That&#x27;s a fatuous response. There are many reasons why San Francisco doesn&#x27;t have New York City levels of public transit, the <i>most important of which</i> is that it&#x27;s a comparatively tiny city, approximately 1&#x2F;8th the size of New York, by population. If the &quot;bay area&quot; were a single city with a single government, it would be much easier to build a comprehensive transit system.<p>Moreover, New York has been one of the world&#x27;s largest cities for over a century. It&#x27;s had a while to get good at things. San Francisco was a cow-town until the 1980s.<p>I realize it&#x27;s self-satisfying to blame NIMBYs for everything, but the facts are more complicated.