Don Chee Way and Steuart station is a light rail station in San Francisco, California, United States, serving the San Francisco Municipal Railway's F Market & Wharves heritage railway line. It is located on Don Chee Way, a streetcar right-of-way, between Steuart Street and The Embarcadero and serves as the station for the San Francisco Railway Museum.
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 Streetcar at Don Chee Way and Steuart in March 2017 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Don Chee Way at Steuart Street San Francisco, California | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°47′38.79″N 122°23′37.78″W / 37.7941083°N 122.3938278°W | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  Muni: 6, 7X, 9, 14, 14X, 21, 31 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes[1] | ||||||||||
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| Opened | March 4, 2000 | ||||||||||
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The station opened on March 4, 2000 with the streetcar's extension to Fisherman's Wharf.[2]
Don Chee Way was named after Donald Chee, a San Francisco Municipal Railway project manager who was responsible for getting the F Market & Wharves line built. Chee died of cancer on August 26, 2002.[3]
References
edit- ^ "F-Market and Wharves accessible stop map". SFMTA. Muni. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
- ^ Morris, J. D. (March 2, 2000). "New Way to the Wharf / Merchants hope F-Market line will draw locals to tourist attractions". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 27, 2018.
- ^ Nolte, Carl (August 29, 2002). "Donald Chee -- oversaw creation of S.F.'s F streetcar line". San Francisco Chronicle.
External links
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Media related to Don Chee Way and Steuart station at Wikimedia Commons
- San Francisco Railway Museum
- SFMTA – Don Chee Way & Steuart St inbound, outbound
- SFBay Transit (unofficial): Don Chee Way/Steuart St