  Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport Post Number: 426 Registered: 11-2005 |
Does anyone know what is going on with the DTOGS Study? We should have heard something by now. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1471 Registered: 04-2006 |
Can't say anything, it ain't soup yet. | ||
Trainman Member Username: Trainman Post Number: 583 Registered: 04-2006 |
The railroads are presently being blamed because of liability and cost concerns. I know that the problem is basically money and with the hard economic times, transit tax increase advocates are just waiting things out to get better. These people are presently working for a change in the state constitution to allow county and local sales taxes to be legal to raise taxes in the future when things get better. So, when Michigan’s economy comes back expect to pay a tax at the fast food drive thru or some other non-user tax to support your county transit authority unless we demand accountability to make the best use of our limited transportation tax dollars first. | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 497 Registered: 04-2006 |
I know DTOGS has public forums/meetings. I should try to attend the next one. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2103 Registered: 10-2006 |
"So, when Michigan’s economy comes back expect to pay a tax at the fast food drive thru or some other non-user tax to support your county transit authority unless we demand accountability to make the best use of our limited transportation tax dollars first." It has been mentioned in a few other threads, (and I will bring it up again) that Charlotte NC (Mecklenburg County) has a .5% sales tax added to all purchases that goes directly toward mass transit. There was an initiative to repeal it just this last election, but the voters overwhelmingly kept the tax going (~70%). | ||
Lifeinmontage Member Username: Lifeinmontage Post Number: 55 Registered: 10-2007 |
Metro Detroiters are out of work. We should do what Hoover did in the Great Depression and let the area work itself out of a financial slump. They should broaden the scope from just Woodward and Detroit-Ann Arbor and build four or five light rail lines concurrently. With all of those laid of laborers working again, the economy should pick up, and we'd have our entire new transit system much sooner. I know it's radical, but a guy can hope. | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 2105 Registered: 10-2006 |
Unfortunately Lifeinmontage, a majority of the funding does come from the feds. Therefore, very little is likely to be built quickly. | ||
Parkguy Member Username: Parkguy Post Number: 165 Registered: 04-2007 |
The public input stage of the study ended in October, and the selection of the locally preferred alternative part of the project is supposed to be completed by the end of January. Public comments will follow that. All of this is required by the federal guidelines. Here's the link to the timeline. http://www.dtogs.com/f/Project _Flowchart.pdf |
