Twelve Hours in a Cable Car
Experiencing the city through one of its most popular attractions
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7 min readSep 10, 2019
San Francisco offers the world a peculiar attraction: cable cars. They’re the stuff of postcards but are often cramped and inconvenient compared to a bus or ride share. Tourists flock to the system, while residents avoid using it—only 15% of the roughly eight million cable-car rides a year are taken by…
