Several bus, trolleybus, streetcar/light rail, and cable car routes were historically served, but have been discontinued.
It began service on December 28, 1912, with two streetcar routes on Geary Boulevard and continued to expand operations.
In 1944, the city acquired the largest remaining private transit agency in San Francisco, the Market Street Railway, and began operating its former services.
Many modern routes are amalgamated from earlier lines, while some corridors no longer see regular Muni service.
This is a listing of all the Local, Rapid, Express, and streetcar lines that once operated throughout San Francisco, but are now defunct.
By 1950, the line was essentially a short-turn version of the B Geary streetcar route, which continued out to Ocean Beach.
The southernmost part of this route, from Market to Jackson, is once again served by light rail by the T Third Street after the Central Subway was opened.
The H Potrero streetcar line was created on August 15, 1914, to serve the Panama-Pacific International exposition.
In 1946 the line was extended along former Market Street Railway trackage on Bayshore and San Bruno to Arleta.
The Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit line began operation in 2022; it was constructed by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.
The 40 San Mateo was a 19.98-mile (32.15 km)[49] interurban route that provided service along The Peninsula from 1903 to 1949.
[51] By 1906, the northern terminus was at Fifth and Market whereupon it ran down 5th to Mission Street continuing to San Jose Avenue (for some time also running on Onondaga and Ocean),[51][52] then on a largely private right-of-way to a terminal in San Mateo.
Short segments of the line had remained in use by the late 1970s, and some of the right of way on San Jose Avenue and 30th Street was rebuilt for modern Muni Metro Service as extensions of the M Ocean View and J Church lines in the 1980s and 1990s.
During this time, the E line ran down Van Ness to Market instead of to the Ferry Building.