I just discovered it is no longer possible to get a bus from Grosse Pointe to downtown Detroit except for two very early morning weekday runs an hour and a half apart. SMART now goes only as far as the city limits where one must transfer to the DOT route 9 that makes 40 stops and takes almost an hour to go those 8 short miles. Maybe it is time to abandon the delusion that public transportation will ever be a thing here anymore. As someone who has supported all of the millages in support of transit in the past I'm beginning to think it was not money well spent. Perhaps bus service should just be scrapped altogether and vulnerable populations be better served by subsidized Uber/Lyft transportation.