California is a prime example of how to change from having the best schools, roads, police, and universities in the world to being (gated) enclaves of privilege amidst a populace sliding from middle to lower class. All while persuading the middle class that those poor people below them are the cause of all ills.

Berkman, you are right, but it's not age, it's ideology.

As to the slide show, the F-Market route in SF is a tourist attraction as much as it is part of MUNI's transport system. There are trains under Market street every few minutes as an alternative, though MUNI is facing some service cuts in December.

Vandalized and disrespected by the ridership. That does say a lot about mass transit in America. It is heavily subsidized by taxpayers and yet some of the people using it treat it like crap. NYC went through this in the 1970s and 80s with the graffiti problem.

I sometimes use the local buses (the S53) on S.I. for trips into Brooklyn and see this firsthand. Passengers make a mess leaving food and other crap on the floor of the bus or behave like animals. The express buses into Manhattan are are expensive but have a better class of ridership that respects the equipment. Same for the subways, some passengers just don't care.

Hey idiot, the generations before yours CREATED that growth and progress that you are talking about. And in a DEMOCRACY the voters have the right to decide their level of taxation either directly as in CA or through their elected reps as in NY.

Both states are in the shitter not because their taxes were too low, but because the high taxes are driving productive people and businesses out of those states.