The pro-transit people need to realize that the RTA millage provided no direct transportation benefit to the majority of Macomb County residents. The vast majority live in their subdivisions, and are happy to live the subdivision lifestyle where they drive everywhere. That is their life as they see it, and they were being asked to pay a tax for a BRT line that most county residents would rarely if ever use.

You have to realize most people aren't transit economic development scholars, and they don't understand the indirect economic benefits that transit provides to the region as a whole. In fact, I would wager that many to most of the people in Macomb who did vote in favor, did so because they "feel bad for the poor people who have to take transit", and not because they understand the economic benefits transit creates.