page_title: Church and 30th Street station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Church and 30th Street station / History
caption_attribution_description: MUNI 1040 and 1167 at 30th and Church Streets in August 1981 This file comes from the Roger Puta collection, which passed to Mel Finzer. They were scanned and posted by Marty Bernard, are in the Public Domain. Attribution to "Roger Puta" is not required for a PD image, but should be done as a matter of courtesy to a major Commons contributor. Mel Finzer, the heirs of this work's copyright holder (usually the creator) have released it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: The heirs of the creator grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. See This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by an OTRS member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers&#160;as ticket #2016020210001676. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the OTRS noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&amp;TicketNumber=2016020210001676
context_page_description: Church and 30th Street is a light rail stop on the Muni Metro J Church line, located in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The stop is only served by inbound trains; outbound trains stop further north at Day Street. The stop has no platforms; passengers wait on the sidewalk on Church Street.
context_section_description: The San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway (SF&SM), later part of the Market Street Railway system, began operation on April 27, 1892. The line ran on 30th Street between Guerrero Street and Chenery Street, just east of Church Street. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the URR rerouted the San Mateo line to Mission Street; Embarcadero–Daly City route 26 and Embarcadero–Sunnyside route 10 continued to operate on the ex-SF&SM on Church Street. The San Francisco Municipal Railway opened its J Church line on August 11, 1917. The outer terminus of the line was at 30th Street, where a crossover was located to allow streetcars to reverse direction. Service on 30th Street over the former SF&SM route ended on January 27, 1940, when route 10 was discontinued.
  In 1951-52, Muni acquired a fleet of new PCC streetcars - the first Muni streetcars with a cab at only one end. These single-ended cars required a loop or wye to turn around at terminals, as they could not simply reverse direction. A wye was constructed at Church and 30th Street; it was put in service on December 22, 1957, allowing PCC streetcars to enter J Church service.
  J Church and N Judah trains began using the extension of the J Church line along 30th Street and San Jose Avenue for carhouse moves on August 31, 1991. Although these trips were open to passengers, the extension and its stops did not open for full-time service until June 19, 1993, at which time 30th Street ceased to be a terminal except for occasional short turns. Accessible platforms were built several years later at 29th Street and Day Street slightly to the north, as the tight turn at 30th Street would have limited the space available.
  In March 2014, Muni released details of the proposed implementation of their Transit Effectiveness Project (later rebranded MuniForward), which included a variety of stop changes for the J Church line. Under that plan, the stop at Church and 30th Street would be closed to reduce travel time on the line. A more limited preliminary project announced in November 2019 also included the stop closure. However, plans released in 2020 called for the inbound stop at 29th Street to be closed instead; the 30th Street stop would be moved around the corner onto 30th Street.
caption: Streetcars at 30th Street in 1981
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