Whats the point of the island on Mound Rd?

[Scottathew]

What would be good ideas for all of the space on Mound Rd. ,I think a rail line would be great or adding a couple businessess along the road would be nice. It's a shame that It's noting to do on such a wide commercial strip like that.

Well, the issue is in Detroit, Mound Road has very little commercial businesses. In fact, you don't really see any commercial businesses until about 12 Mile Road in Warren, and then it drops off again pretty quicky as you get into Sterling Heights.

However, one thing that might support a rail line is all the automotive and other manufacturing in the cooridor.

I would much rather favor major cooridors like Gratiot, Woodward, Michigan, Grand River, and Fort for rail lines.

Mt. Elliot\Mound just doesn't really hit any major destinations. Perhaps it was modified a little bit it could end on Belle Isle and connect with a Jefferson\Fort line that could take you to Downtown\RenCen\JLA\Cobo\Canada.

Perhaps it might be a very long-term possibility, but right now we need to get light rail adoption on the more obvious choices, first and foremost being Woodward. M-DOT's website claims M1 rail construction will start in 2013.

We don't really need contigous streets to make rail lines. For example, I most certainly would support the M1 Rail line taking deviating from M1 to go into downtown Royal Oak. It just makes sense.