Hey council! Where's Miramichi's bus service already?

I remember with fondness the transit system we had in the city for a short time in the early 1990s when two shiny new buses made the rounds on both sides of the river.
Like most of my friends at the time, I didn’t have a car, but I got around pretty good on that bus for two dollars a pop.
But like the lad said, nothing gold can stay, and it wasn’t too long after people were getting used to having that bus service when rumours of its demise were making the rounds.
I remember reading in this newspaper about how the fella who ran the transit system had asked the city council for a bit of financial help to keep the buses rolling. After all, he was providing a valuable service to the people of the newly-formed city, a service that hadn’t been offered before and was well-received by the regular folks on the street, who might not be able to afford a $12-one-way cab ride everyday but could always scrape together the two bucks for bus fare.
But surprise, surprise, the city council members shrugged their shoulders and mentioned something about getting involved in their own transit system and that was that.
Well, the fella who ran the outfit had to shut it down not long after.
And whatever plan the council of the day had about a transit system must have fallen by the wayside sometime during the last 15 years, cause that was the last I ever heard of it.
An independent bus service was tried again a couple years ago. The little green bus, as folks who needed it to get around everyday came to call it, was well-loved. Maybe these folks couldn’t afford Cadillacs or big fancy trucks or even little old Chevettes, but they still needed to travel to and from work everyday so they could feed their kids.
Well, council didn’t do too much to help out that business owner either and with the high cost of fuel and insurance, his bus’s days were numbered too.
But in the last year or so, the city’s economic development officer Jeff MacTavish led the charge towards us getting our very own city-funded transit system.
An editorial in this paper last week pointed out that while both this council and the previous one supported a transit system, we’re still waiting for it, months after the premier announced more than half-a-million bucks to get the ball rolling.
For almost 15 years, Miramichi city council administration after administration has stood by twiddling their thumbs as two independent transit companies came and went. A few bucks from the city would have made all the difference for either of them, but council said no. Who knows how different our city would be today if people could have relied on cheap public transportation for the last decade-and-a-half?
Well, what’s going on council? Where’s our buses?
If you have to go hide in a backroom to talk this out, feel free, but we damn-well better have our buses when you’re done.