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Transit Spotlight: Solving Three Big Challenges to Upgrade Our Iconic Cable Cars
Crews use a crane to lift one of our cable car sheaves to restore it. This Transit Month, we are going behind the scenes of our work to improve your Muni trips across the city. Today, we shine the...
Late Night Bus Substitution on All Cable Car Lines: May 21, 2019
The cables that power the Cable Car system will be replaced as part of regular maintenance. Starting at 9 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, buses will operate the Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California lines...
Mayor, SFMTA, SFPD to Help Increase Safety for Cable Car Operators and General Public
Note: A copy of Public Service Ad is attached. Mayor Ed Lee, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), and the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) today announced key steps to help...
As Muni Loses a Leader, Third Female Cable Car Grip Begins a New Legacy
The SFMTA saw a shift in generations this week. First, we lost one of our seminal leaders, former Chairman H. Welton Flynn, who for more than 30 years pushed Muni to be a national example of inclusion...
Bus Shuttles Substitute for California Cable Cars: Weekend of August 24-25, 2019
Bus shuttles will substitute the California Cable Car for the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, August 24-25, 2019. Important Information Bus shuttles will stop at the regular cable car stops on...
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11-16-21 MTAB Item 10.3 Amendment - Friends of the Cable Car Museum
4-2-24 MTAB Item 10.2 Second Amendment - Friends of the Cable Car Museum
50TH Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest to be Held Thursday, July 11, 2013
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), which oversees all transportation in the city, including the Municipal Railway (Muni), will host the 50th Muni Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest...
Preserving SF’s Cable Cars: Cal. Line to See First Bus Substitution Starting Sept. 22
The California Cable Car Line will see the first of four eight-day cable car service shutdowns for maintenance. For eight days starting on Friday, Sept. 22, the California Cable Car Line will be...
Ten-Day Bus Substitution for Cable Car Lines on Powell and Mason Starting May 2, 2019
In support of the Cable Car Gearbox Rehabilitation Project, the Powell/Mason Cable Car will be temporarily substituted by a shuttle bus and the Powell/Hyde Cable Car will switchback--changing...
Press Release--SFMTA Announces the Winners of the 50th Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest 07.11.13.pdf
Press Release--Mayor SFMTA, SFPD to Help Increase Safety for Cable Car Operators and General Public 08.11.pdf
Street Closures Impacting Powell Cable Car Lines & Outbound 1 California Route: Friday, March 3, 2023
Street Closures & Muni Reroutes Starting Friday at 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., street closures on Powell Street between California and Jackson streets and Sacramento Street between Mason and Powell streets...
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The Geneva Car House: 115 of Years Transit History at Balboa Park
On the southeast corner of Geneva and San Jose avenues, an intersection of broad streets crisscrossed by a web of light rail tracks, sits a once-grand Victorian building marked by a distinctive round...
Ringing In 55 Years of Landmark Status
This year we're commemorating the 55th anniversary of the designation of the cable car system as a National Landmark with the 55th Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest! Come on out to Union Square tomorrow...
Climb Aboard History At Powell Plaza
Powell Street Cable Car 503 at Market and Powell Street Turntable | August 13, 1945 They’ve been sung about by Judy Garland and saved by Dianne Feinstein, and now you can experience San Francisco’s...
Today in History: A Trip Down California Street July 26, 1974
Digging into our latest historic photo scanning work, we found a roll of 35mm film taken on this day, July 26, in 1974 along the California Street Cable Car Line. Take a trip back in time from Van...
Taking Care of a San Francisco Icon
There is nothing more San Francisco than jumping on a cable car and stepping back in time. With 130 years of service, upgrades and maintenance are inevitable. This week we will begin upgrading the...
This Day in History: McAllister Street 1909
Here’s a look back to April 29,1909 with two photos showing an important change to McAllister Street in the Western Addition. McAllister has been served by a transit line since at least the 1880s...
Powell Street Safety and Sidewalk Improvement Pilot
The stretch of Powell Street from Union Square to Market Street is one of San Francisco’s most iconic streets. Hosting the historic Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason cable car lines, this street is a...