Duggan: Underground railway tunnel way of future for Detroit Metro

[iheartthed]

Gosh No.

Schools can’t be helped, the homicide rate is what it is and no matter how many people lose their homes to unpaid property taxes in Detroit the people who live in the downtowns of Ann Arbor and the D want to take a train to the airport God Dammit so Jack the Property taxes right now!!!

Crazy Liberals will screw people over to get what they want for themselves just as fast as crazy conservatives.

I honestly thought Duggan had his eye on the ball pretty good until this one.

Maybe he should get Coleman II in there right quick to explain how easy it will be to get that gondola thingy sky tracking on its way taking everyone everywhere their heart desires...

Yet, nobody complains about spending a billion dollars adding a lane to I-75 in Oakland County that isn't needed at all.

[Don K]

Yet, nobody complains about spending a billion dollars adding a lane to I-75 in Oakland County that isn't needed at all.

This. There's always a few billion sitting around for bigger highways that will do nothing to relieve congestion. I really wish there was some way for those of us in the more densely-populated parts of the Metro to veto wasteful highway projects the way the residents of Macomb and Outer Oakland have an effective veto over transit expansion.

I consider myself a good liberal, and yet I'm skeptical of St. Elon and his various projects, so I guess I'll have to turn in my card at the nearest recycling center. In any event, his proposals for forms of personal rapid transit seem designed to cater to the desire of upper-middle-class whites not to have to rub elbows with the lower sorts [[white as well as minorities), as they would have to do using regular transit, and so hardly seem liberal or progressive to me.

[Meddle]

A quick measure on a map shows the distances from I-94/I-696 interchange to:

DTW, 39 miles
St Clair County Airport, 25 miles [[and a MUCH less chaotic drive)

My feeling is that any big bucks would be better spent on a St. Clair County option. I'm guessing it would be a better drive from Oakland County too, even with any I-696 headaches.

[Bham1982]

A quick measure on a map shows the distances from I-94/I-696 interchange to:

DTW, 39 miles
St Clair County Airport, 25 miles [[and a MUCH less chaotic drive)

Why would you measure DTW's relative worth by its distance to St. Clair Shores of all places? That's basically Siberia in the context of Metro Detroit and activity nodes.

[Meddle]

Why would you measure DTW's relative worth by its distance to St. Clair Shores of all places? That's basically Siberia in the context of Metro Detroit and activity nodes.

You're being short sighted. Once I-69 is completed, it will be a major [[even more than it is now) transportation international crossing. It's ripe for growth and land is probably cheap. And it's closer to the east side and more accessible. And of course the Great Lakes shipping traffic is right there.

The future may be Port Huron more than Romulus.

There is also a Federal Courthouse there that could be expanded to handle cases arising from that crossing, airport, etc.

http://www.miept.uscourts.gov/index....ationPortHuron

[Bham1982]

You're being short sighted. Once I-69 is completed, it will be a major [[even more than it is now) transportation international crossing. It's ripe for growth and land is probably cheap. And it's closer to the east side and more accessible. And of course the Great Lakes shipping traffic is right there.

The future may be Port Huron more than Romulus.

There is also a Federal Courthouse there that could be expanded to handle cases arising from that crossing, airport, etc.

http://www.miept.uscourts.gov/index....ationPortHuron

We should relocate one of the larger airports on the planet to Port Huron of all places because of the possibility of a highway getting some ceremonial trade designation, because of "Great Lakes shipping traffic" and because there's a courthouse. Uh-huh.

Let me guess, you want a 60 mile subway to downtown too? As long as we're being strategic with scarce local resources, why not?

I vote for Bad Axe. They have Great Lakes traffic, courts and highways too. And then the subway can be twice as long.