San Francisco’s Third Street Light Rail line opens for service

San Francisco’s Third Street Light Rail Line - to be known as the ‘T’ line - opened for limited (free!) weekend service today. Regular all-week service will commence on April 7 of this year.

Service begins at 10 a.m. and continues until 7 p.m. For the first three months, the T-Third will operate only on weekends between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Anyone who boards a train south of Fourth and King streets can ride the line for free until April 7, when full service is scheduled to start.

[Quoted from SAN FRANCISCO / Muni’s Third St. light-rail line finally rolling ]

The Third Street Light Rail Line runs southwards on Third Street from the current terminus at Fourth and Kind Streets (next to the Caltrain station) and terminates near the Bayshore Caltrain station. (at Bayshore Blvs. and Sunnydale Ave.) I think, originally there was supposed to be a station right next to the Caltrain station, but for some reason, this was not implemented.

The T line will continue northwards along the Embarcadero trackage and into the Market Street tunnel to its northern terminus at Castro station.

Effective April 7, 2007, the N-Judah line will stop serving the 4th & King station and now terminate at Embarcadero station. The J-Church line will provide peak hour only service to 4th & King.

Posted in: Bay Area, California, Light Rail, Urban Transit | January 13, 2007 10:23 pm

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Jeremy G Frankel, on January 21, 2008 @ 1:41 pm

Just one small comment re the opening of the 3rd Street Light Rail, you wrote that the current terminus is Fourth and KING not Kind Streets. However, all this may be moot now that the line is open.