There's been talk about rapid transit on Woodward for years. But what about Gratiot?

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We will have a short little piece of light rail going up Woodward to New Center basically servicing Midtown. There are people living and working around midtown. Gratiot going east is pretty sparse all the way from downtown to 8 mile. Just looking at an aerial view. Its probably safe to assume a portion of that which is still standing is unoccupied and/or on a list to be torn down. Light rail between Eastpoint and Roseville makes some sense.

Going up Gratiot as well as Michigan ave might idk, catalyze new residential growth near downtown in the areas that are already nearly cleared away. Add Eastern Market and Corktown to the rail system

I agree with this. They can plan it, they can plan all they want, but unless they get a private company to finance it, the government[[s) would be wasting their money to build rapid transit up Gratiot. There's nothing along that route. Even commercial businesses are sparse. You need people, esp. working people for all this development they're dreaming about. LOTS of people. Developing downtown is one thing, but expanding it to the neighborhoods, esp. the east side is another.
There's nothing along Jefferson's route either.