Ocean and Dorado / Ocean and Jules stations

Ocean and Dorado / Ocean and Jules
Outbound platform at Ocean and Jules in 2018
Location Ocean Avenue at Dorado Terrace and Jules Avenue
San Francisco, California
Coordinates 37°43′30″N 122°27′40″W / 37.72495°N 122.46123°W / 37.72495; -122.46123Coordinates: 37°43′30″N 122°27′40″W / 37.72495°N 122.46123°W / 37.72495; -122.46123
Owned by Muni
Line(s)
 K Ingleside
Connections Muni: 91 Owl, K Owl
Construction
Disabled access Yes
History
Opened December 4, 1895
Services
Preceding station   Muni Metro   Following station
toward Sunnydale
K Ingleside
toward Balboa Park

Ocean and Dorado (inbound) and Ocean and Jules (outbound) are a pair of one-way light rail stops on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located between the Mount Davidson and Ingleside neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. The stops consist of one side platform each, with the eastbound (outbound) platform located on Ocean Avenue west of the intersection with Dorado Terrace and Jules Avenue, and vice versa. It originally opened in 1895 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

History

Outbound platform with accessible mini-high section at right

The private Market Street Railway opened a branch - built in just six days - of its Mission Street line along Ocean Avenue to Victoria Street on December 4, 1895 to serve the new Ingleside Racetrack.[1] The line was extended to the Ingleside House (where Ocean Avenue now meets Junipero Serra Boulevard) shortly thereafter.[2] The 1906 earthquake damaged many cable car and streetcar lines; the URR resumed service on the Ocean Avenue (12) line on May 6, 1906.[3]

On November 25, 1918, the city and the struggling URR signed the "Parkside Agreements", which allowed Muni streetcars to use URR trackage on Junipero Serra Boulevard, Ocean Avenue, and Taraval Street, in exchange for a cash payment and shared maintenance costs.[4]:74 The K Ingleside line was extended south on Junipero Serra Boulevard and east on Ocean to Ocean and Miramar on February 21, 1919.[3] The city purchased the private company (renamed Market Street Railway in 1921) in 1944; route 12 service was removed from Ocean Avenue on April 8, 1945, leaving just the K Ingleside.[3]

The line was closed and replaced by buses from February 2001 to June 7, 2003 for the Ocean Avenue Reconstruction and Improvement Project, a major street repaving and utility replacement project. Muni boarding islands were reconstructed at the stations along Ocean Avenue.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rice, Walter; Echeverria, Emiliano (2002). When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco. Harold E. Cox. p. 66.
  2. ↑ Southern Pacific Company (1897). "Guide Map Of The City of San Francisco". H.S. Crocker Co. – via David Rumsey Map Collection.
  3. 1 2 3 Stindt, Fred A. (October 1990). San Francisco's Century of Street Cars. pp. 94, 189. ISBN 0961546514.
  4. ↑ Perles, Anthony (1981). The People's Railway: The History of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Interurban Press. ISBN 0916374424.
  5. ↑ "Grand Re-Opening of Ocean Avenue Celebrated" (Press release). San Francisco Municipal Railway. June 20, 2003. Archived from the original on December 5, 2004.

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