Everything I know about San Francisco I learned from riding a Muni bus ... a blank spot on the map. Worth exploring. So I did. The Geary bus is like a ride through the real San Francisco.

Under this new, gentler approach, Muni would preserve its bus lines and its subway schedule, and consolidate underused routes ...

and the large municipal transportation system (called the Muni) operates bus and streetcar lines, leaving little need for your own set of wheels. The city's famous cable cars (also operated by ...