sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give ... Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable car, started the first one on nearly vertical Clay Street. Overnight, property values ...

His invention provided a safe and efficient means of travel up and down the city’s hills and spurred the expansion ... Muni’s 1 California bus route traverses the same path over Nob Hill and two cable ...

or cable cars, that cost $71 million and today carries 16 million riders. The first Comuna 13 Metrocable line opened in 2004 and extends over several hills, jumping from one working-class barrio ...