Future Extensions
There are plans to further extend heritage streetcar operation in San Francisco:
- From the foot of Market Street to the Caltrain depot at Fourth and King Streets, using the existing non-revenue connection with existing Muni Metro tracks on the Embarcadero at Folsom Street, three blocks south of Market, then sharing those tracks with T Third line. Low-level platforms with wheelchair ramps have been installed on the jointly-used track with the light rail line south of Folsom Street. This extension is currently operable with double-end vintage equipment; installation of a turning loop at the south end of the line would allow all vintage equipment to be used. This would be a separate line designated "E Embarcadero" and would extend north along the F-line tracks on The Embarcadero to share its Fisherman's Wharf terminal.
- From the vicinity of the existing Jones Street terminal, westward alongside the San Francisco Maritime Museum and Aquatic Park, and then running through an historic (1914) but disused single-track railroad tunnel to Fort Mason, formerly owned by the State Belt Railroad. A technical feasibility study, under the aegis of the National Park Service and Muni, was completed in December 2004. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the extension, again led by the National Park Service, commenced in May 2006, a draft EIS was issued in March 2011, and the Final EIR was issued in February 2012. The final document classified areas west of the Fort Mason Tunnel as having "inadequate regional transit access...limited transportation options for transit-dependent residents... infrastructure constraints impacting effectiveness and operations of Fort Mason Center;" the FEIR named double-tracked extension around the south arc of Aquatic Park and across Van Ness Avenue then single-tracked service through a retrofitted Fort Mason Tunnel to a terminus on Marina Boulevard the "preferred alternative". This extension could be operated either as a part of the F-line or the E-line.
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