“Nah... it couldn’t have been dollar diverted from the transportation bills into moronic things like “light rail” could it?”
What do you want the future to be, light rail or ity-bity electric cars ?
If the local people didn’t perform needed maintainence, or scream their heads off because they couldn’t ... blame them.
They can have my 1978 Camaro when they pry it from my cold dead hands....