Urban planners from Mexico City to Toulouse are adopting the high-flying mode of transit. Will it catch on elsewhere?

San Francisco's cable car system is the last of its kind in the United States, given the title of a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The cable car was conceived after Andrew Smith Hallidie ...

The city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and ...

In fact, he only opened his Clay Street Hill Railroad in San Francisco on August 2, 1873. This was the first practical cable car system in the world for public transport. San Francisco and similar ...

Jeffrey Tumlin oversaw the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency during a period of tumult for public transit and city streets.

This column’s title is borrowed from Edward Gibbons’ epic tome "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," written in 1776. I ...

Daniel Lurie was sworn in as San Francisco’s 46th mayor on Wednesday in a day chock-full of photo opportunities, handshakes, celebrity guests, cable-car rides and DJ sets. Setting aside the pomp ...

In a story from the San Francisco Chronicle on Dec. 20 ... “The RSNs were unique beneficiaries of the cable distribution system,” Manfred told the Chronicle, “and not surprisingly, when ...

Sold by Bonhams Cars Online, £24,661. Special editions of the original Smart car are increasingly collectible and they don’t ...