1 July 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, San Francisco Bay Area
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The San Francisco cable car system is the world’s last manually operated
cable car system. An icon of
San Francisco, the cable car system forms part of the
intermodal urban transport network operated by the
San Francisco Municipal Railway. Of the 23 lines established between 1873 and 1890, only three remain (one of which combines parts of two earlier lines): two routes from downtown near
Union Square to
Fisherman’s Wharf, and a third route along California Street.
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