(MI) Detroit Free Press – Macomb County commissioners last week took the lead on transit — and regional cooperation — by approving a road map for a Regional Transit Authority. Unfortunately, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson and Detroit Mayor Dave Bing are still largely MIA.
Foot-dragging seems to be the one thing Michigan’s richest county and largest city can do in lockstep. While hardly unprecedented, their inaction in this instance is putting all of southeast Michigan at risk. More