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Second historic streetcar route planned in San Francisco
All very cool!
A big winner! Too bad street trackage is gone in cities like Chicago, Brooklyn, Baltimore, LA and some other former, major street railway players. Philly still runs some PCCs, but the newer LRT catenary would make a revival impossible in Pittsburgh.
I would absolutely recommend a trip to San Francisco to ride these great old PCC cars, a colorful and wonderful way to see the sights - and which are a great sight to see themselves.
An overdue action, the E Line. However, MUNI-Market Street railway would do better to extend the E route an additional 2 miles via the existing T-Line to augment that already overcrowded and under-equipped LRV service. The soon-to-fully open UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay is generating a tremendous crush of MUNI (and auto) traffic and no buses serve that district directly.
There are already reversing turnouts on the T Line off Third Street in the Dogpatch District just a few blocks south of UCSF-Mission Bay. E cars could very easily reverse at 18th or 20th streets (instead of using the 6th & King turnabout) and their service could vastly aid public transit needs as essentially as the current F Line cars move San Franciscans and tourists equally over Market Street and the Embarcadero.