Apparently the cable cars have by far the highest cost to operate per hour anyway.

At 2024 numbers in this SPUR report:

Cable car 872 streetcare 631 lightrail 412 system avg 327 motorbus 302 trolleybus 281

So canceling each cable car could IIUC, allow the system to add roughly 3 electric buses.

https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2026-03/SPUR_Taking...