Quote Originally Posted by bailey View Post
I don't know. Dallas, LA, Houston, Phoenix...etc. all did pretty well without one until the mid 90s. Heck there are more people in LA county than the entire state of Michigan, and they went 60 years without any rail.
Well, why are they all scrambling to build one now?

For the record, with the exception of L.A., none of those cities were as large or as densely populated as Detroit until the past 30 years [[Dallas and Phoenix within the last 15). And, also with the exception of L.A., they grew by annexing their suburbs.