N Judah

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N Judah
Info
Type	light rail
System	Muni Metro
Locale	San Francisco, California
Terminals	Embarcadero Station Judah and La Playa near Ocean Beach
No. of stations	35
Daily ridership	45,252 [1]
Operation
Owner	City of San Francisco
Operator(s)	San Francisco Municipal Railway
Technical
Electrification	overhead catenary
Highest elevation	underground, at grade
Line map edit King and 4th Street Caltrain Depot T Third Street King and 2nd Street AT&T Park Embarcadero and Brannan Interstate 80/Bay Bridge Embarcadero and Folsom Connects to F Market Ferry Portal Embarcadero Montgomery Street Powell Street Civic Center Van Ness K Ingleside, L Taraval, M Ocean View, and T Third Duboce Portal Duboce and Church J Church Duboce and Noe Duboce Park Sunset Tunnel Carl and Cole Carl and Stanyan Carl and Willard Carl and Hillway Irving and 2nd Avenue UCSF Irving and 4th Avenue Irving and 7th Avenue Irving and 9th Avenue Judah and 9th Avenue Judah and 12th Avenue Judah and Funston Judah and 15th Avenue Judah and 19th Avenue SR 1 Judah and 22nd Avenue Judah and 25th Avenue Judah and 28th Avenue Judah and 31st Avenue Judah and 34th Avenue Judah and Sunset Judah and 40th Avenue Judah and 43rd Avenue Judah and 46th Avenue Judah and 48th Avenue Judah and La Playa Great Highway Ocean Beach

The N Judah is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco, California that mainly serves the Cole Valley and Sunset neighborhoods. It is the busiest line in the Muni Metro system. 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 bus lines after World War II, the N Judah remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Sunset Tunnel.

The line runs from Caltrain Depot in the Mission Bay district to Ocean Beach and the Great Highway in the Sunset District. It starts at the Caltrain Depot, and runs along King Street and the Embarcadero, passing by AT&T Park. It then enters the Market Street Subway, which it shares with the five other Muni Metro lines. It exits the tunnel at Church Street and, after a brief stretch along Duboce Avenue to Duboce Park, enters the older Sunset Tunnel. This tunnel serves to avoid a hill and contains no underground stations. From the western end of the tunnel, the route goes along Carl and Irving Streets until it turns up 9th Avenue for one block and reaches Judah Street, which the N runs on for the rest of its route. On Judah between 9th Avenue and 19th Avenue the N runs on a right-of-way that is slightly raised above the surrounding street. There is a loop in the intersection at Judah, La Playa and Great Highway that the N uses to turn around.

The N Judah line stops at large stations for the downtown section of the route and at smaller stops on the rest of the line. Most of the smaller stops consist of nothing more than a sign on the side of a street designating a stop, while other stops are concrete "islands" in the middle of a street next to the tracks that provide access for wheelchairs. Muni bus routes provide service to all downtown stations and other systems with access to the stations are noted.

Late night service is provided by the N-Owl diesel bus line. This line is generally the same as the daytime N Judah line, except it follows surface streets instead of going through the streetcar-only Market Street Subway or Sunset Tunnel. At the Ferry Portal at The Embarcadero and Folsom, it stays on The Embarcadero to Mission/Don Chee Way, then takes Steuart for one block and then turns onto Market Street, which it follows past all five underground stations served by the daytime N Judah line. It then takes Church, Hermann and Fillmore to get to Haight Street, where it bypasses the steep hill above the Sunset Tunnel, and serves the Lower Haight and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods. It turns off of Haight at Cole, and then rejoins the daytime N line at Carl.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Muni Metro and San Francisco rail map (195KB PDF)
• N Judah route information from the SF Muni Map Project
• The N-Judah Chronicles
• Muni reconsidering N-Judah Caltrain service
• T-Third line causing delays, so officials consider new routes
• September 27, 2007 Meeting on N Judah improvement at Carl and Cole stop

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