Key Route System Decimated by GM Stooges

This website seems a little overly passionate about the whole issue, but they have some relevant quotes and articles from the forties and fifties.

And if you click on the map above, you can see how I would have been able to step out of my apartment, walk half a block, and catch a train to downtown San Francisco. Today, to catch BART, I'd have to take an infrequent bus to the downtown stop (or go to Fruitvale ...)