M-1 to break ground this summer

[Bham1982]

Yeah, God forbid people have an efficient, affordable method of getting to work. I mean, people might actually be able to hold jobs, go shopping, spend money in the local economy. That's just horrible.

It would be so much better to force everyone to own a car or take taxis everywhere. People don't need no dang stinking disposable income.

Trolleys will make it harder for people to take transit to work. It will negatively impact the existing transit service on Woodward, which, again, serves tens of thousands of people, and has higher ridership than many successful light rail lines in other cities.

The problem is that billionaires aren't necessarily good transit planners. They think their skills in business automatically translate to planning and public policy. They don't understand, for example, that the light rail needs to have widely spaced stops, and needs to run as rapid transit, not sidwalk-hugging trolleys. Otherwise it's nothing but a tourist shuttle.