SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUG. 2: A San Francisco cable car on the Powell-Hyde line is turned around near Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021.

PIX Now Wednesday evening edition (8-2-23) 10:42 SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco's iconic cable cars celebrated a century-and-a-half of operation in style after city leaders, public transit fans ...

In the 1890s there were eight different companies with as many as 23 cable car lines in San Francisco. Today there are three lines. Annual ridership was 5.7 million people in 2019.