Originally Posted by
casscorridor
DC has one of the best transit systems in America. Detroit has one of the worst.
When you half-ass something, it's never good in the end. Sure, you save money now, but it doesn't do you any favors down the line. Actually, I might even call the M1 rail a setback, and part of me thinks it shouldn't be built at all.
M1 is running "co-mingling" with traffic. The second there is any amount of back-up [[i.e. sports games, which is when the line will be most busy anyway) it will run at a snails pace, and act as an embarrassment, proving to suburban voters that transit is a waste of time and money.
Not to mention, from what I remember, there will only be 8 total cars, running in sets of two. So four trains for the entire line. They will run every 15 minutes. That is a half-assed attempt at rapid transit. Headways need to be every 5 minutes to be effective.
Detroit should take the time and money to invest in a real rapid transit.