ROUTES
Operator: San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI)
STREETCAR ROUTES
| F |
Fisherman's Wharf - Market Street - Castro |
| J |
Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - Noe Valley - Balboa Park |
| K |
Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - West Portal - Ocean Ave. - Balboa Park |
| L |
Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - San Francisco Zoo |
| M |
Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - West Portal - San Francisco State University - Ocean View - Balboa Park |
| N |
Caltrain Station - Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - Ocean Beach |
| (S) |
(Downtown (Embarcadero) - Market Street - Castro) |
CABLE CAR ROUTES
| C |
Financial District - Van Ness |
| PH |
Powell & Market - Hyde - Aquatic Park |
| PM |
Powell & Market - Mason - Fisherman's Wharf |
BART (SUBWAY) ROUTES
| RED |
Richmond – Berkeley - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City/Colma |
| GREEN |
Fremont – Oakland Airport - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City |
| ORANGE |
Richmond – Berkeley - Oakland - Oakland Airport - Fremont |
| YELLOW |
Pittsburg/Bay Point – Concord - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City |
| BLUE |
Dublin/Pleasanton – Oakland Airport - Oakland - Transbay Tube - Embarcadero - Market Street - Daly City - San Franciso International Airport/Millbrae |
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Streetcar lines: 42 km.
- Cable car lines: 8 km.
- BART (Subway) lines: 167 km.
HISTORY
- Streetcars: (horse-powered) 4 July 1860 - 1882; (electric) 1892 - today.
- Cable-cars: 1 Sept. 1873 - today.
- BART (Subway): 11 Sept. 1972 - today.
- Key System (Interurbans): 26 Oct. 1903 - (Into San Francisco only after the opening of the Bay Street Bridge on 12 Nov. 1936) - 20 Apr. 1958.
GAUGE
- Streetcars: 1435 mm.
- Cable-cars: 1067 mm.
- BART (Subway): 1676 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The San Francisco Railway Museum displays many relics of the streetcar and cable car history of the city. The
Market Street Railway operates many historic streetcars over actual line F of the San Francisco streetcar system (Muni). The cable car system has its own museum at the
Cable Car Museum at Washington and Mason.
SOURCES
PRINT
- "Los Angeles and San Francisco", The Modern Tramway, Nov. 1949 (12:143), p.221-224.
- Currington, B. "San Francisco Municipal Railway modernisation (Part I)", Modern Tramway & Light Rail Transit, Oct. 1984 (47:155), p.339-347.
- Rice, W. "San Francisco rail is moving forward", Tramways & Urban Transit, Sept. 1998 (61:729), p.336-339.
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