{"id":50493,"date":"2024-05-21T20:38:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=50493"},"modified":"2024-05-21T20:38:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:38:25","slug":"san-francisco-cable-car-ridership-still-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=50493","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Cable Car Ridership Still Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>By Railfan &amp; Railroad Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While visitation to San Francisco continues to rebound after the pandemic, the same can\u2019t be said for ridership on the city\u2019s iconic cable cars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Visitation to the city dropped dramatically at the start of the pandemic and local officials expect it to not return to pre-pandemic levels until next year. But despite that, more than 23 million people came to San Francisco in 2023 (in 2019, it was 26.2 million). But ridership on MUNI\u2019s three cable car lines is still far below 2019 levels. In February, the system had recovered just 58 percent of its 2019 ridership. That year, anywhere from 430,000 to 480,000 people were riding the system every month. In February of this year, just 254,000 people jumped on board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In light of that low ridership, MUNI\u2019s board of directors is considering introducing a $5 all-day pass for the California Street cable car line (versus the standard $8 for a single-ride ticket).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MUNI is also teaming up with Market Street Railway \u2014 the non-profit that supports historic transit in the city \u2014 to provide special schedules and equipment this summer Thursday through Mondays, including the iconic Sacramento-Clay Cable Car \u201cBig 19.\u201d One such service is the \u201cHyde Ride,\u201d\u00a0a round-trip run for a single $8 fare from Aquatic Park (Hyde and Beach Streets) up the Hyde hill, across Washington St. to Chinatown and right back again to Aquatic Park. The service was run last year to celebrate the cable car system\u2019s 150th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><span>The cable cars have been a presence in San Francisco since the 1870s and is the world\u2019s last manually operated system still in existence. Cable cars were popular due to the city\u2019s steep hills. But many cable car lines were destroyed during the 1906 earthquake, which brought about a wave of electric streetcar lines. In the 1940s, civic leaders tried to scrap the system for good, but a grassroots effort saved them. In the early 1980s, the surviving three lines \u2014 California Street, Powell-Mason, and Powell-Hyde \u2014 were completely rebuilt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/san-francisco-cable-car-ridership-still-down\/\">San Francisco Cable Car Ridership Still Down<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/railfan.com\/\">Railfan &amp; Railroad Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Railfan &amp; Railroad Staff While visitation to San Francisco continues to rebound after the pandemic, the same can\u2019t be said for ridership on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-50493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}