Bay Area Rapid Transit
Public transport in San Francisco is operated primarily from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District and the San Francisco Municipal Railway ( " Muni "), whereby Muni next to the Muni Metro and the famous cable cars and a variety of diesel and trolley bus lines operates.
BART
BART (abbreviation for " Bay Area Rapid Transit" ) is a partially underground -like transport system which combines the greatest places in the bay of San Francisco together in California. The first section between Oakland and Fremont was opened in 1972. Today, over 360,000 daily passengers are carried. The system has a track gauge of 1676 mm ( Indian broad gauge ) and is operated at 1000 volts DC. The energy is supplied through a lateral track. Due to the speed limit of 128 km / h and the large station spacing BART reached an average speed of 53 km / h The net is, considering the in the United States is not anywhere high train density, expanded generous, recognizable by the duplication of routes on the low speed track alignment and the system 's extensive rail tracks.
In San Francisco, the main route leads under the Market Street along and there has four central stations. To the east, the route passes under the Bay of San Francisco through to Oakland, where it branches out in different directions. Four lines run through San Francisco, the fifth (orange) remains on the eastern side of the bay. Each line runs at 15- minute intervals, resulting in a 3.75 -minute intervals to the original route. In the evening traffic still drive three lines at 20- minute intervals, so then every 10 minutes, a train on the main line. Outside of San Francisco, the routes are often performed in the central position of highways. The stations have, in most cases, bus stations and a large number of partly paid park-and- ride lots.
Further extensions to the south, to Silicon Valley, are in planning or under construction.
Line network
The five lines connecting the following cities:
- Red line: (only Mon- Fri: Millbrae ) Daly City - San Francisco-Oakland - Berkeley -Richmond (only Mon-Sat day travel )
- Yellow Line: (evenings and Sat / Sun: Millbrae ) San Francisco International Airport ( SFO ) Daly City - San Francisco-Oakland - Walnut Creek Pittsburg
- Blue line: Daly City - San Francisco-Oakland - Oakland Airport / Coliseum Dublin / Pleasanton
- Green line: Daly City - San Francisco-Oakland - Oakland Airport / Coliseum - Hayward - Fremont (only Mon-Sat day travel )
- Orange line: Richmond - Berkeley - Oakland - Oakland Airport / Coliseum - Hayward - Fremont
San Francisco Municipal Railway
The San Francisco Municipal Railway ( Muni ) operates trolleybuses, buses, light rail, streetcars and cable cars.
In addition to BART, the Muni Metro is the second rail transport agent that runs partially underground in the downtown area. The lines J, K, L, M, N and T go through the tunnel in Market Street, parallel to the BART line and there have the same stations. In the further course, the routes branch especially on the western side of the tunnel. The lines N and T run on the shores of the Bay of San Francisco and serve also the terminus of the Caltrain.
The tram line runs F as a tourist line with historical vehicles above ground on Market Street:
- F Market & Wharves
- E Embacadero ( in planning)
The cable cars are street cars, their cars will be powered by clipping into a rope. The three lines are among the most famous sights of San Francisco.
Caltrain
The Caltrain is a commuter train from San Francisco to the south by the Silicon Valley. The route leads through Millbrae and Palo Alto to San Jose in Santa Clara County. Mondays to Fridays during rush hours drive some trains continue to Gilroy. The train runs weekdays during the day in 60 -minute intervals and is amplified in the rush hour by express trains, which operate at this time, five trains per hour. The weekend also train every hour, supplemented by two express trains per direction. Are used diesellokbespannte double-decker trains. At the station in Millbrae near the international airport of San Francisco is the transit traffic to the BART system.
Regional bus services
In addition to the Caltrain several bus companies San Francisco operate in regional traffic. You run lines into the countryside of the city and serve among other things to the extensive commuter traffic. Golden Gate Transit is running on lines from downtown San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge, especially in the north neighboring Marin County, as well as to the Sonoma County. A line (93 ) runs entirely within the city limits of San Francisco. Almost all lines run only during rush hours in the morning and indeed in the direction of San Francisco and in the afternoon from the city into the countryside.
SamTrans serves mainly the south, bordering on the city of San Mateo County, but also has several bus routes in the downtown San Francisco. These end at the Transbay Terminal. There also end all bus lines that go across the Bay Bridge in the towns on the east side of the bay. They are operated by AC Transit. Many of the Transbay bus lines go back to overland tram lines.