[drc43]

SF started to go wrong in the early 1900's when they voted to build the Municipal Railway, intended to drive out the private companies. It took 40 years, but they succeeded.

Now I like Muni, but it came at the expense of stealing private property, and started with a twisted sense of entitlement dating back, like I said to the populism of the 1900's.

Maybe from all the broke prospectors robbed by big business back then? Who can say.

[Zetman]

SF started to go wrong in the early 1900's when they voted to build the Municipal Railway, intended to drive out the private companies. It took 40 years, but they succeeded.

Hmmmm... Interesting. I will admit that I don't know much about the history of Muni. Nowadays, although they still have the rail system in SF, they run even more regular busses, in addition to the rails. I never knew their system was different from any other big city mass transit system (many it isn't - I have never studied the history of such entities).