But when I lived in Seattle 35 years ago [[!) King County had a highly coordinated bus based transit system that would allow you to go anywhere in the county by bus. I was a floating manager for a retail chain and I could get from Ballard to any store in the county by bus.

It's only been within the past 20 years tat Pierce [[County) Transit, King County Metro and Community Transit [[Snohomish County) began working together, and maybe 10 years that Sound Transit and Link Light Rail have made a true Metro system between the counties work.

In the "old" days, people who worked in King County tended to live there, and the same for Pierce and Snohomish Counties. The same can't be said for the Detroit Metro area, but it seems like the local governments in the area, both city and county, just can't get their minds around the fact that it is a metropolitan area and their world does not revolve completely around their own little fifedum.