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The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) is the public transit system for San Francisco, California. A part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, it served 47.35 square miles (123 km2) with an operating budget of $659.5 million in 2013.[1] Muni is the eighth-largest transit system in the United States, with 219,993,600 riders in 2012.[2]
Muni began service on December 28, 1912, when the A Geary-Park line was inaugurated, running between the Financial District and the Richmond District on the western side of the city.[3] Expansion of the system and consolidation with other transit companies eventually made Muni the city's sole public transit operator in 1952, when it acquired the bankrupt California Street Cable Railroad.[4][5] Subsequent changes and adjustments to the system gave rise to the lines in use today.
The system consists of 84 routes serving the city and some parts of Daly City and Marin County. The names of all Muni routes, except those of cable car lines, have two parts: a number or letter and a street, neighborhood, or landmark, for example, the "1 California" route.[6] The bus and trolley bus routes have number designations, the rail lines have letters, and the cable car lines are typically referred to only by name (Powell-Mason, Powell-Hyde, and California). However, Muni maps abbreviate the cable car line names to PM, PH and C,[7] and they are given route numbers 59, 60, and 61, respectively, for use in Muni internal operations.[8]
Cable car lines[edit]
| Line | Inbound [a] | Outbound [a] | Neighborhoods served | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California (C) | California and Market | California and Van Ness | Embarcadero, Financial District, Chinatown, Nob Hill | |
| Powell-Hyde (PH) | Powell and Market | Hyde and Beach | Tenderloin, Union Square, Nob Hill, Chinatown, Russian Hill, Fisherman's Wharf | |
| Powell-Mason (PM) | Powell and Market | Taylor and Bay | Tenderloin, Union Square, Nob Hill, Chinatown, North Beach, Fisherman's Wharf | Schedule Route map (PDF) |
Muni Metro and historic streetcar lines[edit]
Local bus routes[edit]
| † | Trolley bus |
| * | Weekday peak hours only |
| ♦ | Community bus (30 ft. / 9.1 meter) |
| ^ | Articulated bus (60 ft. / 18.3 meter) |
Rapid bus routes[edit]
Rapid bus routes run through five major transit corridors through the city. These routes more or less follow the corresponding local bus route, but make only a few limited stops on their routes via bus-only lanes.[6]
Express bus routes[edit]
Express routes run between the outskirts of the city and downtown or between major rail stations and other points in the city.[6] These routes typically run only during peak hours, going inbound in the morning and outbound in the evening, except the 76X Marin Headlands Express, which runs on weekends and holidays; and the 83X Mid-Market Express, which runs in both directions during peak hours. Asterisked (*) routes indicate that they run only during morning peak hours.
Owl bus routes[edit]
Owl routes provide night bus service from 1am to 5am daily (including holidays) as a part of the Bay Area's All Nighter network.
The 90 Owl route is a combination of the daytime 47 Van Ness and 9 San Bruno routes, while the 91 Owl route is a combination of the daytime K Ingleside, 8 Bayshore, T Third, 30 Stockton, and 28 19th Avenue routes. The 5 Fulton, 24 Divisadero, 44 O'Shaughnessy, and 48 Quintara-24th Street Owl routes are truncated from their daytime counterparts. The L and N Owl motor coaches replace daytime light rail service and run on surface streets, making local stops, rather than in the Market Street Subway, Twin Peaks Tunnel, and Sunset Tunnel.
| † | Trolley bus |
In addition to the regular nightly Owl service, Muni provides irregular bus substitutions along the K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, N Judah, and T Third lines on weekend and holiday mornings between 5am and the opening of the Market Street Subway (7am on Saturdays, 8am on Sundays and holidays). The L and N Owl weekend morning routes differ slightly from the nightly L and N Owl routes and do not make local stops along their surface street detours, instead stopping only at stops used by the normal L and N daytime light rail routes.
- ^ "FY 2013 and FY 2014 Budget Book" (PDF). San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Agency. July 1, 2012. p. 58. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
- ^ "Transit Ridership Report: Fourth Quarter 2012" (PDF). American Public Transportation Association. March 1, 2013. p. 1. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
- ^ McKane, John; Perles, Anthony (1982). Inside Muni: The Properties and Operations of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Glendale, CA: Interurban Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-916374-49-5.
- ^ "A Brief History of the Cable Cars". Market Street Railway. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ^ Matoff, Tom (June 1999). "The Muni Paradox — A Brief Social History of the Municipal Railway". Urbanist. San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ^ a b c "San Francisco Travel FAQ". San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ^ San Francisco Municipal Railway Route Map (PDF) (Map). San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. Retrieved August 15, 2013.
- ^ "FY11 Q3/Q4 Year-End Service Standards Scorecard – Summary" (PDF). San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. August 17, 2011. p. 43. Retrieved August 15, 2013.