Quote Originally Posted by R8RBOB View Post
And there it is.....

Fifty plus years of a bus-only transit system have bought DDOT to its knees. Fifty plus years of pushing sprawl in which the people who moved to the boonies are required to have a car killed any talk of a real transit network for Metro Detroit. Fifty plus years of city/suburb division and division between the races is the reason why DDOT is on life support and SMART is fighting to survive.

It will always amazes me how a region as big as Metro Detroit could go for generations without a real mass transit network.
Very well said.

As for Antongast's fix, no Packards1 has it right, there's no good leadership in place, city nor suburbs. The money is there, it just will never [[in our lifetime) be used to fix our mass transit problems.

And for those proposing SMART take over some routes, ummm, you do realize SMART can't even handle the routes they alerady have right, since they're close to slashing services by 25% and virtually eliminating city/suburb service, yes?