LightRail in San Francisco 2018 (Underground tram)

With an average weekday ridership of 128,500 passengers as of the fourth quarter of 2014, Muni Metro is the United States' third busiest light rail system. Muni Metro operates a fleet of 151 light rail vehicles (LRV) made by Breda
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[@wavemaker10111]

The name Muni Metro is super misleading! It’s funny that it’s branded as a light rail “metro” when, as soon as it leaves the tunnel, it’s actually one of the most genuine classic streetcar systems in America. The other is Philly. While other systems, even Boston and Pittsburgh, run mainly on their own ROW, Muni metro runs extensively right in the street!

[@CityLifeinAmerica]

And people say American cities aren’t amazing. I love it. People sitting outside in parks talking, riding trains, it’s amazing. The US has amazing places I tell you.

[@allyreneepenny9447]

Amazing 👌 Love the American Trains,Buses and Streetcars very well ❗ This is finest Quality 👌🇺🇸And San Francisco is one of a prettiest cities 😍😍😍

[@darrellclarke7855]

Loved the opening long zoom shot in Mission Dolores Park!

[@dangelohartley5977]

These are some pretty unique trams.

[@michellewal8219]

Such a cool city! Thanks!

[@Thomas1980]

Great video... nice Tram

[@LSM_Lover]

Cool video!

[@MrEricSir]

It's a shame the 1970's attempt at a standard light rail vehicle never worked out.

[@noahdaplyer]

I miss these trams, I live in hungary now... These trams are MYTHIC

[@SPDRailfan]

Beautiful tram

[@mrbrainbob5320]

Somnath Pal Das not a tram

[@moderndissident5930]

Light rail*

[@RaymondHng]

@@mrbrainbob5320 _Tram_ is British English for what North Americans call streetcar/light rail vehicle.

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@@RaymondHng North Americans? Dont you mean Americans there is more than 1 language in North America. More countries speak spanish than English in North America.

[@RaymondHng]

@@mrbrainbob5320 North Americans as in people in the United States of America _and Canada_ .

[@waltkeast9777]

Except for a handful of cities, Light Rail serves rush hour in America and probably not much more than that.

[@C.S-Transport]

Tracks look abandened but trams look beautiful

[@RaymondHng]

Those are not "abandoned tracks". Those dedicated tracks are right-of-way tracks in Dolores Park.

[@deanl4575]

RaymondHng His point is that they look abandoned and overgrown with vegetation.

[@RaymondHng]

@@deanl4575 I was born and raised in San Francisco. I use to live on the corner of Church St. and Hancock St. above to the right of the tracks shown in the video. The shot is low angle and the distance from the stop in the background at Church and 20th to the camera at Church and 18th is 955 feet, four city blocks, which makes the foliage look denser. This video was shot in March. What you are seeing around the tracks is the result of two-to-three months of an annual rain season. During the summer months, it's just gravel as seen from this satellite shot goo.gl/maps/vjuT1APzhhxHo3Gg6 and this Street View shot goo.gl/maps/xAwDkMMYrPbjbCA87

[@deanl4575]

RaymondHng Yes, all I’m saying is that OP says it looks overrun with grass and foliage, therefore looking abandoned.

[@RaymondHng]

@@deanl4575 And I'm saying the OP is making an inaccurate assessment from one compressed-depth-of-field shot in one point in time.

[@m3lgar582]

I believe they are testing the new trams that got delivered. Also at the end, is that a storm coming or just fog?

[@timosha21]

Fog - its such a fixture for the city. I had wanted to see the golden gate bridge and it was shrouded in fog: but five minutes away it was blue sky!!! The weather is truly unique here.

[@joelk4751]

Hope you got the chance to ride the front running board of the Hyde St. cable down the hill with a fog bank sitting on the bay. It's a truly awesome view.

[@RaymondHng]

I was born and raised here. That is a typical partly cloudy day in San Francisco. If it were fog, it would have been much denser.

[@BeavKsam]

👍👍👍

[@titolivido7669]

Like

[@krokus1284]

in Europe, we only call a tram or a fast tram. We also have narrow-gauge trams and they are even smaller. With us, light rail looks like a normal train, only a shorter train. And this light railway in America is an ordinary tram and look like our old trams from the 70s.......

[@tomaszbader7612]

Americans must always be "different" ;)

[@figoferdi2942]

SANA PERGI

[@moishglukovsky]

What are the first and second busiest?

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

moishglukovsky probably MBTA green line and LA metro light rail

[@norgepab2802]

Were the operators fine with you filming the cab view?

[@RRansomSmith]

Why would they not unless they were pricks?

[@roachtoasties]

I prefer the trams to BART. Much quieter. I might change my mind when more new BART trains get deployed, but now it's not even close. If you're just going down Market Street, where the two lines run parallel, use the MUNI, not BART.

[@RRansomSmith]

Apples to oranges, my guy. Don't do that

[@ku1]

If you're just travelling down the route that BART and MUNI Metro share, it's actually cheaper to take BART. I just walked when I had to do such trips though sooo......

[@sgtdebones]

No S200!? Interesting...

[@AznIntegra521]

Sgt DeBones we do have a few s200 siemen trains but we are slowly rolling them in coz they take a long time to manufacture and they have to be shipped down from Sacramento. It’ll take a few more years before we can replace all the breda trains.

[@prdawg215]

So who is the busiest light rail system

[@btomimatsucunard]

I think San Francisco ranks up within the top 5, but LA and Boston beats out SF...

[@joelk4751]

Yes, Boston is #1, LA #2, SF #3, Portland OR #4, San Diego #5

[@RaymondHng]

In number of stations: 120 San Francisco 97 Portland 71 Los Angeles 66 Boston In number of lines: 7 Denver 6 San Francisco 5 Portland 4 Los Angeles and Boston In system length: 93 mi. Dallas 88 mi. Los Angeles 60 mi. Portland 53 mi. San Diego In annual ridership: 108 million Los Angeles 51 million San Francisco 39 million Portland MAX

[@anindrapratama]

0:17 that portion of track looks abandoned

[@peerkbh]

Far from it. This is the part of the J-line that climbs the steep hill alongside Dolores Park. This particular area is private right-of-way, but trams run through here all the time.

[@sgtdebones]

It's just poorly maintained

[@middletransport]

It blends with the park :)

[@_thebusphotograher_cali]

It’s way overgrown with grass! Been there for decades

[@RaymondHng]

@@_thebusphotograher_cali I was born and raised in San Francisco. I use to live on the corner of Church St. and Hancock St. above to the right of the tracks shown in the video. This video was shot in March. What you are seeing around the tracks is the result of two-to-three months of an annual rain season. During the summer months, it's just gravel as seen from this satellite shot goo.gl/maps/vjuT1APzhhxHo3Gg6 and this Street View shot goo.gl/maps/xAwDkMMYrPbjbCA87

[@Robbi496]

They still have the trolley busses? Good for them, Chicago, unfortunately abandoned ours in the early 1970's

[@Am-Not-Jarvis]

They say the electric trolleybuses actually perform better on steep hills which is why they're used in SF

[@jimwalsh233]

Robbi496 I loved those ETB in Chicago rode them in Indianapolis also before they got dumped there in 1957. They we're very clean and not noisy, all you hear was a low humidity.

[@jimwalsh233]

Sorry were very clean,. not we're

[@evanstonbalce9588]

That is true.

[@redphone1438]

Maybe next year try filming the new Muni Trains.

[@timosha21]

I was disappointed that I did not get to see the new BART trains either!

[@redphone1438]

Timosha21 I know but it’s just the beginning in like 2 years there will be more in service.

[@RaymondHng]

@@timosha21 If there are no more delays, the new Central Subway extension from CalTrain to Chinatown will debut next year.

[@justinmckenzie9851]

I heard bad things about these trains

[@brianna_lynch]

justin mckenzie sometimes during rush hour the underground section gets extremely backed up. one time i was going inbound and the train stopped about 4 times between every single station.

[@AznIntegra521]

The breda trains breaks down very often and it coz sfmta a lot of money to repair sometimes multiple trains break down. It speaks about just how crappy breda trains are. Thank god we are getting the new s200 siemen trains, but we did piss off Breda that sf was not going to give them a chance to give us new trains and thank god for that

[@craigdavis4265]

5:30 overhead wires smh!!!

[@RRansomSmith]

Um, that's how they're powered? Not that serious, my guy.

[@user-jx7dv5kt1k]

I don't like that train or any city that has that train. I have been starving and homeless and bullied, robbed, assaulted, and the entire residents are aware of my difficult life because they are the people making it difficult and I committed suicide so many attempts because I don't want to starve anymore. They have been taking my money and leaving me without, I don't want to live anymore

[@joelk4751]

Doesn't really fit the definition of light rail; that's just a marketing ploy. More accurate description would be a streetcar. After all, all of this trackage except the subway was served by PCC's until about 40 years ago.

[@roachtoasties]

Agree. They're trams, except in a few spots where they have their own right of way. On some parts of the system you're just poking along at 10 mph as they share the street with cars and stop at what seems like every other intersection. In Los Angeles, it's more like light rail, but things would be better if they could get every section where they need to stop at street lights their own right of way.

[@janettemcclelland2959]

The last PCC'S ran in September 1982.

[@joelk4751]

Yeah, I should've said almost 40 years ago. Wikipedia says Muni started phasing in Market St. subway service in January 1980.

[@janettemcclelland2959]

joel k Correct. And it was just the N that ran in the subway. And all PCCs on Market on weekends. And at some point the Boeing trains kept breaking down,and they had to postpone retiring the PCC'S in 1981 because of it. I think the J was the last line to be phased in. Grew up riding these lines.

[@middletransport]

What about SFSU, Stonestown Galleria and inbound after Embarcadero towards Caltrain and Third Street.

[@joestewart8914]

5:15 What a nasty-looking web of overhead electric wires. So very ugly. Looks dangerous, too. Cannot anything be done to clean up this mess?

[@joelk4751]

Not sure exactly where this is, but in addition to the streetcar junction, there are trolley bus wires thru the intersection. I don't know why you think it's unsafe.

[@timosha21]

Duboce Av and Church street. And yes its a trolleybus/lightrail intersection

[@anindrapratama]

Maybe it's aesthetically unsafe for you

[@evanstonbalce9588]

San Franciscans don't mind them.

[@crazyoncoffee]

joe stewart I’d say most San Franciscans actually enjoy those wire messes, or at the very least don’t care about them. It’s part of the scenery of the city. Few US cities have this sort of density of trolley bus and streetcar routes, so it’s kind of an unmistakable sign of being in San Francisco. I know I loved looking at them when I was a kid.