Central Subway Continues to Disrupt Without Necessary Funding…

The Central Subway System continues its construction along Fourth Street, despite a blatant lack of funding (here’s their side of the story). I’ve noticed over the past week or three that the project has now started to involve local traffic patterns and disrupt the Fourth Street area between Harrison and Brannan Streets. However, today, the construction crossed the Route 80 line and has entered into the realm of Fourth between Harrison and Folsom.

According to the construction notice linked above, the service drilling between Harrison and Folsom will be conducted between Wednesday, March 10th (they started closing off the walkways today) and Monday, March 15th. There will also be a lane of traffic, in addition to the left-side parking lane, closed during drilling, which means that of the 5 lanes that enter onto route 101/80, two lanes will be closed (2 of the lanes are for parking, so in reality, 2 lanes will be open). I wonder how that will impact traffic. It has its busy moments to begin with, from what I’ve seen, and now the Duck Boat Tour will have no choice but to add a second song to the mix while they wait at the light. 

Enough whining. The subway construction is apparently here to stay (until they run out of funds). Here are some photos that were compiled of the construction process during the month of February: