that light rail is kind of retarded. it goes in a straight line. it only goes from one place in a suburb to downtown. thats a small % of people who want to go downtown. they already have a shuttle from that exact area that not a whole lot of people use.
www.thenightmove.com. if this system went to every part of the suburbs to downtown it might be useful. no one is going to want to drive 20-30 minutes to get on public transportation to go downtown detroit. theres plenty of parking downtown so it would be easier to just drive downtown.