As a resident of San Francisco, I have to admit that I do see cable cars everywhere near downtown but I never got a chance to get into the details.  Although there’s great public transportation, (and I should take advantage over it) I am biased and have to resort to taking my car everywhere.

Well, I did site hop onto this blog post explaining in details about cable cars and how they are the only remaining manually operating cable car system.

Check it out as you will learn a little about “gripman” and how it’s not easy to become one.

Did you know that the San Francisco cable car system is the world’s last permanently operational manually-operated cable car system? It’s pretty amazing. Driving and maintaining the cable car takes a lot of man power and manual labor. Man powered turntables turn the cable cars around at the two ends since these cable cars can only run straight.

via mylifeisyummy

Tags: cable car system, labor man, man power, public transportation, san francisco cable car, san francisco cable cars

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 7:54 pm and is filed under Getting Around, sf-tourists.