Civic Center/UN Plaza station
Civic Center/UN Plaza station (often Civic Center station) is a combined
The station is served by the BART Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines, and the Muni Metro J Church, K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and S Shuttle lines.
Station layout
Like the three other shared Muni/BART stations in the Market Street subway, Civic Center has three underground levels. The first level is a fare mezzanine, with two Muni paid areas and two BART paid areas. The second level has a single island platform for Muni Metro, and the third level has an island platform for BART.[4] The station has six street entrances along its length, including one entrance in UN Plaza. The surface elevator is near the center of the station; the platform elevator is at the northeast end.[4]
History
The BART Board approved the name "Civic Center" in December 1965.
A passageway formerly led to two additional entrances west of 8th Street and Hyde Street. One – on the north side of Market Street at Grove Street – was temporarily closed in December 2016 after a sewer pipe collapsed under the escalators.[11] The entrance remained closed until it was permanently removed in October 2017.[12] The remaining entrance west of 8th Street was permanently closed on November 1, 2018, as the passageway space was needed for a new electrical substation to add redundancy and capacity to support increased Transbay Tube train frequency. The six original entrances (all of which are significantly closer to the faregates) remained open.[13]
Following the 2015 addition of a canopy over an escalator at 19th Street Oakland station, which reduced escalator downtime by one-third, BART decided to add canopies to all downtown Oakland and San Francisco entrances.[14] The canopies will protect the escalator from weather damage, improve lighting, allow the escalator to be fully closed off when the station is not open, and provide a location for real-time train arrival information displays. The Civic Center station entrance at Market and 7th was chosen for early implementation; it was closed on December 11, 2017, with the new canopy opened on October 9, 2018.[14] The southern entrance at Market and 8th was closed on May 9, 2022, for canopy installation, and reopened on April 28, 2023.[15][16] All canopies are planned to be complete by 2027.[15]
In May 2018, BART proposed to close off a corridor that connects the 7th Street and 8th Street sides of the station because it was frequently used for drug use.[17] In February 2020, BART began a project to add two additional staircases to the BART platform.[18] The entrances on the southern side of the station were closed from April 13, 2020, to June 12, 2021, due to low ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic.[19]
Thirteen BART stations, including Civic Center, did not originally have faregates for passengers using the elevator. In 2020, BART started a project to add faregates to elevators at these stations. The new faregate at Civic Center was installed in January 2023.[20] BART reopened a secondary station agent booth – which had been closed for over a decade – near the Civic Center entrance in February 2023.[21]
Connections
Two Muni heritage streetcar stops are located above the station: Market and 7th Street, and Market and 8th Street (inbound) / Market and Hyde (outbound). Both are served by the
- Local: 5, 6, 7, 9, 19, 21
- Rapid: 5R, 9R
- Express: 83X
- Owl service: J Bus, K Bus, K Owl, L Bus, L Owl, M Bus, N Owl, and N Bus
Several
Under the planned
References
- OCLC 85623396.
- ^ a b Callwell, Robert (September 1999). "Transit in San Francisco: A Selected Chronology, 1850–1995" (PDF). San Francisco Municipal Railway. p. 57.
- ^ "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2024.
- ^ a b "Station Map: Civic Center/UN Plaza Station". Metropolitan Transportation Commission. October 29, 2018.
- ^ "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
- ^ Cabanatuan, Michael (April 29, 2013). "BART station names growing unwieldy". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
- ^ a b "CIVIC CENTER/U.N. PLAZA" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District.
- ^ "Construction begins on Civic Center Bike Station" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. November 5, 2014.
- ^ "Civic Center Bike Station opens in downtown San Francisco" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. August 15, 2015.
- ^ "Civic Center Grove Street entrance closed for repairs" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. December 6, 2016.
- ^ "Permanent entrance closures planned at Civic Center for traction power project" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. October 23, 2017.
- ^ "Civic Center entrance Hotel Whitcomb/8th & Market closed permanently 11/1/2018" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. October 15, 2018.
- ^ a b "SF BART and Muni Escalator/Entrance Project". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. Archived from the original on November 15, 2018.
- ^ a b "Entrance Closure Alert: Civic Center Station entrance at 8th and Market closed 5/9/22 for work on new canopy" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. May 3, 2022.
- ^ "BART completes construction of 3 new canopies over downtown San Francisco station entrances" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. May 1, 2023.
- ^ Turner, Emily (May 21, 2018). "BART Proposes Closing Walkway Favored By Drug Users At Civic Center Station". CBS SF BayArea.
- ^ "New Stairs to be Added to Civic Center Station Starting the Week of 2/17" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 13, 2010.
- ^ "BART opens all entrances/exits that were previously closed due to pandemic" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. June 12, 2021.
- ^ "New Fare Gates & Station Hardening". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. July 2023. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023.
- ^ "BART reopens long-closed Station Agent booth at Civic Center/UN Plaza Station" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 24, 2023.
- ^ a b "Transit Stops: Civic Center/UN Plaza Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transit Commission. August 16, 2019.
- ^ Better Market Street Project EIR (PDF). Vol. 1. San Francisco Planning Department. February 27, 2019. pp. 2–53.
External links
- BART: Civic Center / UN Plaza Station
- SFMTA: Civic Center Station inbound, outbound
- SF Bay Transit (unofficial): MUNI Metro Civic Center Station, Civic Center/UN Plaza BART Station