There’s a sad sequel to Mayor Meeker’s failed obsession with Lite-Rail. The News and Observer reports the Mayor’s Triangle Transit Authority is having a tough time keeping its fleet of buses afloat. The TTA has maintenance problems. Big maintenance problems. Problems so bad the City has filed a lawsuit to make the bus makers take back the buses.

Then the TTA needs $12.5 million to buy new buses.

There is a moral to this story: Remember the mock-up of a Lite-Rail train engine the TTA built in a downtown warehouse as a PR stunt? And the millions it spent promoting Lite-Rail? Maybe they should have spent the money on better buses. There’s a second moral: Maybe the TTA, which can’t keep the buses running, wasn’t the best choice to run a billion dollar railroad.

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