Editorial: A modern public transit system is within reach | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: "With nearly 30% of its residents without vehicles, Detroit cannot afford to take more money from its bus system, which has already reduced service by at least one-third over the last five years. Nor would the FTA, which is paying for more than half of the rail project's construction costs, permit the city to do so.
'We're not interested in building a rail system that's going to starve the bus system,' FTA Administrator Peter Rogoff told the Free Press on Monday. 'For transit to work in this city -- or any other -- you need both."
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