Where Detroit public transportation goes from here.

[Bham1982]

BRAVO ! BRAVO ! and the region still suffers and loses people to other states and cities with mass transit , OH ??? huh ??
I'd like to see them try selling that in Chicago, NYC ,Boston, SF, Seattle , Philly, Portland ect

This talking point is repeated ad-nauseam, and is 100% false.

For the hundred-millionth time, the region isn't losing people because of lack of mass transit, and the places where Michiganders move to don't have better transit than ours. Florida and North Carolina and Texas have horrible mass transit.

In any case, there is no correlation between growth rates and mass transit [[to say nothing of causation, which is even sillier). The fastest growing cities almost all have terrible mass transit [[though I am not arguing causation, only correlation).

And, for the millionth time, we have mass transit. Whether or not we also get a light rail line won't make a big difference. Light rail isn't appreciably higher capacity transit than bus transit. The only real mega-upgrade would be to heavy rail, and we won't be getting heavy rail in the next bajillion years, so any fantasies about Boston Edison turning into Brooklyn will have to be deferred for a couple million generations.