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The franchise for what would become the Market Street Railway was granted in 1857 to Thomas Hayes. The line was the first railway to open in San Francisco, commencing service on July 4, 1860 as the Market Street Railroad Company. [2] [3] Traction was provided by steam power as steam dummy locomotives pulling a trailer car. [4]
The D Geary-Van Ness was a streetcar route created on August 15, 1914, that originally ran from the Ferry Building along Market Street, Geary, Van Ness, and Chestnut to Scott. [39] In 1918, the route was changed to operate on Union Street instead of Chestnut, and was extended along Steiner Street and Greenwich Street and into the Presidio later ...
A route K Owl bus on Market Street in 2019. Owl routes provide night bus service from 1am to 5am daily (including holidays) as a part of the Bay Area's All Nighter network. The 90 Owl route is a combination of the daytime 47 Van Ness and 9 San Bruno routes, while the 91 Owl route is a combination of the daytime K Ingleside, 8 Bayshore, T Third ...
Cable car operations along Market Street began in 1888. Service was electrified in 1906. [4]In 1915, the San Francisco Municipal Railway started the F-Stockton route, which ran from Laguna (later Scott) and Chestnut Streets in the Marina down Stockton Street to 4th and Market Streets near Union Square, later extended to the Southern Pacific Depot (currently the Caltrain Depot) in 1947.
The Market Street Railway had existed on the surface parallel to the subway's alignment in some form since 1860 with services terminating at the Ferry Building. [3] To alleviate traffic, plans for a tunnel under Market Street can be dated to at least 1912. [4] By 1918, there were four tracks running down the thoroughfare — two per direction. [3]
Melbourne tram 648 on Market Street during the first San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival. Founded in 1976, Market Street Railway members created the successful San Francisco Historic Trolley Festivals of the 1980s that resulted in the permanent return of historic streetcars to Market Street in the form of the F Market & Wharves line — the most popular service of its kind in all of North ...
Muni bought the Market Street Railway (ex-URR) in 1944; route 12 service was removed from Ocean Avenue on April 8, 1945, leaving just the K Ingleside. On April 21, every other outbound K car was extended on Ocean Avenue and Onondaga Street to Mission Street, providing a direct connection to route 14. [7]
From the Salesforce Transit Center, buses run on Fremont Street to Market Street. The route runs on Market until turning off at Haight Street, which the 7 follows for its length. At Golden Gate Park, buses turn south on Stanyan then right on Lincoln. The inbound and outbound routes split to use 22nd and 23rd Avenues, respectively, until turning ...