No matter how nice the apartment or office, you need parking. Otherwise it is not practical for most people to live or work there. Also, a parking garage can begin to generate revenue while the buildings it is meant to serve are still under construction. While some transit is on it's way [[and I am hugely supportive of M1Rail, BRT, and improvements to our bus system), Detroit is never going to be the kind of city where most people don't want or need a car. Detroit is Detroit, and even those of us who regularly use public transportation are still car people. Support for transit here can't grow if it's framed as an anti-car argument. Detroit will be the city of car people where there are alternatives to driving, not replacements for driving.
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