By Isabel Angell, KALW
The bids are in to build San Francisco’s Central Subway project – and the price tag will be over $100 million more than the city expected.
The Central Subway will be a 1.7-mile tunnel under the heart of the city for Muni’s T-Third light rail line. The subway will finally provide a connection from the up-and-coming South of Market neighborhood to densely populated Chinatown.
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency says once the Central Subway is completed in 2019, the T-Third line will serve 43,700 daily riders. By 2030, the agency estimates that the daily ridership on just the subway will reach over 30,000 and that ridership for the full line will be 65,000. That would make the T-Third line the second-most-boarded light rail project in the country by 2030, after the Downtown Subway in Los Angeles.
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