Editorial: Make sure the Charleston region is ready for mass transit
Charleston is getting bus rapid transit — eventually. If all goes well, the first passengers could hop on board the region’s first true mass transit system sometime in 2025.
It’s a tribute to bureaucracy that a desperately needed infrastructure project takes so long to build, even when funding is already effectively in place thanks to the half-cent sales tax Charleston County voters approved in 2016.
But there is a silver lining. We have at least 7 years to make sure that our investment in bus rapid transit is as effective and high-impact as possible. And that’s important when $250 million in taxpayer funding — plus another $6 million or so per year to run the system — is at stake.
