San Francisco cable car schedule
I am looking for scheduled start and stop times for the running of the historic cable cars and street cars in San Francisco.
If I go to www.sfmta.com, I can not find anything useful. It usually links me to a website called 511, where I immediately get lost on it.
Can anyone help me find the cable car schedules?
Best Answer
Assuming that by "historic...street cars" you mean the F line, its schedule is available here. It's approximately from 5am until 1am.
Per this page, the cable cars run from approximately 6:30am until midnight, every 6-15 minutes. I would note that if you're boarding at Powell during certain times, the size of the crowd will be a significant factor in your scheduling.
If you use 511.org or Google Maps to plan a trip from, say, Powell St. Station to Fisherman's Wharf, you can get an idea of when the next cable car will be (listed as "Powell-Hyde" or "Powell-Mason"). Unfortunately I'm not sure where that data is sourced from, but at least in Google Maps on a desktop web browser, you can click on "Schedule Explorer" to see the next few departures.
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