Mexico City has launched the first of what it hopes will be several cable-car lines serving the poorer outskirts of the city of 9 million. Thursday’s inauguration of the first leg of the "Cablebus" ...

As a lifelong Muni-obsessive, Alex Key, 22, has ridden on every line and every vehicle, from the cable car to the boat car. But before this weekend he'd never had the chance to ride the gas-powered, ...