Market Street in downtown San Francisco.

Market Street is a major street and important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at the Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, past the Civic Center and the Castro District, before reaching the Twin Peaks neighborhood. At this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive until it terminates in the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Download high resolution version (600x800, 109 KB) Market st File links The following pages link to this file: Market Street Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (600x800, 109 KB) Market st File links The following pages link to this file: Market Street Categories: GFDL images ... This article is about the city in California. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... The Embarcaderos Ferry Building The Embarcadero is the name given the eastern waterfront of San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. ... San Francisco City Hall on Civic Center plaza in 2004 San Franciscos Civic Center is an area of a few blocks in the vicinity of Market Street that contains many of the citys largest government and cultural institutions. ... Many rainbow flags, a gay symbol of pride, are displayed in The Castro The Castro is: a street in San Francisco, which is best known for being the heart of San Franciscos gay community. ...

Market Street serves as the terminus for all intersecting streets in the downtown area: named streets are to the north and west of Market Street, and numbered streets run to its south and east.

Market Street has long been a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, with the street carrying in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street two levels of tunnel carry the Muni Metro and BART respectively. While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, cars of the San Francisco cable car system terminate to the side of the street at the intersections with California Street and Powell Street. a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... Cable Car in San Francisco A San Francisco cable car A cable car or cable railway is a mass transit system using rail track mounted cars that are propelled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. ... A trolleybus in Arnhem An electric trolleybus (also known as trolley bus or trackless trolley or simply trolley) is a bus powered by two overhead electric wires, from which the bus draws electricity using two trolley poles. ... The Bus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... The San Francisco Municipal Railway, or Muni as it is commonly known, is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California. ... F Market PCC cars at Jones Street terminal. ... Muni Metro Map Muni Metro is a mass transit system operated in the city of San Francisco by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. ... BART (in full, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District) is a rapid transit electric train service that serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, and Walnut Creek. ... A San Francisco cable car The San Francisco cable car system is the worlds last permanently operational manually operated cable car system, and is now an icon of the city of San Francisco in California. ...

Market Street was named after Philadelphia's Market Street. Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ...

An F Market streetcar turns around at the foot of Market Street, in front of the Ferry Building.

Another view of Market Street in downtown San Francisco, taken near the intersection with Montgomery Street, looking northeast towards the Ferry Building.