The Detroit-Ann Arbor commuter rail will only run a few times a day. It won't compare with what Chicago has. That's if it ever happens at all; so far as I can tell SEMCOG has not yet been able to successfully negotiate with CN for use of the track.
SEMCOG wanted to run the train with some decent frequency, but the freight rr's took that off the table very quickly. From a SEMCOG update last December:
" SEMCOG and MDOT continue to wait for a response from the Canadian National [[CN) Railroad indicating that they have found capacity on their system to allow for four commuter round trips a day if improvements are made at West Detroit Junction." [[emphasis added)
So that's the MOST we can hope for: four commuter round trips a day, in addition to the three current Chicago trips. Metra it ain't.
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