The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, in partnership with BART and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, have introduced its third test location of new regionally harmonized transit signs at the Powell Street BART/Muni station in downtown San Francisco.
The temporary installation of new wayfinding signs at the Hallidie Plaza BART and Muni Metro fare gates is designed to test customer-navigation improvements in a complex underground rail station. These signs are expected to remain in place until early July. New bus stop signs also will be tested from June 6 through June 10 at two curbside and two island stops on Market Street near the Hallidie Plaza station entrance.
On-site surveying will take place Saturday, June 7, and Tuesday, June 10. Riders also are invited to visit the MTC website to share their feedback on the test signs (an online comment form may be found at the bottom of the Maps & Signs page).
Public comment will inform the next stage of the project, in which new wayfinding signs will be installed at seven additional locations across the Bay Area through the remainder of 2025 and into 2026, including a full retrofit of Powell station wayfinding. The Powell station is among the most complex multimodal transit hubs in the West, involving transfers between two levels of underground trains plus surface-level transfers to buses, cable cars and historic streetcars.
MTC and Bay Area transit agencies are developing new signs and maps for installation throughout the region to help make transit journeys easier to understand for both existing and new riders. New maps and signs previously were installed at the El Cerrito del Norte BART station, the Santa Rosa Transit Mall and the nearby Santa Rosa Downtown SMART station. These locations are served by multiple transit agencies and include a mix of bus and rail options.
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