Back to the drawing board.

I'd be more willing to vote for a plan that was more short-term. Really want to move those workers out to Hall Road? OK, fine. Fund a five-year plan to accomplish that.

I'm sick and tired of having this dream of bus-based rapid transit forced down metro Detroit's throat again and again. Please, no 30-year plans unless they offer rail-based service to foster development in the inner city.

And don't blame little old me for saying that I'd vote yes on a plan that actually offered what other big cities get. Lay the blame where it should go: Lansing, for creating authorizing legislation that hobbles the RTA's ability to run rail. If that was such a great rule, why did they allow two exemptions for it already?