From Cable Cars to Automated Vehicles: ‘Moving San Francisco’ Explores the City’s Public Transportation Evolution

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The documentary "Moving San Francisco" guides viewers through a history of public transit in a region rife with innovation. From the iconic cable cars that climb the city's hills to the fleet of ferries on the bay to ride-hailing services, how people traverse the Bay Area has evolved with the times. And transit systems are still evolving - navigating issues of equity and affordability are as much part of the conversation as trying to regulate new technology. We'll talk with the makers of "Moving San Francisco" and some of the documentary's guests about how public transit has shaped San Francisco and what the city's transportation network could become in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:33.8	Listen, I know San Francisco is a single city sticking out there in our beautiful bay, but any honest reading of this place also indicates that San Francisco is the center of a much bigger, broader region.
1:42.1	For more than 150 years, people from up in the Delta to far south of the official city boundaries have needed to get up to and around the city of hills.
1:46.2	The transit systems that schemers and civic officials put into place shaped nearly everything about the Bay Area that we love and sometimes hate
1:50.3	as depicted in a new documentary, Moving San Francisco,
1:53.8	premiering tonight on KQED.
1:56.0	Today we'll talk all things city transit, mobility, equity,
1:59.0	and the woman who foreshadowed Rosa Parks by a century.
2:01.9	That's all next after this news.
2:09.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. As the author Gary Camilla tells us in the new documentary
2:15.2	moving San Francisco, at its peak in the pre-bay
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