Even the Detroit News supports the RTA, editorializing that "A true regional authority is needed to coordinate city, suburban bus lines and rail"
"Detroit’s light rail enterprise is speeding along. . . But for the plan to succeed it is necessary for Metro Detroit to establish a transportation body with actual power to make decisions. . . .
The region needs much better coordination between its current bus lines and the new rail line. It needs one guiding authority to make decisions and allocate resources for the transit system, if it is truly to be a system. . . .
Megan Owens, executive director of Detroit public transit advocacy nonprofit Transit Riders United, says that if light rail is going to expand beyond Eight Mile, as she hopes it will, a regional transportation authority would prove "incredibly helpful and necessary." A unified transit authority also would be an essential ingredient in securing a long-term funding solution. . . .
A developed light rail system could be good news for Detroit and surrounding communities. A regional transit authority is essential, however, in determining its success."
Why won’t Brooks Patterson and Dave Bing get behind it too?