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Muni Metro has two rail yards for storage and maintenance: Green Yard or Curtis E. Green Light Rail Center at 425 Geneva Avenue is located adjacent to Balboa Park Station and serves as the outbound terminus for the J Church, K Ingleside, and M Ocean View. The facility has repair facilities, an outdoor storage yard and larger carhouse structure.
Two streetcar lines (E and F) use historic streetcars but serve as full transit routes rather than mere tourist attractions. Muni Metro lines are based out of two yards, Green Division (located at Balboa Park station) and Muni Metro East; the historic streetcar lines are based at Cameron Beach Yard (also near Balboa Park).
Green had become after Muni's general manager in 1974 – the first African-American to lead a major transit system in the US – and retired in 1982. [35] [36] A second Muni Metro line, the M Ocean View, was extended to the station complex on August 30, 1980; it usually looped around Green Yard, but used the Geneva Yard loop at times.
Formerly known as Mint Yard. Small outdoor yard used for restoration work and to temporarily store Muni Metro trains. Named for David Pharr, a self-taught volunteer with Market Street Railway. [13] [14] Marin 1998 — — Muni motor coach acceptance yard, track shop and cable car/historic street car storage facility. [15] Islais Creek 2013 105
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.
Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States.Operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), a part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), Muni Metro served an average of 157,700 passengers per weekday in the fourth quarter of 2019, making it the second-busiest light rail system in the United States.
The area's developers in 2017 chose to call it the Rail Yard Innovation District as a homage to rail's role in making Green Bay an early transportation hub and as a nod to the variety of ...
As part of the creation of the Muni Metro system, it was partially converted to modern light rail operation in 1981 — the last line to do so. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] While many streetcar lines were converted to bus lines after World War II , the J Church avoided this due to the private right-of-way it uses to climb the steepest grades on Church Street ...