The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) has received a letter granting federal approval to proceed with a key component of the Central Subway Project. The approval, a letter of no prejudice issued by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), allows the SFMTA to commence with work that will prepare the 1.7-mile project alignment for tunneling [...]
Our latest project newsletter is now available online. In it, we highlight recent project milestones and provide updates on what to expect in 2012. Articles feature the following topics:
The status of our grant application with the Federal Transit Administration
The major project milestones we expect to accomplish this year
The dazzling public art installation planned for the [...]
Beginning Saturday, January 21, southbound Muni 30 Stockton and 45 Union-Stockton routes will travel on Mason and 5th streets to access the Caltrain Depot at 4th and Townsend streets.
With utility relocation continuing on the Central Subway Project in the Union Square area, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which operates Muni, will change the [...]
Let me start by agreeing with the general premise that the SFMTA can and must be better managed to better serve the people of San Francisco. I took the job of leading this agency to do just that. The challenges of the SFMTA did not develop overnight and won’t be erased overnight. [...]
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors released a resolution in support of the Central Subway Project and replacement housing. The resolution supports “the expeditious completion of all requirements necessary to enter into a Full Funding Grant Agreement with the Federal Transit Administration for the Central Subway project” as well as “a project that will replace all demolished rent controlled [...]
Central Subway Moves Forward with Largest Construction Contract
Release date: Sept. 13, 2011
**Press Release**
San Francisco – The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all surface transportation in the City, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), today announced that the initial notice to proceed (NTP) authorization for the Central Subway’s largest construction contract, $233.5 million, will [...]
A new poll shows that a majority of San Francisco voters support the Central Subway. The poll results are available below and the results were highlighted in the media by the SF Examiner, Majority of SF voters still back Central Subway, according to new poll.
Central Subway Poll Results//
SFMTA and City Business Leaders Highlight Progress of the
Central Subway Project
$20 million in federal New Starts funds recently released to the project will help
keep San Francisco moving forward
San Francisco—The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all surface transportation in the City, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), today was joined by the San Francisco Chamber of [...]
The Administrator of the Federal Transit Administration, Peter Rogoff, wrote a letter to the editor on Saturday, Sept. 3, in response to the Wall Street Journal article about the Central Subway (Aug. 23). We thank Administrator Rogoff for his support of the Central Subway and other transit projects around the country. The letter to the editor [...]
Re-posting of the September 1 San Francisco Chronicle Open Forum article ” Subway to the Future” written by Stephen Taber.
