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The Stockton Street Tunnel is a tunnel in San Francisco, California, which carries its namesake street underneath a section of Nob Hill near Chinatown for about three blocks. It was opened in 1914. It was opened in 1914.
Mom Chung" was delivered to San Francisco in April and May 2013, [27] [28] and in late July 2013, "Mom Chung" began digging the tunnel for southbound T Third trains. [29] "Big Alma" began digging north in November 2013 at a slightly faster rate, 54 ft/d (16 m/d), compared to the 44 ft/d (13 m/d) average of "Mom Chung".
The underground station features a 5,400 square feet (500 m 2) public plaza on its roof, only the fifth open space park in the Chinatown neighborhood. [4] San Francisco Chronicle architecture critic John King called Chinatown "the best architectural experience, bottom to top", of the Central Subway stations. King complimented the design of the ...
Stockton Street is a north-south street in San Francisco. [1] It begins at Market Street passing Union Square, a major shopping district in the city. [2] It then runs underground for about two and a half blocks in Stockton Street Tunnel (lending its name to a separate, parallel street above the tunnel), passes through Chinatown and North Beach (Little Italy), and ends at Beach Street near the ...
In 1948, voters in the City of San Francisco passed a $5 million bond measure (equivalent to $50.7 million in 2023 [9]) to fund the construction of the Broadway Tunnel. [10] Site preparations, including the move of an apartment building from 1453 Mason to Vallejo Street, [ 11 ] were underway by October 1949, and the construction contract was ...
Washington Street in Chinatown with Transamerica Pyramid in the background.. Officially, Chinatown is located in downtown San Francisco, covers 24 square blocks, [10] and overlaps five postal ZIP codes (94108, 94133, 94111, 94102, and 94109).
Tours of basements and tunnels under Chinatown will resume in early 2024. Take a tunnel tour: Tours of Chinatown’s underground are coming back in early 2024. No exact dates have been released ...
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