The plan called to electrify the system between San Francisco and San Jose Tamien station. Originally scheduled for completion by 2020, the first electric multiple unit services started on August 11, 2024, with full electrification achieved and diesel trains retired on September 21, 2024. Electrification resulted in faster trip ...
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Hi all, a large group of Wikimedia ... visiting San Francisco (Wikimedia offices) around 23-24 October 2015. Would anyone be interested in a meeting? Let me know, Taketa (talk) 06:34, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply] Definitely. Keep me posted. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:41, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply] Yes! And I'd be very happy to facilitate an editathon that weekend if it would ...
On Saturday, June 25, Wikipedians around the U.S. will hold the first Great American Wiknic. Let's show 'em what we've got, San Francisco! Photos from the Wiknic have been posted at under a CC0 waiver. Feel free to upload any or all to Wikimedia Commons. Derek, thanks for the high-quality pics!!
The Sunset Reservoir Solar Project, completed in 2010, installed 24,000 solar panels on the roof of the reservoir. The 5-megawatt plant more than tripled the city's 2-megawatt solar generation capacity when it opened in December 2010. Tourism is one of San Francisco's most important private-sector ...
San Francisco is also home to running races such as the Bay to Breakers and the San Francisco Marathon. During Labor Day weekend in 2008, the city played host to the first Slow Food Nation, the first major public event for Slow Food USA and one of the largest food events in the nation.
This list of museums in the San Francisco Bay Area is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and ...
The San Francisco Bay Area is the 43rd largest metropolitan area in the world in population. The Bay Area includes cities, towns, military bases, airports, and related regional, state, and national parks. In general, it has a Mediterranean climate, but the climates are quite different in different places. Inland areas are usually hotter than areas near ...
BART serves 50 stations along six ... Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport. With an average of 204,800 weekday passenger trips as of the second quarter of 2026 and 55,483,900 annual passenger trips in 2025, BART ...
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay estuaries in Northern California. According to the 2010 United States census, the region has over 7.1 million inhabitants and approximately 6,900 square miles (18,000 km2) of land.