In my eight years in Washington, I have come to love its fabled streetcar project. I say “fabled” because as of this writing, we do not actually have any streetcars. No, wait, that’s wrong. We totally have streetcars. What we do not have are streetcars that actually ferry passengers hither and yon, rather than sitting in storage or going on endless test runs that all too frequently end in flames.
The best thing that you can say about the DC streetcar project is that, while it wasted hundreds of millions of dollars, the Democrats probably would have wasted that money anyway; and at least wasting it this way didn’t get anybody killed. …I think. I hope. I’m sure I would have heard of a streetcar-project-related fatality.
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
PS: Yeah, I know. That was my money. But fixing that problem is Step 5,542; and right now we’re on Step, what, 3 or something? There are limits to what I can get exercised over.