Quote Originally Posted by professorscott View Post
That is simply not true. The relevant laws require that if you provide bus service, it must be accessible. No law in America requires that any community provide public transportation, and many do not. Rochester Hills, as someone recently mentioned, chooses not to, for example.

There is a good bit of misinformation on this thread. The other important fact is what the vote is; it is simply a vote to renew the property tax collected in each county for SMART. It is not an increase. If a county votes yes, it maintains its current level of service; if it votes no, it loses all SMART service.
I concur. What you want does not mean the same as what the law requires or enforces. Most communities serviced by SMART are pretty happy with the services. I only wish that some of the holes left by opt-out communities were filled.