Why hasn't Detroit ever owned up to its urban planning blunders?

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We don't have traffic jams and congestion out here. That's a Detroit problem.



Detroit has a higher millage than any suburb. We control our tax rates out here.



Kids do live in the same town in which they grew up, unlike Detroit.



And there wouldn't be health problems if 4.4 million people lived in the city of Detroit?



According only to the few.

I-75 isn't congested? I-696 isn't congested? Big Beaver isn't congested? I-275 isn't congested? In my experience, the City of Detroit has LESS traffic congestion than the suburbs, primarily due to massive disinvestment in the city.

You control your tax rates in the suburbs? How do you build all those massive new schools that are required when subdivisions get constructed willy-nilly? Are those free?

Kids in the suburbs live in the towns in which they grew up? Which 20-somethings do you know that are buying houses in Troy and West Bloomfield?

If the region's population were concentrated in Detroit, I can assure you that Lake St. Clair and the northwestern lakes in Oakland County wouldn't be polluted from automobile and agricultural runoff that occurs because every damned acre has been paved with asphalt.