This just keeps getting better.
From his front porch, Mayor Pat McCrory told WCCB’s Morgan Fogarty last night that if the half-cent tax is repealed, the next transit director’s pay and prestige will have to be reduced.
Uh, OK. Deal.
And let’s stop spinning Ron Tober as some sort of victim. He was very well paid to do a job he evidently enjoyed. With that comes some level of responsibility to the public at large and there is no guarantee the public will always agree with you.
The Uptown paper of record notes that Tober was hired to build a $1 billion transit system, but he leaves with an unfinished $9 billion plan in its place. You have to give him a big “INC” on Charlotte’s overall transit plan as a result.
Tober did secure federal funding for the South line, although it did take a couple different whacks to get the money. That was a big part of the job — perhaps the biggest part, certainly from the city’s point of view.
But Tober did a poor job of communicating problems with the construction on the South line. He repeatedly dismissed concerns about costs and continues to do so.