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Friday, March 25, 2016

Detroit's Expensive M1 Rail To Nowhere Gets A Quixotic New Name

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With much fanfare the 3.3 mile, $137-million-dollar-to-build streetcar on Woodward in downtown Detroit has just received a new name. It...

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

M1 Rail To Nowhere Looking For More Of Other People's Money

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Light Rail is nirvana for the SWPL folks. It's apparently such a draw that you can cancel it , but it keeps coming back again. Even at...

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Detroit's Light Rail Redux - If At First You Don't Suceed, Get Subsidised Again!

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The previous plan, now rejected as too expensive was allegedly going to cost around $300 million to build and require subsidies in the amoun...

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Monday, September 05, 2011

Detroit: Since it didn't work last time, lets do it again, but bigger.

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The Detroit News: Lessons from the People Mover he rail system circles downtown Detroit and was built in 1987 on the theory that it would he...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

At a Bargain price of $371 Million, Woodward Ave may get 8 fashionable miles of Light Rail - What could possibly go wrong?

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Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there's nothing on earth Like a genuine, Bona fide, Electrified, Six-car ...

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