Civic Center/UN Plaza station

Civic Center/UN Plaza
Rapid transit (BART) Light rail (Muni)
A Muni Metro train (foregound) waiting in the station level while another train (background) is boarding passengers
General information
Location	1150 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102
Coordinates	37.779861°N 122.413498°W / 37.779861; -122.413498
Platforms	1 high level island platform (BART) 1 high level island platform (Muni Metro) 2 low level side platforms (MKSR)
Tracks	2 wide gauge (BART) 2 standard gauge (Muni Metro) 2 standard gauge (MKSR)
Connections	AC Transit Golden Gate Transit Valley of the Moon Commute Club Kaiser Shuttle Yellow Line
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	November 5, 1973 (BART) February 1980 (Muni)
Passengers
FY 2013	20,342 exits/day  8.55%
Services
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Civic Center/UN Plaza is a BART and Muni Metro station in the Civic Center of San Francisco. The westernmost of the dual BART/Muni stops on the Market Street Subway, Civic Center/UN Plaza acts as a major hub for passenger movement throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. With 18,432 exits each weekday, it is the fourth-busiest station in the BART system.

Location

Outside, in the United Nations Plaza itself, facing Market Street, there is a fountain and a north-south cross marking its center to be at latitude/longitude coordinates 37°46′48″N 122° 24′49″W. There is a flea market at the plaza or farmer's market every day, year round.

There are several notable buildings in the Civic Center area, including City Hall, the War Memorial Opera House, Asian Art Museum, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall. The San Francisco Public Library's main branch is located across the street and San Francisco City Clinic is 2 blocks east on 7th street. Tenderloin is located two blocks north of the station.

History

Service at this station began on November 5, 1973.

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
M	Mezzanine	One-way faregates, ticket machines, station agent
B1	Outbound	← Template:MUNI icon toward Balboa Park (Van Ness) ← Template:MUNI icon toward Balboa Park (Van Ness) ← Template:MUNI icon toward 46th Avenue and Wawona (Van Ness) ← Template:MUNI icon toward San Jose and Geneva / Balboa Park (Van Ness) ← Template:MUNI icon toward Judah and La Playa (Van Ness) ← Template:MUNI icon toward Castro Street, West Portal on AT&T Park game days (Van Ness)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Inbound	→ Template:MUNI icon toward Embarcadero (Powell Street) → → Template:MUNI icon toward Embarcadero (Powell Street) → → Template:MUNI icon toward Embarcadero (Powell Street) → → Template:MUNI icon toward 4th and King/Caltrain Depot (Powell Street) → → Template:MUNI icon toward Embarcadero, 4th and King/Caltrain Depot on AT&T Park game days (Powell Street) → → Template:MUNI icon toward Sunnydale (Powell Street) →
B2	Southbound/Westbound	← Template:BART icon toward SFO weekdays, Millbrae weekends (16th Street Mission) ← Template:BART icon toward Daly City (16th Street Mission) ← Template:BART icon toward Millbrae weekdays, Daly City Saturdays (16th Street Mission) ← Template:BART icon toward Daly City (16th Street Mission)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left
	Northbound/Eastbound	→ Template:BART icon toward Pittsburg / Bay Point (Powell Street) → → Template:BART icon toward Dublin / Pleasanton (Powell Street) → → Template:BART icon toward Richmond (Powell Street) → → Template:BART icon toward Fremont (Powell Street) →

Like all stations in the Market Street Subway apart from Van Ness, Civic Center/UN Plaza has a tri-level configuration. Passengers first descend from the street to a mezzanine concourse containing faregates for passengers to enter separate BART and Muni paid areas, with one BART entrance on each end and one for Muni in the middle. Muni Metro trains stop at an island platform on the second level down. The Muni platform is punctured in several locations by openings for stairs and escalators that go directly from the mezzanine level to the BART platform, bypassing the Muni platform. As the openings are not blocked off by walls, it is possible to hear activity on the Muni platform from the BART platform.

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

External links

• Media related to Civic Center / UN Plaza Station at Wikimedia Commons
• BART – Civic Center Station Overview
• Street map from Mapquest