This is good news, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said that a Woodward Light Rail Project from Hart Plaza to 8 Mile "is going to happen." Better news, however, would be seeing the ground break. Words are great, action is better.
Excerpt from
mLive:
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says the $425 million Woodward Light Rail
Project -- which will run from Hart Plaza to 8 Mile -- "is going to
happen" and that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood should be in town
soon to announce additional backing.
Bing made the announcement
Thursday during a "big four" round table discussion hosted by Paul W.
Smith of
WJR-AM 760, suggesting the
line could help reverse economic and population trends.
"I think
it's about more than just transportation," he said. "It's about economic
development. Cities that I've been in that have a light rail system,
you've seen all kinds of businesses pop up around the system itself --
whether it's the young people that are living in that area, whether
there's entrepreneurs that come to the area."
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