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This is a route-map template for the San Francisco cable car system, a United States cable car network.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco.The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the Muni Metro modern light rail system.
Beach and Mason station is about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) from the terminus of the Powell–Mason cable car. The stop is also served by the route 47 bus, plus the L Owl bus route, which provides service along the F Market & Wharves and L Taraval lines during the late night hours when trains do not operate.
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (/ ˈ m juː n i / MEW-nee; SF Muni or Muni), is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California.It operates a system of bus routes (including trolleybuses), the Muni Metro light rail system, three historic cable car lines, and two historic streetcar lines.
The Powell and Market turntable of the San Francisco cable car system, terminus of the Powell/Hyde and Powell/Mason lines, is located adjacent to the station next to Haladie Plaza. The station is also served by a number of Muni bus and trolleybus routes: [ 31 ]
Competition, labor troubles and a bad accident in 1918 led to the reorganisation of the URR, to re-emerge again as the Market Street Railway Company. This continued to operate electric streetcars throughout the city, the Powell St. cable car lines, and a growing fleet of buses.
1952 (taken over from California Street Cable Railroad) 1956 Powell-Washington-Jackson: Began at Market and Powell, up Powell to Jackson, out Jackson to Steiner, back downtown from Steiner on Washington (used Powell Street style single-ended cable cars). Forms the Powell and Washington/Jackson one way segments of the Powell-Hyde Line.
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