A frayed cable strand brought a portion of the Powell/Mason cable car line in San Francisco to a halt all day Monday, highlighting the fragile nature of running a moving national historic monument. It ...

The Jex family, visiting from Utah, made the steep, crowded, hold-on-tight transit ride up Powell Street on Monday afternoon in a different manner than they and hundreds of other tourists had planned.

The Highway 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington is nearing retirement, but the state is fighting waves and winds to the bitter end. Fifteen of the old bridge’s 58 anchor cables are being replaced ...

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The broken and frayed cable from the charger for the smart phones. Having to replace a frayed cable is an annoying fact of modern life many of us have to put up with. But what if cables were sturdier ...