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Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in
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and
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that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront. The street and San Francisco's
Mission District The Mission District (Spanish: ''Distrito de la Misión''), commonly known as The Mission (Spanish: ''La Misión''), is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is ...
through which it runs were named for the
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Mission Dolores Dolores, Spanish for "pain; grief", most commonly refers to: * Our Lady of Sorrows or La Virgen María de los Dolores * Dolores (given name) Dolores may also refer to: Film * ''Dolores'' (2017 film), an American documentary by Peter Bratt * ' ...
, several blocks away from the modern route. Only the southern half is historically part of El Camino Real, which connected the missions. Part of Mission Street in Daly City is signed as part of State Route 82 (SR 82).


Alignment

From the south, Mission Street begins as a continuation of SR 82/El Camino Real at the Colma-Daly City border, just south of San Pedro Road. Mission Street then runs north to the
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district, where SR 82 splits as San Jose Avenue to the northeast, and Mission Street continues north-northeast. It then crosses the San Francisco city limits mid-block between Templeton Avenue in Daly City and Huron Avenue in San Francisco. Mission Street then turns back northeast through the working-class Crocker-Amazon,
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, and
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neighborhoods, before turning north through the colorful
Outer Mission Outer Mission is a small residential neighborhood on the south edge of San Francisco, bounded by Geneva Avenue (on the northeast), Interstate 280 (on the northwest), Mission Street (on the southwest), and the city of Daly City (on the south). ...
and
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districts. Near
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, the road turns northeast again and travels through Mid-Market and
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(running parallel to, and a full block south of
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) before ending at The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.


History

Mission Bay and Mission Dolores were connected to the former village of
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, in the northeastern corner of modern San Francisco, via the Mission Plank Road, a long toll road extending from Kearny/Third to Fifteenth. The franchise for the Mission Plank Road was granted in November 1850 and the Plank Road was completed by the following Spring at a cost of ; tolls were 50 cents for a horse and cart, and one dollar for a four-horse team. The Mission alignment was selected because Market had a high ridge between Second and Fifth; although a cut was still required for Mission, it was less extensive. The Plank Road used a bridge to cross a swamp at Mission and Seventh; the bridge was intended to rest on piles, but piles were sunk to deep without reaching bottom, so a floating bridge was used instead. A parallel plank road was completed along
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to stave off potential competition from a free road along Market; however, a high tide in 1854 destroyed the Folsom Plank Road by floating off the planks. Since 2000, between Third Street and Beale Street in the
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, several new high rises have been erected along Mission Street, all in the vicinity of the
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project: 101 Second Street (2000), JPMorgan Chase Building (2002), The Paramount (2002), St. Regis Museum Tower (2005), 555 Mission Street (2008), Millennium Tower (2009), 535 Mission Street (2014), 350 Mission Street (2015), and the
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(2017).


Transportation

The Mission Street portion in San Francisco is served 24 hours per day by the
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, two
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stations that run below grade in the
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, and the remainder of the San Francisco BART stations less than a half mile away, notably including those on the
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, which replaced the
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, straddles several blocks between Mission and Howard. It is the western terminus for several
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bus lines via the
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, and it will be the future northern terminus of
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and the
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. From the completion of the Bay Bridge in 1936 until the 1950s, it was also the western terminus for Key System commuter rail service.


Major intersections


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External links

* {{Streets in San Francisco Streets in San Francisco Mission District, San Francisco Streets in San Mateo County, California