Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association Transportation Committee

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA), which encompasses MUNI, is planning to implement three projects within the next two to three years in our neighborhood. We’re calling it the Duboce Triangle Transportation Improvement Plan. Check out the overview here.

1. Church and Duboce Streets Rail Replacement: The primary purpose of this project is to replace the track in order to reduce the probabilities of derailment due to the aging and deteriorated track, reduce noise and vibration, reduce maintenance, improve efficiency of track switch and signal system, and improve ride quality. The specific objectives of this project can be summarized as follows:MTA work:

• Replace worn tracks
• Replace selected overhead poles and hardware
• Replace existing sequential track switch control and interlocking system with Vehicle Tagging System (VTS) track switch control and upgraded interlocking system
• Convert manual switches to electrified switches at the DTY
• Replace worn signal cabinets and equipments
• Lengthen and/or widen low-level boarding islands along Duboce Avenue
• Install tear drop luminaries and updated bracket arms along Duboce Avenue
• Street Striping

Work done by others:

• Resurface roadway and repair selected road base
• Upgrade selected curb ramps
• Replace water mains
• Sewer Upgrade (Pending sewer investigation)

2. N-Judah stop improvement at the East Portal of the Sunset Tunnel (Duboce and Noe Streets). This project would replace the existing boarding island with a larger and enhanced platform to accommodate two car trains with proper transit stop furniture such as lighted shelter, next train info, telephone, trashcan, curb ramps, news rack and railing.

View an overview of these first two projects as presented by the MTA at the November DTNA member meeting.

3. Noe Street Traffic Calming project: In response to a planning effort underway between California Pacific Medical Center’s Davies Campus and the DTNA, the MTA Traffic Calming group offered assistance in finalizing a plan developed by the DTNA to bulb out/widen the sidewalk in three locations and add angled parking on Noe Street between Duboce Avenue and 14th Street. The plan was to be funded by the hospital, and help reduce speeding while also retaining the existing tree islands on each end of the block. Short term improvements such as ladder crosswalks at Noe and 14th Streets and speed limit signs on each end of the block were completed by MTA during the process. The MTA Traffic Calming group will continue to work with the community as funding for projects in the area become available.

Summary
Clearly, these three projects have the potential to significantly improve Noe, Duboce and Church Streets. So the DTNA Transportation Committee has begun work with the MTA and other local community groups to ensure that the projects are coordinated for maximum benefit and minimum intrusion into people’s daily lives. DTNA is pleased to be working with the MTA on these projects; we believe that the neighborhood can be significantly enhanced for all of our diverse residents by ensuring that local ideas and concerns are incorporated into the project plans.

We want to hear your ideas. Leave comments below or e-mail Kit Hodge, the chair of the Transportation Committee, with your ideas. We will update this page regularly, and keep track of progress on the blog portion of this site, as the projects develop.