To avoid long lines, prepay utilizing MuniMobile® or Clipper® Card Choose from three cable car lines - two start at Powell and Market and continue to the Fisherman's Wharf area one starts at California and Market and continues to Van Ness Avenue. Board at the cable car turntables (the beginning or end of each route) or look for the brown-and-white cable car sign post.įind maps and schedules below or download MuniMobile® to plan your trip:

Please join us to celebrate the Cable Car return with our professional and experienced operators, mechanics and carpenters.

Invented here nearly 150 years ago and named a National Historic Landmark in 1964, today's San Francisco cable cars are kept in tip-top shape by our agency. Hint: it's a suspension bridge painted an International Orange color.) After all, we're the city that first launched cars pulled along by cables running beneath the street. Cable cars have come to symbolize our great city (along with another world-renowned transportation icon. No experience is more uniquely San Francisco than a ride on a cable car. It protects you and all riders who may be at risk.

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