Mayor Bloomberg: Get the Buses Running

City Journal says:

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, critics rightly focused on a compelling image of the city’s leadership breakdown: hundreds of idle yellow school buses, underwater and useless. Today, New York City has its own idle buses—more than 4,000 of them, rendered equally useless by Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki as the economy struggles to stay afloat with each day of a transit strike. It’s time for New York’s leaders to show some practical leadership during our own economic disaster and put some of those idle buses to work.