Shoo! that is close.. The SMART Bus Millage results

[ABetterDetroit]

We need to expand transit, fund it more, and bring SMART, DDOT, M1-Rail, and the People Mover all under the control of a single regional authority.

Also, they need to only charge the millage to the communities that get service, otherwise it will be an uphill battle for a regional authority as rural parts of Oakland and Macomb rightfully balk at the proposal. Also, within the urban and suburban communities there should be NO OPT-OUTS.

Or we could stop pretending it’s still the 1950s around here and Quit trying to jam Mass Transit down the throat of employers and homeowners in a fucked up real estate use/market with failure after failure and just institute a sales tax to fund it just like every other successful large metropolitan area transit plan in the rest of America.

Of course the downside to that idea is people might go for it and we could actually have it then all the bitching and complaining wouldn’t have their favorite communities to blame for not having it.

Nevermind. Just hang it on the property tax and sprawl on faster and farther Metro Detroit out over the ridiculous tax lines drawn on a map.
Surly another caring President will come along sooner or later and feel bad for what we have done to ourselves and give us more money again to tear down even more houses after we are done throwing another hundred thousand of our citizens out of their homes for unpaid taxes. Maybe that future President will replenish our bankrupt cities too!