The N Judah Metro line will be getting safety and reliability upgrades starting this weekend. Good news, but it also means that if you take the N, getting around on the weekends will probably be sucky, starting tonight until summer next year.
The SFMTA will be replacing track lines, installing new ADA platforms, putting in new Transit Signal Priority (TSP) upgrades, and making improvements to components under the Sunset Tunnel, which runs between Duboce Triangle and Cole Valley. During construction, which will only take place on weekends, much of the N Judah rail service will be replaced with bus shuttles following the regular route, except for the tunnel part — buses will run on Haight Street instead.
The regular rail service will not affect the portion of the line between 4th and King Caltrain and Church and Duboce, so if you’re just traveling between Duboce Triangle and downtown, you won’t really be affected. If you need to go further out towards the Sunset — up until Ocean Beach — however, you may have to offboard the train for a bus, and/or deal with a slower commute since buses will run on city streets.
The N buses will start running tonight at 7 p.m. until 2 a.m. Monday Nov. 10, and will continue the next two weekends in November. Construction will take a break after Nov. 24 for the holidays, and then start up again for weekends through June 2015.
Since the N Judah Owl is a bus service already, that line will not be affected.
As Hoodline explained earlier this week, this construction was actually supposed to take place back in September, but was postponed because of damaged drainage pipes beneath some of the track. Hopefully construction will go on swimmingly for here on out, but sorry if your already long commute to/from the ocean is going to be a little longer for quite a while.
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