The only difficulty with this is that we need Macomb County to be involved and invested, and if the entire focus is Woodward, why would Macomb County agree to participate?
I suspect, when the time comes to do the relevant studies in order to have a chance to capture Federal transit dollars, the studies will agree with what you said here, albeit less bluntly.
That would have been possible in the 1970s but it simply isn't possible anymore. Name one city that has got Federal money to build its very first subway line in the last, say, fifteen years. The Federal government is willing to help extend existing subway lines, and to help communities invest in new BRT, light rail, commuter rail and streetcars. But Uncle Sugar seems to have absolutely shut the door on any new subway service in cities that don't already have it. Not to mention, existing transit ridership on any major Detroit-area corridor is barely sufficient to justify any improvement at all, and nowhere near sufficient to justify a subway, even if the money was there, which it isn't.
Of course if you think it's possible to raise the billions of dollars you would need for a 20+ mile subway line locally, have at it.
I completely agree.
I completely agree.
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