ATTN: Northbound #FMarket switching back at Pier 39. Delayed near Beach & Taylor by a collision.
— SFMTA (@sfmta_muni) August 28, 2015
Taxi drivers on the scene said the Lyft was making an illegal right turn, but a cursory look at Google Street View doesn't show any "No Right Turn" signs. But it does appear to be making a right turn from the middle lane – a big "no no."The uniqueness of Cincinnati’s PCCs (Ed's Note: Presidential Conference Committee, a type of streetcar) extended to the paint scheme, an eye-popping canary yellow with three bold green stripes around the body. Only PCCs got this treatment in Cincinnati–buses and older streetcars were painted a prosaic transit orange.So it's not only historic, but unique as well. The SFMTA did save money by purchasing the streetcars and restoring them (instead of building new streetcars). But the process wasn't cheap, according to Market Street Railway:
The SFMTA Board of Directors has approved an $18 million contract to restore 16 additional PCC streetcars.We reached out to SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose about how badly the streetcar was damaged, and he was optimistic.
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