West of Castro, the MUNI Metro tied into the pre-existing MUNI Metro continuing west under Market Street through Church station West of Van Ness, the BART and MUNI Metro levels separate, with the The arrangement from street down is mezzanine level fareĬontrol, MUNI level, and BART level, each of which has two tracks and It was built in in the late 1970s inĬonjunction with the BART rapid transit line, and in fact, the stationįacilities at Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, and Civic Center are The MUNI Metro tunnel project was designed to remove streetcars from MUNI Metro Track Map Station By Station MUNI Metro Tunnel Its problematic summer of 1998 when the new ATC system was being
The F-Market line provided an alternative to the Metro during SEPTA PCC cars, is a big hit with both tourists and residentsĪlike. In fact, the "F-Market" line, operated with restored The MUNI Metro has not caused the removal of all streetcars from Weekday service only continued to November 1982, when weekend To Church, Castro, Forest Hill and West Portal Stations began in Juneġ980. Service into the subway (Embarcadero to Van Ness Stations). The MUNI Metro opened in February 1980 when the N-Judah began weekday Operating procedure for many years had been to MU cars on the K, L,Īnd M for their runs thru the Metro and Twin Peaks Tunnel,Ĭoupling/decoupling at West Portal. The Boeing have since been entirely replaced by the Bredas. Lines, with the N line being exclusively Breda (since August 1998).
The BredaĬars, which cannot MU with the Boeings, can be found on all five Integration of the new but incompatible Breda LRV-2 cars. System, a new extension of the Metro to the Caltrain Terminal, and Head in the summer of 1998 as MUNI attempted a simultaneous rollout ofĪ proof-of-payment fare system, a new ATC signaling and control Order, which San Francisco then purchased. Boston even went so far as to refuse part of its Still with flaws), the fleets have not aged well in either Sanįrancisco or Boston. Promised for delivery in 1976 but not received until 1982 (and A new LRV design was required, and bothīoston and San Francisco purchased these new LRV cars fromīoeing. Two systems, which have loops at the ends, the MUNI was designed withĪ stub-end terminal and high level platforms, rendering the currentįleet of PCC cars unusable. Opened in 1980, the MUNI Metro is conceptually similar to the BostonĪnd Philadelphia subway-surface streetcar systems where surface linesįunnel into a single tunnel to serve the downtown core. Streetcars from the surface in the downtown area. Started, the MUNI was assigned the upper level tracks to relocate its Much debate, and after construction of the multilevel BART tunnels had Tunnel which would link up in part to the Twin Peaks tunnel. Plan first proposed in the twenties, which called for a four-track Service and the other to provide services to the south and west Tunnels, one on top of the other, one to provide "express" Transbay As the elderly PCC's rolled up andĭown the surface of Market St., a new subway, called BART, was being While many major routes and all of the smaller lines went rubber tire,įive streetcar routes survived. Hetch Hetchy Power Department led Muni to invest in a large fleet ofĮlectric trolley coaches, in addition to motor coaches, as streetcar However, the utilization of inexpensive hydro power from the City's After the war, San Francisco beganīus-substitution, due in part to the availability of the diesel busĪnd the consolidation of the previously private Market St. As with many US cities, San Francisco had an extensive streetcar
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