- M Ocean View
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name = M Ocean View
color = 018752
logo_width = 125px
image_width = 250px
caption = TheSan Francisco State University Station at the intersection of 19th Avenue and Holloway
type =light rail
system =Muni Metro
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locale =San Francisco, California
start =Embarcadero Station
end = San Jose at Geneva/Geneva Yard,Balboa Park Station (rush hour only)
stations = 28
routes =
ridership = 28,671 [cite web|url=http://www.sfmta.com/cms/rtep/tepdataindx.htm |title=Transit Effectiveness Project (TEP) Data |accessdate=2008-02-23 ]
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owner = City of San Francisco
operator =San Francisco Municipal Railway
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el =overhead catenary
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elevation = underground, at grade
M Ocean View|The M Ocean View is aMuni Metro line inSan Francisco, California . It was one of San Francisco'sstreetcar line s in the early 20th century, and was converted to modernlight rail operation with the creation of the Muni Metro system in the late 1970s. While many streetcar lines were converted to buses afterWorld War II , the M Ocean View remained a streetcar line due to its use of theTwin Peaks Tunnel .The outbound end of the line was originally at the intersection of Broad Street and Plymouth Avenue, but it was later extended to
Balboa Park Station .Eureka Station in theTwin Peaks Tunnel was originally a stop on the M line, but the station was closed and replaced byCastro Street Station when the Metro system opened.The line runs from the
Embarcadero Station in the Financial District to Geneva Avenue and San Jose Avenue nearCity College of San Francisco in the Balboa Park neighborhood. The downtown portion of the line runs through theMarket Street Subway , which it shares with the four other Muni Metro lines. It continues through the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel, along with theK Ingleside andL Taraval lines, emerging atWest Portal Station . From there, it follows West Portal Avenue to the Saint Francis Circle, where it then takes its own right-of-way to 19th Avenue. The portion of the line on 19th Avenue between where it joins 19th near Eucalyptus Drive and Junipero Serra Boulevard is a right-of-way separated from the street. This section has two stations with high-platforms, one at theStonestown Galleria on Winston Drive and the other atSan Francisco State University on Holloway Avenue. It continues on 19th Avenue past Junipero Serra to Randolph Street. At the end of Randolph, the M uses Orizaba Avenue to get to Broad Street and takes that to San Jose Avenue. The rest of the line follows San Jose Avenue to Geneva Avenue, where the line loops around the Metro yard there.The M Ocean View line stops at large stations for the downtown section of the route and on 19th Avenue and at smaller stops on the rest of the line. Most of the smaller stops are nothing more than a sign on the side of the street designating a stop and a few others are concrete 'islands' in the middle of the street next to the tracks that provide access for
wheelchair s. Muni bus routes provide service to all stations and other systems with access to the stations are noted.There is no late night service along the entire M line, however part of the L-Owl diesel bus line runs from West Portal Station to Market Street and Steuart Street, near Embarcadero Station, and the 91 Owl line operates on 19th Avenue. On Sunday mornings only, there is a M-Owl diesel bus line that runs on surface streets from Market Street and Steuart Street to Balboa Park between the times owl service stops and the underground subway stations open.
References
External links
* [http://www.sfmta.com/cms/mmaps/documents/M.pdf Muni Metro and San Francisco rail map (195KB PDF)]
* [http://fusion.sims.berkeley.edu/MuniMap/prototype/lineDetail.cfm?lineNum=M M Ocean View route information from the SF Muni Map Project]
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