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[quote user="NKP guy"] Thanks for your input.  I'll certainly hope that's the case when I'm there in May.  I'll be checking out the website, too. You're so right about the quality of the entire transportation system in San Francisco.  When I lived there in 1971, I recall that when I asked for a few schedules to be mailed to me, I was told that because the service was so frequent (at least on the lines I was asking about) that there was no need to publish schedules! To top it off, in 1971 all service, including cable cars, was 25 cents a ride.  Cable cars today are $6 a ride! Sic transit gloria Barbary Coast! [/quote] The agency claims that 90 per cent of San Franciscans are within two blocks of a transit service.  That is one of the reasons people use it. Most electric powered vehicles draw their power from a wire or third rail, which in turn is energized from a central power plant burning some form of fossil fuel, although there are exceptions in the case of nuclear, wind, etc. Thus, most electric energy is not as environmentally benign as many people may think.  In San Francisco, however, the trolley buses, as well as some of the street cars, get their power from a city owned hydro-electric plant.  I think the same is true for Vancouver, B.C. This is probably about as clean as energy can get.
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