San Francisco 4th and King Street station

San Francisco 4th and King Street, 4th and King[2] (previously 4th & Townsend), or Caltrain Depot is the north end of the Caltrain commuter rail line to the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley, and is a major area transit hub. It is next to a Muni Metro light rail station, which provides connections to downtown San Francisco and Bay Area Rapid Transit.

This article is about a Caltrain station in San Francisco, California, United States. For a Puerto Rican Tren Urbano station, see San Francisco station. For Madrid Metro station, see San Francisco (Madrid Metro).
San Francisco
4th and King Street station seen from a I-280 off-ramp in 2019
Location700 Fourth Street at King Street
San Francisco, California
Coordinates37°46′35″N 122°23′40″W
Owned byPeninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
Line(s)Peninsula Subdivision (Caltrain[1]
Platforms6 island platforms (Caltrain)
2 island platforms,
2 side platforms (Muni)[2]
Tracks13 (Caltrain)
4 (Muni)[2]
Connections Flixbus
Muni: 10, 30, 45, 47, 81X, 82X, 83X, KT Bus, N Owl, N Bus
Construction
ParkingNone
Bicycle facilities180 lockers
22 racks
Disabled accessYes
Other information
Fare zoneFare Zone 1 (Caltrain)
History
Opened1975 (Caltrain)
1998 (Muni)
Traffic
Passengers (2018)15,427 (Caltrain mid-weekday average)[3]  1.5% (Caltrain)
Services
Preceding station Caltrain Following station
Terminus Local 22nd Street
toward Tamien or Gilroy
Limited
Baby Bullet
Peak, Pattern A
 Millbrae
toward San Jose Diridon
Baby Bullet
Peak, Pattern B
 Millbrae
toward Tamien
Preceding station Muni Following station
2nd and King
towards Ocean Beach
 N Judah Terminus
2nd and King
towards Balboa Park
 T Third Street Mission Rock
towards Sunnydale
4th and Brannan
Opening 2019
towards Chinatown
2nd and King
towards Jones and Beach
 E Embarcadero Terminus
Location

History
Southern Pacific's 3rd and Townsend terminal was replaced in 1975 by the current station.

The station is in the Mission Bay/China Basin area, bordered on the north by Townsend Street, east by 3rd Street, west by 4th Street and south by King Street. It opened on June 21, 1975, replacing a station built in 1914 at 3rd and Townsend, one block away.

4th & King is one block from Oracle Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. Caltrain runs extra trains on game days to shuttle fans to and from the ballpark.

The Muni extension to the station was opened in 1998.[4]

Future

The Downtown Rail Extension project to the rebuilt Transbay Terminal includes the construction of an underground 4th and King station. The underground station will be next to the current station on the Townsend side.[5] Until that time, California High-Speed Rail trains may also utilize the existing station.[6]

Muni service
N Judah trains at 4th and King

4th and King hosts a number of Muni bus lines, the E Embarcadero historic streetcar line, and Muni's T Third Street and N Judah lines run to Market St downtown. The N Judah station platform is located on the median of King Street immediately southwest of the 4th and King intersection, while The T Third Street station platform is located on the median of 4th Street immediately southeast of the intersection.[2]

N Judah service replaced the J Church on June 30, 2007, two months after the J Church replaced the N Judah on April 7, 2007, on the Caltrain connection to downtown following the opening of the T line. The nearest BART access is the Powell Street station, a 1-mile walk up 4th street then left on Market St.

Service to Chinatown via Muni's Central Subway will connect to this station in 2021 after a realignment of the T Third Street line's route.[7]

References
  1. SMA Rail Consulting (April 2016). "California Passenger Rail Network Schematics" (PDF). California Department of Transportation. p. 13.
  2. San Francisco Municipal Railway Route Map (Map). San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. December 5, 2009. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013. Retrieved January 14, 2010.
  3. "2018 Annual Count Key Findings Report" (PDF). Caltrain. 2018.
  4. Epstein, Edward (26 August 1998). "Brown Tries To Soothe Muni Riders / Service on N-Judah line has been abysmal all week". Hearst Communications. SFGate. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
  5. Caltrain 2025 North Terminal Plan
  6. "Caltrain/California HSR Blended Operations Analysis" (PDF). Caltrain.com. LTK Engineering Services. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  7. "Project Overview [Central Subway]". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA).

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