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[OriginalWheelman]

Mass transit here is a joke. I NEED it and can't get it. To take the bus to school, 6 miles from my house, I need to ride it for over 3 hours, into the city, then back out again. I personally believe mass transit is a catch 22. No one uses it because it's not there and it's not there because no one uses it.

[smockers83]

Fair enough, your situation is definitely valid. That is definitely slow. So what needs to be done is not build a better transit system (when I hear that I think of building a completely new one) but add to the current system to expand service to where it's needed.

Here in MI, they've been talking about building a couple of new systems between Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Ann Arbor and to the north, as a way to reduce congestion on the freeways during rush hour as the two corridors have grown outside of their capacity. They want to do this via a commuter rail system. Money for the system between Detroit and Ann Arbor is in the stimulus package. But the question is, do we really need a new system or can we just expand current systems? Because there is Amtrak service between Ann Arbor and Detroit.