M Ocean View

M Ocean View
M Ocean View
	A train near San Francisco State University station in 2017
Overview
Owner	San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Locale	San Francisco, California
Termini	Embarcadero station (inbound); San Jose and Geneva station (outbound)
Stations	29
Service
Type	Light rail
System	Muni Metro
Operator(s)	San Francisco Municipal Railway
Rolling stock	Breda LRV2 and LRV3; Siemens LRV4
Daily ridership	26,920 (2013)[1]
History
Opened	October 6, 1925[2]
Technical
Character	At grade and underground
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Electrification	Overhead lines, 600 V DC
Route diagram
	to surface tracks on
	Market Street (closed 1982)
	closed
	1972
	Subway Expansion Project
	to Parkmerced (proposed)
	San Jose and Geneva/
	San Jose and Niagara

The M Ocean View is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco. The line was established in 1925.

Route description

Operation

The M Ocean View begins service at 5 a.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. Sundays, with the end of service occurring around 12:30 a.m. each night.

History

An outbound M Ocean View PCC streetcar on a diversion route during construction of the Market Street subway. Photo taken between 1972 and 1982

The M Ocean View line began operation on October 6, 1925, as a shuttle service from St. Francis Circle to Broad and Plymouth in the city's Ocean View District. It went through the Twin Peaks Tunnel to the downtown Ferry Building on October 31, 1927, but went back to a shuttle service on February 27, 1928. The shuttle service was replaced by buses on August 6, 1939, but streetcar service returned on December 17, 1944. On June 6, 1948, the Transbay Terminal became the inner terminus of the line.[2]

Changes in 1980s

While many streetcar lines switched to bus operations after World War II, the M Ocean View remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Twin Peaks Tunnel. On August 30, 1980, the line went further to Balboa Park BART station. The full line switched to light-rail operations with the opening of the Muni Metro system on December 17, 1980. [3]

References

"TEP Route Data & Proposed Changes". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
Stindt, Fred A. (October 1990). San Francisco's Century of Street Cars. p. 195. ISBN 0961546514.
McKane, John; Perles, Anthony (1982). Inside Muni: The Properties and Operations of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Glendale, CA (US): Interurban Press. p. 198. ISBN 0-916374-49-1.

Other websites

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[ridership-1] "TEP Route Data & Proposed Changes". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-15.

[stindt-2] Stindt, Fred A. (October 1990). San Francisco's Century of Street Cars. p. 195. ISBN 0961546514.

[mckane-perles1982-3] McKane, John; Perles, Anthony (1982). Inside Muni: The Properties and Operations of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Glendale, CA (US): Interurban Press. p. 198. ISBN 0-916374-49-1.