Personal suspicion is that real leadership is dull and thankless (like so many things in life). Announcing a big new transit project is exciting. Actually runn

Personal suspicion is that real leadership is dull and thankless (like so many things in life). Announcing a big new transit project is exciting. Actually running the program well requires a lot of boring study, meetings, and management of details. Why bother, if the voters don't punish them for not doing it? You can find endless internet posts by people complaining their manager doesn't want to do the scheduling of employees, which is the most basic part of their job. It's too tedious, so they try to avoid it.