Polk Street

Polk Street
A Neoplan bus on Polk Street operating on San Francisco Municipal Railway's (MUNI) 19-Polk Line
LocationSan Francisco, California
South endMarket Street in SoMa
North endBeach Street at the Marina District

Polk Street (also sometimes referred to by its German name, Polkstrasse[1]) is a street in San Francisco, California, that travels northward from Market Street to Beach Street and is one of the main thoroughfares of the Polk Gulch neighborhood traversing through the Tenderloin, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill neighborhoods. The street takes its name from former U.S. President James K. Polk.

The street also has bike lanes, which were approved in 2002.[2] San Francisco bike route 25 runs along Polk Street, and is the only north–south route suitable for casual bicycle travel within at least a mile in either direction.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Rachel Gordon (May 18, 1999). "Supes approve bicycle lanes on Polk Street". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  3. ^ "San Francisco Bike Map" (PDF). 2013.