Montgomery Street station
Montgomery Street station (often Montgomery station) is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit station in the Market Street subway. Located under Market Street between Montgomery Street and Sansome Street, it serves the Financial District neighborhood and surrounding areas. The three-level station has a large fare mezzanine level, with separate platform levels for Muni Metro and BART below. With over 42,000 boardings per weekday in 2019, Montgomery Street and Embarcadero station to the north are the two busiest stations in the BART system.
Station layout
Like the three other shared Muni/BART stations in the Market Street subway, Montgomery has three underground levels. The first level is a fare mezzanine, with two Muni paid areas and two BART paid areas. The second level has a single island platform for Muni Metro, and the third level has an island platform for BART.[4] The station has seven street entrances along its length, plus underground entrances to the One Sansome Street and 44 Montgomery buildings.[4]
Following the 2015 addition of a canopy over an escalator at 19th Street Oakland station, which reduced escalator downtime by one-third, BART decided to add canopies to all downtown Oakland and San Francisco entrances.[5] Construction of the Market Street entrances will begin in 2020, with completion in 2027.[6] Under the planned Better Market Street project, the inbound F stop would be discontinued to reduce travel times.[7]
History
The under-construction station was featured in the 1971 film The Organization.[8][9] BART service at the station began on November 5, 1973, followed by Muni Metro service on February 18, 1980.[1][2]
Some rush-hour trains on the Antioch line short turn at Montgomery during the morning peak to provide additional Transbay service. Dublin/Pleasanton line trains terminated at Montgomery on some Sundays due to single-tracking in the Market Street Subway from February 16, 2020, to September 20, 2020, when the terminal was moved to 24th Street Mission.[10][11]
Connections
Muni's F Market and Wharves heritage streetcar line stops on the surface at Market and 2nd Street (outbound) and Market and New Montgomery (inbound). The station is also served by a number of Muni bus and trolleybus routes:[12]
- Local: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 21, 30, 31, 38, 45
- Rapid: 5R, 9R, 38R
- Express: 7X, 8AX, 8BX, 81X
- Owl service: 91 Owl, J Bus, KT Bus, K Owl, L Bus, L Owl, M Bus, N Owl, N Bus
AC Transit serves Montgomery Street station with the 800 All Nighter route during hours that BART is not operating.[12]
Additional Muni (14, 14R, 14X), Golden Gate Transit (30, 70, 101, 101X), and SamTrans (292, 397, 398, FCX) bus routes run on Mission Street, one block away. The Transbay Transit Center, located about 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) to the east, is the primary San Francisco terminal for AC Transit transbay routes, WestCAT, Greyhound Lines, Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach buses, some Golden Gate Transit routes, and Muni route 25.[12]
References
- "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
- Callwell, Robert (September 1999). "Transit in San Francisco: A Selected Chronology, 1850–1995" (PDF). San Francisco Municipal Railway. p. 57.
- "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2020.
- "Station Map: Montgomery Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. August 13, 2012.
- "Ribbon-cutting held for San Francisco BART Station Market St. Canopies" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. November 13, 2018.
- "BART to build canopies over San Francisco Market Street entrances" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. January 23, 2020.
- Better Market Street Project EIR (PDF). 1. San Francisco Planning Department. February 27, 2019. pp. 2–53.
- Weiler, A. H. (October 21, 1971). "Four Features Begin Their Runs Here: Poitier Is Virgil Tibbs in 'The Organization'". New York Times.
- "BART in the movies: From THX 1138 to Predator 2 to Will Smith". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. August 4, 2008.
- "New Sunday service plan to begin in February" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. November 25, 2019.
- "BART schedule change beginning Sept 14th increases weekday commute service" (Press release). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. September 8, 2020.
- "Transit Stops: Montgomery Station" (PDF). Metropolitan Transportation Commission. November 8, 2018.
External links
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- BART: Montgomery St. Station
- SFMTA: Montgomery Station inbound, outbound
- SF Bay Transit (unofficial): MUNI Metro Montgomery Station, Montgomery St. BART Station