By John Bebow - October 24, 2008
Talk about mass transit trains and high-speed rail has picked up steam in Michigan's two biggest cities in the past couple years. In August, public support for mass transit was evident as voters approved 15 out of 16 transit millage votes, mostly for busses.
Chris McCarus, Michigan's roving and always forward-looking radio correspondent, reports that the next test of public support for transit in the face of economic crisis is a CATA millage in Lansing in November.
Click here to listen to McCarus' CATA story, or catch his other recent recent reports in the MichiganNow archive.
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I'm very encouraged to hear that Mass Transit is picking up support.. However, if the transit you're talking about is just the same as it has been for the last 100 years, then it's doomed to failure before it gets started. We need to focus on new technology to take us into the 22nd Century. Magnetic levitation, impulse drives and linear motors have all been positioned for the next 100 years. Digging tunnels has progressed as well with the advent of the "Chunnel" in Europe. Let's look at reinventing our cities so that we can get from here to there in the most effecient and fastest manner possible below ground, on the ground and in the air. Let's not look backwards and build the same thing all over again.
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