A $20,000 model trash can is a showcase of city dysfunction

An op-ed authored by The R Street Institute’s Steven Greenhut and presented in The Washington Post’s: Red Tape Newsletter. A newsletter on the consequences of overregulation.

Why can’t San Francisco’s officials competently replace its trash cans?

Three years ago, my East Coast relatives flew to San Francisco for my daughter’s wedding. At the time, national publications were having a field day depicting the city as a pit of decay filled with poop-covered sidewalks and rampant homelessness. My relatives were primed to see an urban landscape beset by used needles and graffiti-covered storefronts. Granted, our festivities took place on tony Nob Hill — and not the tawdry Tenderloin — but my guests were astonished by the beautiful and safe-feeling city they experienced.

Continue reading Steven Greenhut’s op-ed here.