In the latter case, you will need to hold on to the pole in front of you as you ride. Wherever you catch your ride and wherever you choose to sit, you should get fully onto the cable car and find your seat immediately, allowing others to get on as well.
The attendant will then come around to see your ticket or collect your fare. Make life easier for everyone by having your ticket or fare money out and ready when he comes around.
There are no buttons to push or bells to ring to let the driver know that you want to get off of the cable car. On busy days, the cable car will stop at all of the stops along the route and you can just get off when it stops. The same is true if you are riding the car all the way until the end of the line. However, if it is a slow day, you may want to let the driver or attendant know what stop you want.
You can tell them when you get on the ride or as the stop approaches. Many people assume that the cable cars are just a ride that the tourists go on. This is important to know even as a visitor because there are a few rare instances in which the cable car is actually quicker and more convenient than the bus system. For example, during peak hours in low-tourism seasons it can be faster to take a cable car to Chinatown than to take a bus. The San Francisco Cable Car system is the last working system of its kind in the world.
The cable cars move by gripping an underground cable that is in constant motion, powered by an engine located in a central powerhouse. The car also has a conductor or attendant who takes the fare and helps keep an eye on everything for the grip man. Clipper cards containing Muni monthly passes or cash value are accepted. Show card to Cable Car conductor. Single ride cable car tickets are available at ticket booths located at Powell and Market or Hyde and Beach.
Retail Opportunities. Privacy Policy. The line above had probably over an hour wait time. I was standing here for only ten minutes, just watching, and the sound of the erhu player squeaking the same four notes almost sent me round the bend! The cable car routes come in three flavors, but they all go up and down steep hills and give you an exhilarating ride! The two lines leaving from Powell and Market Streets both take you to Fisherman's Wharf, but take different routes to get there.
This is the most popular line, largely because it takes you directly to Fisherman's Wharf and you get great views of Lombard Street , Coit Tower, and Alcatraz.
The cable car stops at the top of the crooked block of Lombard Street, where you can get a great picture of the city and bay, with Coit Tower in the distance. If you get off here, you can walk down Lombard and take photos of the cars coming down the eight switchbacks among the blooming hydrangeas. If you don't want to walk back up Lombard to catch the cable car again, you can walk over to Fisherman's Wharf.
Go left on Leavenworth Street at the bottom of Lombard and walk three blocks to the wharf. If you continue on with the cable car to Fisherman's Wharf, you'll go down a nice steep hill where you get a great view of Alcatraz. Where to sit: for the best views, sit on the right side on the way to Fisherman's Wharf, and on the left side heading back to Union Square.
I think this is a somewhat under-appreciated cable car line. The Powell-Mason line is a good line to take to Fisherman's Wharf if you don't want to fight the crowds. Even if you wait in the long line at the turnaround, you'll find people letting you go ahead so they can take the other line. The hills aren't quite as steep, or the views as amazing as the other Powell line, but you'll get some nice views of the Transamerica Pyramid and go right through the heart of North Beach, our Little Italy.
This is the best route to take back to downtown when you're ready to leave Fisherman's Wharf because of the much shorter line. This is sort of the forgotten cable car line. Most people ride the two lines that leave from Powell and Market, so this one is much easier to get on; usually there's no wait. There are more locals on it as well. It doesn't take you to Fisherman's Wharf like the other two, but it climbs one of the steepest hills, Nob Hill , up to a pair of historic, luxury hotels, the Mark Hopkins and the Fairmont , two San Francisco classics.
Grace Cathedral is also on top of Nob Hill, right on the cable car line: a beautiful old church with a popular labyrinth. There are two cool and historic bars at the top here: Top of the Mark , a classy cocktail lounge with incredible city views, in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, and the Tonga Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, one of the city's original tiki bars. This is a fun line to ride after dark. You'll also pass through Chinatown at the picturesque intersection between the Sing Chong and Sing Fat buildings, with a good look down the main street and hanging lanterns of Grant Avenue.
The Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines use the same style of cable car. Half of the car has an enclosed compartment with wooden benches, and the other half has rows of wooden benches facing outward.
There are 14 places available for hanging on to the Powell line cars, 8 on one side and 6 on the other. It's usually possible to snag one of these places the most fun ones, I think. These cars can only go in one direction, hence the rotating platform that has to be manually turned to get them facing the right direction for the return trip. The California line has a larger car, with an inside compartment in the middle and outside seating on both ends, also with steps for standing and hanging on.
I think the best ride, if you're able, is to stand and hang on to the pole. You get an unobstructed view unlike the people you're standing in front of , feel the wind in your hair, and can appreciate how close you are to the other traffic on the street! Of course, riding there requires you to be more vigilant so you don't get bumped by the other vehicles traveling on the street. You realize it isn't an amusement park ride when city traffic is zooming by your body only 12 inches away! But that makes it all the more exciting;.
The next best seats are the outside benches. Much better views than the inside seats, especially when it gets crowded and there are also people standing inside. And if you can get the seats all the way at either end of the car, the views are better and you can really see how steep those streets are.
The ride is a bit rough; it's the same ride that people had in the late 's. The grip men keep reminding riders to "hold on", and for good reason, especially around the corners! The cable car system was invented in by Andrew Hallidie, an engineer who had also designed a transport system for carrying loads of rocks out of the mines up in the Gold Country.
Legend has it that he was inspired to try to design a transportation system for San Francisco's steep hills after witnessing a terrible accident in which horses pulling a street car up a hill slipped and were dragged to their deaths.
San Francisco's system launched in The cable cars worked so well and were so much more efficient than the horse drawn cars, they caught on quickly, and spread to other cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
At the peak, San Francisco had over 70 miles of cable car tracks carrying passengers throughout the city. The end Two things almost delivered a knockout blow to the SF cable cars. Electric streetcars had been introduced to San Francisco in and were rapidly replacing the more expensive and much less efficient cable cars. Then disaster struck: the earthquake destroyed much of the cable car system along with most of San Francisco.
The extensive cable car system was reduced to only three lines, running on the steepest streets that weren't as practical for the new streetcars. Cool fact: these original 27 cars are still running on San Francisco streets, along with some built more recently. Battle to save the cable cars. In , San Francisco's mayor wanted to "modernize" the city and do away with the old fashioned cable cars.
But a fierce battle followed when citizens formed action groups to save the iconic cars, and ultimately, locals voted on a referendum the same year to keep the cars running. They were the first cable cars in the world and now they're the only remaining manually-operated cable car system still in use. The current system. This form of transportation was at the verge of disappearing in but a furious public strongly opposed its removal.
In the cable car system was declared a National Heritage Site. The reason for its near extinction was the high cost of its maintenance.
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