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SpeedLink
Metropolitan Affairs Coalition recommends creating SpeedLink to help meet the region’s current and future transportation needs. SpeedLink is an integrated, cost-effective rapid transit system that will offer fast, frequent, comfortable, safe, and efficient transportation to all of metro Detroit’s citizens, drivers and non-drivers alike.
It will be a three-tiered system, comprising:
SpeedLink – a “train on tires” that will deliver frequent rapid transit service seven days per week on a 12-line, 259-mile regional SpeedLink network.
InterLink – traditional buses for longer journeys that don’t require high-speed service, or for journeys linking one high-speed line with another.
HomeLink – flexible, neighborhood-based service using smaller vehicles to take people to local stores, medical facilities, schools, and parks as well as SpeedLink stations
SpeedLink service was recently incorporated into SEMCOG’s adopted regional transit vision. To learn more about the rapid transit study, visit annarbordetroitrapidtransitstudy.com.
Why do we need SpeedLink?
SpeedLink is a regional network of rapid transit that can serve the greatest number of people, in the least amount of time, for the lowest cost.
“We are in direct competition for business, jobs, tourism, conventions, and overall quality of life with other major metropolitan areas, all of which have rapid transit service. SpeedLink offers an excellent opportunity to quickly and cost effectively bring rapid transit to Greater Detroit and address
a serious deficiency in our transportation system.”
- Richard E. Rassel
Director of Global Client Relations,
Butzel Long
Find out more about the benefits of SpeedLink to metropolitan Detroit by downloading our PDF brochure SpeedLink: 2010 Rapid Transit in Our Lifetime. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader.
If you wish to obtain a hard copy, please contact MAC at 313.961.2270 or mac@mac-web.org
© 2008 Metropolitan Affairs Coalition (MAC)
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