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Meanwhile, North of Chinatown…

As a pair of tunnel boring machines making their way towards North Beach and construction of the Central Subway in full swing, it’s a good time to ask what next?

The machines are already going to dig for another mile after they pass Chinatown Station because so they can be removed on the site of a long-shuttered theatre instead shutting down a major transit and traffic corridor for a year. From there it’s not much further to Fisherman’s Wharf, creating a complete North-South light-rail corridor through downtown.

Already digging tunnels from Chinatown to North Beach neatly solves the problem of tunneling to North Beach from Chinatown. That’s a nice down payment on an extension and Socketsite reports a feasibility study is in the offing,

The San Francisco County Transportation Authority’s Plans and Programs Committee has just recommended that $173,212 in Prop K funds be allocated to a high-level feasibility study for a northern extension of the Central Subway from its current planned terminus in Chinatown to Fisherman’s Wharf, an extension which is being championed by SF NexTstop.

The study will look at different options regarding station placement and exact route options.