Abstract. The Hunter-Saxton equation determines a flow of conservative solutions taking values in the space H 1 (R + ). However, the solution typically includes finite time gradient blowups, which make the solution flow not continuous w.r.t. the natural H 1 distance. The aim of this paper is to first study the generic properties of conservative solutions of some initial boundary value problems to the Hunter-Saxton type equations. Then using these properties, we give a new way to construct a Finsler type metric which renders the flow uniformly Lipschitz continuous on bounded subsets of H 1 (R + ).