How Will Things Move?

Photo by: John T. Greilick / The Detroit News

A few challenges:

• 52% of Detroit workers must commute outside the city to jobs, and therefore, rely on access to a car or public transportation; 30% of Detroit households do not own a car.
• The city is served by many bus routes on major streets, but ridership remains low.
• The Detroit Metro area is the only major metropolitan area without a regional transportation authority.

Our opportunity:

• The City is working toward new forms of rapid transit, via the Woodward lightrail corridor, to ensure more efficient commutes.
• Detroit has potential as an international trade hub with access to road, rail, water and air transportation for goods and services.

Something to think about:

• How can the city’s transit system be coordinated around where people need it the most? How can we leverage transit as an economic development tool? Can the culture of public transit be (re)established?

What do we want to become:

• A city with reliable, efficient movement of people and goods throughout the city and region.