Robert Heinlein on Philly Corruption

I've been reading William H. Patterson Jr.'s bio of SF legend Robert A. Heinlein and came across an interesting passage about my hometown. Seems Heinlein worked at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for a few years, but really disliked his commute:

There was subway service in Philadelphia, but it did not go all the way to the Navy Yard. You had to take a shuttle bus from the subway. "Robert told me," Virginia Heinlein recalled, "that [the Philadelphia City Fathers] had stolen the money for the subway continuation down to the Navy Yard." Philadelphia's municipal politics had never seriously been challenged by reformers, operating instead by good, old-fashioned graft. In the meantime, commuters carpooled to the Navy Yard from the suburbs.

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