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Lots of MUNI's legacy problems seemed to come about when MUNI inherited a former MARTA (Atlanta's system) exec as its chief. I could be mistaken, though it wouldn't surprise me. MARTA is the worst F'ing big city system I've ever had to ride (I used to live in Atlanta), and has many of the same problems as MUNI (union stranglehold, cost inefficiencies, reliability issues, poor planning/coordination). I'll take MUNI riders, crazy as they may be sometimes, over MARTA riders, though.

Maybe the Warriors' decision to move to Mission Bay and the support the team has and the political influence the team owners/management has with the city leadership will ignite a conversation about transit in SF. That would be good (unlike in Atlanta, everyone in the city can agree on one thing and that is that we need better transit!).