Common sense isn't.
This is a digital composite of two photos from the same location. We were almost to the top of the hill, at Hyde and Lombard (OpenStreetMap), before going down the famous curvy street, after waiting in bumper to bumper traffic going up the steep hill.
I
highlyno longer recommend the Cable Car Gripman's simulator (Shockwave required), but a visit to the Cable Car Museum is recommended.
Here is the view going down Lombard Street. The small signs along the road say "Keep off Walls and Roadway." Presumably these signs are directed at pedestrians (although we wouldn't want cars on the walls, either).
The cable cars are still turned around by people power.
At one time there was a big controversy over the big French Connection UK sign on the wall of a building in San Francisco. The sign says "san francisco's first fcuk." Now they're all over town on the cable cars.
Quote of the moment |
If in a competitive society you are sincere and honest, in some circumstances people may take advantage of you. If you let someone do so, he or she will be engaging in an unsuitable action and accumulating bad karma that will harm the person in the future. Thus it is permissible, with an altruistic motivation, to take counteraction in order to prevent the other person from having to undergo the effects of this wrong action. |
~ The Path to Tranquility, April 11, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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