Every few years since the 1980s, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency raises the fare for a cable car ride to ...
One of Rick Laubscher’s earliest memories, he said, is of riding as a 5-year-old with his mother on one of San Francisco’s old streetcars down Market Street on the way to see a circus. Laubscher, now ...
Before the Great Earthquake of 1906, there were more than 600 cable cars in San Francisco. By 1912, there were less than 100. Today, there are 44. Every few years, a cable car must be replaced—a ...