USA TODAY: With his pick of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to be his next Transportation Secretary, President Obama has decided to tap a young mayor from one of the country’s most vibrant cities to join his nearly completed second-term Cabinet…
White House officials, who said that the president will announce the pick on Monday, noted that during Foxx’s time in City Hall Charlotte broke ground on the Charlotte Streetcar Project, a third parallel runaway at Charlotte-Douglass International Airport was opened, and he worked to extend the LYNX light rail system to University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
But the pick of Foxx, who holds the distinction of being Charlotte’s youngest elected mayor and second African-American mayor in the city’s history, also could help Obama dull criticism over the racial diversity of his cabinet… (more)
EDITOR: There is nothing per se wrong with street cars, provided they have a safe corridor to run and places to go to that will attract sufficient ridership to pay for them. This is definitely not the case in downtown Lancaster.
