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The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco.The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the Muni Metro modern light rail system.
The rolling stock of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system consists of 782 self-propelled electric multiple units, built in four separate orders. [ 1] Pre- pandemic, to run a typical peak morning commute, BART required 579 cars. Of those, 535 are scheduled to be in active service; the others are used to build up four spare trains (used to ...
The second generation Mercedes-Benz SLK, internally designated model R171, is a two-passenger, front-engine, rear-drive, retractable hardtop roadster, unveiled at the 74th Geneva International Motor Show [ 5] —and manufactured and marketed for model years 2004–2010. Currently in its third generation and manufactured at Mercedes' Bremen ...
There are many nicknames of San Francisco, California that have been used throughout the city's history. [ 1][ 2] 415 – referring to the area code that serves the city of San Francisco (as well as most of Marin County ). [citation needed] Baghdad by the Bay – title of a book of essays by Herb Caen, and a nickname he used for the city ...
Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, [ 6] he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. [ 7][ 6] Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004.
California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule requires public agencies to ensure 50% of their vehicle purchases are zero-emissions beginning this year and 100% by 2027, but it exempts police cars and ...
A California city officially ditched gas-powered police cars and made the switch to a fully electric fleet for its police department. South Pasadena, located northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday ...
Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni 's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street ...