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Started 2 years ago by Walker
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Well, reality is reality. Detroit can improve, but it is not going to improve through lightrail at all. It will improve through eminent domain, lowering city income tax, making it where if you buy a forclosed home at auction you do not have to pay the back property taxes owed, urban farming is interesting though i am not conviced it will work.

Basically the best idea is eminent domain of areas of the city, and basically letting those areas grow wild and turn back into nature. the city has to shrink. you also need to stop corruption and the abuse of city resources by the unions. I believe mayor bing will help out a lot, and he has already helped out a lot. the first good mayor detroiters have elected since the 50s.

Posted 2 years ago #
Walker
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What Detroit could be in 10 years
FREE PRESS EDITORIAL

For all its troubles today, Detroit is also a place brimming with hope for tomorrow.

When you assemble all the proposals, plans and dreams that have been advanced in recent months, the city of 2020 looks dramatically different than it looks today: smaller, smarter, greener, more mobile, with more job opportunities -- and once again the pounding heart of a metropolitan region.

READ MORE: http://www.freep.com/article/20100404/OPINION01/4040518/1318/Looking-at-Detroit-in-2020

MAPS: http://www.freep.com/article/20100404/NEWS01/4040517/1001/News/Big-plans-for-the-future-Detroit

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Walker
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For Detroit, BRT or Rail First?
by Yonah Freemark | April 13th, 2010

After receiving millions of dollars in commitments from private foundations and a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, DetroitÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s planned M-1 Streetcar is virtually assured of completion as planned in 2013. The $125 million project will be the first major transit investment in this vast city since the opening of the one-way downtown People Mover loop in 1987. Construction is planned to commence by the end of this year.

But that 3.4-mile line, running in lanes shared with automobiles along Woodward Avenue between downtownÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Campus Martius and the New Center at Grand Avenue, will make just a blip in what is a huge, sprawling region housing more than four million inhabitants. As a result, Wayne County (whose seat is Detroit) and its neighbors Macomb and Oakland Counties have recently advanced a plan for expanding transit access throughout, focusing on an extension of the Woodward rail project and series of bus rapid transit lines. With suburban interests holding major sway in the process, the extended bus lines appear likely to be built before the inner-city rail project.

READ MORE: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2010/04/13/for-detroit-brt-or-rail-first/

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Walker
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Alignment Questions for DetroitÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Rail Line, Almost Ready for Construction
Yonah Freemark
May 4th, 2011

Unlike similar projects in nearby cities like Cincinnati, DetroitÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s planned light rail line for Woodward Avenue has near-universal support from just about everyone in local and state government Ã¢â‚¬â€ even though it is being constructed in a city that is shedding population quickly. The $528 million route, which would by 2016 extend 9.3 miles from downtown to the cityÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s borders at 8 Mile, has been the priority of regional transportation planners for years. And with federal support for the first phase of the corridor announced in February 2010, construction is supposed to begin later in 2011, at least for the 3.4-mile section from Hart Plaza to Grand Avenue.

READ MORE: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2011/05/04/alignment-questions-for-detroits-rail-line-almost-ready-for-construction/

Posted 1 year ago #
Lakee911
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Here are some people to use the light rail:

Bloomberg Says Send Immigrants to Detroit

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/May-2011/Michael-Bloomberg-on-Meet-the-Press-Send-Immigrants-to-Detroit/

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Walker
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In a Failure of Municipal Ambition, Plans for Detroit Light Rail Shut Down as Focus Shifts to BRT
Yonah Freemark
December 18th, 2011

» More people will be served by the bus lines than would have been affected by rail, but new plans are predicated on a regional accord on funding improved regional service.

READ MORE: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2011/12/18/in-a-failure-of-municipal-ambition-plans-for-detroit-light-rail-shut-down-as-focus-shifts-to-brt/

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Walker
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DECEMBER 16, 2011
No Train for the Motor City

DETROIT—After kicking the tires on a shiny new train system, the Motor City has decided to take the cheaper bus instead. This week, the U.S. Department of Transportation and Mayor Dave Bing suddenly abandoned a roughly $600 million plan to build a light-rail line along a key corridor that supporters had insisted would attract new residents and jump-start economic growth. Instead, they proposed a less-expensive plan for a network of express buses to deliver workers from the city to the job-rich suburbs.

READ MORE: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204844504577100660265044228-lMyQjAxMTAxMDEwODExNDgyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_ema

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Walker
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Guest Editorial: Detroit Needs Light Rail to Compete
19 DECEMBER 2011 NO COMMENT

As you may have heard, Detroit’s excitedly awaited Woodward Light Rail was nixed last week by Mayor Bing and Federal Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood in favor of a 110-mile regional Bus Rapid Transit System. Officials expressed concern that the original 3-mile light rail plan wouldn’t connect Detroiters with suburban jobs, which is odd because the original proposal (which was awarded federal funding) wasn’t about connecting people with suburban jobs at all. It was about holding a carrot out to private developers so as to develop Midtown Detroit into a truly urban neighborhood. It wasn’t about connecting what already exists, but about building the transportation framework for what could be.

READ MORE: http://rustwire.com/2011/12/19/guest-editorial-detroit-needs-light-rail-to-compete/

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Back to Basics for Detroit Light Rail
Yonah Freemark
January 8th, 2012

Just three weeks after Detroit leaders announced that they had abandoned efforts to build a 9.3-mile light rail line down Woodward Avenue, the city’s central strip, Mayor Dave Bing revealed on Friday that he would allow a shorter link funded by a private group to move forward if it submitted an acceptable business plan within 90 days.

READ MORE: http://www.thetransportpolitic.com/2012/01/08/back-to-basics-for-detroit-light-rail/

Posted 4 months ago #