This is where my logic differs. You are looking at regional population. I-94's problems are much more complex than that. Traffic on I-94 is generated nationally. Like it or not, the fact that it is close to border crossings has a huge impact. Add to that, there has been a shift from rail to more truck traffic over the last 40 years as well. We don't have all of these rail trails around here for nothing.
Detroit is an industrial town, granted not as much as it once was, but we are still one of the world's premier manufacturing centers with a very complicated grid that extends to our neighbors on both sides of the border. It has the opportunity to become the central place of this manufacturing and trade or a backwater that people avoid. Congestion makes commerce avoid the area and this starves the area of jobs. Without jobs you have no growth.
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