- Mission Street
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Mission Street Maintained by: San Francisco Department of Public Works Length: 7.2 mi[1] (11.6 km) North end: The Embarcadero in San Francisco Major
junctions:
US 101 in San Francisco
I-280 in San FranciscoSouth end: Between Huron and Templeton Avenues at Daly City Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in San Francisco, California that runs from the city's southern border to its northeast corner. The street and the Mission District through which it runs were named for the Spanish Mission Dolores, several blocks away from the modern route. Only the southern half is historically part of El Camino Real, which connected the missions. At 7.2 mi (11.6 km), it is the city's longest, and one of its oldest streets.[2]
The 560 Mission Street Plaza is adjacent to the JP MorganChase Building.
From the south, Mission Street enters the city mid-block between Templeton Avenue in Daly City and Huron Avenue in San Francisco, and continues north through the Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, Bernal Heights, Outer Mission, Inner Mission, and Downtown neighborhoods.[3][4] From there the road turns northeast and travels through the South of Market neighborhood (running a full block south of Market Street) before ending at The Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco.
South of Market, new high rises have risen along the street like the 40-story Paramount, the 26-story 101 Second Street, the 31-story JP MorganChase Building and the 42-story St. Regis Museum Tower. More high rises are planned or are under construction like the Millennium Tower, 555 Mission Street, and the San Francisco Transbay development.
Mission Street is served 24 hours a day by Muni line 14, two BART stations that below grade in the Inner Mission, and the remainder of the San Francisco BART stations less than a half mile away. The street is four lanes.[5]
Major intersections
County Location Postmile
[6][7][8]Destinations Notes San Francisco The Embarcadero Former SR 480 US 101 north (Van Ness Avenue) – Golden Gate BridgeNorth end of US 101 overlap Central Freeway Interchange; no entrance ramps Huron Avenue San Francisco City limits terminus mid-block San Mateo Daly City Templeton Avenue Continuation beyond Templeton Avenue - Note: Except where prefixed with a letter, postmiles were measured in 1964, based on the alignment as it existed at that time, and do not necessarily reflect current mileage.
References
- ^ Google Maps Driving Directions
- ^ Exact location of Mission Street
- ^ Wikitravel: San Francisco/Mission District
- ^ "San Francisco's Mission Districts". Via Magazine. March 2003. http://www.viamagazine.com/top_stories/articles/mission_district03.asp. Retrieved 2010-02-01.
- ^ "Route description of 14 Mission". San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. 2011. http://www.sfmta.com/cms/asystem/routedesc.sfmta?rted=14. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ California Department of Transportation, State Truck Route List (XLS file), accessed February 2008
- ^ California Department of Transportation, Log of Bridges on State Highways, July 2007
- ^ California Department of Transportation, All Traffic Volumes on CSHS, 2005 and 2006
Streets in San Francisco Numbered streets 
North-south streets Castro Street · Fillmore Street · Grant Avenue · Great Highway · Junipero Serra Boulevard · Kearny Street · Mission Street · Montgomery Street · Octavia Boulevard · Polk Street · Skyline Boulevard · Stockton Street · Van Ness Avenue · Vermont Street
East-west streets Diagonal streets The Embarcadero · Market Street · Columbus Avenue
Alleyways Belden Place · Jack Kerouac Alley · Macondray Lane · Maiden Lane · Balmy Alley
see also: San Francisco street toponymy Coordinates: 37°47′37″N 122°23′34″W / 37.79370°N 122.39264°W
Categories:- Streets in San Francisco, California
- Mission District, San Francisco, California
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