On Sunday, Muni officials in San Francisco dusted off their vintage buses and street cars to remind visitors of a time when public transit was a star of the city.
SAN FRANCISCO -- It seems every day we are reminded about transit systems facing a"fiscal cliff" over lost revenues from a lack of ridership.
Grainy old films from the early 1900s focused on street scenes and often showing people riding the rails. From that time into the 1940s, public transit thrived as the trolley cars rumbled and clanged throughout the city. They weren't filled with tourists but workers hurrying to the office, briefcases in hand. Laubscher says transit brought everyone together.
At Heritage Weekend, there were still dedicated transit riders, like Steve Vaccaro and Alan Avery, but not nearly as many as back in the glory days. Ron Mitchell has seen it all as a Muni driver for 34 years. On Sunday, he was in a bus built in 1999 but he has operated trolleys a lot older than that and he said it wasn't easy keeping the older vehicles rolling smoothly along the overhead power cables.
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