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M OceanviewThe M Oceanview is a Muni Metro line in San Francisco. It was one of San Francisco's streetcar lines in the early 20th century, and was coverted to modern light rail operation with the creation of the Muni Metro system in the late 1970s. The line runs from the Embarcadero Station downtown to Geneva Avenue and San Jose Avenue near City College of San Francisco. The downtown portion of the line runs in a tunnel under Market Street shared with the four other Muni Metro lines. Passing the now disused Eureka Street Station, the line runs through the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel, below the large hills in the middle of the city. This tunnel is shared with the L Taraval and K Ingleside lines, and it was this journey through the tunnel that saved all three lines when most other San Francisco streetcar routes were converted to bus operation after World War II. The line emerges from the tunnel at West Portal Station; from there, it goes along West Portal Avenue and then 19th Avenue (a section of California State Highway 1) where it has two additional stations, one at Stonestown and the other at San Francisco State University. The line then goes along Randolph Street, Broad Street and San Jose Avenue before it reaches its terminus. Stations on the M Oceanview Line The M Oceanview line stops at large stations for the downtown section of the route and on 19th Avenue and at smaller stops on the rest of the line. Most of the smaller stops are nothing more than a sign on the side of the street designating a stop and a few others are concrete 'islands' in the middle of the street next to the tracks that provide access for wheelchairs. Muni bus routes provide service to all stations and other systems with access to the stations are noted. See Also
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