Muni Metro

Muni Metro is a light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States, operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni).

Muni Metro
Info
Owner	SFMTA
Locale	San Francisco, California
Transit type	Light rail/streetcar
Number of lines	7 (1 currently suspended)
Daily ridership	157,700 (2019)
Website	sfmta.com/munimetro
Operation
Began operation	February 18, 1980; 45 years ago (1980-02-18)
Operator(s)	San Francisco Municipal Railway
Route map

Operations

Muni Metro runs from approximately 5 am to 1 am weekdays, with later start times of 7 am on Saturday and 8 am on Sunday. Owl service, or late-night service, is operated on much of the L and N lines by buses that show the same route designation. ^[1]

History

Market Street subway

See the main article: Market Street subway

K Ingleside USSLRV passes an M Ocean View PCC at West Portal, November 1980

On February 18, 1980, the Muni Metro officially began. It started with a weekday N-line service in the subway.^[2] The Metro service was put in phases. The subway was served only on weekdays until 1982. The K Ingleside line began using the entire Metro subway on weekdays on June 11, 1980, the L Taraval and M Ocean View lines on December 17, 1980, and the J Church line on June 17, 1981.^[3] Meanwhile, weekend service on all five lines (J, K, L, M, N) continued to use PCC streetcars operating on the surface of Market Street to the Transbay Terminal. The Muni Metro was closed on weekends. At the end of the service day September 19, 1982, streetcar operations on the surface of Market Street were discontinued entirely. The remaining PCCs taken out of service, and weekend service on the five light rail lines switch to buses for a while.^[4][5] Finally, on November 20, 1982, the Muni Metro subway began operating seven days a week.^[5]

Routes

See also: List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines

As of January 2022^[update], the L Taraval is replaced by bus service, while other routes have resumed rail operation.

Line	Year began	Terminal
		Eastbound/Southbound	Westbound/Northbound
J Church	1917	Balboa Park	Church and Duboce
K Ingleside	1918	Embarcadero	Balboa Park
L Taraval	1919	Embarcadero	Wawona and 46th Avenue (SF Zoo)
M Ocean View	1925	Embarcadero	San Jose and Geneva (Balboa Park)
N Judah	1928	4th and King	Judah and La Playa (Ocean Beach)
S Shuttle	2001	Embarcadero	West Portal
T Third Street	2007	Sunnydale	Chinatown