Weekend Transit Advisory: Thanksgiving Muni Schedule, Tree Lighting Ceremony

Is the turkey in the oven? Good. Now you can chill and read about some transit advisories this weekend, maybe with a cocktail in hand. Go ahead, treat yourself.

Holiday Muni Schedule

On Thursday for the Thanksgiving Day holiday, Muni will operate on a Sunday schedule. On Friday Muni will operate on a regular weekday schedule to provide additional service for those visiting and shopping in the city.

Turkey Day 5K Run

On Thursday the 5K Turkey Day Run will start at 8 a.m. at AT&T Park, lead out along the waterfront, heading south of Market District and finish at City Hall. For more event details, please visit www.turkeyday-5k.com.

The following Muni lines and routes will be affected:
F Market and Wharves
N Judah
T Third Street
5 Fulton
6 Parnassus
8X Bayshore A Express
9 San Bruno
10 Townsend
12 Folsom
14 Mission
19 Polk
21 Hayes
27 Bryant
30 Stockton
38 Geary
45 Union-Stockton
71 Haight-Noriega
108 Treasure Island

Union Square Tree Lighting Ceremony

On Friday the 23rd annual tree lighting will take place at 6 p.m. at Union Square.

The following Muni routes will be affected starting at 3:30 p.m.:

Powell-Hyde Cable Car
Powell-Mason Cable Car
2 Clement
3 Jackson
8X Bayshore Express
30 Stockton
38 Geary
38L Geary/Geary Limited
45 Union/Stockton

76-Marin Headlands gets made-over


Photo by pmmueller

Have you ever had a reason to take Muni to Marin? We’re not talking a simple crossing of the best bridge in the world* here.

The 76-Marin Headlands was a rarely used, always behind schedule route that ferried humans across the great expanse and deep into the nether regions of the Marin Headlands (thus the route’s designation). Now, SFMTA has thrown this poor route a lifeline, last weekend establishing the spiffy, revamped 76X-Marin Headlands Express. See what they did there with that name?

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What BART Could’ve Been

Via our pal Burrito Justice, Eric Fischer once again dazzles the transit-geek world, this time with amazing old photos of brand-spankin’-new BART stations and the map above, which shows the already nixed Marin line as well as the still-planned-for Geary line that extended to 25th Avenue.

Here’s a great shot of the 24th Street Station plaza back in 1970.

I don’t see a single pigeon. Amazing!

For more great photos from this series, including a shot of a 1972 BART train derailment, check out Eric’s set on Flickr.

Thx: Burrito Justice.

Transit News: Ongoing weekend tube delays, Muni violence, BART escalators, Muni youth passes


Photo by Confetti

  • Expect early-AM weekend Transbay Tube delays rest of year for quake safety work (BART.gov)
  • Man Slashed In Hand During Haight Street Muni Altercation (SF Appeal)
  • Man Accused Of Muni Skateboard Bashing Pleads Not Guilty (SF Appeal)
  • Cable Car Painter Leaves a Colorful Legacy (NBC Bay Area)
  • BART unveils vision for future transit to meet growing demand (BART.gov)
  • BART Addresses Broken Escalator Issue in This Man-on-the-Street Video (SF Weekly)
  • Youth passes or upkeep? Muni diving into debate (SF Examiner)

Your Weekend Transit Advisory: Duboce rail work, Treasure Island event, Urbanathalon, 49ers game

N and J Line Rail and Street Improvements
From 8 p.m., Friday through 5 a.m., Monday, the SFMTA will continue the Church and Duboce project which will include track replacement inside the Muni Metro Tunnel at Duboce Portal. Should weather permit, crews will apply red paint on the center lane of Church Street from 16th Street to Duboce Avenue to make it a transit-only lane. This painting project is part of the Church Street pilot program which aims to reduce delays and improve service reliability for the J Church rail line and 22 Fillmore bus route.

Project details are subject to change due to weather or other operational issues.

Treasure Island Street Closure
On Saturday the following street closure will be required between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. for an event at the San Francisco Gaelic Fields on Treasure Island:

The 108 Treasure Island Muni route will be affected.

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