ABOVE: Having just alighted from an outbound L-Taraval train at 15th and Ulloa streets in the West Portal neighborhood, a late afternoon commuter listens to tunes on her iPod as she rushes home. This scene is representative of the infrastructure and meager rider amenities along the long stretches of street running in the outer reaches of the Muni Metro system.
LEFT: Mere minutes before midnight, an inbound L-Taraval train (improperly signed K-Ingleside) pauses for a large group of pedestrians crossing Ulloa Street in an exceptionally thick, salty, and mysterious late summer fog within sight of the Philosophers Club, an eclectic West Portal neighborhood speakeasy. In less than a minute, the train will turn east into the West Portal Station and ditch the fog when it enters the Twin Peaks Tunnel.
OPPOSITE: San Francisco’s industrial element and maritime prominence are in decline and giving way to a healthier environment and new commercial and residential development in the Mission Bay, Potrero Hill, Dogpatch, and Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods on the city’s south side. As seen from atop Potrero Hill, an outbound T-Third train threads its way past factories and the crumbling infrastructure of the Port of San Francisco. The T line operates along the Third Street corridor south to Sunnydale, and when it opened in 2007, it marked the first major extension of rail transit in San Francisco in generations. It is a bona fide light rail line with high- level boarding platforms, and its trains are through-routed with the K-Ingleside line.
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