K Ingleside

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K Ingleside
Info
Type	light rail
System	Muni Metro
Locale	San Francisco, California
Terminals	Embarcadero Station (inbound), West Portal Station (outbound; continues as T Third Street) Balboa Park Station
No. of stations	23
Operation
Owner	City of San Francisco
Operator(s)	San Francisco Municipal Railway
Technical
Electrification	overhead catenary
Highest elevation	underground, at grade
Line map edit Changes signs from T Third Street Embarcadero Outbound only Montgomery Street Outbound only Powell Street Outbound only Civic Center Outbound only Van Ness Outbound only J Church and N Judah Church Street Outbound only Castro Street Outbound only Eureka Station Forest Hill Outbound only West Portal L Taraval West Portal and 14th Avenue St. Francis Circle Sloat Blvd. M Ocean View Junipero Serra and Ocean Ocean and San Leandro Ocean and Aptos Ocean and Cerritos Ocean and Victoria Ocean and Jules Ocean and Miramar Ocean and Lee Phelan Loop Ocean and Phelan City College Interstate 280 J Church outbound Ocean and San Jose Inbound only J Church inbound Balboa Park Station

The K Ingleside is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California mainly serving the West Portal and Ingleside neighborhoods. It was one of San Francisco's streetcar lines in the early 20th century, and was converted to modern light rail operation with the creation of the Muni Metro system in the late 1970s. While many streetcar lines were converted to buses after World War II, the K Ingleside remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Twin Peaks Tunnel.

The outbound end of the line was originally at the Phelan Loop (at Ocean and Lee), but it was later extended to Balboa Park Station. Eureka Station in the Twin Peaks Tunnel was originally a stop on the K line, but the station was closed and replaced by Castro Street Station when the Metro system opened.

The line runs from the Embarcadero Station downtown to the Geneva Avenue and San Jose Avenue in the Balboa Park neighborhood, near City College of San Francisco. The downtown portion of the line runs through the Market Street Subway, which it shares with the four other Muni Metro lines. It continues through the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel, along with the L Taraval and M Ocean View lines, emerging at West Portal Station. From there, it follows West Portal Avenue to Saint Francis Circle, where it then runs on its own right-of-way in the middle of Junipero Serra Boulevard to Ocean Avenue. The K then follows Ocean Avenue until it reaches Balboa Park Station, where it circles around the Metro yard at San Jose and Geneva Avenue, with the actual terminal stop alongside the station.

Following service changes on June 30, 2007, the K Ingleside and the T Third Street lines were spliced together, though keeping their respective line designations. K line service heading downtown will be signed as T line outbound service after West Portal Station, before heading into the Twin Peaks Tunnel. Conversely, inbound T line service entering the Market Street Subway at the downtown end of the tunnel will be signed as K line outbound service at Embarcadero Station.

The K Ingleside line stops at large stations for the downtown section of the line and at smaller stops on the rest of the line. Most of the smaller stops are nothing more than concrete "islands" in the middle of the street next to the tracks. Some of these "island" stops provide access for wheelchairs. Muni bus routes provide service to all stations and other systems with access to the stations are noted.

Late night service is provided by the 91 Owl diesel bus line on West Portal and Ocean Avenue, and by the L-Owl diesel bus line from West Portal Station to Market Street and Steuart Street, near Embarcadero Station. There is also a K-Owl diesel bus line that runs from Market Street and Steuart Street to Balboa Park. This line makes a limited number of trips between the times owl service stops and the underground subway stations open.

[edit] External links

• Muni Metro and San Francisco rail map (195KB PDF)
• K Ingleside route information from the SF Muni Map Project

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