A section of San Francisco\u2019s most popular cable car route is out of service for the foreseeable future after a person drove their car over the sidewalk and crashed into the\u00a0Powell Street turnaround.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Michael Roccaforte, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees all three of the city\u2019s cable car lines, confirmed the crash occurred at approximately 8:04 p.m. on Wednesday night. \u201cA driver reportedly entered the restricted space of the Powell Cable Car turnaround and caused damage to the turnaround signal and a protective concrete barrier,\u201d he told SFGATE in an email. No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Powell and Market Street cable car turnaround is arguably the most sought-after stop, with tourists often waiting in line for up to an hour to board. While the Hyde and Mason cable car lines will continue to operate between Fisherman\u2019s Wharf and Washington Street, both will be unable to roll through the iconic stretch of downtown San Francisco until the turnaround signal is repaired, Roccaforte said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not yet have an estimated timeline for restoration but are working as quickly as possible to restore service,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the meantime, bus substitutions will be in place to serve Powell Street, Roccaforte said, and SFMTA will be posting service updates via Muni alerts and on X. He advised people who want to take the Hyde or Mason cable car lines to board one of the shuttle buses from Powell Street to connect at Washington Street, where they can hop on a cable car to Fisherman\u2019s Wharf.<\/p>\n
Reddit user MarineJAB<\/a>, who requested anonymity and was granted it in accordance with Hearst\u2019s ethics policy<\/a>, said he was walking home from dinner with his co-workers in Chinatown around 9 p.m. on Wednesday when he passed the cable car turnaround. There, he saw several SFMTA employees in safety vests standing around a tow truck and a Jeep with its bumper missing. He took a few photos and asked one of the employees what happened.<\/p>\n \u201cHe told me \u2018about two hours ago, a gentleman in a three piece suit drove his car down Powell, hit the pillar, and somehow ended up reversing but got stuck,\u2019\u201d the Reddit user told SFGATE. He added that the employee said the driver had been arrested.\u00a0<\/p>\n Roccaforte referred SFGATE to the San Francisco Police Department for further details, which was not able to provide comment by time of publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of San Francisco\u2019s most popular cable car route is out of service for the foreseeable future…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,1693,1692,1228],"class_list":{"0":"post-271333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-sfglocal","15":"tag-sfgnews","16":"tag-sfgtravel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}