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City leaders are using the Super Bowl, and all the trouble fans had getting to the big game Sunday, to push for a new mass transit system.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Monday he was lobbying state House Speaker Craig DeRoche to help bring a comprehensive transit system to the city, at the center of one of the nation's largest major metropolitan areas without one. Paying for it might not be so simple, though.
During the Super Bowl, more than 300,000 people used Park and Ride shuttles, filling suburban lots to capacity, and people were waiting hours for buses, the mayor said at a news conference.
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