Transportation: Streetcars, Trains, Buses
1906 Post-earthquake development
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire caused many to relocate, some of whom found housing in Berkeley. These relocations increased the demand for transit service, especially commute service to San Francisco. Southern Pacific accepted the challenge posed by the Key System, promising to gird the cities with modern interurban service.
That promise was delivered during a 1909 through 1911 construction program which included three new electric lines, one branching off Stanford at Ninth Street, another at California Street, and the third, a single-track line on Solano Avenue connecting the two new lines to the extended and electrified Shattuck Avenue line. The California Street line was the only line that pierced the McGee and Spaulding Tracts.