New Third Street taking shape
The Examiner has a couple of articles today about the progress being made on the opening of the 3rd Street Light Rail.
“Muni’s much anticipated, $580 million Third Street light rail project may finally open for business next summer, a year behind schedule but mostly within budget.”
The plan was for the line to be running by this fall, but construction delays on the 4th Street bridge have pushed it back to June or July of 2006.
In another article, there is discussion of the housing that will (or should) go into the Dogpatch neighborhood.
“Though The City’s Planning Department has anticipated a potential for 10,000 new housing units along the line in the coming decades, many hurdles remain, from neighborhood resistance to delayed planning to the need to preserve some industrial land around the light rail.” The current plan only calls for 2000 housing units to be built along the Central Waterfront, however.
