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Tag: light rail

Light rail in Michigan? GOPers want to know more

By Nick, Section News
Posted on Tue Mar 17, 2009 at 07:15:02 AM EST
Tags: Rogers, Schmidt, light rail, Kenyatta, foreclosure, Detroit, Conyers (all tags)

No, I don't want a green bagel and I don't drink beer, whatever the color. Thank you.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you, too, though. Be careful on the roads, pals. Especially those of you who are getting an early-bird jump on the festivities at oh, 8 or 9 this morning.

Now... since I'm not a lush, Irish or Catholic, back to business.

Yesterday we discussed how Detroit Democrat Kwame Kenyatta was adding his name to the list of over 50 liberal candidates for the office of Mayor come August. Today we learn that the man just defaulted on his mortgage and isn't paying his bills.

But like yesterday, I still can't muster the cynicism and snark to discuss the foibles of Michigan Democrats with the vim and vigor the issues really deserve. Besides, I have zero doubt whatsoever that Monica Conyers will pick up the slack. Heck, the woman made fun of Kenyatta because she thought he had cancer... does anyone think getting kicked out of his house is going to be off limits?

Besides, there's this whole "light rail" thing that's sort of got me intrigued.

Republican Representatives Wayne Schmidt and Bill Rogers held a presser yesterday announcing the formation of a task force to study the feasibility of a light rail system connecting Lansing with metro-Detroit and maybe Ann Arbor, to boot.

If you've lived in Michigan long you've heard about the light-rail concept more times than you've seen the University of Michigan in the NCAA basketball tournament. Every couple of years it becomes someone's pet project but there have always been three big issues standing in the way. (Frankly, there may have been a million and three big issues, but there are three that always seem to pop to the top.)

First you've got to deal with the projects feasibility. Can anyone even construct the thing and make it work? Second, you've got the whole question of who is going to pay for it and then there are the Big 3.

Read on...

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