I was thinking of that recently in Toronto when looking at photos showing two transit expansions: the Bloor Danforth subway extension to Warden in 1968, and the disastrous opening of the Finch tram line a week ago. I looked at photos from the '68 expansion, where everything worked perfectly, the crowd was...not diverse...well-dressed, the white men who ran the TTC in crisp uniforms and who exuded competence in contrast with the crowd at Finch: all BIPOC slop, even TTC representatives looking like slobs, a bullshit land acknowledgment and thoroughly incompetent DEI TTC and city staff launching a tram slower than the buses it's replacing. You can visually compare the decay.