-The SEMCOG RTA website is still a damn mess. Bunch of cancelled meetings and a news section that hasn't been updated in a year. Way to prove your worth!

-MDOT has proposed to study a rail line connecting Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids. Their own officials are downplaying it. So expect the typical Mich/Detroit feet dragging and eventual announcement of a bus line in 20fuckin43.

-M1 was approved by city council. Stay tuned for the announcement of the next delay of construction. Any day now.

-The RTA's CEO pick STILL hasn't signed on. He DID however receive a retroactive raise from his old job. So a month on it looks like the "Authority" is being jerked around again.

-The rail line poison pill has been ever so slightly relaxed. Instead of unanimous approval it now just requires 7/9 supermajority. Relax though, it ONLY applies to M1 and a potential Ann Arbor/Detroit train. And ONLY after 2024. So this area's head is still firmly lodged in it's ass

That's Detroit Area Transit for the first half of 2014.

Still stupid, still unacceptable, still bottom of the barrel.