Powell Street station

Powell Street
Rapid transit (BART) Light rail (Muni)
Entrance to Powell Street Station
General information
Location	899 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105
Coordinates	37.784°N 122.408°W / 37.784; -122.408
Line(s)	BART   Yellow Line   Blue Line   Red Line   Green Line Muni Metro J Church K Ingleside L Taraval M Ocean View N Judah S Shuttle T Third Street
Platforms	2 island platforms (one for BART, one for Muni)
Tracks	2 wide gauge (BART) 2 standard gauge (Muni Metro) 2 standard gauge (MKSR)
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	November 5, 1973 (BART) February 1980 (Muni)
Passengers
FY 2013	28,295 exits/day  7.2% (BART)
Services
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Powell Street is a shared Muni Metro and Bay Area Rapid Transit station near the intersection of Market Street and Powell Street in downtown San Francisco. The station is located along the Market Street Subway and extends underground from Fourth Street to Fifth Street. Hallidie Plaza connects to the station on the north side of Market Street. Like all of the shared BART and Muni stations on the Market Street Subway, the concourse mezzanine is on the first level down, an island platform for the Muni Metro is on the second level down, and the island platform for BART is on the third level down.

The Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde cable car lines turn around at Powell and Market, above the station. Union Square is three blocks north of the station, the Westfield San Francisco Centre is on Market at Powell and the old United States Mint building is located one block away at Fifth Street and Mission Street. Also nearby is the famous Yerba Buena Gardens and Moscone Center, each about a block away, near Mission Street on 4th. Within the area is the The Metreon shopping center and movie theater. More tourist information is available at the San Francisco Visitor's Bureau located in Hallidie Plaza.

Powell Street is also the hub for San Francisco's Theater District. The Geary Theater, home to the American Conservatory Theater, is three-and-a-half blocks away. Next door to that is the historic Curran Theatre, now home to several touring Broadway productions. In Yerba Buena Gardens is the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, home to several performances and visual art that has enriched San Francisco. Located in Union Square is San Francisco's own TIX Bay Area, a Ticketmaster booth that also sells half-price tickets to several local theater companies.

Service at this station began on November 5, 1973. As of December 2013, Powell Street was the busiest station in the BART system. At this and other downtown stations, passengers may resort to “back-riding” during the evening commute across the bay. They take a train in the other direction for a few stops and then transfer to the correct train at a station when the train is less crowded such as Glen Park.

The under-construction Central Subway must dive deep underground to pass underneath this station. The Central Subway will include a new station on Stockton Street between Union Square and Market Street to be connected by a tunnel to the existing Powell Street station mezzanine. The result will be a single integrated underground complex running all the way from Union Square to Market and Fifth Streets.

Station layout

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

Transit connections

MUNI

• Powell/Hyde Cable Car Line
• Powell/Mason Cable Car Line
• 5 Fulton
• 6 Parnassus
• 7 Haight/Noriega
• 7R Haight/Noriega Rapid
• 8 Bayshore
• 8AX Bayshore "A" Express
• 8BX Bayshore "B" Express
• 9 San Bruno
• 9R San Bruno Rapid
• 16X Noriega Express
• 21 Hayes
• 27 Bryant
• 30 Stockton
• 31 Balboa
• 45 Union-Stockton
• 91 Owl
• L Owl
• N Owl

AC Transit

• 800 All Nighter
• 822 All Nighter

Independent Transit Operator

• Jitney Bus

Valley of the Moon Commute Club

• Sonoma-San Francisco (Stops on Mission Street between 4th and 5th Streets. Access via San Francisco Shopping Center)

California Shuttle Bus

• Oakland-San Jose-Los Angeles (Ellis & Mason)

Amtrak Thruway Bus Service

• Emeryville-San Francisco

See also

• List of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations

External links

• Media related to Powell Street Station at Wikimedia Commons
• BART – Powell St. Station Overview
• Street map from Mapquest