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Numerous other transit services converge into downtown San Francisco with stops nearby. These include BART and Muni Metro at Embarcadero station and Montgomery Street station , Golden Gate Transit peak-only routes (with stops on Fremont Street), Muni bus and streetcar routes, SamTrans routes 292 and 397, AC Transit route 800, and the Presidio ...
An Army-Navy task force concluded that an additional trans-bay crossing would soon be needed and recommended a tunnel; however, actual planning for a rapid transit system did not begin until the 1950s. In 1951, California's legislature created the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission to study the Bay Area's long-term transportation ...
In early 1941 the Army acquired property in Oakland and Seattle. The Oakland port facility, 624.5 acres (2.527 km 2) at the terminus for the transcontinental railroads, was an integral part of the San Francisco POE. Seattle was established as a sub port in August 1941 relieving San Francisco of its historic role in Alaskan supply.
Parts of: San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties 160,300 Yes 68 4 29 — 6 SamTrans: Entire: San Mateo County Parts of: San Francisco and Santa Clara counties 33,200 30 — 1 — 2 Muni: Entire: San Francisco Parts of: Marin and San Mateo counties 400,300 42 5 16 — 10 VTA: Entire: Santa Clara County Parts of: San Mateo County ...
San Francisco, 1865–1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development. University of California Press. Richards, Rand (2007). Historic San Francisco: A Concise History and Guide. ISBN 978-1879367050. Ryan, Mary P. (1997). Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City during the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.
The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company that provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, [2] Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany, and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when it was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit.
Business magnate Francis Marion Smith then created the Key System in 1903 to connect San Francisco with the East Bay. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to rail traffic in 1939 only to have the last trains run in 1958 after fewer than twenty years of service – the tracks were torn up and replaced with additional lanes for ...
With the adoption of the Transit Center District Plan in 2012, height limits were raised for several parcels in the vicinity of the Transit Center. [24] Among the parcels zoned for taller buildings are 50 First Street , 181 Fremont Street , 350 Mission Street , Golden Gate University 's campus at 536 Mission Street, the proposed Palace Hotel ...