Ocean and Fairfield / Ocean and Victoria stations

Ocean and Fairfield
Ocean and Victoria
Ocean and Fairfield; Ocean and Victoria
	An outbound train at Ocean and Victoria in 2024
General information
Location	Ocean Avenue at Fairfield Way and Victoria Street; San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°43′34″N 122°27′51″W / 37.72602°N 122.46425°W
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Accessible	No
History
Opened	December 4, 1895
Rebuilt	2001–2003
Services
Location
Location

Ocean and Fairfield (inbound) and Ocean and Victoria (outbound) are a pair of one-way light rail stops on the Muni Metro K Ingleside line, located between the Mount Davidson and Ingleside Terrace neighborhoods of San Francisco, California. The stops consist of one side platform each, with the eastbound (outbound) platform located on Ocean Avenue west of the intersection with Victoria Street and the westbound (inbound) located east of the intersection and just west of Fairfield Way. They originally opened in 1895 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

The station is served by the K Bus, K Owl and 91 Owl bus routes, which provide service along the K Ingleside line during the early morning and late night hours respectively when trains do not operate.^[1]

History

The private Market Street Railway opened a branch – built in just six days – of its Mission Street line along Ocean Avenue to Victoria Street on December 4, 1895, to serve the new Ingleside Racetrack.^[2] The line was extended to the Ingleside House (where Ocean Avenue now meets Junipero Serra Boulevard) shortly thereafter.^[3] The 1906 earthquake damaged many cable car and streetcar lines; the URR resumed service on the Ocean Avenue (12) line on May 6, 1906.^[4]

On November 25, 1918, the city and the struggling URR signed the "Parkside Agreements", which allowed Muni streetcars to use URR trackage on Junipero Serra Boulevard, Ocean Avenue, and Taraval Street, in exchange for a cash payment and shared maintenance costs.^[5]^: 74 The K Ingleside line was extended south on Junipero Serra Boulevard and east on Ocean to Ocean and Miramar on February 21, 1919.^[4] The city purchased the private company (renamed Market Street Railway in 1921) in 1944; route 12 service was removed from Ocean Avenue on April 8, 1945, leaving just the K Ingleside.^[4]

The line was closed and replaced by buses from February 2001 to June 7, 2003, for the Ocean Avenue Reconstruction and Improvement Project, a major street repaving and utility replacement project. Muni boarding islands were reconstructed at the stations along Ocean Avenue.^[6]

In 2023, the SFMTA began planning work on the K Ingleside Rapid Project, which is intended to increase capacity and reduce travel time on the Ocean Avenue portion of the line. An initial proposal shown in April 2023 included longer platforms at four stops, including Fairfield / Victoria, so that the second car of two-car trains can be used.^[7] Updated proposals in July 2023 and January 2023 also included the longer platforms at Fairfield / Victoria.^[8]^[9] As of January 2024^[update], "quick-build" implementation of some project elements is planned for early 2024, with construction of the full project taking place from 2027 to 2029.^[10]

References

^ "Muni Service Map". SFMTA. July 9, 2022. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
^ Rice, Walter; Echeverria, Emiliano (2002). When Steam Ran on the Streets of San Francisco. Harold E. Cox. p. 66.
^ Southern Pacific Company (1897). "Guide Map Of The City of San Francisco". H.S. Crocker Co. – via David Rumsey Map Collection.
^ ^a ^b ^c Stindt, Fred A. (October 1990). San Francisco's Century of Street Cars. pp. 94, 189. ISBN 0-9615465-1-4.
^ Perles, Anthony (1981). The People's Railway: The History of the Municipal Railway of San Francisco. Interurban Press. ISBN 0916374424.
^ "Grand Re-Opening of Ocean Avenue Celebrated" (Press release). San Francisco Municipal Railway. June 20, 2003. Archived from the original on December 5, 2004.
^ "K Ingleside Rapid Project Detail Boards" (PDF). San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. April 2023.
^ "K Ingleside Rapid Project Detail Boards" (PDF). San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. July 2023.
^ "K Ingleside Rapid Project Detail Boards" (PDF). San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. January 2024.
^ "K Ingleside Rapid Project". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. January 2024. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024.