Quote Originally Posted by esp1986 View Post
I truly believe that the difference between the two, other than size was the lack of functioning mass transit. If Detroit had implemented functioning mass transit [[that went beyond the greater downtown area) early in the 1900s like most other big cities at the time, the effect of while flight would have been significantly less.
You don't think the extensive streetcar system the city purchased in the 1920s was functioning? By 1929 it had nearly 500 million passengers, more than 1,700 streetcars and more than 500 miles of track.

If anything it was the conscious and publicly opposed choice to trade that for a system of buses, which can't do what light rail or streetcars can.