San Francisco's Central Subway - 6 months later...SFMTA 

Yes, the NYC system has its own plusses and minuses. The main thing about SF is that this is not a system, its a single line with 3 stops that connects to a streetcar line. There is another line which runs perpendicular but it is mainly a streetcar. Hopefully one day the subway will expand to more areas.

@@StrollwithMe1 they are off to a great start! Unless the homeless ruin it...

​@@ericmoore571most unhoused people in sf are residents that were priced out. Don't get mad at them for taking shelter, get mad at Blackrock and real estate investors for jacking up the prices and making it super unaffordable to live

Thanks 😊

For massages or for food?😂

Thanks, Im glad you enjoy them and hopefully you get to come back someday

lived in san francisco 1985 to 2010, still miss it

​@blkcatjack the people who hate on it will never understand the city

It was nice then. I have fond memories of my 2004 Spring break trip there. RT Saint Louis SFO with 5 nights in Chinatown for $240 on Priceline. You could walk all around and it was low crime full of tourists and executives. I like that little café called Working Girls. We wouldn't want to be there today for it's high crime, full of homeless, and most businesses closed. It would be tough to get groceries, morning coffee, lunch, dinner, and night life today for most businesses are closed due to the city being broken. When I returned in 2014, it was really bad and today it's not really possible for office workers and tourists to be safe.

@@TUBESPECIFIC1 Lol, another victim of the propaganda. Buddy, SF's crime rate has dropped precipitously since the mid 2000s. The city has become more safer but also more expensive and a lot bougier. And yes, the affordability is a problem. Housing prices are pushing a $2 million average. But we are trying to address that on the state level to force the cities to build more housing. The Tenderloin is still messed up. The rest of the city has gotten a lot prettier and cleaner though. People are now starting to repaint all the victorians into their original colors rather than the more sanitized monochrome look of the 90s restorations. Some are doing actual forensic restorations to find out what the precise first colors were from the 1800s. So now a lot of the old victorians actually have the historic bright colors and contrast accents, including gold leaf and silver finishes on the ornate embellishments. Basically, more of them look more like the Painted Ladies, which is how they are supposed to look. You need to get out more. The fantasy world that you see on Fox News is not reality. Those people just want your money. They don't care about you getting anything resembling the truth.

Keep reading after that "snarky comment", because it wasn't snarky. They mentioned that it's not meant to make billions and is essential for making cities attractive places to live and visit.

@@anthonysnyder1152 I saw the entire video. Yes, it was snarky.

Yeah, its pretty nice

That is because the city is EMPTY given the exodus of Tech Workers. I am unsure how they managed to keep out the homeless ==> Star attraction of city by the bay i called home for almost 3 decades!!

@@GP-ud7frDude, you live in a right wing propaganda fantasy. I live here and I see none of the stuff that your propaganda channels are showing on TV to actually happen on the ground. Just like any other city SF has a rough neighborhood, the Tenderloin. But nobody goes there. So none of the locals ever see that stuff that they show on TV. Your point about tech workers is nonsense. The tech workers still work from home about 30% more than other industries, but the majority of them is already back at the office. It's just that hybrid is a lot more viable for them than for other industries. That's why 70% of tech workers being back at the office for 2-3 days per week only amounts to about 45% of transit ridership recovery and downtown occupancy. Finance, healthcare, and biotech are all back to basically 100% office work. If they do work from home it's never more than 1-2 days per week. As an anecdote about how truthful your propaganda is Musk has moved back to the Bay Area. He's also moved Tesla back to Palo Alto and into an even larger building than they had before the "move to Texas." A bunch of the other tech companies that supposedly "moved to Texas" have not only not moved anything but a few lawyers, but have also expanded their Bay Area workforce. Wake up and smell the coffee! Your propaganda crack pipe makes you believe asinine nonsense.

​@@GP-ud7fr Have you visited in a while? The T-Third regularly have full trains at Chinatown with a lot of people choosing to transfer at Union Square or continue to Mission Bay. Rarely are homeless a genuine problem with the line, never seen anyone doing drugs either, and I ride it nearly daily to get around town. Ridership up from 10k > 15k daily since the subway opened in January. Homeless and drug issues are a problem in SF, particularly centered in the Tenderloin (as it has been for nearly a century) but it's also a problem globally and particularly in the US. Because SF is so walkable and accessible via transit, it ends up becoming the core of the Bay Area's issues but it's also the reason that people move here. Similar to NYC, yet people still pay ridiculous rents to live there. It's a balance and over 800k people that still live in SF are choosing to be here despite it all. ** Just saw your other comment and realized I wasted my time with mine. Stay in your state and please never visit. We don't need people with your attitude around here.

Keep making excuses.​@@GP-ud7fr

The one in LA is not a subway station. It's an aerial light rail station that is clean and has a Chinese design aspect to it.

Its run by Muni, this station is in Chinatown

You can transfer to this line at the Powell st BART station. If you exit from the very first escalator at the eastern end of the Powell St station you just need to go further east like 50 ft to see the Central Subway Muni Metro entrance. It's pretty cool! Check it out some time!

If memory serves, the stop delay at the entrance to the subway section will in fact be removed. That stop is necessary for the trains to sync with the automated train control system in the subway. Right now they are still using the old system that the rest of the Muni Metro subways use. As soon as the entire system is upgraded to the new train control they'll be able to just get rid of that delay. And the signal priority for that section is also supposedly on the way. I don't remember which Muni project that is, but it is coming in the not too distant future. Basically, they had some systems planned that would make this section more seamless, but since those upgrades were not funded by the ballot measure that Muni floated, they had to open the Central Subway without them. They had contingency slower plans for implementing all that without the ballot measure so that's what they're doing now.

The 29 goes to McLaren Par, you can take it from the T, 8, or 9

@knightgwrn: Probably fare evasion and crime there too!!! No place in the world is free of any crime and fare evasions on their transit systems.

Thanks, DJI Pocket 2

@@StrollwithMe1 Nice! How did you mount it to your car for the driving videos? I'm especially a big fan of your rain drive videos!

The Muni metro is not exactly light rail. It's a transitional system from light rail to light metro. The trains are tram-trains built by Siemens. They can run on mainline rail in Europe and are perfectly capable light metro trains. Muni is gradually introducing more grade separation and subways to fully segregate the system from cars. But for now it's a mixed system. Some parts are light rail and some are full-on regular light metro. In the city center this transition is complete. If you live in the core of SF, you experience Muni as a light metro. If you live in the far-flung suburbs then Muni Metro is more like light rail from your perspective. Ultimately, it's a system that is very well adapted to its urban form and that is evolving to a better system over time.

That would be cool to be able to avoid the climb up the hill, would definitely serve the elderly population better.

@@anthonysnyder1152😅same thought!

😂 Would be super if they really did that, dug a horizontal exit out to Grant street. Why not? Could serve as a dual metro station!

Not at all. It’s been consistently clean since the grand opening. All of muni’s stations are clean and unproblematic. The only problem stations are BARTs Civic center and Powell stations because the entrances are right by the homeless centers of the city and the homeless frequently jump the BART turnstiles.

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It does continue north all the way to the future North Beach station, but the local NIMBYs there blocked the buildout of the station in the first phase of the project so now we have to wait for phase 2. When they extend it they'll probably have that station up and running before the rest of the route opens. The tunnels are completely built out. They just didn't install the tracks all the way because the station never got the green light.

Of course, the Negative Nancy couldn't stay away.

Subways are literally the safest place to be in an earthquake, bud. This subway connects a completely new residential area with a massive ballpark district, the brand new highrise area, downtown, and Chinatown. It is needed and that's why it was built.

It's nice, but about being needed in a mostly dead city that's screwed, I dunno. You have a financial interest surrounding it?@@TohaBgood2

It's actually happening now all across different parts of the country. FINALLY!

@@TUBESPECIFIC1 It's a long list, but I'm sure if you googled it you can find multiple transit projects in construction, but off the top of my head there are several in LA alone. You have the LAX People Mover LAWA recently announced an addition to the TBIT West Mid Field Gates that will be finished before the 2028 Olympics LAWA also announced a new international terminal 9, and a new concourse 0 that will expand LAX and increase capacity. 3 phase extension of the D subway line to the VA with the first 3 station segment opening late next year and subsequent segments in the following 2-3 years Extension of the A line from Azusa to Montclair currently under construction. The new K light rail line opened in South LA in October of last year. The LA Metro Regional Connector opened in June 2023 in DTLA adding 3 new beautiful stations similar to the one in this video. Airport Metro Connector (AMC) Station currently under construction, located at Aviation Boulevard and 96th Street, will connect regional transportation (Metro bus and light rail) to LAX via the Green and Crenshaw/LAX Lines. It's really going to serve more like a transportation HUB than a regular station. It will also be the largest station on LA Metro outside of Union Station You have a subway station in this video that opened in San Francisco's Chinatown recently. NYC is also making improvements to their rail transit network, and airports. Amtrak will be making upgrades to the NE Corridor to better take advantage of the new Acela trainsets they recently purchased. You have CAHSR under construction. The first HSR line in the USA. Brightline has built new rail transit lines in Florida and will open a new expanded line soon. They are also working on a HSR line from Vegas to LA they plan to start construction this year or early next year. I believe both Dallas and Houston have plans to expand their rail transit systems Their is the Texas Central HSR project that recently announced an agreement to work with Amtrak to HSR together. I'm sure there are many many others. So, yes, the USA is finally updating, modernizing, and expanding it's public transit infrastructure in many areas of the country. Lot of other construction going on too throughout the country including LA. For example, LA has two new museums currently under construction. The new LACMA (LA County Museum of Art), and the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts. Along with the Intuit Dome arena which is also under construction and will be the new home for the LA Clippers basketball team. Yes, there is around a 30% vacancy rate in office buildings in DTLA right now but that is mainly due to Covid and is temporary. It's already improving and next year it will be lower still. LA Metro just announced further ridership increases for the last month which is the 6th month in a row that has happened. That's a good sign for DTLA too.

It’s not a heavy rail subway and most of the route is an above ground tram. It’s goes through the tunnel for the purpose of avoiding the gridlocked traffic above. It’s a very expensive solution. BART is the only subway in the city and is technically fully automated but they have an operator for emergency purposes only. Would be nice to have a modern solution, but we don’t really have the funding for that in the US.

Yes. Are you surprised? Lol, SF is full of palm trees.

San Francisco is at the latitude of southern Portugal.

Wish granted! It runs every 10 minutes during weekdays.

A Karen is here too. Karen meet Negative Nancy.

Ummm, we do. Enjoy your propaganda about the closest equivalent of a US Monaco supposedly "declining." I'm sure that just this time Fox News decided not to lie 😁😁😁

SF is at about 80% of the tourist traffic from 2019. Try a fresher batch of propaganda. This one is already stale.

@@TohaBgood2 cope much, can you tell me why nordstrom closed and the famous mall is empty? But 80% tourist are back, sure buddy.

@@ebadd3468 Lol, that's literally official data, bud. The mall closed because it was hurting for over a decade just like all the other malls across the country. We also got the transition to online shopping about a decade before the US due to the abundance of moneyed techies in the Bay Area. The only parts of that mall that were still getting foot traffic before the pandemic were expensive demo boutiques where you're just seeing the items in person before buying online, and the more experience oriented non-goods businesses. You people seriously live in a parallel universe. Who would believe this drivel? 😁😁😁

@@TohaBgood2 I remember when SF was a great place to visit. Now a bunch of delusional simps who doesn't have a clue how far SF has fallen. Sad really.

can you walk at 25 mph, bud? 🤣🤣🤣

@TohaBgood2 did you include the time it takes to get to the down to the station?. It's like you're on an escalator to hell.

@@Ali-uf5du Yep. I was actually curious how long the transfer from BART to the T takes. Clocked in the whole thing at under 3 minutes from the BART platform to the Muni Metro platform. So the escalators can't take more than 1min30sec. In fact, they take less than a minute in the real world. Look, I understand that you want something to criticize. But this is genuinely a pretty well built subway. I travel a lot and this is very very well built compared to the best systems out there. Yes, it is actuallay that good. It's no deeper than other similar systems. Everything is new, clean, and very well designed. We did get our tax money's worth here. You'd be better served to try to find something else to criticize about Muni. Like, how about criticizing Muni for dragging their feet on traffic signal priority for the N and L in the boonies? That's an actual valid complaint!

If you think that was criticism. You haven't heard anything yet. Also, if you have time to write as much as you did you obviously aren't enjoying the city either. @@TohaBgood2

@@Ali-uf5du I work in tech, bud. I type about as fast as I think. Not bragging btw. It's just that typing is an integral part of my job.

It’s Chinatown. What did you expect?

@@peteralbert1485 Nowadays, he's thinking Palestinians live there.

Lol, what are you even talking about, bud? This project was supposed to take 8 years and it took 10 because they found an underground river and the bay-fill soils in SOMA were even worse than expected. Given that a Chinese megacorp couldn't build a skyscraper that didn't lean and list two blocks away. I'd say that this subway turned out pretty well all things considered. The subway works impeccably now. It's perfectly clean. It's genuinely pretty. Has nice lighting. It's fast. It connects to BART and the rest of Muni Metro at Powell, and to Caltrain at 4th and King and Sunnydale. Oh, and China's metro stations start falling apart after a few years of use. That tends to happen if you start building without doing any studies and not building any drainage in. Lord save us if we ever start building like China does.

@TohaBgood2 lol. Sounds like someone who never been out of their cave. But carry on. China in 10 years of time had builded the biggest HSR network in the world. From 2008 to 2018. While SF 2 stations and a mile plus is great in your view. Cause u never been anywhere except your cave. But carry on.

​@@TohaBgood2Well said. China is even starting to have problems with some of their HSR lines resulting in them slowing down the average speeds significantly. It helps with the wear and tear.

Lol depends which lines you’re talking about. Shanghai Metro line 15 is new and modern, but line 1 is already looking old and tired

underground tunnels and objects and buildings are more resistant to earthquakes lol

Yeah, subways are literally the safest place during an earthquake. To whit, when we had our last big one in the 80s BART was back up and running in minutes. At the same time we had multiple highways collapse alongside a section of the Bay Bridge. Subways are also extremely useful as shelters during natural disasters like earthquakes. They don't collapse and preserve electricity and running water systems. If anything, we should be building as much underground infrastructure in earthquake-prone areas. Some experts were even calling for us to move some of our elevated highways underground to make sure that they survive the next big earthquake!

​@@TohaBgood2

@@TohaBgood2 My brother was on BART in the Transbay Tube when the earthquake hit. They stopped at West Oakland station and everyone had to ride provided buses. When they went up Broadway there were a bunch of broken windows and someone asked the driver if it had been a bomb. The driver acted like they had all just landed from Mars! Nobody had even felt the earthquake.

It's called sarcasm.

Lol, what are you even talking about, bud? Have you even been to SF recently? 😁😁😁

@@TohaBgood2 NOPE No desire to even visit!! Done with 3rd World Liberal Nuisance and btw I am an immigrant in tech with multiple degrees. I am happy where i moved ===> A neighboring state!!!

@@GP-ud7fr Lol, I am an immigrant with multiple degrees working in tech too. Talk to me when you need to switch jobs to increase your salary and then we'll see if you still want to stay in your third world red state. I have a few friends like you who have either already returned to the Bay or are constantly whining that Texas was a scam perpetuated by Joe Rogan and Co. Honestly, I understand that you probably saw your non-Prop 13 tax bill in your new home state and are now trying to prove to yourself and others that you didn't make a massive mistake. But the reality is what it is. SF is mostly the same as it was before the pandemic. The Tenderloin is still messed up. The rest of the city is still gorgeous and loads of fun. Good luck to you. May the lord have mercy on your eternal soul 😁😁😁

10 billion dollar train that 12 people a day ride

@@gwillikers7383 It's like you people live in a parallel dimension 😁😁😁

Keep dreaming, bud.

It doesn’t matter if republican or democrat

@weshz2429: Democrats turned COMMUNIST.