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.
Excerpt:
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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