Well, on the down side, they're now charging so much for cable cars ($5) that no one wants to ride them anymore. On the up side, no one's going to be able to ride them anyways -- at least not today! Cable car service on both the Powell-Mason line and the California line are down all day after alarms went off on both lines, indicating possible damage to the cable.

In separate news, the historic F-Market line is running in the Castro area again (if you can call the snail-like pace at which the F-Market moves to be "running"), after a pedestrian accident at Market and 17th Street forced them to turn all F-Markets around at Church and Market instead. MUNI spokewoman Maggie Lynch was quick to note that the pedestrian accident in question was not MUNI related in any way.

And finally, while we have you here thinking about wires and cables and the like, it's as good a time as any to tell you that the governor is signing a statewide ban on using cell phones while driving. Hands-free devices are okay, though.