Bravo. A well done post.
As much as we needed the RTA and I'm glad it's here, it has some major flaws that need to be addressed when we have a governor and legislature that's actually committed to transportation and not just paying lip service.
It's not well known that BRT is written into the RTA legislation to be the near mandatory service to be set up over LRT, which is why in those FB posts by the RTA, LRT is never mentioned. And here we have, if I may sound like a conservative for a minute, a great example of why politicians think they know better when in fact it they don't know anything about transit They see the HealthLine in Cleveland [[horrible, narrow example) and think it will work here! Without any other trip to see other transit developments.
In the context RTA is putting BRT in the regional plan, BRT is a joke. There used to be a discussion about BRT first then LRT but there isn't now. It's only BRT. BRT is just a lazy way to do it because Detroit can't have vision or progress.
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