List Of San Francisco Municipal Railway Lines
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 $810 million in 2010. Muni is the eighth-largest transit system in the United States, with 229,715,700 riders in 2009.
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. 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. 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" line. The bus and trolleybus lines 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 route names to PM, PH and C, and they are given route numbers 59, 60, and 61, respectively, for use in Muni internal operations. The direction traveled on bus, trolleybus, and rail lines is identified as "inbound" or "outbound"; the inbound direction generally goes toward downtown and the outbound direction heads away from downtown.
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