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SFMTA normally operates two primary routes along the full length of the BRT corridor – 47 Van Ness and 49 Van Ness-Mission – with combined headways as low as 3.5 minutes; several other routes (including the 30X Stockton Express, 76X Marin Headlands, 79X Arena Express, and 90 San Bruno Owl) operate on part or all of the corridor at lower ...
The route runs primarily on Van Ness Avenue and Mission Street. The line at the north end terminates at the foot of Van Ness. To the south, the line turns off Mission at Ocean Avenue and runs to San Francisco City College. The line benefits from dedicated bus lanes along much of its length.
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (/ ˈ m juː n i / MEW-nee; SF Muni or Muni), is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California.It operates a system of bus routes (including trolleybuses), the Muni Metro light rail system, three historic cable car lines, and two historic streetcar lines.
The route was replaced on January 20, 1951, [39] with the 30 Stockton bus route, which still runs today, and is notable for being the slowest trolleybus route in the city of San Francisco because it travels through the densely populated neighborhood of Chinatown [citation needed]. This was one of four routes planned as a result of the 1915 ...
Philadelphia Transit Commission (PCC-1938 Livery) Scrapped Purchased in 1948 by Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) as 2121 and ran until retirement in 1988. Sold to San Francisco Municipal Railway in 1992 and returned to service in 1995 until damaged beyond repair following a collision with a MUNI Metro Breda LRV (#1541) on Nov 16, 2003 ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, service was initially reduced to a limited set of "core service" routes, then gradually expanded. As of July 2022, six Muni Metro routes, one streetcar route, one bus replacement for a Muni Metro route, three cable car routes, 43 local bus routes, four Rapid routes, and three express routes are in operation. [7]
In November 2016, SFMTA was hit by hackers, using ransomware, demanding $70,000 in bitcoins, with fare machines reading “OUT OF SERVICE”, resulting in passengers riding for free. [23] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in San Francisco, SFMTA cut their bus service from 68 lines in February 2020 to as low as 17 in April 2020. In July 2020, SFMTA ...
The original plan called for consolidating some stops in a center-running configuration, as was done for the Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit project, but in early 2021, as part of emergency changes related to the COVID-19 pandemic, SFMTA added side-running bus lanes along Geary. Based on the success of these "temporary emergency transit lanes" in ...