Stopping an eight-ton cable car using nothing more than a clamp isn't easy, especially with hazards like fog, rain and San Francisco's notoriously bad traffic. As was true for many sectors of the ...

(BCN) — Cable car service in San Francisco will be temporarily provided by buses between 6 a.m. Monday and 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to transportation officials. The Powell/Mason and ...

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 ...

Though everything is on the table, the key question is: is mothballing the cable cars a solution? A Muni study suggests, among other things, suspending San Francisco's legendary cable car and ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San ...

His most famous accomplishment was the Clay Street Hill Railway — the world's first successful cable car, which pulled passenger cars up a steep incline in San Francisco. Hallidie's exact role ...