22nd Street (San Francisco)
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22nd Street is an east–west street passing through the
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. The street is discontinuous and exists in several sections: the main western section between Hoffman Avenue and the Bayshore Freeway, a segment from Vermont Street to Wisconsin Street, a short alley off of Missouri Street, and an eastern section from Texas Street to Pier 70. Below the elevated Interstate 280 and at-grade eastern section lies 22nd Street station, Caltrain's only station beneath ground level.


Steepness

The street includes one of the steepest city blocks in San Francisco. In the 250-foot block from Vicksburg to Church Streets in the
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neighborhood, the city map shows a 79-foot descent along the south side of the street ( along the north side) for an average
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of just over 31%, about the same as the steepest block of
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in San Francisco. (Both streets are one-way down; bottom of the 22nd St hill at .
1956 view
seems to show a two-way street.)


Slow street and bicycle route

In 2022, the
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(SFMTA) board voted to add a section of 22nd Street to the city's Slow Streets program. The slow portion will run between Chattanooga Street in
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and Bryant Street in the
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once implemented. As of April 2024, the SFMTA had not provided a timeline for the project. The SFMTA designated a similar section of 22nd Street as an east-west bicycle route, between Chattanooga Street and Potrero Avenue, on the agency's 2019 bike map.


See also

* 22nd Street (Caltrain station) *
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— ''the world's steepest residential street''.


References

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