Cable cars to return to San Francisco as pandemic ebbs, city reopens
LA TimesA pair of cable cars pass each other on San Francisco’s Powell Street in September 2019. San Francisco’s iconic cable cars will traverse the city’s steep hills once again in August as San Francisco reopens after more than a year of pandemic restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. “Nothing says San Francisco like a cable car ride — up and down, rolling up and down the hills,” Breed said, standing at podium on a track with a cable car behind her. “It is going to be a little rough,” Tumlin said, “but it is going to be awesome.” San Francisco often moved more conservatively than the rest of the state in reopening sectors during the pandemic, and its decision to largely follow the current state guidelines reflects confidence that the high rate of vaccination will continue to tamp down the virus. “We don’t want to go backwards,” Colfax said, “and the Delta variant is still a real threat.” Once one of the vaccines receives formal federal approval, probably later this summer, San Francisco will require staff in skilled nursing facilities, acute care hospitals, homeless shelters and jails to be vaccinated.
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