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About this report
Health impact
Missed doctor appointments cost patients, taxpayers.
Repeated failures
Lack of funding, stalled legislation impede solutions.
Good examples
How Baltimore, Boston, Chicago do it right.
Scarce rides
Bus routes don't service many job-rich suburbs.
Misery
100,000 Metro Detroiters rely on The Detroit Department of Transportation buses daily. Buses that often arrive late, early, dirty, broken, or not at all. It's no surprise that experts consider Detroit's mass-transit system one the most inadequate in the nation.
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John T. Greilick / The Detroit News
Stephanie Scola of Mt. Clemens depends on SMART buses to get her to work at Oakland Mall in Troy. "SMART is anything but, but it gets you where you need to go -- eventually."
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Bus system gaps punish workers, poor
DETROIT -- One hand clutches pepper spray. The other, a stroller. It's 3:30 a.m. on the crumbling sidewalks of southeast Detroit and Karen Gholston is starting her commute. 05/04/03
Costly systems duplicate services
The suburban and Detroit bus operations trail national efficiency standards. 05/04/03
Good transit systems focus on riders
WASHINGTON -- Regions with successful transit systems have one thing in common: They thought from the passenger's point of view on everything from fares to the speed of transferring from a subway to a bus. 05/04/03
Buses don't go where jobs are
NOVI -- Don't bother waiting for a bus at Twelve Oaks Mall in Novi, downtown Plymouth or at Cranbrook Schools. No routes go there. 05/04/03
Michigan's anti-bus bias limits funding
WASHINGTON -- Michigan fares poorly when it comes time for Congress to divvy up mass transit dollars because of a bias toward densely populated states with extensive mass transit service, and because southeast Michigan has failed to come up with a regional approach to public transportation. 05/04/03
Inferior transit service costs patients, taxpayers
LIVONIA -- For Sheryl Hoskins, there simply is no choice. Either she rides a series of buses that exhaust her or she dies. 05/04/03
Leaders fail to put plans in motion
DETROIT -- A $2 billion proposal to dress up buses as trains is the latest addition to a growing scrap heap of plans to revitalize public transportation in Metro Detroit. 05/04/03
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