Geary Subway
The Geary Subway is a proposed rail tunnel underneath Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, California. Several plans have been put forward as early as the 1930s to add a grade separated route along the corridor for transit. San Francisco Municipal Railway bus routes on the street served 52,900 daily riders in 2019, the most of any corridor in the city.
Background
The
Proposals
Early plans
By the 1930s, Geary was the city's most congested transit corridor. City Engineer
Marin Line of Bay Area Rapid Transit
Part of the original plan for the
One of the Four Corridors
In 1989, the city of San Francisco approved Proposition B, a
New BART plans
In 1995, the San Francisco Municipal Railway hired Merrill & Associates to study the possibility of building a new BART subway beneath Geary in conjunction with adding light rail on the surface. The estimated cost of construction as far as Park Presidio Boulevard was $1.4 billion in 1995 ($2.8 billion in 2023 adjusted for inflation). Projections from this study put BART ridership at 18,000 daily boardings, and the alignment would allow for a further extension to Marin. These plans were dropped, according to former Senator Quentin L. Kopp, due to merchant and resident opposition, citing potential blight similar to that caused by Market Street subway construction two decades earlier.[9]
Ongoing studies will determine whether the corridor may one day be served by future BART service. The Geary Subway may be constructed as an extension of the second Transbay Tube.[10][9]
References
- ^ "Cable Car Company - Geary Street Park & Ocean Railroad". Cable Car Museum. Retrieved March 18, 2013.
- ^ a b c "What might have been: Geary". Market Street Railway. October 13, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2022.
- ^ "Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) Data". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Archived from the original on July 19, 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2008.
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ "Report Backs $52,700,000 Subway Plan". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California. July 13, 1935. p. 5. Retrieved January 4, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rapid Transit for the San Francisco Bay Area" (PDF). LA Metro Library. Parsons Brinckerhoff / Tudor / Bechtel. pp. 38–39. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
- ^ "San Francisco Voter Information Pamphlet" (PDF). November 7, 1989. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- ^ San Francisco County Transportation Authority (June 1995). "Four Corridor Plan". Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- ^ a b Rodriguez, Joe Fitzgerald (October 19, 2019). "BART looking west toward Geary Boulevard in transbay crossing study". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
- ^ Cabanatuan, Michael (June 22, 2007). "BART's New Vision: More, Bigger, Faster". San Francisco Chronicle. p. A1. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
External links
- Bay Area Rapid Transit System San Francisco — 1961 map of planned rapid transit in San Francisco