[Grimmy]

At some point is the infrastructure of old, large, high density cities no longer sustainable?
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The taxes and fees are in place to replace the infrastructure as it ages, but due to corruption, incompetence and abuse, nothing gets fixed by the money already provided to fix it.

So, other taxes are levied and fees increased because “emergency” and most of that is also lost to corruption and/or incompetence.

When a city is falling apart, it is because the citizenry in that city can’t be bothered to take care of business when the usual suspects rip the citizens off.

[lancium]

Now there’s a massive power outage in San Francisco affecting their transportation:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Massive-power-outage-hits-San-Francisco-shuts-11089574.php

[Col Frank Slade]

ELAINE !!