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APPENDIX A THE HISTORY of TRANSPORTATION IN

MARCH 2018 San Francisco has a rich history, with transportation playing a critical role in the City’s development. The timeline on these pages depicts a panorama of diverse transportation modes, which can still be seen today as the City has one of the most diverse transit fleets in the country. Our transportation heritage also shows that, as times change, our mobility options must also evolve to meet the ever-changing needs and demands of our residents, workers, and visitors.

1849 1848-50 1864

People have been walking here for The San Francisco – San Jose The first was built between The San Francisco and San Jose thousands of years... stagecoach is the first public transit 1848 and 1850, inaugurating the Railroad opens. The transcontinental in . Horse-pulled rail cars city’s nearly century-long dominance railroad connects the Bay Area into Sand dunes in Park. begin replacing omnibus carriages as the main of the West Coast. the ever-expanding national rail Photo: San Francisco History Center, in 1860, and the last one is retired in 1863: the first terminal opens. network in 1869. San Francisco Public Library. 1913 (pictured). Ferryboat Alameda approaching the slip at 3 Engine S. P. Freight on 21st and Harrison Mayor James Rolph and other officials Davis Street Wharf 1867. streets. taking the last horse car ride on Market Photo: San Francisco History Center, Photo: San Francisco History Center, Street. San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco Public Library. Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.

Time Scale (years)

1 5 10 1868: Mary Ellen Pleasant wins court case, 1848 - 1855: allowing African-Americans on streetcars Gold Rush

1776: Mission Dolores 1835: Yerba Buena 1850: California 1861 - 1865: and Presidio of Pueblo founded admitted to the union. Civil War San Francisco founded City of San Francisco incorporated.

1848 1849 1873 1876

The Pueblo of Yerba Buena, The brings The first club is established founded in 1835, is a small grid of rapid growth to the Pueblo of Yerba in San Francisco. In 1896, 5,000 streets by a tranquil cove near what Buena, which becomes the city of cyclists ride down Folsom Street in a is now Square. San Francisco in 1850. As the city mass demonstration calling for safer grows so does its grid, marching up The city’s first line begins riding conditions through better View of San Francisco in 1848. the hills and extending west with the climbing Clay Street. By 1890, 23 street paving. About 3,000 cyclists lines are in operation. Photo: Bayard Taylor’s Eldorado, British Van Ness Ordinance of 1865. are recorded in Library. on just one Sunday. Views of San Francisco in 1849 showing California street cable car railroad, 1879. the remarkable growth due to the Gold Photo: San Francisco History Center, League of American Wheelmen, Century Rush. San Francisco Public Library. Run, 6-1-1890. Photo: Bayard Taylor’s Eldorado, British Photo: California Historical Society Library.

a.2 CONNECTSF VISION MARCH 2018 1898 1936 1939 1958

The Ferry opens, offering The San Francisco-Oakland Bay convenient transfers between the opens, followed by the city’s transit spine and regional in 1937. . Both are built in just over Ferry Building, 1902. four years. Photo: http://ferryplaza.com View of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay The Embarcadero Freeway is Bridge while under construction, 1936. erected in front of the Ferry Photo: San Francisco History Center, Building. 1906 San Francisco Public Library. Transbay Terminal opens. Key Ferry Building and Embarcadero Freeway. System use the Bay Bridge’s Photo: Chris Carlsson, http://www.foundsf. lower deck, connecting directly org to the new Terminal, allowing a transfer-free commute from the to downtown San Francisco. 1966

TOP: on platform at terminal, July 20 1953. Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. Ferry Building, 1906. Photo: , Bancroft BOTTOM: Key System Transit Lines Library westward “B” on Bay Bridge - 1955. Photo: John Harder. Board of Supervisors hearing, 1966. Photo: Bill Young, Chronicle File.

1906: San Francisco 1967: Earthquake and Fire

1933 - 1938: 1941 - 1945: 1959 - 1966: Freeway 1973: Transit First New Deal Era US involvement Revolt. City rejects most Policy adopted. in World War 2 planned freeways.

1915 1930s-50s 1948 1972

The mass production of automobiles Most of the city’s cable The Trafficways Plan Ideas for electric trains in an is exhibited at the Panama car and streetcar lines are envisiones a network of underwater tube between Pacific Exposition’s Palace of replaced by (including freeways crossing every San Francisco and Oakland were Transportation. discussed as early as 1947. The Castro Street in 1948). For the portion of the city. Initial Area Rapid Where an Automobile was born every most part, only lines which construction of part of this was formed in 1957, ten minutes; Henry Ford’s Concession, through or off of network sparks the ”Freeway and construction on the BART Palace of Transportation, Panama Pacific system started in 1964. BART Exhibition 1915. the regular roadway are spared. Revolt” across the nation. The final freeway link to the city, service begins in 1972. Photo: San Francisco History Center, Track removal Castro near 17th street 280, is completed in 1973. San Francisco Public Library. showing Twin Coach on 8 line - July 3 President Richard Nixon prepares to ride 1949. BART at the Station in Oakland 1948 San Francisco Trafficways Plan. in 1972. Photo: San Francisco History Center, Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. Photo: archives. San Francisco Public Library.

MARCH 2018 Appendix A. The Story of Now a.3 1980 2011 2013 2015

The system begins King Tide. 2011. Photo: Dave Rauenbuehler Bay Area Bike Share launched. Testing of fully autonomous vehicles opening in phases. Construction allowed in California. of BART under Market Street A bicyclist riding a Bay Area Bike Share creates the opportunity for the bike. Photo: SFMTA. Google automated car at . modernization of Muni’s rail fleet. 2012 Photo: Wikipedia: Grendelkhan.

Interior Shot of LRV in Underground Station - August 24, 1981. Photo: SFMTA. 2014 2029

Ride-hailing companies launch large- scale operations in San Francisco. By 2016, these companies made over 170,000 vehicle trips within Vision Zero policy adopted, to San Francisco on a typical weekday eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024. High-Speed Rail SF-LA Ferry service to the East Bay restored - approximately 12 times the Expected Opening Pedestrians at intersection. while the Bay Bridge is closed for number of taxi trips and 15% of all Photo: SFMTA. Photo: California High-Speed Rail Authority repairs. WETA established in 2007. intra-San Francisco vehicle trips.

Photo: Photo: http://www.sfgate.com

1989: Loma Prieta 2067 Earthquake

2017-2067: What are the possibilities? What are the challenges?

2017: WE ARE HERE

1991 2019 2067 CONNECTSF VISION

Expected opening of the Central Subway.

The T-Third Line opened in 2007. Tunneling for the Central Subway, extending the T-Third north to Chinatown and connecting it to BART and MUNI lines at Powel

P PUBLIC PARKING CHARGING Street, began in 2010. METRO STATION STATION Demolition of the earthquake GROCERY RESTAURANT damaged Embarcadero Freeway Central Subway Boring Machine. STOP Photo: SFMTA. 6 MIN begins. Demolition of a portion ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE of the damaged starts in 1992, replaced by tree-lined Octavia , Patricia’s Green, and new housing. ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE ZERO EMISSION VEHICLE 1 MIN Embarcadero Freeway Teardown, 1991. Top Photo: Chronicle/Vince Maggiora

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