This Story Shows Why Mass Transit in Detroit Is A Hand Up, Not A Handout
We feel compelled to highlight this story that appeared in the Free Press about James Robertson. He is a 56 year old man that walks 21 miles each day in his roundtrip commute from Detroit to his job in Rochester Hills. The story really illustrates the amount of work it can take to get to a job without a car in Metro Detroit. It also shows how mass transit (buses, light rail, all of that) isn’t simply a handout or only something that “the hipsters” will use. Functional mass transit can be a rea...