Labor Day Holiday Muni Service
Monday, September 5 (Labor Day Holiday): Muni service will operate on a Sunday schedule. The 76X Marin Headlands Express Muni bus will be in service.
BART Weekend Closures
The weekend of September 3-5 (Labor Day Weekend): As part of the regional track work around the BART system started earlier this year, BART stations between Daly City and Glen Park will be closed over seven weekends for vital repairs to their tracks and to add equipment for the reduction of noise from trains.
Below are subsequent closures:
September 17-18
October 1-2
October 15-16
During the shutdown, there will be free bus shuttle service available for customers:
SamTrans will provide free express shuttles between the Daly City and Glen Park stations.
Muni will provide free local shuttles between the three stations: Glen Park, Balboa Park and Daly City.
There will be signs and extra BART personnel on site to assist customers. Travelers should allow extra time during these shutdowns.
While regular SamTrans and Caltrain service will be available as an alternative for travelers going to the Peninsula, customers may also use regular Muni paid service that connects with affected BART stations:
J-Church (from Balboa Park Station to Glen Park Station)
M-OceanView (from Balboa Park Station to Civic Center Station)
14-Mission (from Daly City Station to 24th St. Station)
14R-Mission Rapid (from Daly City Station to 24th Street Station)
49-Van Ness/Mission (from Balboa Park Station to 24th St. Station)
54-Felton (from Daly City Station to Balboa Park Station)
For more information, please check: https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2016/news20160615-2.
San Francisco Fest
Sunday, September 4: The Giants’ San Francisco Fest 2016, featuring concert performance by Journey, Santana, Steve Miller Band, The Doobie Brothers and Tower of Power. The concert will take at AT&T Park and will start at 3 p.m. An attendance of 38,000 is expected.
The SFMTA advises motorists of the increased congestion in downtown San Francisco related to this special event and advises commuters to use transit, taxis, bicycles or walk and to avoid using the Bay Bridge in the two hours before the concert.
Muni Service to AT&T Park
The following Muni service will be available to and from these concerts:
E Embarcadero
T Third
N Judah
Metro Ballpark Shuttles
10 Townsend
30 Stockton
45 Union
47 Van Ness
The SFMTA will provide additional train service of Metro “ballpark shuttles” to the existing N Judah and T Third service to the ballpark.
The additional service will begin two hours prior to the event and will continue until an hour after the concert ends.
More Options of Buying Muni Tickets
Event participants are encouraged to use Clipper® Card to get to AT&T Park. Customers using Bay Area public transportation systems are strongly encouraged to purchase their fares in advance or use Clipper® Card to attend the concert. Customers using a Clipper Card receive 50 cents off an adult single ride when transferring to Muni from BART, Golden Gate Ferry and Transit, and San Francisco Bay Ferry routes (Oakland-Alameda, Harbor Bay and Vallejo). Golden Gate Ferry and Transit and San Francisco Bay Ferry provide the same discount on return trips. To learn more about transfer discounts, please visit transfer discounts.
For more information on using Clipper on Muni, please visit clippercard.com/muni.
Event participants may also use MuniMobile, an official SFMTA app, to save time by instantly buying tickets for Muni bus, rail, cable car, and paratransit services on their iPhone and Android devices. Tickets can be purchased through a credit/debit card or PayPal account for individual or multiple riders on one smartphone. Customers can buy tickets ahead of time and activate when they are ready to ride – with MuniMobile, your phone is your fare.
For details about transit service to AT&T Park, including connections from Bay Area transit systems to Muni, please visit http://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/destinations/att-park.
For regional transit information for BART, Caltrain and the ferries as well as traffic, please go to www.511.org.
San Francisco Opera Gala
Next Wednesday, September 7: The annual opening of the San Francisco Opera’s new opera season will be held at the War Memorial Opera House and inside a tent on Grove Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue. The festivities will take place between 5 p.m. and midnight.
A closure of Grove Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue will be required between 5 a.m., Wednesday, September 7 and 5 a.m., Thursday, September 8.
The 21 Hayes Muni route will be affected.
CONSTRUCTION WORK AND OTHER UPDATES
UPDATE: Balboa Park Station Improvement Project
Now until Further Notice: The Balboa Park Station Area and Plaza Improvements project broke ground on February 29 to implement safety, accessibility and transit improvements around the Balboa Park Station. Weather permitting, construction work for the project is anticipated to last through December 2016. Temporary impacts include:
September 6, Tuesday: The K-Ingleside and J Church Muni lines will be temporarily re-routed and is expected to last for approximately four months.
Temporarily Change to K-Ingleside Rail Service:
The first and last stop for both inbound and outbound travel will be at the City College Pedestrian Bridge on Ocean Avenue
There will be no direct service to the Balboa Park Station
For direct K service, passengers can transfer at Ocean and Lee to the following frequently serviced Muni routes:
29-Sunset (transfer at the Ocean and Lee stop in front of Whole Foods).
49-Van Ness/Mission (transfer on the Phelan bus loop on Ocean and Phelan)
8-Bayshore (transfer on the Phelan bus loop on Ocean and Phelan)
To reach Balboa Park Station, passengers can also walk about three accessible blocks from the City College Pedestrian Bridge stop to the Ocean Avenue entrance of the station.
Temporarily Change to J-Church Rail Service:
Both inbound and outbound service will be on San Jose Avenue
Customers travelling inbound should board at the temporary stop at San Jose Avenue and Geneva Avenue, in front of Crazy Pepper (Accessible boarding at Seneca Avenue)
Customers travelling outbound will be dropped off at the existing accessible M line stop on San Jose Avenue at Geneva Avenue (Accessible off-boarding at Wayside lift)
For more project details, please visit www.sfmta.com/balboaparkarea.
Sansome Street Improvement Project
The extension of southbound traffic lane designated for transit, taxis and commercial vehicles on Sansome Street from Washington Street to Broadway Street provides two-way service for the 10 Townsend and 12 Folsom/Pacific Muni routes and save customers up to three minutes for each southbound trip is complete. This project is part of Muni Forward Program designed to improve customers’ travel time and reliability:
The left northbound lane on Sansome Street between Washington and Broadway streets has been converted to a southbound traffic lane with restricted hours designated for use by certain vehicles:
Between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m., Daily: Only buses, taxis, commercial vehicles and emergency vehicles are allowed.
Outside of those hours: All vehicles are allowed.
Fifteen metered parking spaces on the west side of Sansome Street in the project area have been converted to commercial loading zones.
Since Saturday, August 13, Muni routes 10 Townsend and 12 Folsom/Pacific traveling southbound no longer provide service on Battery Street between Broadway and Washington streets. The route travels on the newly designated southbound transit lane on Sansome Street with the following stops:
Sansome Street at Jackson Street
Sansome Street at Broadway Street
Customers can contact muniforward@sfmta.com with questions on this project.
Construction of Mission Bay Loop
Now until Further Notice: The SFMTA has resumed with exploratory excavation on 18th, 19th and Illinois streets. Construction has begun and is expected to complete in seven to eight months.
The Mission Bay Loop is a key component for San Francisco’s T Third rail line and is critical to operating the T-Third Central Subway service plan. The loop provides turn-around capabilities for the T-Third Street light rail line via a connection of trackway from 3rd Street to 18th, Illinois and 19th streets, which will allow the SFMTA to operate the necessary service levels needed to support current and planned growth within the eastern portion of San Francisco.
Traffic, including traveling by bike, may be affected by the construction work. All work areas will be clearly marked and there will be flaggers to help direct traffic. Traveling around and through the construction area should expect minor delays.
Local access to properties along the project site will be maintained.
For project details or to sign up to receive project updates, please visit:
https://www.sfmta.com/projects-planning/projects/mission-bay-loop.