Starting as soon as Monday, June 2, SFMTA crews will be installing a transit lane on San Jose Avenue. They are designed to improve reliability for the M Ocean View’s 18,000 daily riders and make San Jose Avenue safer for all who use it. Learn more in our project update.
A partir de la semana del 2 de junio, las cuadrillas de trabajadores de SFMTA comenzarán a instalar mejoras de construcción rápida (“quick-build”) en la Avenida San José, con un carril exclusivo para el transporte público. Están diseñadas para mejorar la confiabilidad del servicio para los 18,000 pasajeros diarios de la línea M Ocean View y hacer que la avenida San José sea más segura para todas las personas que la utilizan. Habrá más información en las novedades sobre el proyecto.
從 6 月 2 日那週開始，三藩市交通局 (SFMTA) 施工隊將為聖荷西大道(San Jose Avenue) 安裝快速建設改進，包括一條公交專用車道。它們旨在提高M Ocean View每日18,000名乘客的可靠性，並使聖荷西大道(San Jose Avenue)對所有使用它的人來說更安全。在專案更新中深入瞭解。
The M Ocean View connects the Ocean View district to downtown San Francisco via the Twin Peaks Tunnel and the Balboa Park BART station. It also provides the Ocean View district with access to educational institutions including San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco.
The M Ocean View had a ridership of over 30,000 people per day before the pandemic, which is recovering steadily. The line serves a high percentage of people from households with low incomes and people of color. As a result, the Muni Service Equity Strategy identified the line as a priority for improvements in the Ocean View neighborhood.
The M Ocean View Transit and Safety Project focuses on improvements along the M Ocean View between Junipero Serra Boulevard and Balboa Park BART Station. Our goals are to:
- Improve reliability for M Ocean View riders
- Enhance accessibility for people with disabilities along the corridor as many stops do not have fully accessible boarding areas
- Improve safety for people walking
The project is part of the Muni Forward program, which is delivering transit priority and reliability improvements across the Muni system.
The project proposals were approved by the SFMTA Board at their February 6, 2024 meeting.
Project Outreach
The project team worked closely with the Ocean View community to shape the project’s proposals.
In early 2022, the team held a “listening tour” to understand improvement priorities from transit riders, neighborhood residents, community-based organizations and area merchants. That fall, we shared initial proposals for community feedback that included designs that improve on the top priorities that we heard from the community. These priorities included reducing wait and travel times and improving safety for people walking to stops. Considering the community’s feedback on these proposals, we refined our designs and shared updated proposals in spring 2023. We received feedback from hundreds of community members through an open house, self-guided open houses, pop-up events and meetings with community groups and residents. We further refined and updated our proposals and held a two-week virtual public hearing in the summer before proposing the project to the SFMTA Board for their unanimous approval at the February 6, 2024 meeting.
- Detailed Design
- Implementation / Construction
Other Efforts
While this project focuses on street-level transit improvements in the Ocean View neighborhood, it complements a long-range study called the Muni Metro Modernization Core Capacity Planning Study. This Planning study will develop concepts for providing subway-quality service on the M Ocean View outside the tunnel between West Portal and San Francisco State University as a part of a package of capacity-increasing and State of Good Repair improvements funded by a federal Capital Improvements Program (CIG) Grant.
Separately, a study of different design approaches for extending the M Ocean View from SF State to Parkmerced and developing infrastructure in this segment for running longer train cars is underway. While these other studies are on longer timelines and focus on different segments of the M Ocean View line than the M Ocean View Transit and Safety Project, our project team is coordinating with these various ongoing efforts as appropriate.