Mission Street

Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in

Mission Dolores, several blocks away from the modern route. Only the southern half is historically part of El Camino Real, which connected the missions. Part of Mission Street in Daly City is signed as part of State Route 82

(SR 82).

Alignment

From the south, Mission Street begins as a continuation of SR 82/El Camino Real at the

The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.^[2]

History

Mission Bay and Mission Dolores were connected to the former village of

Plank Road, a 3.25-mile (5.23 km) long toll road extending from Kearny/Third to Fifteenth. The franchise for the Mission Plank Road was granted in November 1850 and the Plank Road was completed by the following Spring at a cost of US$96,000 (equivalent to $3,516,000 in 2023); tolls were 50 cents for a horse and cart, and one dollar for a four-horse team. The Mission alignment was selected because Market had a high ridge between Second and Fifth; although a cut was still required for Mission, it was less extensive. The Plank Road used a bridge to cross a swamp at Mission and Seventh; the bridge was intended to rest on piles, but piles were sunk to 80 feet (24 m) deep without reaching bottom, so a floating bridge was used instead. A parallel plank road was completed along Folsom Street to stave off potential competition from a free road along Market; however, a high tide in 1854 destroyed the Folsom Plank Road by floating off the planks.^[3]

Since 2000, between Third Street and Beale Street in the Financial District, several new high rises have been erected along Mission Street, all in the vicinity of the San Francisco Transbay development project: 101 Second Street (2000), JPMorgan Chase Building (2002), The Paramount (2002), St. Regis Museum Tower (2005), 555 Mission Street (2008), Millennium Tower (2009), 535 Mission Street (2014), 350 Mission Street (2015), and the Salesforce Tower (2017).

Transportation

The Mission Street portion in San Francisco is served 24 hours per day by the

Inner Mission, and the remainder of the San Francisco BART stations less than a half mile away, notably including those on the Market Street subway. The street is four lanes wide.^[4]

The

Transbay Terminal, straddles several blocks between Mission and Howard. It is the western terminus for several AC Transit bus lines via the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, and it will be the future northern terminus of Caltrain and the California High-Speed Rail Authority. From the completion of the Bay Bridge in 1936 until the 1950s, it was also the western terminus for Key System

commuter rail service.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
San Mateo	Colma–Daly City line	0	0.0	SR 82 (El Camino Real)	South end of Mission Street; south end of SR 82 overlap; continuation into Colma
	Daly City	1.2	1.9	John Daly Boulevard, Hillside Boulevard
		1.3	2.1	SR 82 (San Jose Avenue)	North end of SR 82 overlap
		1.6	2.6	Templeton Avenue	Daly City city limits terminus mid-block
City and County of San Francisco		1.7	2.7	Huron Avenue	San Francisco city limits terminus mid-block
		5.5	8.9	24th Street	Serves 24th Street Mission station
		6.4	10.3	16th Street	Serves 16th Street Mission station
		6.8	10.9	US 101 (Central Freeway)	Interchange; no entrance ramps; south end of US 101 north overlap
		7.0	11.3	Golden Gate Bridge	North end of US 101 north overlap
		9.0	14.5	The Embarcadero	North end of Mission Street; former SR 480
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus

References

^ "San Francisco's Mission Districts". Via Magazine. March 2003. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
^ Carl Nolte (November 26, 2016). "A trip down Mission, the most San Franciscan of streets". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
^ Hittell, John Shertzer (1878). "IV. The Golden Era, § 73. Plank Road". A history of the city of San Francisco; and incidentally of the state of California. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company. pp. 151–153. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ "Route description of 14 Mission". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 21 February 2011.

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[AAAVIA-1] "San Francisco's Mission Districts". Via Magazine. March 2003. Retrieved 2010-02-01.

[2] Carl Nolte (November 26, 2016). "A trip down Mission, the most San Franciscan of streets". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-10-12.

[3] Hittell, John Shertzer (1878). "IV. The Golden Era, § 73. Plank Road". A history of the city of San Francisco; and incidentally of the state of California. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company. pp. 151–153. Retrieved 14 January 2020.

[4] "Route description of 14 Mission". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. Retrieved 21 February 2011.

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