Death of Public Transportation

[Richard]

^ it would be tough for the city of Detroit to pull it off on their own,it would take a regional effort,or like mentioned take the ones or cities in the region that are ready to get on board and roll with that.

FTA funding looks at how many would be impacted on a given route so you would have a better chance with a downtown to downtown route.

EI: Downtown Detroit to downtown Hamtramck where connected overpowers density requirements.

Because it could be argued that you are taking the population of Hamtramck and the population of Detroit as a city,the small runs like the people mover and Q line are considered based on density in that given section.

It’s kinda been implemented backwards,take the spokes of the city and that is your mainline.

If you could take a line from say,Downtown Hamtramck to Downtown Detroit that connects to the People mover you have a connected system because you have eliminated that last mile which is the biggest hurdle in any system

That’s probably the most doable thing right now and also makes lemonade out of lemons with the people mover.