Quote Originally Posted by TennisAndMath View Post
3 miles took over 7 years. When phase I costs inevitably go over budget, who's paying? When taxpayers are on the hook for say $80M of this, how eager are the tax payers going to be for phase II? Maybe you'll get phase II by 2025, if you're lucky. Most likely never, because nobody is going to ride phase I.

I don't think s/he's optimistic, s/he sounds like a shill who lacks travel experience and exposure to functioning US cities. I'm hear because I care about Detroit. With all due respect, blind optimism is not the answer to the city's problems.
With all due respect, continual and reflexive pessimism isn't going to solve the city's problems either.