Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
If Detroit had a similar spatial jobs pattern, I would definitely support heavy rail. But we have a massively dispersed jobs market that is [[IMO) best suited for flexible mobility.
That is a very good point, and one I didn't consider. Light rail works well in a city with concentrated pockets of jobs, like Minneapolis [[downtown, Bloomington, the line to St. Paul) or such a corridor [[St. Louis: downtown-Clayton-the airport). But sadly, the suburbanization of Detroit doesn't fit those patterns...