The Best Way To Deal With A Wasteful Gimmick? Pile On!

There’s something ironically mirror-like about City Council hearings about this stuff:

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s “rider report cards” are the subject of a City Council oversight hearing tomorrow, after the agency’s pet project failed to produce any constructive criticism. Of the 700,000 cards distributed, less than 7% had been returned as of last month. The complaints were nothing new to riders used to crowded commutes and long delays. The chairman of the Transportation Committee, John Liu, who is holding the hearings, called the report cards a “wasteful gimmick.”

Earlier: A Gentleman’s C.