Share your dream project

[dtowncitylover]

I would buy 1520 Woodward and set up my own small department store. Then it would grow [[for some odd reason in a barren Detroit haha) and it would be the next J.L. Hudson, of course without the bitter end.

[Augustiner]

I would build and operate a comprehensive rapid transit network, including subways under all the major transit corridors in the city proper, expanded bus service on feeder routes, commuter rail into the suburbs along select corridors, improved connections to Windsor [[maybe a subway line under the river) for cross-border commuters, and a terminal for high-speed rail service to Chicago and Toledo. If my infinite money hadn't run out yet by then, I'd add bike lanes and frequently-spaced bike racks to every major street in the city.

[Don K]

I would build and operate a comprehensive rapid transit network, including subways under all the major transit corridors in the city proper, expanded bus service on feeder routes, commuter rail into the suburbs along select corridors, improved connections to Windsor [[maybe a subway line under the river) for cross-border commuters, and a terminal for high-speed rail service to Chicago and Toledo. If my infinite money hadn't run out yet by then, I'd add bike lanes and frequently-spaced bike racks to every major street in the city.

I've got unlimited funding? How about:

- HSR/regional rail center on the site of the existing Amtrak New Center station
- Transit center under Campus Martius

HSR to Chicago targeting two hour travel time from New Center to Chicago Union Station [[cruising speed of 175-180 mph). Keep the existing extension through Birmingham to Pontiac, and extend to Flint via Holly and on to Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland. Not true HSR on the extension, but cruising speed around 80-100 mph. Would require something be done about the at-grade running through Detroit, Ferndale, and Royal Oak.

Rail at 80-100 mph via the CSX right-of-way through Plymouth and Lansing to Grand Rapids.

Regional rail:
- The CN ROW out Groesbeck through Mount Clemens to Port Huron
- The old Conrail ROW between Van Dyke and Mound to Utica
- CN ROW through Ferndale, Royal Oak and Birmingham to Pontiac
- CSX ROW through Plymouth to Howell
- Former Michigan Central/Conrail ROW through Dearborn and Wayne to Ann Arbor, with a rail spur to the airport
- Via Downriver and Monroe to Toledo
- Using the CSX ROW, a link from the airport to Plymouth, Northville, and Wixom
All regional rail links to be electrified [[this is important later)

Urban transit [[all subways at least in the downtown area)
- East Jefferson/Lake Shore to the Pointes
- Gratiot to Eastpointe/Warren
- Van Dyke or Mound to the GM Tech Center
- Woodward to Ferndale
- The Lodge to Northland
- Grand River to 8 Mile/Inkster
- The Jeffries to Inkster
- Michigan Ave to Dearborn
- West Jefferson to Southfield Road in Ecorse
- Southfield Road/Freeway from Birmingham through Dearborn to Ecorse [[Ford is where it is, they're not going anywhere other than Dearborn, so we might as well deal with it and make Dearborn easy to get to)
Where appropriate [[the Gratiot, Van Dyke/Mound, Woodward, Jeffries, Michigan, W Jefferson, and Southfield lines) all lines to terminate at stops of the regional rail system to allow across-the-platform transfers from one system to the other and even allow trains to run through to downtown from the regional rail to the subway [[hey, they do it in Tokyo)

Buses to handle crosstown traffic as well as act as feeders from the neighborhoods to subway stations [[again, see how Tokyo does it)

Well, there's my wish list. How much have I spent - $100 billion? Well I can dream, can't I?

[Magnatomicflux]

I've got unlimited funding? How about:

- HSR/regional rail center on the site of the existing Amtrak New Center station
- Transit center under Campus Martius

HSR to Chicago targeting two hour travel time from New Center to Chicago Union Station [[cruising speed of 175-180 mph). Keep the existing extension through Birmingham to Pontiac, and extend to Flint via Holly and on to Saginaw, Bay City, and Midland. Not true HSR on the extension, but cruising speed around 80-100 mph. Would require something be done about the at-grade running through Detroit, Ferndale, and Royal Oak.

Rail at 80-100 mph via the CSX right-of-way through Plymouth and Lansing to Grand Rapids.

Regional rail:
- The CN ROW out Groesbeck through Mount Clemens to Port Huron
- The old Conrail ROW between Van Dyke and Mound to Utica
- CN ROW through Ferndale, Royal Oak and Birmingham to Pontiac
- CSX ROW through Plymouth to Howell
- Former Michigan Central/Conrail ROW through Dearborn and Wayne to Ann Arbor, with a rail spur to the airport
- Via Downriver and Monroe to Toledo
- Using the CSX ROW, a link from the airport to Plymouth, Northville, and Wixom
All regional rail links to be electrified [[this is important later)

Urban transit [[all subways at least in the downtown area)
- East Jefferson/Lake Shore to the Pointes
- Gratiot to Eastpointe/Warren
- Van Dyke or Mound to the GM Tech Center
- Woodward to Ferndale
- The Lodge to Northland
- Grand River to 8 Mile/Inkster
- The Jeffries to Inkster
- Michigan Ave to Dearborn
- West Jefferson to Southfield Road in Ecorse
- Southfield Road/Freeway from Birmingham through Dearborn to Ecorse [[Ford is where it is, they're not going anywhere other than Dearborn, so we might as well deal with it and make Dearborn easy to get to)
Where appropriate [[the Gratiot, Van Dyke/Mound, Woodward, Jeffries, Michigan, W Jefferson, and Southfield lines) all lines to terminate at stops of the regional rail system to allow across-the-platform transfers from one system to the other and even allow trains to run through to downtown from the regional rail to the subway [[hey, they do it in Tokyo)

Buses to handle crosstown traffic as well as act as feeders from the neighborhoods to subway stations [[again, see how Tokyo does it)

Well, there's my wish list. How much have I spent - $100 billion? Well I can dream, can't I?

I'm sure you'll think of something

Nice list!