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Posted by Gold_12TH on Sat Feb 25 21:01:15 2012 High-Speed Bus Route to Solve Transit Crisis?: MyFoxDETROIT.com Detroiters are fed up with the city's D-DOT bus service and new proposed cuts. Now, local leaders are working on a new plan to address the transit crisis. It's called Rolling Rapid Transit. Could the high-speed bus route be on a fast track for Metro Detroit?A day after D-DOT's public hearing about cuts in service, filled with anger and outrage, comes news of plans for a new rapid bus system to revitalize Metro Detroit. "Busses are the answer," Oakland County Commissioner David Potts told Fox 2. "There's something called the golden triangle that starts at the foot of Woodward Avenue in Detroit, comes north into Oakland County, up Woodward Avenue, goes over toward Macomb County, back down." Potts says the new bus route would travel along Woodward and Gratiot and east-west along M-59 all the way out to Macomb County. The proposal also calls for a path to Ann Arbor, including two additional stations in Washtenaw County. Some may not like a bus system connecting the suburbs to the inner-city, but Potts says it could save the region. "Problems don't stop at city lines," Potts says. "Crime doesn't stop at any city line. If you look at this as a regional opportunity, we are all part of the same problem or solution. If you can't get your people to work, they're not gonna come here." The new system would be more high-tech than SMART bus. Like transit systems in Los Angeles, the rolling rapid would run on its own lane and communicate electronically with traffic signals. Right now, it's only a proposal. The plan is in its early stages. The price tag is already at more than $500 million. It was discussed during a workshop of the National Bus Rapid Transit Institute Friday at the Detroit Zoo. Legislation to create a Rapid Transit Authority for southeast Michigan - which would oversee and coordinate existing bus services - was introduced at the state level earlier this month. That legislation will have its second hearing on Tuesday in Detroit |
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