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Market Street is a major
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in
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,
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. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the
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and the
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, to the intersection with Portola Drive in the
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neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues into the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Portola Drive extends south to the intersection of St. Francis Boulevard and Sloat Boulevard, where it continues as
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. Market Street is the boundary of two street grids. Streets on its southeast side are parallel or perpendicular to Market Street, while those on the northwest are nine degrees off from the
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s. Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric
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s, electric
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es, and diesel
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es. Today
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's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the
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line) share the street, while below the street the two-level
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and
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(BART). While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, the surviving cable car lines terminate directly adjacent to the street at its intersections with California Street and Powell Street.


History


Initial surveying and clearing

In 1839, the first street grid was laid in the Mexican trading post of
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by
Jean Jacques Vioget Jean Jacques Vioget (1794–1855), originally from Switzerland, was a surveyor and sea captain, who came to California in 1837. He made the first survey and map of Yerba Buena (which later was re-named San Francisco) in 1839. He worked for John S ...
, largely aligned with the cardinal directions, with blocks measuring . Yerba Buena was renamed to
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in 1847 after it was captured by United States troops during the
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. Market Street, which cuts across the city for from the waterfront to the hills of Twin Peaks, was laid out originally in an 1847 survey by Jasper O'Farrell, a 26-year-old trained civil engineer who had immigrated there. Market Street was described at the time as an arrow aimed straight at "Los Pechos de la Chola" (the Breasts of the Maiden), now called
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. Property owners forced O'Farrell to retain the earlier Vioget-drawn north-south Yerba Buena street grid rather than conform the roads to the hilly topography; they also forced him to establish the diagonally-offset grid south of Market with larger blocks aligned with
Mission Street Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in Daly City and San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront. The street and San Francisco's Mission District through which it r ...
for Happy Valley. Market was laid out to transition between the two competing street grids, parallel to and one block north of Mission. O'Farrell first repaired Vioget's original layout of the settlement centered around
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, and then established Market Street as the widest street in town: between property lines. However, the width of Market also aroused the ire of property owners, who felt the new street was excessively wide and potentially encroached on their holdings; they made preparations to lynch O'Farrell. In ''Forgotten Pioneers'', T. F. Prendergast recounts:
When the engineer had completed his map of Market Street and the southern part of the city, what was regarded as the abnormal width of the proposed street excited part of the populace, and an indignation meeting was held to protest against the plan as wanton disregard for rights of landowners; and the mob, for such it was, decided for lynch law. A friend warned O'Farrell before the crowd had dispersed. He rode with all haste to North Beach, took a boat for Sausalito, and thence put distance behind him on fast horses in relay until he reached his retreat in Sonoma. He found it discreet to remain some time in the country before venturing to return to the city.
At the time, the Market Street
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was blocked by a sixty-foot
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where the Palace Hotel is now (at the intersection with New Montgomery), and a hundred yards further west stood a second sandhill nearly ninety feet tall. The dunes were leveled between 1852–54 and 1859–73, first by James Cunningham, who was responsible for levelling the area around Second and Montgomery, and then by David "Steam Paddy" Hewes; Hewes purchased the steam shovel (nicknamed "Steam Paddy" as it was reputed to be able to do the work of a dozen Irishmen) that had been brought to San Francisco by Cunningham during the earlier period. The sand removed was used to fill Yerba Buena Cove between Portsmouth Square and Happy Valley at First and
Mission Street Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in Daly City and San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront. The street and San Francisco's Mission District through which it r ...
; Mission Bay at Fourth and Townsend; and for the construction of the
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. Over those years, up to of sand were moved per day, clearing approximately of sand dunes, some of which had risen up to above the present-day level of Market Street.


Growth

Hewes was also granted the right to lay tracks on Market to Beale to carry away the sand he was clearing. The Hewes Steam Paddy line carried of sand per 18-car load, with trains running every half-hour. The first
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-powered
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line to open in San Francisco commenced running down the thoroughfare on July 4, 1860, operating under the Market Street Railroad Company.Market Street Railway (2004).
A Brief History of Market St. Railway
'. Retrieved September 23, 2005. Section ''The Market Street Railroad Company, 1860-1882''
By 1918 Muni was in direct competition with the
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(the successor company to the Market Street RailRoad Company) down the length of Market Street; the two operators each operated their own pair of rail tracks down that thoroughfare, which came to be known as the 'roar of the four'. The two Union Railroad tracks were on the inside and the two San Francisco Municipal Railway tracks were on the outside.Robert Callwell and Walter Rice (2000). ''Of Cables and Grips: The Cable Cars of San Francisco''. Published by the Friends of the Cable Car Museum. ISBN unknown. In 1892
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was established at 1128 Market Street and later grew into a leading American drugstore retailer.


Earthquake and fire

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1906 San Francisco earthquake At 05:12 Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the coast of Northern California was struck by a major earthquake with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). High-intensity sha ...
and fire File:Market Street, San Francisco, in ruins (1906).jpg, View southwest along Market (1906) File:Market St. From Ferry. (6348563732).jpg, Market, view southwest from near Ferry Building (1906)
Early in the morning of April 18, 1906, an earthquake lasting less than a minute and subsequent fire left many of the buildings along Market Street in ruins; in some cases, buildings were dynamited to prevent the spread of flames. The burned area extended from Dolores and Franklin east to the waterfront. Within days, prominent citizens and property owners announced plans to rebuild their buildings along Market. United Railroads traffic was temporarily rerouted to Fillmore Street, and repairs to the tracks on Market were underway by April 22.
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designed the Path of Gold Street Lamps in 1908 for United Railways’ trolley poles with street lights. The tops were designed in 1916 by sculptor
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and engineer Walter D'Arcy Ryan. The ''Winning of the West'' bases were designed by sculptor
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and feature three historical subjects: covered wagons, mountain lions, and alternating prospectors and Indians. The City required the highly ornamental poles to permit the much-opposed overhead trolley wires.


''Market Street Redevelopment Plan''

Shortly after voters approved the creation of the
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in 1962, the report ''What to Do About Market Street'' was published by the
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(SPUR). A group of businessmen and property owners had commissioned SPUR to lead a team of city planners, designers, and real estate experts to form a plan which would "put new life into Market Street as a center of Bay Area business, shopping, and entertainment." Halprin and Associates, led by landscape architect
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, was responsible for "The Look of Market Street" chapter in ''What to Do About Market Street''; Halprin took a walk from the waterfront to Van Ness to develop his ideas, and realized "the five Market Streets should have five distinctive characters", making suggestions for each district. At the same time, the City Planning department commissioned the architecture firm led by
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to create the ''Downtown Plan'', which was published in 1963 and recommended that Market be limited to buses and emergency vehicles; it also called for extending the
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under Van Ness and the downtown area via a new tunnel. The limited-access Market would extend all the way from The Embarcadero to Van Ness. The
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streetcars were moved underground as
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in concert with the development of the
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system in the late 1960s. Construction of the
Market Street subway The Market Street subway is a two-level subway tunnel that carries Muni Metro and BART trains under Market Street in San Francisco, California.Historic Trolley Festivals in 1980s had proven popular enough to reinstate operations in the form of the
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line.


Traffic changes

On September 29, 2009, traffic-calming efforts took effect for a six-week test in which private automobiles would be restricted in travelling east from Sixth Street towards the Ferry Building. All eastbound traffic was encouraged to turn right onto 10th Street and then required to do so at 8th Street. Eastbound traffic entering Market from Seventh Street was required to exit Market at Sixth. These efforts followed recent
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trends seeking to make streets safer and more pleasant. Drivers failing to comply faced fines. These changes were later made permanent. Planning efforts began in 2012 to ban private automobiles from Market Street altogether between Franklin and Steuart streets, in order to provide a better environment for transit, cyclists, and pedestrians. On August 11, 2015, the city banned private vehicles from turning onto Market Street between Third and Eighth streets. In December 2013, the city launched free
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internet access along Market Street.


Better Market Street

A project called Better Market Street was started under
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's administration to improve transportation on the corridor for people who walk, use bicycles, or ride public transit. Early efforts included traffic circulations trials in 2009 which disallowed right turns for automobiles on parts of the street. With Gavin Newsom stepping down as mayor in 2011, Mayor Ed Lee continued planning for Better Market Street and announced a series of public workshops. Originally, the street redesign was intended to be implemented around 2013-2014 when Market Street was scheduled to be repaved. By 2013 the project had been delayed twice; first to 2015 and subsequently to 2017. After further delays, the most recent iteration of the project began implementation in 2020 under Mayor
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's administration. The project initially proposed three alternative designs for Market Street: two that would provide transit priority and improved bicycle infrastructure in the form of raised
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s, and one that would separate
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onto
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instead. In 2018, the project was redesigned with a new alternative that would keep the cycle tracks on Market Street but would implement them as sidewalk-level bicycle lanes. The project would also reconfigure the transit boarding islands for buses and streetcars with two sets of boarding islands: a set on the inside for rapid service with larger stop spacing, and a set on the outside for local service. If implemented fully, the project is expected to cost at least $500 million and also include repaving the sidewalk and reconstructing sewer and utility lines under the street. In March 2019, a draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the project was released, with a final approval for the EIR expected later in 2019. The full plan was approved by the city in October 2019, including a short-term implementation plan that would disallow private automobiles on most of Market Street and a long-term plan that would include rebuilding much of the street. The transition to a car-free Market Street began on January 29, 2020. Studies released in late February indicated 6-12% travel time savings for transit routes on Market Street after the implementation, with negligible traffic effects on other streets.


Sectors

''What to Do About Market Street'', published in December 1962, organized Market into five distinct districts, from east to west: In 2013, an updated list of six districts was published by the Better Market Street initiative. The list extends the western boundary to Octavia and largely follows the boundaries laid out in 1962: Central Market Community Benefit District extends from Fifth to Ninth Streets, and is considered part of either the "Mid Market" or "
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" areas.


Festivities

Market Street parades have long marked global events, such as the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the
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of 1916, the parade of the influenza-masked revelers of the first
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, the 1934 general strike that paralyzed the
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s of the Pacific Coast, and the end of World War II. In the days of the first
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conferences,
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, Molotov, Stettinius, and Bidault rode up Market Street, waving to the crowds of hopefuls. On
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1910,
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(for whom the dish
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was named) sang a free outdoor concert to a crowd some estimated at 250,000, following a dispute with Oscar Hammerstein. Another historic Market Street event was the
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celebration at the Ferry Building on December 31, 1999. Over 1.2 million people jammed Market Street and nearby streets for the raucous and peaceful turn-of-the-century celebration. The San Francisco
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runs down Market Street, attracting many people every year. Victory parades celebrating the
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'
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titles were held on Market Street in
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,
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, and
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.


See also

* ''
A Trip Down Market Street ''A Trip Down Market Street'' is a 1906 phantom ride film of a cable car as it travels down Market Street in San Francisco. It is notable for capturing the city four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film shows details of dail ...
'', 1906 phantom ride film of a cable car traveling down the street


References


External links


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