Yerba Buena station has only one entrance, located close to but not along the intersection of 4th Street andFolsom Street. Escalators, elevators, and stairs take passengers between the surface and the ticket hall, labeled as a Concourse level by the station. After passing through fare gates, passengers take a second set of elevators, escalators, and stairs down to platform level. The station is designed as anisland platform, though the immediately upper level within the station hosts additional balconies.[2][3]
The station is also served by Muni bus routes8,12,30 and45, plus two weekday peak hours express services, the8AX and8BX. Additionally, theT Bus and91 Owl bus routes, provide service along the T Third Street line during the early morning and late night hours respectively when trains do not operate.[4]
The Central Subway was closed from February 26 to March 14, 2025, for water leakage mitigation at Chinatown station.[5]
Of theten artworks installed for the Central Subway, three are located at Yerba Buena/Moscone station:
Node byRoxy Paine, is a 110 feet (34 m)-tall sculpture shaped like a branch, tapering from a diameter of 48 inches (1,200 mm) at the base to1⁄4 inch (6.4 mm) at the peak, located in the plaza outside the station.[6]
An untitled work byCatherine Wagner consists of her photographs taken during the late 1970s during the construction of the Moscone Center, rendered on etched granite panels approximately 10 by 12.5 feet (3.0 m × 3.8 m) on the mezzanine and platform walls. One photograph is rendered in art glass at the surface level station entry at 14 by 23 feet (4.3 m × 7.0 m).[7][8][6]
Face C/Z byLeslie Shows is a photographic image ofiron pyrite enlarged to 36 by 15 feet (11.0 m × 4.6 m) and rendered in glass, metal, gravel, and other materials above the faregates.[9][10][11]
A work byTom Otterness, consisting of 59 bronze sculptures, was canceled in November 2011 after it was publicized that Otterness had previously filmed himself in 1977 shooting a dog for the piece "Shot Dog Film".[12][13] Three temporary artworks were displayed on the fence around the construction site:Horizons byKota Ezawa in 2013–14,[14]Ellipsis in the Key of Blue by Randy Colosky in 2014,[15][16] andProcession, by Jason Jägel in 2017.[17][18]
Yerba Buena/Moscone
Muni:8,8AX,8BX,12,30,45
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