Quote Originally Posted by ABetterDetroit View Post
M1 Funding so far is radically different than Portland TriMet for sure.

http://trimet.org/about/funding.htm

Do you think that something like this would work here for RTA operation cost to some degree?
That depends on what you mean by "would this work". Is Portland's financing method economically feasible for metro Detroit: sure. Is Portland's financing method politically feasible for metro Detroit: no.

Detroit [[by which I mean the region) has a leadership problem and nothing but a leadership problem. The powers that be still think we can pretend it's 1950 and arrange our communities thusly. If they ever realize that it's actually 2015 and that 1950 is in the distant past, the region may progress. Until then, no chance.