The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency operates 40 cable cars. They roll on three lines — Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California Street — that together cover 8.8 miles.

San Francisco cable cars are all fairly similar in appearance and are made of Alaskan spruce, oak, canvas, brass and steel. There are 40 cable cars still in service, plus "survivor" cars from ...

In the 1890s there were eight different companies with as many as 23 cable car lines in San Francisco. Today there are three lines. Annual ridership was 5.7 million people in 2019.

If you had to name three things that are distinctive about San Francisco, cable cars would almost certainly be on that list. So the failure of Proposition L in this most recent election has a lot ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A ride on one of San Francisco's famous cable cars is about to get more expensive in the New Year. SFMTA announced a price increase for the fares. Starting Jan. 1, the price ...

Among the many precautions San Francisco officials are taking for Saturday's day of protests is to shut down several public transit lines and halting the city's famed cable cars.

A 19th century innovation, San Francisco's cable cars are a National Historic Landmark as well as a tourist attraction. They'll be offline for 10 days.

A cable car travels its route with mannequins on its roof provided by Macy’s in San Francisco, 1949 as part of a promotional campaign. Photo by AP Photo/Ernest K. Bennett ...

150 years ago this month, the first cable car made its way down a San Francisco street with its inventor, Andrew Hallidie, at the controls. Andrew Hallidie returned to San Francisco in 1857, where ...