Transportation Evolution

Transportation Evolution. . Transportation has evolved along with the city of South San Francisco. As farms and cattle ranches became manufacturing communities, walking trail gave way to road, stagecoach to car, fishing pier to deep water port. In 1904 when the Bayshore Cutoff of the Southern Pacific Railroad was built through Point San Bruno, manufacturers in the industrial area had a way to distribute their goods via rail. About the same time, electric passenger service began between San Francisco and San Mateo on the famed #40 streetcar line. Until the 1940s the local South San Francisco Belt Railway connected to this line to serve passengers on the West Grand Avenue via electric streetcar and heavy industry on East Grand Avenue via steam locomotive., Steam and Electric Powered , Since the establishment of San Francisco as a Spanish settlement in 1776, immigration and urban development in the area have produced rapid and stupendous changes., Planes, Trains, Automobiles, and…Feet , Today, in addition to roads, an airport, CalTrain and BART, the northern peninsula also features foot and bike trails, including the trail you’re standing on, the Greenway, a 3-mile trail that joins the San Bruno and South San Francisco BART stations. You will find miles of hiking trails through developed and natural terrain in this area. Note San Bruno Mountain to the north, the Bay Trail (a trail system that will one day ring the entire Bay), and South San Francisco’s famous Signal Hill.