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The Obama Administration sent U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to the city Monday [[Aug. 2) morning to deliver the good news: 9.3 miles of Woodward Avenue Light Rail, from the Detroit River to 8 Mile Road, will be shepherded through the system as one single project.
This means, for the first time, private funding -- in this case, $125 million in funds raised for the M1 Rail Line that was to stretch 3.4 miles from the Detroit River to New Center -- is being leveraged as matching funds for a federal transit project.
And then there is this....
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She [Megan Owens of Transportation Riders United] hopes the next, slightly unrelated transit step for the area is the creation of a regional transit authority so the project can continue north into the suburbs as a part of a broader regional system. "People are asking, 'Why is this stopping at Eight Mile?' " she says. "But we don't currently have a regional agency that can manage the project if it goes beyond, goes outside of Detroit."