Editing M Ocean View (section)

== Route description ==
[[File:Southbound train and Ocean Avenue northbound platform, December 2017-001.JPG|thumb|left|An M Ocean View train in the private right-of-way at Ocean Avenue]]
The line runs from [[Embarcadero station]] in the [[Financial District, San Francisco, California|Financial District]] to Geneva Avenue and [[San Jose Avenue]] near [[City College of San Francisco]] in the [[Balboa Park, San Francisco, California|Balboa Park]] neighborhood. The downtown portion of the line runs through the [[Market Street subway]], which it shares with three other Muni Metro lines. It continues through the much older Twin Peaks Tunnel, emerging at [[West Portal Station]]. From there, it follows West Portal Avenue to the Saint Francis Circle, where it then takes its own [[Right-of-way (railroad)|right-of-way]] to 19th Avenue. The portion of the line on [[19th Avenue (San Francisco)|19th Avenue]] between where it joins 19th near Eucalyptus Drive and Junipero Serra Boulevard is a right-of-way separated from the street. This section has two stations with high-platforms, one at the [[Stonestown Galleria]] on Winston Drive and the [[San Francisco State University Station|other]] at [[San Francisco State University]] on Holloway Avenue. It continues on 19th Avenue past Junipero Serra to Randolph Street. At the end of Randolph, the M uses Orizaba Avenue to get to Broad Street and takes that to San Jose Avenue. The rest of the line follows San Jose Avenue to Geneva Avenue, where the line loops around the Metro yard there on the corner opposite from Balboa Park Station.

=== Operation ===
The M Ocean View begins service at 5 a.m. on weekdays, 6 a.m. Saturdays and 8 a.m. Sundays, with the end of service occurring around 12:30&nbsp;a.m. each night. Daytime headways are 10 to 12 minutes.

Service on most of the route is provided by [[List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines#Owl bus lines|overnight Owl buses]] during the hours that rail service is not running. The {{Muni route|L Owl}} serves the portion between Embarcadero and West Portal, and the {{Muni route|91 Owl}} serves the portion between West Portal and SF State. On weekends, the ''M Ocean View Bus'' service runs from 5 a.m. until the start of rail service. The bus line largely follows the rail line, but it uses surface streets to parallel sections where the rail line has dedicated rights-of-way.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/permanent-muni-service-changes-starting-saturday-february-22-2020|title=Permanent Muni Service Changes Starting Saturday, February 22, 2020|date=February 22, 2020|publisher=San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency}}</ref>