LIGHT RAIL ROUTES
Operator: Metropolitan
Transit System (MTS)
| BL |
Blue Line |
America Plaza – City College – 12th & Imperial
Transit Center – Bayfront Street – Palm Avenue – San Ysidro / Tijuana
(US-Mexico border) |
| GL |
Green Line |
12th & Imperial Transit Center – Convention Center – Santa Fe Depot - Old Town Transit Center –
Rio Vista – Mission San Diego – San Diego State University (SDSU) –
Grossmont Transit Center – El Cajon Transit Center – Gillespie Field –
Santee Town Center |
| OL |
Orange Line |
America Plaza – City College –
12th & Imperial Transit Center – Euclid Ave. – Lemon Grove
Depot – Grossmont Transit Center – El Cajon Transit Center |
Note: Route designations by letter are not used by the
operator.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM
NETWORK LENGTH
- Light rail lines: 85.6 km.
HISTORY
- Horse-trams: 3 July 1886 - ?
- Cable cars: 7 June 1890 - 15 Oct. 1892
- Streetcars: 19 Nov. 1887 - 24 Apr. 1949
- Light rail: 26 July 1981 - today
GAUGE
- Streetcars: 1435 mm. (after 1898); 1067 mm. until 1898
- Light rail: 1435 mm.
TRAM PRESERVATION
The San Diego Vintage Trolley, Inc. restores old San Diego streetcars and hopes to operate them in the future over the regular downtown San Diego Trolley tracks for touristic purposes.
SOURCES
PRINT
- Mills, J.R. "Ten years of the San Diego trolley: A decade of success in California", Light Rail & Modern Tramway, Jan. 1992 (55:649), p.12-17.
- Rice, W. & Robins, K. "San Diego - Where red LRVs rule", Tramways & Urban Transit, Nov. 1999 (62:743), p.412-414.
- San Diego, California: Street guide & automobile road map. San Diego: San Diego Trust & Savings Bank, ca. 1930 and 1940.
- San Diego street guide. San Diego: San Diego Street Guide Publishers, 1941.
- Simons, V. "San Diego: A US original", Tramways & Urban Transit, Aug. 2013 (76: 908), p.344-347.
WIKIS
WEB SITES
Also, thanks to Rob Van Laun of San Diego for his kind corrections of my maps of the original San Diego
streetcar network.
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