I do feel sorry for Dave Bing, who seems intelligent and honest and understands the problems and the direction in which a solution would lie. But the labor unions’ grip on the levers of power make those solutions impossible to get through the city council.
He’s definitely a better democrat than most.
I suspect another barrier to progress is the failure of the state -- or anybody else -- to offer enough, ah, hmmmm, ummmmm, ah "incentives" to the council members for their assent.