San Francisco –  Trolley Extension Study

Rail Transit Online – August 2004

An extension of the Municipal Railway’s heritage streetcar service from the Fisherman’s Wharf area to Lower Fort Mason and the Presidio is the subject of a feasibility study now underway by Wilbur Smith Associates.  The project would be completed in two phases, the first to Fort Mason.  The F-Market and Wharves line currently runs from Market and Castro streets, through the Downtown and along the northern Waterfront to Fisherman's Wharf at Jones & Beach Streets using restored PCCs and 75-year-old Peter Witt cars imported from Milan, Italy.  Muni is planning to extend the heritage trolleys south to 4th and King Streets and inaugurate a new E-Line that would operate from there to the Wharf or beyond, providing a streetcar link between the city’s northern and central waterfronts.