Today's column portrays one of the issues hardly ever talked about on this page. Many of us see the City based upon our own experiences. We have posters here who are from both sides of the spectrum and what one sees as a need another sees as a want.
I offer her column as a begining for discourse on this subject.
http://www.freep.com/comments/articl...-of-2-Detroits
Growing up in Detroit my family was defintely on the lower end of the economic spectrum. I never saw my family as poor because we generally had more than many of those who lived in the neighborhood.
I was not blind to issues of poverty, crime, and public transit. We were a once car family, and often had to rely on the bus for transportation. I would often find myself on the bus heading to doctor's visits or the high school. As an adult I see the transit system a shell of what it once was, headways have been reduced, lines eliminated, and the whole system increasingly made less conducive for travel in general. My biggest concern is to improve the transit conncetivity irregardless of mode, and how to do it in a way when there is obvioulsy little money or political will to improve things.
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