Comment by fotta
17 hours ago
The J Church line on Muni is still a train in part because back when they were converting lines to buses, the hill on Church St was too steep for buses.
17 hours ago
The J Church line on Muni is still a train in part because back when they were converting lines to buses, the hill on Church St was too steep for buses.
Wiki says it was more because of the private right away used, not necessarily its steepness:
> While many streetcar lines were converted to bus lines after World War II, the J Church avoided this due to the private right-of-way it uses to climb the steepest grades on Church Street, between 18th Street and 22nd Street.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Church