Powell Street cable cars have some breathing room now, with the implementation of an 18-month test to ban private automobiles from Powell between Geary and Ellis Streets. The SFMTA Board of Directors recently approved the plan, which Market Street Railway has been advocating for more than a year, and signage went up along with the signature red lanes San Francisco uses to denote “transit only.”
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Backlash Against Removing F-line wires for Super Bowl
Switch to Cameron Beach Goes Smoothly
Fleet Heads Back to Cameron Beach Tonight!
Attention shutterbugs! The F-line’s historic streetcars will head back to Cameron Beach Division via the J-Church line today and tonight (Friday, November 6). Grab your cameras and snap away!
Cable Cars Get Green Light on Lower Powell
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board has voted to implement an 18-month trial that bans almost all private automobiles on lower Powell Street, from Ellis to Geary. That two block stretch has been extra-jammed with cars in the past few years, a consequence of increased population and tourism and the closure of parallel Stockton Street for the construction of the Central Subway.
Happy 87th Birthday, N-Judah!
Successful Heritage Weekend
Heritage Weekend: Be There
Boost for E-line Extension to Mission Bay, Dogpatch
[caption id="attachment_8019" align="alignleft" width="700"] Vintage streetcars already run through Mission Bay and Dogpatch on their way in and out of service, so why not run E-line historic streetcars here?[/caption]
K is for Kenosha
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