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Detroit and Public Transportation?
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It is cool that the energy and force of design that the American automobile manufacturers once put into the classic American cars has been focused on public transportation in downtown Detroit. The Rosa Parks Transit Center is an indoor/outdoor facility with seven white sails that rise above the outdoor waiting area like a tall ship or the fins of a ‘59 Cadillac. This new hub was designed by international planning and design firm Parsons Brinckerhoff.
Downtown Detroit has great bones or what we call ‘urban fabric,’ but it has been neglected for too long. Admittedly Detroit suffers from many problems including a long suffering economy, bad business decisions by the auto makers and poor civic planning. Hopefully this is a first step back.
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Maybe it all comes down to how you pronounce it: day- twah or dee-troyt 😉
Yes and to get to this wonderfull landmark you merely have to drive miles through burned out real estate, empty lots, street gangs and wellfare offices where third and fourth generation wellfare bums make a living sucking up tax dollars. I know having worked at Lynch Rd Assembly from 1972 til 1981 and watching first hand how Mayor Young and his kind trashed Detroit. This is like parking a Cadillac in a scrap yard.
Yes and to get to this wonderfull landmark you merely have to drive miles through burned out real estate, empty lots, street gangs and wellfare offices where third and fourth generation wellfare bums make a living sucking up tax dollars and burning down houses. I know having worked at Lynch Rd Assembly from 1972 til 1981 and watching first hand how Mayor Young and his kind trashed Detroit. This is like parking a Cadillac in a scrap yard.
While I don’t know the area, I do hope that this structure, like many others, inspires a revitalization of its surrounds. In turn that might spur additional investment in other areas of the city.
Additional investment would create jobs and revitalization would (hopefully) cause people to move back into the city. These two steps would helps with the other ills mentioned.