Ah, San Francisco.
Eating clam chowder at Fishermans Wharf.
Strolling over the Golden Gate Bridge.
Climbing up and down its fabled hills on … a bus.
Huh?!?!
Tourists coming to town next week to check off a bucket-list item by riding one of the citys iconic and romantic cable cars are in for a rude awakening. Due to a long-planned construction project, the entire cable car network will be replaced for about 10 days by very unromantic bus shuttles.
TOURISM ALERT: Cable cars will stop running beginning Sept. 13 for total of ten days for major overhaul. Tourism groups have been alerted. pic.twitter.com/GU1dJC6PlU
— Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) September 3, 2019
Heres what you need to know about the temporary shutdown:
- Muni will be running bus shuttles for the Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California cable-car lines starting Sept. 13.
- Public-works crews will use the closure to do some sidewalk improvements and tree trimming on the eastern sidewalk of Hyde between Beach and North Point.
- The bus shuttles will start at 5:30 a.m., continuing during regular service hours until the end of service Sept. 22.
- If all goes as planned, regular cable car service will resume the morning of Sept. 23.
- The shuttles will pick up passengers at curbside cable car stops along each route.
- The entire project costs $6 million.
- The move is part of an ongoing gearbox rehabilitation project that started in 2017.
- This marks the first time since 1984 that the system has gone through such an overhaul.
- The lines have to be shut down so crews can replace the 35-year-old gearboxes.
- The gearboxes, as you can see in this video, are humongous.
While shuttles will not stop at the cable-car terminals, they will pick up nearby. Here are the locations:
- California and Drumm terminal — Drumm and California streets in front of Hyatt HotelRead More – Source
