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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
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These articles seem inherently anti-streetcar.
As far as financials, the QLine is something like 75% privately funded. Even if no one uses it, the costs of construction and operations have been paid for for the next 5 years. Obviously, it'll be an issue if ridership stayed low during that time, but it isn't expected to with the influx of new residents moving into downtown Detroit.
As far as actual mobility problems, those issues are far bigger than the QLine could ever be, and even if it reached X number of miles into whatever suburbs, Detroit would still have those same mobility issues. The QLine might be a better success, but it wouldn't solve the issues that overhang the region as a whole.
The QLine was never meant to solve any transit issues, but start as the foundation for a system to grow from.