is SEMCOG still mainly pushing for road-improvement? when it comes to their voting members, how many votes are allotted per member community?

The two biggest problems in Detroit are Transit and Education. The lack of safety and the lack of job opportunities are directly tied to both of these issues. In a city with crushing poverty, why are people FORCED to purchase automobiles to get to work? [[and then pay redlined insurance premiums?) In a city with massive spatial segregation, why do our transit policies INCREASE the level of segregation, even when it means sacrificing our entire region's economic health?

I think that the excuse of "car culture" to cover up massive institutional racism and class-ism has run its course. No one ever said that having effective mass transit would destroy our identity as a car-oriented metropolis. We have something worse than third-world transit. We have one of the richest metropolitan areas in the USA and the manpower to fix our systems, but wealthy people in the region repeatedly oppose efforts to regionalize and tax for a system. We have segregation just as bad as most third-world cities. The slums are just in the interior of our city.