facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley

ab scanned witch. >> absolutely. there's so many things. to your point, they don't have the strength to go grocery shopping, to prepay pair a meal for themselves, oftentimes can't provide healthy meals for themselves. and what ruth realized as well, and she was ahead of her time in so many ways, but realized that if this is important for people with hiv, it's no less important for people living with other critical illnesses, and that's, that's how project open hand republican continues to lead the nation with this issue. >> yeah, eni should say in full disclosure, skip worked for ruth brinker when they were first starting out, a little after she was established, everybody adored ruth. and she was very, very careful to make sure that the meals were beautifully served with, fresh food, it wasn't just some junk put together, it had to be well done. i guess the question now is because you've expanded the service so much, do you, are you at a point where you have to turn someone away because how much can you do? >> that's a great question. no, we have never had a waiting list, never turned anyone away who carefuls for that service. obviously that becomes more and more challenging. we continue to see cuts in governmen