If HART and the city want to control costs and rebuild public confidence, they should go and do the forensic audit and prove to the public that fraud has not occurred. That alone would be a great step in gaining back public confidence. Since the amendments that would have required HART to conduct that audit was shot down, it just confirmed that the rail bailout was a done deal.

Shame on the legislators for not looking out for the ones they represent. If fraud is happening at HART, now there's no way to catch it and it'll continue on till they need more money, and, they'll be back asking for more money real soon.