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Originally Posted by Crawford
Though Detroit is a little different. The apartment district really was Northwest of the core. If Detroit had ever built a real transit system, Woodward would have been the logical first route, but the Dexter/Linwood corridor out towards Southfield would have been a close second.
The Dexter bus line is the second busiest in the city, even today, after 90% of the apartment buildings were leveled. You see slight hints of the old vitality around Dexter Davison, Central HS and the like. Was the Jewish district, then the upper-middle class black district, plus a big gay population in the apartment buildings till the area got crappy.
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If Detroit ever had a mass transit system like NYC, Chicago, Boston, and DC, then it would've utilized the spoke routes of Fort, Michigan, Grand River, Woodward, Gratiot, Jefferson, and possibly Van Dyke and Livernois. Even a semi-circle route along Grand Blvd from MCS to Belle Isle would've made a lot of sense.
Also, I'm thinking some of the freeways in Detroit would've been utilized like the Jeffries and the Lodge. It's a shame Detroit never developed a mass transit system like the cities aforementioned.