Comments on: Enough, already! http://detroit.metblogs.com/2008/03/19/enough-already/ Thu, 21 May 2009 21:13:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: April http://detroit.metblogs.com/2008/03/19/enough-already/comment-page-1/#comment-3695 April Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:30:27 +0000 http://detroit.metblogs.com/2008/03/19/enough-already/#comment-3695 Actually, I live a whopping 7 miles from my office in the Cass Corridor, so I'm not familiar with the 30 mile commute by any means - but do have several colleagues who are making the trip from Lake Orion, Monroe and the like, and their gas usage and costs really are ridiculous. And it isn't only metro Detroit paying these prices, so there are plenty more people out there who are subscribing to that same short-sightedness. Actually, I live a whopping 7 miles from my office in the Cass Corridor, so I’m not familiar with the 30 mile commute by any means – but do have several colleagues who are making the trip from Lake Orion, Monroe and the like, and their gas usage and costs really are ridiculous. And it isn’t only metro Detroit paying these prices, so there are plenty more people out there who are subscribing to that same short-sightedness.

]]> By: stuckinmichigan http://detroit.metblogs.com/2008/03/19/enough-already/comment-page-1/#comment-3686 stuckinmichigan Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:49:03 +0000 http://detroit.metblogs.com/2008/03/19/enough-already/#comment-3686 This would be a prime example of the short sightedness of Metro Detroit and it's inhabitants. Anyone who thought a non-renewable resource largely supplied by unstable, and often antagonistic, governments with agendas that don't match our own, would continue to be available so cheaply was an idiot. If you want to live in Lake Orion and work in Warren (yes I know people who do this), or live in Milford and work in Dearborn (I know people who do this as well), live in Novi and work in Troy, or live in Brighton and work in Bloomfield, I have no sympathy for you. If you didn't already think you spent far too much of your income on gas, you needed to have your head checked. When did it become not only acceptable, but normal, in Metro Detroit, to commute 30+ miles each way? When did companies decide it wouldn't matter if they moved 30 miles away from their employees? Why can't Metro Detroit communities ever work together to get a decent mass transit system in place? Metro Detroiters complain about an exodus of college graduates, 18-35 year olds, jobs leaving the area, and almost no companies coming in or starting up to fill the void. I too have recently left, taking my business to the East Coast. Metro Detroit can't get a new exhibition space built, can't get mass transit off the ground, can't maintain the infrastructure that exists (roads, bridges, schools, etc.), fights against raising fuel efficiency standards, fights against non-smoking laws, and refuses to accept that the world is changing. Metro Detroiters will get exactly what they want: an unemployed, overweight, unhealthy, under-educated, shrinking society that can't attract new businesses or talented individuals, and can't keep up with the new world economy. Have fun with that... This would be a prime example of the short sightedness of Metro Detroit and it’s inhabitants. Anyone who thought a non-renewable resource largely supplied by unstable, and often antagonistic, governments with agendas that don’t match our own, would continue to be available so cheaply was an idiot. If you want to live in Lake Orion and work in Warren (yes I know people who do this), or live in Milford and work in Dearborn (I know people who do this as well), live in Novi and work in Troy, or live in Brighton and work in Bloomfield, I have no sympathy for you. If you didn’t already think you spent far too much of your income on gas, you needed to have your head checked.

When did it become not only acceptable, but normal, in Metro Detroit, to commute 30+ miles each way? When did companies decide it wouldn’t matter if they moved 30 miles away from their employees? Why can’t Metro Detroit communities ever work together to get a decent mass transit system in place?

Metro Detroiters complain about an exodus of college graduates, 18-35 year olds, jobs leaving the area, and almost no companies coming in or starting up to fill the void. I too have recently left, taking my business to the East Coast. Metro Detroit can’t get a new exhibition space built, can’t get mass transit off the ground, can’t maintain the infrastructure that exists (roads, bridges, schools, etc.), fights against raising fuel efficiency standards, fights against non-smoking laws, and refuses to accept that the world is changing.

Metro Detroiters will get exactly what they want: an unemployed, overweight, unhealthy, under-educated, shrinking society that can’t attract new businesses or talented individuals, and can’t keep up with the new world economy. Have fun with that…

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