Trolleybuses in San Francisco

The trolleybus San Francisco is the trolleybus operation of the city of San Francisco in the United States. There runs the transport companies San Francisco Municipal Railway, a short Muni, the second largest after the trolleybus Athens / Piraeus trolleybus network in the western world and is one of six in the United States. The operation was - still of the Muni 's predecessor company Market Street Railway - opened on October 6, 1935, now run on 14 lines total of 300 vehicles. The trolleybus complements the rail systems Caltrain, Bay Area Rapid Transit, Muni Metro, the San Francisco cable cars, and also the tram line F Market & Wharves, with which he partially shares the catenary. A special feature of the operation are the steep inclines on the line 24 is for example a 228 per thousand steep section to overcome.

Lines

Line 41 runs only during rush hour. The end point of San Jose Avenue line 14 is already in the neighboring city of Daly City.

Rolling stock

The continuous high-floor fleet is made up of three different types, including 240 solo and 61 articulated cars. The latter are on the lines 14, 41 and 49 are used.

The additional designation SF stands for San Francisco, these two types were derived specifically for the analysis under this operation of the standard series 14Tr. The type E60 originally included 60 specimens, 32 were retired due to austerity measures and scheduled reductions since 2005.