Part 2 of Dwell’s 5-part series on how transportation shapes America
visits Detroit, Grand Rapids and Chicago. While critical of the People
Mover and Detroit’s dearth of transit options, the writer, Robert
Sullivan, also clearly states the importance of Detroit’s success to
the state as a whole.
Excerpt:
We pass Campus Martius—the place is filled with people, strolling, coffee-ing, talking.
“Environmental integrity, social equity, economic development—you have
to have a balance,” explains Colin Hubbell, a local developer. The
ideas for the city, the state, for the region, all have to do not with
getting rid of the car but modulating it, reimagining it as one type of
transportation among several.