So what is it exactly this group is protesting - the will of the people who voted to turn down last year's transit millage?

"A counter-rally is planned at about the same time at Grand Circus Park and in Ann Arbor [[and later in the day in Ferndale) by the Motor City Freedom Riders, seeking to get a regional transit millage on the ballot in 2018.

“The stark contrast between the limited service the QLINE streetcar provides and the scope of our regional transit crisis is why we are demonstrating at this ceremony,” according to an announcement from the transit activist group.

The group's plans are a reminder of the failed attempt in the fall to pass a millage to support the Regional Transit Authority of Southeast Michigan's master plan, which would have funded commuter rail between Ann Arbor and Detroit, bus rapid transit and other bus services as well as transit connections between Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties." - DFP, May 12/17