PG&E's deliberate blackouts are the bay area's version of a cement truck falling through the west side highway in 1970s New York. Both cases represent the momen

PG&E's deliberate blackouts are the bay area's version of a cement truck falling through the west side highway in 1970s New York. Both cases represent the moment at which it became impossible to ignore the consequences of postponing tough measures needed to solve chronic problems. Bay Area governance has been dysfunctional for a very long time. Now the dysfunction has begun to have severe concrete and physical consequences.