San Francisco Local Custom Tips by AngelRed

•Go around anything in your way. Buses, stopped cars, anything. If you sit and wait for it, it might never move and the drivers behind you will all get irate.
•If you're making a left turn from a single lane road, pull up into the intersection so that everyone else can go around you.
•Don't pull into the crosswalk at the red light! Those pedestrians are more than willing to punch your car in protest.
•Not all of the lights have a delay between one intersection turning red and the other green, so don't assume you have time to run that light before the traffic comes through.
•Yes, the pedestrians have signals for when they can't walk. No, they don't care.
•There are bicycles. Everywhere. Poof! There's another, out of nowhere! Watch for them.
•The speed limit is 25 in most areas, but you probably won't have a chance to go that fast anyway.

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San Francisco's public transportation is wonderful, and pretty easy to use. Almost all of the major bus stops have a full map of the city with the bus routes and times, and the buses run very frequently.
There are a handful of streetcars that run down Market Street from the Castro to the Fisherman's wharf. They are great for short jaunts, but they don't run as frequently as the buses, and they are just plain slow.
Muni, the subway, is just as good, just as frequent, and the stations are all located in the areas you'll want to go.
Rides are $1 for the buses, streetcars, or Muni, and you get a 90 minute transfer ticket. I find it very useful to stop by the local Safeway and buy a weekly pass for $9. The pass is good on Muni and all the buses, and it knocks $1 off the $2 cost for cable cars.

However, it has been my experience, 100% of the time so far, that the cable car conductors don't charge you that extra $1. Maybe they assume you're not an annoying tourist if you have a pass? I don't know, and I don't really question it.

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