Have to double-back to something Mayor Pat said last week lest it go down the memory-hole.
Remember how during the transit-tax repeal Pat was all “Save the Buses!” Repeal would stop the buses cold, Pat said repeatedly. Why CATS might not even have the $800K required for paratransit — the absolute height of agit-prop from the Uptown crowd.
Yet with federal stimulus money now at question Pat reverts to “Screw the Buses! Use it for Trains!”
CATS wants to use $20m. in federal money to upfit its bus garage, McCrory wants to throw the money at one of the damn local train schemes aching for money that CATS and the city do not have.
I guarantee if you waved a magic wand and the transit-tax were at question again Pat would instantly jump to “Save the Buses!” mode and not think twice about. You see, he is different than you and me. He is a Leader. And Leaders get to make crap up.
