Q Line "Constructive Criticism"

[Junjie]

A subway line is about $1 billion per mile. Detroit doesn't have the need or the population for such a project.

I know this is super boring, but the BRT with a dedicated lane, signal priority, and a very good marketing campaign is the most cost-effective and ideal solution.

BRT is a poor substitute for actual rail, because it is much lower capacity and much less powerful as a driver of development patterns. And Detroit absolutely has the population [[in the metro region) to support grade-separated rail transit. Cities with significantly smaller regional populations [[Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, etc.) are building out extensive rapid transit systems right now. Detroit just has a complete lack of political will to move towards a transit-oriented development framework as these cities are doing.

Of course with that in mind, I'd certainly take BRT as proposed in the 2016 RTA plan over what we have today.