M Ocean View

The M Ocean View is a Muni Metro light rail line in San Francisco. The line was established in 1925.

M Ocean View
A train near San Francisco State University station in 2017
Overview
Owner	San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Locale	San Francisco, California
Termini	Embarcadero station (inbound) San Jose and Geneva station (outbound)
Stations	29
Service
Type	Light rail
System	Muni Metro
Operator(s)	San Francisco Municipal Railway
Rolling stock	Breda LRV2 and LRV3 Siemens LRV4
Daily ridership	26,920 (2013)[1]
History
Opened	October 6, 1925 (1925-10-06)[2]
Technical
Character	At grade and underground
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Electrification	Overhead lines, 600 V DC
Route diagram Legend | | Embarcadero Montgomery Union Square/​Market Street (2022) Powell Civic Center Van Ness to Ocean Beach to Balboa Park Church Castro to surface tracks on Market Street (closed 1982) Eureka Valley closed 1972 Twin Peaks Forest Hill West Portal to SF Zoo Subway Expansion Project to Parkmerced (proposed) West Portal and 14th Avenue St. Francis Circle Right Of Way/Ocean Right Of Way/Eucalyptus Stonestown Galleria San Francisco State University 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra / Randolph 19th Avenue and Randolph Randolph and Arch Randolph and Bright Broad and Orizaba / Orizaba and Broad Broad and Capitol Broad and Plymouth San Jose and Farallones San Jose and Lakeview San Jose and Mount Vernon I-280Module:Jct warning: "rdt" parameter is deprecated BART San Jose and Geneva/ San Jose and Niagara Balboa Park BART to Daly City This diagram: view talk edit

Route description

Operation

The M Ocean View begins service at 5 a.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. Sundays, with the end of service occurring around 12:30 a.m. each night.

History

An outbound M Ocean View PCC streetcar on a diversion route during construction of the Market Street subway. Photo taken between 1972 and 1982

The M Ocean View line began operation on October 6, 1925, as a shuttle service from St. Francis Circle to Broad and Plymouth in the city's Ocean View District. It went through the Twin Peaks Tunnel to the downtown Ferry Building on October 31, 1927, but went back to a shuttle service on February 27, 1928. The shuttle service was replaced by buses on August 6, 1939, but streetcar service returned on December 17, 1944. On June 6, 1948, the Transbay Terminal became the inner terminus of the line.^[2]

Changes in 1980s

While many streetcar lines switched to bus operations after World War II, the M Ocean View remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Twin Peaks Tunnel. On August 30, 1980, the line went further to Balboa Park BART station. The full line switched to light-rail operations with the opening of the Muni Metro system on December 17, 1980. ^[3]