Quote Originally Posted by Dexlin View Post
Do not dispair. lol Are we going to see three large intercity rail stations downtown like back in the old days? No. But, transit alternatives are now actually slowly but surely marching forward unlike in recent years and decades past. You've got unsexy construction like the rebuilding of West Detroit Junction west of Michigan Central Station under reconstruction that will cut relieve a freight and Amtrak bottleneck that will also serve to make any future services like the Ann Arbor-Detroit commuter/regional rail viable. You've got an active study studying the viability of a rail service between Detroit and Holland via Grand Rapids [["Coast-to-Coast") You've got MDOT actively in the process of finding funding for a new intermodal passenger station across the tracks from the current Amtrak station. You've got M-1 Rail, which will tie this station more solidly to downtown than current local bus service. You have the RTA spending this year getting ready to campaign for transit funding for the new Woodward BRT [[bus rapid transit) line, which is in the process of being engineered since the locally preferred alternative was chosen two months ago. You have what will likely be, next month, the decision to reconstruct I-375 was a surface street...

There is much going on, a lot of it which will set the stage for larger things down the road should we want them. The thing is that there was much even just ten years ago we couldn't have even considered because the basics weren't in place. Now, we're finally nailing down the basics.

Haha, thank you for the reassurance. Coast to Coast is a really exciting project.