Most Aging Baby Boomers Face Poor Mobility Options

By 2015, nearly a half-million of people 65 and older in Metropolitan Detroit will live in communities where public transportation service is either poor or non-existent, a new study shows. 

The report, Aging in Place, Stuck without Options, ranks metro areas by the percentage of seniors with poor access to public transportation, now and in the coming years, and presents other data on aging and transportation.  It ranks Metro Detroit as tied for third from the bottom with an estimated 68 percent of Detroiters who will have “poor” access.