Leaders getting behind transit plans

According to the story:

Roger Penske told his business peers recently that he was devoted to “continuing the momentum” of Detroit’s revival, and the next big project should be a modern transit system.

Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm’s administration and Republican legislative leaders are bargaining over a bill that would give some local transit agencies much greater authority than they have now to raise money for new rapid transit systems, something the federal government requires before it will fund engineering, construction, and other rapid transit start-up costs.
Detroit city government views improving transit and building a regional rapid transit system as one of its top priorities for economic development.

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