fed up in Detroit

Detroit is known as the Motor City.  The Motor Cities main industry is now on the way to being defunct. What will Detroit be called if the Big 3 becomes the Big 1?  I wonder if the city will then rethink its stance on not having a viable mass transit. 

For 3 decades Detroiters have been crying for mass transportation.  Detroiters aren’t asking for anything more than other major urbanized area have in the way of transportation.  What has Detroit received for mass transportation?  Well, I’ll tell you in 1976 Mayor Young received 600 million for the creation of a rail transit system.  In 1986 the “Detroit People Mover” was unveiled.  It goes in a circle around Downtown Detroit only.  It cost 67 million per mile and cost 30 times more than any other transist system.  Yuck Yuck Yuck……

Fast forward a couple more decades to the 2000’s and 145 million dollars have again been secured for Detroit for a mass transit system. Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick has something to do with the funds and their allocation.  Unfortuntly, there are no feasible plans for the transit system and any prospect could again be decades away. 

I’m really fed up with the transportation situation in Detroit.  If you own a car the roads do so much damage to the undercarriage of the vehicle that a mechanic is always necessary.  The bus system only runs once an hour to get to and from the suburbs, where most of the jobs are.  The inner-city system is no better the bus schedule reads a bus every 15-20 minutes.  The reality is a bus every 30 minutes to an hour and at peak times longer because of crowding.

The Detroit transportation issue is such that Roger Penske and other business moguls are making plans for creating a private mass transit option.  The system Hopes to encourage more retail traffic and more individuals coming into Detroit from the suburbs.   

I am going to keep my eyes and ears open for any information as to what is going to happen to that 145 million Ms. Kilpatrick has secured and keep everyone posted.  Inquiring minds want to know.