Van Ness Busway Opens After Six Year Construction. Here's How It Went

San Francisco CA

03 April, 2022

5:40 PM

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By Eleni Balakrishnan, Mission Local April 1, 2022 Talk about a strugglebus: After decades of planning, nearly $350 million, and seemingly endless construction, city officials and transit enthusiasts today inaugurated the anticipated new bus rapid transit (BRT) lanes down Van Ness Avenue. No, it's not an April Fools' joke. At least 200 excited residents and spectators gathered in front of the War Memorial Opera House this morning for a ribbon cutting ceremony, and crammed themselves onto the first buses to operate on the new red bus-only lanes in the center of the roadway. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.