While you're dreaming, why not build a cable car line along Geary? Or maybe extend your proposed Calif. Street line from Presidio Avenue to the beach? Are you for real?



synonymouse Wrote:
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> A campaign calling for wiring the #38 Geary
> straightaway would certainly flush out the Global
> Warming phonies. It is in your face obvious:
> crushload patronage, relatively short and straight
> route, purpose designed and located on line
> storage at Presidio Yard-Geary Carhouse,
> underground feeders from the B already in place.
>
> Muni had called for electrification in the '80's
> but diesel busmen took charge. I doubt if the
> current crowd would have gone for the retention of
> streetcars on Market. As it is they should run a
> new Market streetcar extension down 11th Street
> and on down Potrero or San Bruno.
>
> Hey, while we are at it let's take the Cal Cable
> back out to Fillmore, its original terminus.
>
> Historically, I wonder if anybody in 1954
> considered connecting the truncated California St.
> cable to the outer end of the Washington & Jackson
> Sts. line via new track, say, on Polk? Woulda,
> coulda, shoulda.