M Ocean View
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The M Ocean View is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California. It was one of San Francisco's streetcar lines in the early 20th century, and was converted to modern light rail operation with the creation of the Muni Metro system in the late 1970s. While many streetcar lines were converted to buses after World War II, the M Ocean View remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Twin 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 the Twin Peaks Tunnel was originally a stop on the M line, but the station was closed and replaced by Castro 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 near City College of San Francisco in the Balboa Park neighborhood. The downtown portion of the line runs through the Market Street Subway, which it shares with the four other Muni Metro lines. It continues through the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel, along with the K Ingleside and L Taraval lines, emerging at West 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 the Stonestown Galleria on Winston Drive and the other at San 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.
[edit] Stations on the M Ocean View Line
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 wheelchairs. Muni bus routes provide service to all stations and other systems with access to the stations are noted.
- Embarcadero Station - BART access
- Montgomery Street Station - BART access
- Powell Street Station - BART and Powell-Mason and Powell-Hyde cable car lines access
- Civic Center Station - BART access
- Van Ness Station
- Church Street Station
- Castro Street Station
- Forest Hill Station
- West Portal Station
- West Portal and 14th Avenue
- West Portal and Sloat/Saint Francis Circle
- Right-of-Way and Ocean
- Right-of-Way and Eucalyptus
- Stonestown Station (19th Avenue and Winston) - SamTrans access
- San Francisco State University Station (19th Avenue and Holloway)
- 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra
- Randolph and 19th Avenue
- Randolph and Arch
- Randolph and Bright
- Broad and Orizaba
- Broad and Capitol
- Broad and Plymouth
- San Jose and Farallones
- San Jose and Lakeview
- San Jose and Mount Vernon
- Geneva and San Jose/Geneva Yard
- Balboa Park Station (at rush hours)
[edit] External links
- Muni Metro and San Francisco rail map (195KB PDF)
- M Ocean View route information from the SF Muni Map Project
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| Current projects | Third Street Light Rail Project • Central Subway • E Embarcadero streetcar |
| Connecting buses | AC Transit • Golden Gate Transit • SamTrans |
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