That route initially ran along 18th from Guerrero to Douglass before being extended to Frederick and Ashbury including a sharp hairpin turn on the lower slopes of Twin Peaks at Market and Clayton by May 1894. : 39, 44 The No. 33 Line had been originally established in 1892 by the San Francisco & San Mateo Railway Company as the 18th and Park or 18th Street Branch route. By early August of that year, the Market Street Railway Company (MSRy), successor to the URR, applied to the State Railroad Commission to operate the first trackless trolley system in California permission was granted by August 30, and the first trolleybus service started on October 6, 1935, using 9 coaches built by Brill. 33 Line streetcar to "trackless trolley", as some of the tracks would have to be taken up for the construction of the Bay Bridge. Skeggs of the State Highway Department urged the conversion of the No. A city ordinance requiring streetcars to use two operators also served to encourage trolleybus deployment. Long a hub of streetcar development, San Francisco already had much of the overhead wire infrastructure necessary to deploy trolleybus service on existing city streets. 33 trolleybus route established by Market Street Railway in 1935. Preserved Muni trolleybus 776 photographed in 2012 at Market and Clayton on the original No. The system includes the single steepest known grade on any existing trolley bus line in the world (22.8% in the block of Noe Street between Cesar Chavez Street and 26th Street on route 24-Divisadero), and several other sections of Muni trolley bus routes are among the world's steepest. One of only five such systems currently operating in the U.S., the Muni trolley bus system is the second-largest such system in the Western Hemisphere, after that of Mexico City. In addition, it shares some of its overhead wires with the F Market & Wharves streetcar line. The Muni trolley bus system is complementary to the city-owned Muni bus services, Muni Metro and cable car system and the rail-bound regional Caltrain and Bay Area Rapid Transit systems. In 2022, the system had a ridership of 33,664,000, or about 108,200 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2022.
In San Francisco, these vehicles are also known as "trolley coaches", a term that was the most common name for trolleybuses in the United States in the middle decades of the 20th century. Opened on October 6, 1935, it presently comprises 15 lines, and is operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, commonly known as Muni (or the Muni), with around 300 trolleybuses. The San Francisco trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving San Francisco, in the state of California, United States. San Francisco Municipal Railway (1941–present) Four stars.An XT60 trolleybus on route 5-Fulton in December 2017
Our rating: Groovy, man! A psychedelic re-imagining of a long-serving and functional map. However, the map’s actually pretty clean and easy to follow: route termini are clearly shown by route numbers in large circles, and there’s enough smaller numbers along each route to allow you to follow them from one end to the other.Īlso of note: basic fare is just 20 cents! The map shows all Muni streetcar, coach and cable car services, but with no visible mode differentiation – express services are shown with a dashed line. However, by 1970, the map had evolved into this gloriously garish three-colour purple, yellow and black vision that suits the post-Summer of Love San Francisco perfectly. The earliest example I can find, from 1952, uses a sombre two-color palette of black and red, mostly tinted down to greys and pinks. – and then reprint the brochure/map in a new colour combination. It seems that each year, they’d simply make any amendments required – addition of new routes, deletion of old ones, etc. For a long period of time, the San Francisco Municipal Railway, (commonly shortened to just “Muni”) used pretty much exactly the same map in their brochures.
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