Transportation and Dyke March

After Chinatown we rode an old fashioned electric trolley car. These are powered by electricity with big poles sticking up on top that connect to the criss cross of wires strung above the streets. They can only travel on the streets with those electrical wires. There are a lot of those streets though, because a lot of the city buses are electric. Now the cable cars are run by cables strung UNDER the streets. The cars have large levers that work the wooden brakes and release the cable for maneuvering and speed. Since the brakes are wood, you can smell it heat up whenever they are applied. It smells like a small wood fire. I wonder how often they replace them. Cable cars also have the right of way and rarely pay attention to traffic signals. The cable cars, electric trolleys, electric buses, and some of the subways are run by MUNI. The buses and some of the subways are run by BART

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