Locally in Cary, NC, there are millions set aside to purchase "open space" land but our roads are going to hell in a handbasket. The Cary City Council is owned and operated by the Sierra Club and assorted lefty, liberal, envirocommie groups.
A mass transit plan is now being worked out for a train for our area that studies show very few would ride - but that doesn't stop the taxpayer boondoggle that is in the works. The local bus transit plan that taxpayers paid for to bus the senior citizens around (if they call in advance) - is doing so poorly they gotta open it up to all Cary Citizens - also so that they can get mega Fed money which the neighbor city Raleigh is getting because their mass transit system (bus) is open to the general public. So our local commie mayor Lang said: Well, let's change the "senior citizens" bus system we got local taxpayers to fund - to a system open to all the public so we can get these funds!!!!
Neat, huh?
2 different subjects but same underlying theme.