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Muni cable car lines; Route Inbound terminal Outbound terminal Ridership [3] California (C) California and Market: California and Van Ness: 4,000 Powell-Hyde (PH) Powell and Market: Hyde and Beach: 7,800 Powell-Mason (PM) Taylor and Bay: 5,100
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 ]
Cable car along the square, 2015. Two cable car lines (Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason) serve Union Square on Powell Street. In addition, Union Square is served by many trolleybus and bus lines and the F Market heritage streetcar. The Muni Metro and BART subway systems both serve the area at nearby Powell Street Station on Market Street.
The Powell-Hyde cable car stops at the top of the block on Hyde Street. [9] By 2017, the area around the curved segment had become a hot-spot of what has been described as "San Francisco's car break-in epidemic." [10] This may in part have been due to its heavy traffic and association with tourism.
Forms the Powell and Washington/Jackson one way segments of the Powell-Hyde Line. Jackson and Steiner: 1956 decision to close down all cable lines except those originating on California St. and Powell St. and end all cable car lines at Van Ness Ave. Nob Hill, Pacific Heights: 1944 (taken over from Market Street Railway) 1956
A San Francisco cable car on the Powell & Hyde line. A cable car (usually known as a cable tram outside North America) is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required.
Jones and Beach station is about 0.2 miles (0.32 km) from the terminus of the Powell–Hyde cable car. The stop is served by 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.
Powell Street is a street in San Francisco, California that connects from Market Street through Union Square, North Beach, Nob Hill, Russian Hill and ends at Fisherman's Wharf. The intersection of Powell Street with Market Street is the starting point of the Powell-Hyde Street terminal line of the San Francisco Cable Car , which ends on Hyde ...