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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Cleveland's red line was mostly cobbled together from freight ROW's that are not well-integrated into their neighborhoods for the most part, with most of the 18 stations being of the dreaded park n' ride style and/or located in de-industrialized dead zones.
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Good point, but the Green Line (light rail) goes right thru the best parts of the favored quarter, and that ridership sucks too.
And the Red Line still serves the airport, Ohio City, the Cleveland Clinic, Case Western, the art museum area and Little Italy. It isn't like there's zero potential.
And Woodward Ave. in 70's-era Detroit, while not industrial/vacant, was pretty down-at-the-heels. It was a really rough stretch until maybe 20 years ago. It was still a bombed out hooker/junkie corridor when I was in high school. Maybe rail would have helped a bit around the New Center area and Boston-Edison.
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