We haven’t gone anywhere.
John Lassiter, a Charlotte city council member who ran McCrory’s first winning council campaign in 1989, argues the light-rail project has been a success to date: “He’s been proven right and all of those critics have gone away.”
Besides, we are just now getting to the point where we can intelligently say something about the South Blvd. light rail line. Nothing has been proven. And — as the Uptown paper of record tip-toed into this weekend — the relevant question is what kind of rush hour congestion reduction did our $500 million investment buy us?
But it is clear that Lassiter and the Uptown crowd are not going to what for answer. Instead they are going to shovel property tax dollars into the train building machine as fast as they can — something Pat McCrory once upon a time said would never happen — and hope that no one much notices.
Given their track record on bait-and-switch schemes, I like their odds.