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Geary Boulevard

Index Geary Boulevard

Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street east of Van Ness Avenue) is a major east-west long thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, United States, beginning downtown at Market Street near Market Street's intersection with Kearny Street, and running westbound through downtown, the Civic Center area, the Western Addition, and running for most of its length through the predominantly residential Richmond District. [1]

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Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT, BRTS, busway, transitway) is a bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system.

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Cable car (railway)

A cable car (cable tram elsewhere, apart from North America) is a type of cable transportation used for mass transit where rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Civic Center, San Francisco

The Civic Center in San Francisco, California, is an area of a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue that contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions.

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Cliff House, San Francisco

The Cliff House is a restaurant on Point Lobos Avenue perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

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Email client

In Internet, an email client, email reader or more formally mail user agent (MUA) is a computer program in the category of groupware environments used to access and manage a user's email.

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Frontage road

A frontage road (also known as an access road, service road or parallel road) is a local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road.

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Geary (software)

Geary is a free and open-source email client written in Vala, which is based on WebKitGTK+.

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Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway

The Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway was one of the first cable car operators in San Francisco.

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Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, United States, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds.

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Great Highway

The Great Highway is a road in San Francisco that forms the city's western edge along the Pacific coast.

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Japantown, San Francisco

(also known as J-Town or historically as Japanese Town, or "Nihonmachi" ("Japan town", in Japanese)) is a neighborhood in the Western Addition district of San Francisco, California.

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John W. Geary

John White Geary (December 30, 1819February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kearny Street

Kearny Street in San Francisco, California runs north from Market Street to The Embarcadero.

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Light rail

Light rail, light rail transit (LRT), or fast tram is a form of urban rail transport using rolling stock similar to a tramway, but operating at a higher capacity, and often on an exclusive right-of-way.

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Limited-access road

A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway (freeway or motorway), including limited or no access to adjacent property, some degree of separation of opposing traffic flow, use of grade separated interchanges to some extent, prohibition of some modes of transport such as bicycles or horses, and very few or no intersecting cross-streets.

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List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) is the public transit system for San Francisco, California.

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Market Street (San Francisco)

Market Street is a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California.

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Market Street Railway (transit operator)

The Market Street Railway Company was a commercial streetcar and bus operator in San Francisco.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Ocean Beach is a beach on the west coast of San Francisco, California, United States, bordering the Pacific Ocean.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Playland (San Francisco)

Playland (also known as Playland at the Beach and Whitney's Playland beginning in 1928) was a seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California along Great Highway where Cabrillo and Balboa streets are now.

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Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.

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Redevelopment

Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses.

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Richmond District, San Francisco

The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, California, developed initially in the late 19th century.

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Right of way

Right of way is a term used to describe "the legal right, established by usage or grant, to pass along a specific route through grounds or property belonging to another", or "a path or thoroughfare subject to such a right".

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Municipal Railway

The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni) is the public transit system for the city and county of San Francisco, California.

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Sutro Baths

The Sutro Baths was a large, privately owned public saltwater swimming pool complex in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California.

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The McLoughlin Gallery

The McLoughlin Gallery is an art gallery established in 2010 by Joan McLoughlin that focuses on presenting contemporary art from mid-career and emerging artists.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Van Ness Avenue

Van Ness Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, running from Market St north to the Bay.

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Western Addition, San Francisco

The Western Addition is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_Boulevard

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