Read all about it in today’s Charlotte Observer: The new light-rail transit line there is going like gangbusters — to the point that even the (formerly) fiercest critics now say: Oops.

“I have to admit, they are doing better than I expected,” said former Mecklenburg County commissioner Jim Puckett, who helped lead a failed effort to repeal the half-cent sales tax for mass transit last fall. “Our concern was whether we would have a white elephant, and it doesn’t seem we do.”

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