Subway Station Enthusiast Visits the NEWEST STATION in San Francisco! Chinatown Rose Pak Station

After 25+ years of planning & construction, the Chinatown Rose Pak Station is FINALLY opening softly!!!!! As a Chinatown enthusiast AND a Subway Station Enthusiast, this is a deadly combo that I must experience!!!
Join me as I take the San Francisco's infamous public transportation (MUNI) to check out the newest Central Subway Line along with the newly opened Chinatown and Yerba Buena Station!
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[@suemayt5354]

Thank you! I had moved away 20yr+. Thank you!

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

Good to see the Pittsburg Steelers being represented in the Pantheon of Asian cultures.

[@Caliprimitive]

Beautiful subway station

[@theaustinleeytchanneltalytc]

Nice meeting you at Chinatown Station! Riding the new subway was fun.

[@jacks_off_to]

Nice meeting you Austin!

[@ActuallySanFrancisco]

i live in san francisco just a few blocks from this station and i, too, have a south butt t-shirt! hats off to you, sir! you've got a new subscriber! also this station really is quite lovely.

[@Rubycon99]

The new stations are just built to the reality that Muni runs two cars maximum (and it can be extended if they ever get around to lengthening trains). When the Market Street Subway was being built, Muni originally wanted to put the M/N entirely underground with long BART-like subway trains, but they couldn't get the bond measure passed so they ended up with platforms that were way too long for the LRV's that ended up being used.

[@PongLangYan1]

I still haven't made my way down to this station. Really liked the tiles on the wall, and the paper-cut style wall. Hope the city can keep this station well maintained!

[@jacks_off_to]

If you're a subway station enthusiast you should definitely go! It's the best looking station in SF no bias lol

[@m0istl0la97]

Good video 👍

[@mfchau1]

Great content, especially the videos on historic Chinatowns throughout the U.S. Looking forward on you doing a video on the abandoned Chinatown in Bodie, CA

[@1sfgmen]

Finally... 1.7 miles cost almost $2 billion and it took 11 years to complete this construction... hopefully after 1/7/2023 when this new MUNI route start the regular operation, this can bring more tourists and business opportunity to Chinatown.

[@jacks_off_to]

I guess you gotta come back to Chinatown and check this station out!!!

[@TohaBgood2]

I understand that the average person maybe doesn't care about this. But this was an insanely complicated project. Most of the tunnel is basically swimming in a mushy underground swamp with giant skyscrapers one either side. At some point they encountered an unmapped underground river too with proper water flow. They fixed the water intrusion issues for the most part, but there are still leaks that will need to be dealt with periodically basically forever like for an underwater tunnel. This thing also dipped under two subway lines at Market street while threading between old highrise foundations, all while making a turn and entering a station. The complexity of this project is very much underappreciated. And SF has had zero subway construction experience since the Market Subway construction in the 70s, but even that was completely different because that was just cut and cover and this is a huge tunnel. You have to go to the late 19th century to see any actual tunneling like this in SF. It's insane that they started with this section, this is by far the most complicated part, which makes the extensions a lot easier. The first extension that they will do now already has the tunnel bored and built out to Washington Square park where the TBM was extracted. When they start digging toward Pier 39, they'll probably be able to build that station in just a couple of years because everything else is already there. It was ballsy to start with this part and they got it done. It was an important project for the whole city. This subway and its extension will serve a lot of people!

[@harry8201]

3 billion. Or 2 billion. We spend more than 2 billion in 12 hours in Ukraine or some other country so this is a great investment because it’s in America. We spend 2 billion in a week along the us border to hire agents just to stand there and do nothing. Maybe that’s a waste of money. This is infrastructure that’s long overdue

[@justme6275]

is there a station near caltrain station on 4th street that i can take to Chinatown Rose Pak Station?

[@TohaBgood2]

@@justme6275 Yes, the Central Subway will just be the new T line terminus starting in January. From now and until, I think, Jan 7th the line only does demonstration runs in the weekends between 4th and Brannan and Chinatown, so one stop short of Caltrain. But after January you'll just take the T from Caltrain to Chinatown through the new subway section.

[@HEEEEROOOO1111]

Is this much faster than getting off at Powell and walking?

[@jacks_off_to]

Depends on how fast you walk but the subway is definitely more energy efficient lol

[@redwingsfan713]

I miss San Francisco Chinatown. Went to Chinatown a lot while growing up in SF. I remember having to take a crowded 30 Stockton bus to and from Chinatown from Powell and Market

[@puffpuffin1]

There was so much speculation on this that it's faster taking the bus. I can see their point going from Chinatown to Market, it may be faster, depending on your timing and walking pace and traffic. However, going from Market to Chinatown (which is uphill), unless you're a fast uphill walker, I think it will be faster to take the subway. I know the subway is faster than the bus because before, you had to get off at Montgomery, walk one block to Kearney, then the bus has to wind its way from the right side of Kearney to the left side, then turn onto Sutter before turning onto Stockton. That was always a pain to me.

[@anthonysnyder1152]

Going a single stop on a subway is never really worth it no matter where you are (like montogmery > embarcadero) but if you are coming from Mission bay/SOMA it's definitely faster than walking or the bus even. When the extension of this line opens, however long that takes, the stop will be a great stopping point for people visiting Pier 39/Northbeach.

[@TohaBgood2]

It’s definitely way faster! I tried walking this exact distance on a day when the demo service was closed and I had a lunch date in Chinatown. The walk from Powell to the Chinatown station is has a steep uphill grade and will take at least 2x-3x longer than the subway! Definitely worth it to take the subway now that it’s open for regular Muni service. There’s no way I’m doing that uphill walk again!

[@justme6275]

is there a station near caltrain station on 4th street that i can take to Chinatown Rose Pak Station?

[@jacks_off_to]

Supposedly you can transfer from 4th and Brannan to Chinatown once the route is fully open, but it'll be an above street station

[@justme6275]

@@jacks_off_to thanks

[@davidnissim589]

The T Line has a stop at the Caltrain station

[@justme6275]

@@davidnissim589 thx

[@mamita8881]

Is la mullchiun

[@catmi3068]

I don’t like the escalator so deep. It is so scary for me who is afraid of height. I will definitely check it out to see if this is worth the cost. I will definitely continue to walk to Montgomery station from Chinatown or take 30 Stockton and transfer to 28. Oh wow I went to 中華中學too!

[@anthonysnyder1152]

They have elevators too! but whatever works for you!

[@marialee3075]

There are elevators for elderly and handicap access if people are not able to do the escalators. I loved the convenience and ease of access and the staff present to help guide new users. I hope they do extend this to North Beach and Fisherman’s Wharf some day. Thanks for the video.

[@mdmoz1777]

Your cap is 1 letter off from being as funny as your account name.

[@AmericaTown]

Of course it took 700 years to build something that should have been done significantly faster #SELLOUTS~~~~

[@TohaBgood2]

Nope. This was an insanely complicated engineering project that was always planned to take close to a decade. The soils in SOMA are a nightmare for subways. All of that used to be a tidal lagoon that is still pretty much soaked in water. The extension at least are through normal soil!