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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.
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (/ ˈmjuːni / 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. Previously an independent agency ...
San Francisco, [ 25 ] officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center within Northern California. With a population of 808,988 residents as of 2023, [ 16 ] San Francisco is the fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.BART serves 50 stations along six routes and 131 miles (211 kilometers) of track, including eBART, a 9-mile (14 km) spur line running to Antioch, and Oakland Airport Connector, a 3-mile (4.8 km) automated guideway transit line serving San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.
Jack Mogannam, manager of Sam’s Cable Car Lounge in downtown San Francisco, relishes the days when his bar stayed open past midnight every night, welcoming crowds that jostled on the streets ...
The São Francisco River (Portuguese: Rio São Francisco, Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w fɾɐ̃ˈsisku]) is a large river in Brazil.With a length of 2,914 kilometres (1,811 mi), [1] it is the longest river that runs entirely in Brazilian territory, and the fourth longest in South America and overall in Brazil (after the Amazon, the Paraná and the Madeira).
It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.
The port currently handles sixty to eighty cruise ship calls and 200,000 passengers and expects an increase to 300,000 in 2015. [8] Itineraries from San Francisco include round trip cruises to Alaska and Hawaii. [9] So far, the Queen Mary 2 is the largest cruise ship that docked in San Francisco.