RMTransit just did a video about how it's basically impossible to have good public transit without London-style city control.
The comments on his video list certain cities where the council own a bus company and everything works okay.
Note that the north of England almost got an Oyster card style of combined payment system thanks to tfN.
Texas "was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which [Texas] people intended should exist in all future time"
Gee, what a hard question to figure out from historical sources, guess we'll never know what they were thinking...