Originally Posted by
dtowncitylover
LOLZ is all I can say to your rant. Just a bunch of re-hashed talking points. Most transit never pays for itself but it does infuse the local economy with something called Transit Oriented Development [[TOD), read up, buddy. It does wonders for cities to have access to business and capital with as many options as possible. Walking, biking, car, buses, subway, tram, airports, etc. It's good to have options.
And while LA isn't the most transit friendly place, they have more than us [[they have a subway system for Christs sake) and the city/region is more vibrant that us [[perhaps not transit's doing). So I'm just keep LA, right there in the last. SanFran is good too.
Detroit can be just as dense. It was at it's height a very dense city. On par with Boston, NY, and Philly. And no one is arguing that we all have to get rid of our cars. I certainly won't. I love driving. But I also know when I'm driving downtown and think, I really don't want to drive. I would rather pay less than a parking spot and take a reliable form of mass transit. I'm sure most of your peers would agree.
I didn't realize Psychology was such a useless degree...you can be a shrink or psychologist or doctor or scientist, don't those guys make big bucks?
A car isn't needed in Detroit. For the past 60 years we have been brainwashed to believe that a car is needed in Detroit. When in the 240 years before that, Detroiters got around just fine without the car.
Mass transit is not the least of our concerns. A gondola across the Detroit River is the least of our concerns. If we want to grow the urban core, we need a mass transit system to help our poor mobility issue. This is first place to start is Woodward, the artery of the Detroit region. Once, we put in place something to build off of, we can expand. Into the neighborhoods, into the inner suburbs, and throughout the region. Education, crime, corruption, and transit/mobility are all valid and equal concerns that have their own lobby.
If you don't care about Detroit. That's fine. Leave. No one wants to hear it because we've been hearing it for 40 years. But many of us don't understand why Detroit can't be on par with Chicago or Toronto or DC.
And weather? Really? That's a concern? Yeah all the tornados, volcanoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes we get really suck.
And again, boring? Really? As I once heard it said [[about another town but it can be applied here), if you're bored here, that's your own damn fault.