Rethink Transportation

Detroit is the only metro region in the U.S. without a metro transportation authority. If we begin to think about the role of transportation in the region differently, how we move from place to place becomes a crucial question. Efficiency — and the idea that we shouldn't have to rely on a car so much — becomes part of the question. I like to think of Detroit not just as the home of automobile innovation. It's the home of transportation innovation.

— Toni Griffin, urban-planning consultant for the city of Detroit

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As I've said before, proposal to save Detroit is a non-starter unless transportation policy is central to the discussion. She's the person hired specifically with the task of restructuring the city into a sustainable form, and she has named transportation as the most pressing issue. If they cannot do that then they will not save Detroit. End of story. Good luck.