K Ingleside

K Ingleside
An inbound train at Ocean and Victoria in 2018
Overview
Owner	San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Locale	San Francisco, California
Termini	West Portal station (continues as T Third Street) Balboa Park station
Stations	24
Service
Type	Light rail/streetcar
System	Muni Metro
Operator(s)	San Francisco Municipal Railway
Rolling stock	Breda LRV2/LRV3, Siemens LRV4
Daily ridership	40,600 (2019; combined with T Third Street)
History
Opened	February 3, 1918 (1918-02-03)
Technical
Character	At grade and underground
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification	Overhead lines, 600 V DC
Route diagram | | Embarcadero Montgomery Union Square/​Market Street (2022) Powell Civic Center Van Ness to Ocean Beach to Balboa Park Church Castro to surface tracks on Market Street (closed 1982) Eureka Valley closed 1972 Twin Peaks Forest Hill West Portal to SF Zoo West Portal and 14th Avenue St. Francis Circle Junipero Serra and Ocean Ocean and San Leandro Ocean and Aptos Ocean and Westgate/Cerritos Ocean and Fairfield/Victoria Ocean and Dorado/Jules Ocean and Miramar Brighton and Grafton closed 1952 Ocean and Lee Phelan Loop closed 1981 City College I-280Module:Jct warning: "rdt" parameter is deprecated Balboa Park San Jose and Geneva Mission and Onondaga closed 1952 BART to Daly City

The K Ingleside is a light rail line of the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. It mostly serves the West Portal and Ingleside neighborhoods. Opened on February 3, 1918, it was the first line to use the Twin Peaks Tunnel.

Route description

The K Ingleside line stops at concrete boarding islands in the middle of the street next to the tracks. Some stops have raised platforms for accessibility. Stations between West Portal and Embarcadero are only served by the outbound K. But, not the inbound K, as it switches to T at West Portal.

Operation

The K Ingleside begins service at 5 a.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. Sundays, with the end of service around 12:30 a.m. each night. Trains on the weekdays are scheduled to come every 10 minutes. Trains on the weekends are scheduled to come every 12 minutes.

History

Municipal Railway

A PCC Streetcar on K Ingleside in 1967

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) opened its K line along with the Twin Peaks Tunnel on February 3, 1918. The line ran from St. Francis Circle station along West Portal Avenue, through the tunnel, along Market Street to Van Ness Avenue (joining the J Church at Church Street). And along existing tracks on Van Ness Avenue to Pine Street. On June 1, 1918, the J and K lines were removed from Van Ness Avenue and went further along Market Street to a loop at the Ferry Building.

Changes in 1980s

More changes to the service route followed until finally on December 17, 1980. It was when the K line was light rail operated, with service from Embarcadero Station to Balboa Park, on weekdays only. Weekend service continued to use PCC cars until September 1982. This was when the Muni Metro became fully operational.

Changes in 2000s

From February 2001 to June 7, 2003, K Ingleside service was cut back to St. Francis Circle. It was also replaced by buses on Ocean Avenue for street repaving, and route reconstruction along Ocean Avenue.

Following service changes on June 30, 2007, the K Ingleside and the T Third Street lines were combined inside the Market Street subway tunnel. Though keeping their line designations, resulting in an upside-down, horseshoe-shaped route from Balboa Park to Bayshore and Sunnydale. At West Portal Station, inbound K trains heading towards downtown change their signs to the T line; at Embarcadero Station, T trains heading into downtown change signs to the K line.

Other websites

Media related to K Ingleside at Wikimedia Commons

• SFMTA – K Ingleside