San Francisco's Municipal Railway: MUNI - Grant Ute, Philip Hoffman, Cameron Beach, Robert Townley, Walter Vielbaum - Google Books

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On December 30, 1909, following the passage of the bond issue allowing construction of San Francisco's Municipal Railway to begin, Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor gushed, "This is great . . . The Geary Street road will now be built and run by the people and…