Three-county transit plan to be unveiled Wednesday

A draft of a regional, three-county transit plan will be unveiled Wednesday. It will highlight suggested improvements, such as light rail, and how to fund them.

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The plan is the product of the Regional Transportation Coordinating Council. Hertel’s job as CEO of Detroit Regional Mass Transit, the parent of the council, is to develop the plan and drum up regional consensus for it, and he reports to the executives of the three counties and the mayor of Detroit.

Forming the background of the plan is a $400,000 regional transit study by Kansas City-based transportation consulting firm TranSystems Corp.

The new-construction aspect of the plan is expected to revolve around a light-rail line on Woodward Avenue, which would feed into other proposed routes, such as a Detroit-Ann Arbor line in the works by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments regional planning agency.


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