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Originally Posted by iheartthed
The Pointes haven't been connected by rail to downtown since the streetcar was eliminated. SEMTA connected Royal Oak, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Pontiac to downtown until the 80s.
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interesting, so the Pointes were never connected to downtown detroit by commuter rail, only street car lines?
that would be another fairly big departure in regards to the comparison to chicago's northshore burbs.
it's propably why the northshore burbs grew a bit bigger prior 1920, before MASS automobile ownership.
the pointes 1920: 5,088
core northshore 1920: 19,077
the pointes 1940: 29,648
core northshore 1940: 39,416
the pointes 1970: 58,899 (peak)
core northshore 1970: 59,787 (peak)
the pointes 2020: 45,598
core northshore 2020: 52,277
for the comparison above, "core northshore" is defined very tightly as just wilmette, kenilworth, winnetka, and glencoe. those 4 line-up most closely with the pointes in terms of feel and size (10.4 sq. miles for the pointes vs. 13.5 sq. miles for wilmette, kenilworth, winnetka, and glencoe). the term "northshore" in general also includes all the lakefront burbs in southern lake county as well (highland park, lake forest, lake bluff) at an absolue minimum, and often times an even wider net is cast to include evanston, as well as the inland burbs of glenview, northfield, northbrook and deerfield.