is it dirt, urine, and fecal proof?
Don’t forget the dirty needles
Wow! I never even heard about this. Cool. I hope they can figure out how to keep it clean.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The same time frame.. China built 15,000 miles of high speed rail, airport style train station.
Non labor-unions would do that for you. Easy to build thousands of miles of rail when all you need a tin of water and a cracking of the whip
From subway to poopway ..... in 3 2 1 ...... splat splat splat !
The T-line? The T-line that goes along 3rd Street is slow as molasses. Most times it's slower than I am despite riding my bike at a very leisure 10mph average. I guess the only fast section is this short underground section?
When they continue the dig northward to (hopefully) the Marina, it will be a major artery. Citizens of the Castro tend not to complain about taking the other Muni tunnel because they don't have to contend with street traffic.
Because you don’t stop at any lights.
@@ronmartin1375 You know that, because...?
@@FirstLast-jm4dx First hand experience in NYC. Seen a lot biker thugs kick people, cars, get arrested, and hulled off by ambulance because of very poor choices and civility.
@@gruweldaad Even if they started that extension today (which they won't), it'd still take another decade (optimistically). It was a big mistake not to extend the line to North Beach and Fisherman's Wharf right from the get-go. Then we'd have a truly useful subway line opening next year instead of a stub with a grand total of 3 new stations.
Hopefully the less fortunate doesn’t ruin this new transit project
The Pyramids were built faster than this subway extension....
The Pyramids were built faster than almost any piece of SF infrastructure.
So, why couldn't the SFMTA install a moving walkway such as used at SFO or the Hong Kong MTR? Looks like 800 yards from the Union Square stop to the metro lines on Market St. That's a long haul for Chinese seniors with shopping bags.
Who cares about chinese seniors lmao
@@Student0Toucher Someone like yourself, that is too proud to admit that he cares. Drop the phony act.
I thought this was the USA? Why is China there?
@@chaosXP3RT chinese-american people exist...
@@Student0Toucher ik you not mexican stop the cap
I hope it stays clean like that
Cool! We can finally start filming on Speed 3!
forget all this other stuff----let's see if the system even works--the construction company who built it, put down 3.2 miles of the wrong gauge track----------and don't even talk about cost over runs-
lol you do know what rail Gauge even is? Its the width between tracks... . What you meant to say is the contractor installed 3.2 miles of the wrong _grade_ of rail
"In an April 19 letter, the Municipal Transportation Agency told contractor Tutor Perini that it would reject the rails as not meeting the specifications of the contract, and called for them to be removed and replaced with high-strength rails at the contractor’s expense. That cost is unknown."
please look things up before you post
@@erikanders3343 don't one and it all-
This just makes me want to roll my eyes. Since not the whole system is underground and we never know when a train is coming as there is never any reliable updates.
This only cost $1.6b?! In Hamilton Ontario our above ground LRT is $3.7b...
Even adjusted for USD, that sounds like a mob-connected ripoff.
@@WakkoKakko to be fair, I guess that this project is 1.7miles and 4 stations. Hamilton's project is 8.7 miles and 17 (above ground) stations with 3 large bridges over major highways.
The LRT delayed since 2015. They already spend 1Billion and its going to cost 2.5B to restart the project.
Let’s hope it will stay that clean after it opens
I love that pigeon gang in the background xD
Extend it to North Beach at the very least while thinking of the next phase/dig!
How's the Millennium Building leaning?
I live in San Francisco and I'm like .. wait what? Never noticed this
Well, in your defense, it is underground being a subway and all :D
Me too, completely forgot this was going on. Great that they are almost done though. Sometimes it pays not to pay attention to local affairs.
Please be running in late spring I'm coming to visit then and can't wait to ride the new extension.
@0:05 is the whole stations enclosing side wall just bare concrete pilings?
Somewhere outside there is a bum already calling his spot inside lmao
" hey buddy thats my spot"
I left California four years ago, but still think of it as 'home'. Help me out, those of you who are in The City: This news bit says nothing about connecting to BART or Transbay station. Will it? And like @Tea, I'm wondering about that underground river. Are they going to map it for future reference? Is any of that connected to that expensive tower the keeps leaning over - forgot the name, but I'm sure you know which one I mean... Thanks.
Millennium Tower. Couldn't pay me enough to move in there.
Get ready for the homeless, thieves and muggers.
and Hookers.
You're such a joy!
That's nothing new my Native ancestors wasn't ready for them when they showed up on the shores of this land.😁😁😂😂😂😂😂🤔
You are 💯 right.
My thought exactly
where is Frank???
from Las Vegas
They got suspended him for having his own opinion on media coverage for people of color vs Caucasian. Look it up, it was a wrongful suspension imo. Freedom of speech is no longer free it feels like. Take care. I love Vegas btw
@@camachopocket2933 KTVU (frank's stations) is owned by Fox.
I wasn't even totally a race thing. He literally pointed out the media being biased for certain missing people, specially giving excessive coverage to the Petito girl. A lot of missing white folks that aren't as attractive or young also never get as much coverage either. He went against the narrative and got punished for it.
When he said "we didn't know what soil we were going to hit" the first thing I thought was him stepping into poop.
Centuries of horse manure and Native American burials
Why are people in the comments calling it a homeless shelter or a toilet? I don't get it
You must not live here, lol.
Cost overruns?
It will be disgusting like every other muni station in no time.
West Portal & Forest Hill is mostly okay compared to the downtown stations
How did they not know? Weren't there any studies beforehand? The incompetence, jeez
Down in the underground, there’s something new!
Might have the same contractor as the NYC second Ave subway. Long overbuilt mezzanine and deep level tunnels that add more time to your commute
But it will also make American skinny again :p
Where’s frank sommerville
unfortunately, he's suspended indefinitely for saying the right thing
Probably should have spent that money on an elevated BRT line between the financial district and the coast through the Richmond Dist. via Geary St.
10 years of work. China would have built half a dozen lines in that time for the same money. Another waste of my hard earned money 💰.
What a big sourpuss!
A half dozen lines out of bamboo and fake concrete in an earthquake zone. Sounds fantastic.
@@twofortydrifter I've been to China multiple times and used their high speed rail. It's a good system. Stop talking about things you know nothing about
@@randomsh-t917 Sounds like someone wants to move back.
At least 6 miles of light rail tunnel was built in less than 10 years in Seattle. 22 miles of light rail in operation. That’s all since 2009 to present. San Francisco needs to speed it up with faster and reliable rail system in the city limits.
thought title was about subway the restaurant, was thinking we already have a bunch in San Fran
Those pigeons in the background seemed annoyed you didn’t want to hear their thoughts. Come on man….
It only took over a dozen years!
The super efficiency of MTA and MUNI is simply astounding!
😂 That’s why it is a complete and utter waste
@@michwashington This is a nonsense take. The utility of this subway is not in any way undermined by it being built late. FYI, this was always an incredibly complicated project. It is in extremely poor soils, Bay fill that used to be under water. It dips under two existing subway lines under market street. It as to also turn twice and immediately pull into a station structure all while being under those two subways. They encountered and unmapped underground river. In other words, this project was supposed to take 8 years and it took 10. That's actually pretty good time.
Despite what you people like to say, Muni generally keeps its projects under or at budget and relatively on time. It's not BART or the VTA.
Why is this line being called "Central Subway," as opposed to simply being part of the existing Muni Metro?
For me as a New Yorker, I call this a light rail tunnel. Us New Yorkers have a real subway system with trains both local and express.
@@luislaplume8261 we do have a real subway system, its called BART
@@globial5329 Inthat vase I stand corrected.
The project is "central subway", not the system. 5 years from now when it's not thought of as new, people will just call it MUNI
It's cuz somebody's nephew or son needed a project or job. There's no reason for all this excess administrative bloat.
Does it have platform barriers?
12 stories down? Might as well walk from Powell
I really hope they keep the homeless out and the stations/trains safe but feels like that's a pipe dream
come on man, you know someone is going to bash your face in with a brick then rob you of everything you have and leave you for dead... its what they do in NY.. enjoy!!
Who is they? No, my dude it's you. You have to keep it clean. It's your city, you have to help keep it clean. There is no they in a democracy, even in a representative one. The sooner were all realize this and start acting accordingly the better.
Def not gonna happen.
The tower was first in line.
Very nice
New homeless shelter is almost complete
Seems like a rather small trains for such a major city...
This is just an underground section for a line on our local light rail system, not an actual "subway line". Trains run over-ground in mixed traffic for most of the route and need to fit inside city blocks without blocking smaller intersections.
That's why I call it The Subway to Nowhere.
@@lizettewanzer8650 To nowhere? How? What? Are you not from around here? It connects a major existing Muni line to Caltrain, Moscone/SOMA, Downtown, Union Square, and Chinatown/North Beach. This line runs under literally the most popular and intensely used parts of SF. I actually can’t think of another route that would be more needed. I mean, short of exactly the same route but extended to Fisherman’s Wharf and the Presidio.
Chinatown will now soon be known as “former Chinatown historic district”
Why?
What Elevator brands?
You would think for all that money and time it would at least get you to the pier.
Yes there’s as a inland marsh that was on 7th near Howard the runs to where the houseboats are located there is also an underground water transport or creek the runs from up behind Safeway on market down to the armory whete in the basement t there is an active creek and continues east I got the bay . The marsh known as the hayes marsh is sinking slowly from bad filling in of the marsh and if you pull up a satellite pic of Howard at 7 th there is very noticed dip in the road where the deepest park of the marsh was located and had extensive damage in the 89 Earthquake and several people died right there
Ktvu screwed Frank Summerville for telling the truth, and his honest opinion. I thought freedom of speech was American. Guess not anymore now n days. I only continue to watch this station now cause of Da Lin. But truthfully screw KTVU…
what Story was this, that got FRANK canned ?
@@markplott4820 He called out the media for not covering cases of missing people of color as much as they did the case of Gabby Petito.
Oh no! I missed that! :-(
They have it all planned out very smart people here
Expand it into North Beach, then have it turn west!
how beautiful -- a public luxury condo and toilet for the city's finest homeless
So nice and shiny and new. What do you think it will look like in six months?
I think it be like…
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@@EASbear If you want it to stay clean, then help keep it clean and stop whining. Or move if you're not up to the task!
Why they waste money on a new subway rather than making bus free or at least make them affordable for the people!🤔
Have you ever taken the SF Muni? Most people hops on and don’t pay the fare, therefore, it’s mostly free. I mostly take the 38 and I avoid it now because of the violence. I don’t know how other cities deal with this issue but it’s crazy here in SF.
What they really should have done with this money is build a subway westward to serve the Richmond and Sunset. Not a subway-to-nowhere that parrots what the 8, 30, and 45 are already doing.
People don't pay to start. They normally hop the pay thingy
This is literally one of the biggest waste of money SF has spent on a project outside of what they're doing with homeless and criminal reform. This station is literally 2 blocks away from the Powell station. Why?
So you see priority on problems that never cease where this project can potentially change people’s lives for the better? After so many times of reform, the justice system has lost good faith in those who need reform and can consider them a lost cause. Some would say then naturally that would be the biggest waste of resources.
No. There’s a way worse project than this. The Van Ness 2 miles of bus lanes that took 5 years.
Isn’t there a plan to replace all the public trash bins with a $20k/piece bin?
Got my moneys worth out the project
@@johnnykwon8173, the guy didn’t say give up. you try to pull a straw man fallacy here. They are two totally different things. He’s complaining about poor results that leads to money wasted. You’re saying he’s refusing to better the city.
Why was there such a priority on adding this line? I have rarely had an issue getting from Union Square to Chinatown in less than a few minutes walk or bus ride. What really needs to happen is better connections to some of the more out-of-the-way parts of the city, like the Visitacion Valley/Cow Palace area. It should not take an hour for city residents just to get downtown - let alone the other side of the city.
8 square miles and it takes an hour. it's like India.
@@twofortydrifter It takes minimum 90 minutes to get all the way across via public transit. 😑
...this line literally goes from visitacion valley to downtown (Caltrain, soma, union square, and Chinatown stops)
It was Mayor Lee's pet project. We don't need this. We need underground transit to the western parts of the city: Sunset, Richmond, Ocean Beach.
@@lizettewanzer8650 The N Judah already goes to Ocean Beach and Sunset. The 38 goes to Richmond as well.
This is wonderful transit first city San Francisco good for the environment
Insane homeless: "Oh goodie, a new place to shit.
maybe if San Francisco actually cared about homeless people and invested in mass affordable/social housing you wouldn't have that problem
@@ebbeb9827 1.1 Billion a year isn't enough for the homeless? How much should we spend it?
“YEP we’re above ground”
i helped pay for this garbage for the last 10 years and prorbobly wont even be allowed on it ...
The subway design looks so clinical and cold
What's the scheduled date for the homeless to move in?
What this is great! Now I can finally get my delicious dim sums in Chinatown without fighting with traffic! Joy! Next you did not know about an underground river? That seems kinda big! Where does it get its water from? Where does it go? Into the subway?
why can't we have a high speed railway network
Will the inside be cold or hot?we will see....
I wished subways in nyc looked like this
They all look like this when they're new :) The other ones in SF are just as bad as the NYC ones.
I wish we had NYC-type subways in SF.
Good to see that they finally finished that railway that appeared in Lethal Weapon, only took 30 years.
Looks like a new "hotel" for the homeless and a ground to exchange "stuffs" for the others.
You wish that subway is gonna be so locked up by police it’s not even funny San Francisco isn’t dumb like LA on homeless
@@eldermcnamara3631 Sure.. think of it that way.
@@lxmedia3911 says the one who lives in Nebraska if you aren’t from CA why comment? I
@@eldermcnamara3631 WTF YES IT IS
@@TammyBundleballs SF is getting quite a bit better, but progress is rather slow.
built just in time as everyone is ready to move out
Sure, sure, California is dying, SF is dying, everyone is moving to Texas. Heard it all before. Tell me why our housing prices went up by 24% in the last year, again? Are all of these fake Calexodus people actually going to move out at some point? Or is this just a Fox "News" hoax again?
@@TohaBgood2 china money running away into NA housing marketing, now move along
@@thawdani Studied a million times by experts and amateurs alike. Foreigners buy fractions of a percent of housing. And it always hyper-luxury trophy homes. Virtually no impact on housing supply, except for the uber rich.
Also, there are over 12 million people living in the Bay Area. Ate you saying someone is buying up 10-20% of housing units yet this is complete invisible to anyone? Are these foreign bought units stored in some parallel dimension?
Despite San Francesco's saddening Smash & Grab crime spree at this moment... and the leaning Millennium condo tower sinking slowly... hope this Central Subway project won't devour part of the city over time!
This is going to be great no more 30 Stockon and Chinatown becomes more accessible for shopping...