Church and 16th Street station is a light rail stop on the

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J Church The J Church is a hybrid light rail/streetcar line of the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The line runs between Embarcadero station and Balboa Park station through Noe Valley. Opened on August 11, 1917, it is the oldest and h ...

line, located in the

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neighborhood of

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. The station opened with the line on August 11, 1917. The station has two

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s in the middle of Church Street (

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s) where passengers board or depart from trains. The stop is not

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to people with disabilities. The stop is also served by bus route plus the which provides service along the J Church line during the early morning when trains do not operate. In March 2014, Muni released details of the proposed implementation of their Transit Effectiveness Project (later rebranded

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), which included a variety of stop changes for the J Church line. No changes were proposed for the 16th Street stop. One early-implementation item – red transit-only lanes from the 16th Street platforms northwards – was installed in March 2013 while the rest of the project was still in planning.

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