Quote Originally Posted by Dexlin View Post

- Until DDOT can be spun off like public lighting was, it's ALWAYS going to have problems. No transit system in this nation could function with its funding raided every fiscal year as much as DDOT's has been. No doubt there are some cultural problems within th department that need to be worked out, but there is no cultural change that could be made that would have prevented the cutting of 24-hour service in dozens of routes over the year. This is a funding issue before anything else. The system's only real hope is to be spun off to the RTA, but it's going to be a whole other year before they are even up-and-running at full-speed, and even the legislation that created the RTA didn't provide any specific and dedicated funding for the actual agency, so it'll be likely years before they are even able to entertain the idea of taking on ANY transit system in the region.

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so is it politically feasible to try and shunt DDOT into the RTA? I can see local folks start assuming it's just a means to ultimately "end" urban Detroit bus service or further cut routes heavily.