San Francisco Municipal Railway facts for kids
MUNI is the public transit agency that runs bus, cable car, trolley, and subway service in the city of San Francisco, California, USA. Its name is short for Municipal Railway. MUNI runs many different bus lines that go all through the city of San Francisco, three Cable Car lines that run through the Financial District and Chinatown (with service to Fisherman's Wharf) and the Market Street surface and subway trolley lines.
Metro lines
- F Market (Historic Streetcar)
- J Church
- K Ingleside
- L Taraval
- M Oceanview
- N Judah
- S Castro Shuttle
- T Third (Under construction)
Cable car lines
Images for kids
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A cable car being turned around at the end of the line, August 1964
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O'Shaughnessy logo (dated)
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A trolleybus on the 14-Mission line
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An Orion VII bus operating on the 27-Bryant line in San Francisco. These buses were introduced in 2006 and were in service by 2007.
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View west along Market after the 1906 earthquake; streetcars continued to serve the population
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Trolleybus operating 7-Haight route near the Ferry Building (1953)
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Work on the Market Street Subway (1973)
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Three of the Four Corridor Plan routes from 1995 were planned to meet underground at Geary and Market
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Train of Boeing Vertol US SLRVs in the Market Street subway (1993)
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A light rail vehicle on the T Third Street line. The T line, the sixth Muni Metro line, opened on April 7, 2007.
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A New Flyer XDE60 bus on the 14R Mission Rapid line in 2015. The New Flyer Xcelsior buses were bought between 2013 and 2019 to replace Muni's aging fleet.
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See also
In Spanish: Ferrocarril Municipal de San Francisco para niños
