Annapolis Capital Punishment

The SOuth COunty COnnection bus linking Deale and Shady Side with Edgewater and Annapolis, and therefore with the rest of the county (indirectly via transit) was about to be terminated by Annapolis Transit when suddenly, and without warning, County Exec Leopold swooped in with his Department of Social Services and rescued the route.....thus making him look great and Annapolis look like the bad guys....which is probably one of the reasons he did it???

With the knowledge that the county used state and federal "pass-through" monies to fund most of this route, had the city and county fully cooperated, this route could have easily worked better, carried more customers, and reduced duplicative efforts between Department of Aging vans and Annapois Transit buses, thus saving lots of money. CP suggested this many times, but....

Leopold should certainly be commended. We need transit and we need this route, and he is working on buses for the Fort Meade/BRAC-osaurus (you saw it called that here first!) monster about to swallow us, but what we really need is (ta dum..beat the drum, the dead horse, or whatever) a real regional commitment to a transit system. To the extent that this bus is rescued, it is great, but it does not take us any closer to a regional transit system, which one way or another MUST INVOLVE CITY-COUNTY COOPERATION. Is anybody listening out there? And CP will say again, if Olmert and Abbas can meet, so can Leopold and Moyer.