Can you do a round trip on a cable car?

Basic Rules of the Ride Fare receipts are issued; one-ride-only. Tickets/Receipts are not valid as transfers and are NOT round trip. You can get on the Cable Car at any stop along the way where you see the Cable Car stop pole. The Conductors will stop at each stop pole to let people on and off.



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San Francisco is known for these little cars that climb steep hills and veer around corners. The best place to ride is standing on the edge, hanging onto the pole. What a view! The cable car owes its invention to the problem horses had drawing carts up and down in this city in the 1800s.

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Despite their good characteristics, aerial cable cars also have certain limitations:
  • Speed limited to 12 m/s or 43,2 km/h.
  • Capacity limited to 4,000 persons/h.
  • Suitable only for distances up to 7 km (gondolas with intermediate stations)
  • Wind resistance, normally up to 18 m/s (65 km/h), bi-cable systems 90 km/h.


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China's Tianmen Shan cable car is the longest cable car ride in the world, covering a distance of 7,455 meters. The car runs from Zhangjiajie downtown up to Tianmen Shan, which translates as “Heaven's Gate Mountain.” Once you arrive you get to witness towering cliffs, karst caves and rare sub-tropical forests.

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Vietnam is home to the current world's longest single-cable gondola ride, at 3.6 miles long.

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Cable cars are one of the safest modes of transport in existence. According to a survey, there are 0.35 incidents per billion kilometres. In itself, this figure is already not high, but if you consider only gondola railways used exclusively in cities, then the figure is significantly lower.

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Don't get me wrong, the cable cars operate safely in the rain all the time. On occasion, though, there are more extreme conditions that argue for the prudent use of bus shuttles. Usually in rainy conditions, grip persons keep an abundance of sand in the cable car sand reservoir to help with braking.

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The car will then slowly move forward, and a further, and stronger, pull locks the grip to the cable and brings the car up to its cruising (and maximum) speed, of 9.5 mph. To stop the car, the grip lever is thrown forward to disengage the grip, and the hand brake lever pulled on.

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During busy times, there is likely to be a very long line at this stop. However, the cars run every ten minutes or so and each car holds up 65 people so the line often moves more quickly than you'd expect. TIP: If you want to avoid the long line then you can walk north a few blocks and get the car at the next stop.

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The Powell-Hyde Street line starts at the cable car turnaround at Powell Street and Market Street (map). On this route, you'll have views of Coit Tower, Alcatraz Island, the Financial District, and San Francisco Bay.

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Gondolas, also known as cable cars, consist of different cabins connected to a thick cable that is constantly circulating between its low and high point. Tramways have two large passenger cabins that shuttle up and down on a fixed moving cable.

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Ba Na Hills Cable Car (Da Nang, Vietnam) The world's longest cable car is more than five kilometers long.

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The Eiger Express may be the fastest cable car in the world ! It current operates at speeds up to 29 km/h and whisks passengers from the valley in Grindelwald, Switzerland up to the Eigergletscher station.

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Tourist attractions The world's longest metro cable car system, at over 16km, is in La Paz, Bolivia. The Mi Teleférico functions as La Paz's principal public transport system and currently has 25 stations and six separate lines running across the city.

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Silver Mountain Resort is home to North America's longest gondola - a 3.1 mile journey from Kellogg to the Mountain House where all will enjoy fresh mountain air, stunning panoramic views, and delicious food!

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There's a motor, of course, but it alone can't simply lug the car up as dead weight, so each cabin going up is counterbalanced by one going down. This is done by mounting each one halfway around a loop of steel cable.

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Stopping a cable car These are crew-activated by foot pedals on both ends of the California cars, and on the front end of the Powell cars. A conductor's lever on the rear platform activates rear track brakes on Powell cars. Track brakes are simply pieces of wood located between the wheel sets on the cars.

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The Cavalese cable car crash is the deadliest cable car crash in history. On 9 March 1976, the steel supporting cable broke as a fully loaded cable car was descending from Mt. Cermis, near the Italian ski resort of Cavalese in the Dolomites, 40 km (25 mi) north-east of Trento.

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