The restrooms probably just need to be cleaned more. Generally transit station bathrooms are cleaned every hour.
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The restrooms probably just need to be cleaned more. Generally transit station bathrooms are cleaned every hour.
When this thing was going up, I predicted that the station wouldn't offer proper shielding from the snow, wind, and rain, and that it was improper to design a station with the canopy roof like that.
Oh, how I was criticized:
It's not that you're being unfair. It's that you hate anything that you are unfamiliar with. You're not open to new things. There are always the people who resist change, even if it is for the better. You bitch and moan about everything to the point that you come across as a miserable human being.
How about instead of whining and bitching about every possible little thing that could go wrong with this thing, you give it a chance. Let them finish the work. Let people start using it. Hell, go ahead and use it yourself. Within time, it will become familiar to you, and you'll wonder why you even cried over it in the first place.
So, um, who's crying about the quality of it now? The station's longtime USERS? And things are so bad they're considering downgrading what the station is named for? Pouring millions more into "fixing" this thing?
OK. I'll just note Detroitnerd: 1; RPTC Boosters: 0.
As you were.
There are more people that live in poverty or near-poverty in New York than in Detroit.
The problem with Detroit's transit system isn't its expense; it's that it is virtually useless. The only people who use it are those who have no alternative because of financial reasons and high school kids. Those who have the bus system as their only option have severely limited opportunities because of it. At least if you're living in poverty or near-poverty in New York having physical access to the job market is not one of your problems. Maybe the answer to this problem in Detroit is subsidize cars for the poor.
This. There is absolutely no reason to take transit in Detroit. The people taking transit are overwhelmingly the most desperate, isolated folks who don't have financial or social resources to drive/get driven.
That said, they are fully deserving of dignity and a functional system, and the utter lack of concern regarding D-DOT is pretty contemptible. This goes for both city and suburban "leadership" who don't care about transit unless it's on rails and a rich dude is paying for it.
I don't disagree with all of it but I think in the past 5 years DDOT and SMART have tried very hard to make do with the resources they have. I took the 460 Woodward back from downtown into Royal Oak and was impressed. It had been about 5 years or so since I last took a bus from Royal Oak up to OU a couple times and back, which was quite the experience.
For one the bus was on time, it was a new bus, it had a marquee on the inside to alert of the next street. This wasn't the case 5-6-7 years ago. SMART has also done a great job, though there's a lot more, replacing stop signage and schedules at each stop and erecting stop shelters.
I wouldn't have objected to those billionaires you alluded to giving their money to DDOT or SMART, but that's not what happened.
So I have noticed some positive changes at the transit center. I’ll dive in with the transit police, they are now doing their jobs – finally. Transit police are actually walking around the transit center; I’m referring to outside the actual center. Transit police are making rounds around the transit center – and hold the phone – they are walking completely around the block. Additionally, the cubicle that they occupied is now an information center – and another shocker the lights are actually on. When transit police occupied the space the lights were never on, didn’t want anybody to bother their naps. Transit police are now located in a cubicle closer to the waiting area, the lights are on, and the cubicle faces the outside area, which is another benefit. I also noticed that some of the entrepreneurs that used Rosa Parks as their business address are gone.
The center itself smelled like cleaning solution, which is positive. There is now a charging station for cell phones, there are two flat screen monitors, which I believe will [[future tense) broadcast buses arriving and departing. I didn’t visit the restroom but the facility was not busy at all as it was mid-morning. I never noticed the center being dirty but cleanliness appears to be on the uptick as well.