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Coordinates: 37°43′38″N 122°28′00″W / 37.72720°N 122.46667°W / 37.72720; -122.46667
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Ocean and Westgate
Ocean and Cerritos
K Ingleside
An outbound train at Ocean and Cerritos in January 2018
General information
LocationOcean Avenue at Westgate Drive and Cerritos Avenue
San Francisco, California
Coordinates37°43′38″N 122°28′00″W / 37.72720°N 122.46667°W / 37.72720; -122.46667
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
AccessibleNo
History
Openedc. 1896
Rebuilt2001–2003
Services
Preceding station Muni Following station
Ocean and Aptos
towards Embarcadero
 K Ingleside Ocean and Fairfield/Victoria
towards Balboa Park
Location
Map

Ocean and Westgate (inbound) and Ocean and Cerritos (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 Westgate Drive and Cerritos Avenue, and vice versa. They originally opened around 1896 on the United Railroads 12 line; K Ingleside service began in 1919.

The station is served by the KT 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

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The inbound platform at Ocean and Westgate

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 through less populated areas 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 called for Westgate / Cerritos to be closed due to its close proximity to the Aptos stop.[7] Updated proposals in July 2023 and January 2023 also included the stop closure.[8][9] As of January 2024, "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

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