Comments on: SPECIAL REPORT: Stimulus could boost Michigan mass transit

By: John B. Czarnecki

John B. Czarnecki — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:54:45 +0000

We need to start taxing parking lots appropriately, eliminate free park and rides and road patrol needs to be paid for from the gasoline tax. Once the true cost of driving is levied on the consumers then maybe mass transit will work in this state.

By: Amadeo Lese

Amadeo Lese — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:28:45 +0000

Just think if Michigan could get high speed rail, and the emptly auto factories in the state the opening would and could be to build the high speed rail cars and engines in our own state.
Right now all are manufactured in foreiegn countries.

By: Jess Atwell

Jess Atwell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:22:32 +0000

I made a Multimodal presentation to The Center for Michigan last year. I’m very glad to see something happening although it does not go far enough to address the issue. Let’s not falsely upgrade something that is not a system. We need to look farther into the future and start designing the system from scratch. what we have is unsustainable. It can not be patched into anything resembling a cohesive, efficient, productive entity until we scrap what we have been using and reinvent an entirely new inter locked system of rail, road, air transport. Let’s not compound the errors of the past.