Market St
120+ decisions the Board of Supervisors took about Market St, between 1907 and 2016, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1920s; often about streetcars and transit, railroads and spur tracks, pg&e and the utilities.
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What keeps coming up
- Streetcars and transit39Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
- Railroads and spur tracks29Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
- PG&E and the utilities25The gas, electric and water companies, and the city's dealings with them.
- Paving and grading13Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
- Clinics and hospitals13Clinics, health centres and hospitals.
- Sewers9Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.
Decade by decade
Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.
- 2010s2$112,171 sought to study how HIV spreads in the city · 2015
- 2000s1$600,000 sought for safety work on Market Street · 2007
- 1990s2$984,850 sought to landscape the Mid-Embarcadero music concourse · 1999
- 1980s1$3.0M in federal money for Market Street bicycle lanes · 1982
- 1960s1Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters · 1968
- 1950s2Market Street and Portola Drive widening money put off again · 1954
- 1940s5Market Street track money argued, postponement asked for a week · 1946
- 1930s9$75,000 for terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent · 1938
- 1920s53O. Monson paid $95,715 for building Portola Junior High School · 1928
- 1910s37Western Contracting Co. paid $47,668.01 for the Market Street railway extension · 1918
- 1900s7New City Hall bond vote proposed again after June defeat · 1909
The most notable decisions
Western Contracting Co. paid $47,668.01 for the Market Street railway extension
Resolution · 20 May 1918 ↗$80,467.25 to Eaton & Smith for the Twin Peaks tunnel line
Resolution · 10 July 1917 ↗O. Monson paid $95,715 for building Portola Junior High School
Resolution · 23 April 1928 ↗Payments approved for Hetch Hetchy water work and Monroe School construction
Resolution · passed · 5 May 1919 ↗C. L. Wold Co. paid $2,466 for the hospital's new building
Resolution · 21 June 1915 ↗Charter change to bundle small bond projects sent to voters
Resolution · 12 August 1968 ↗August election set on $3.5M bonds for new municipal streetcar lines
Ordinance · 28 July 1913 ↗$75,000 for terminal tracks, with Market Street Railway paying rent
Ordinance · 5 July 1938 ↗$75,000 for streetcar tracks on First and Fremont streets
Ordinance · 20 June 1938 ↗Market Street Railway paid $8,878 for stadium land at Frederick Street
Resolution · 9 November 1925 ↗
Where this comes from
The street holds more than 120 decisions; this page carries the 120 most notable. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city