- Good transit options are a requirement for Amazon HQ2.
- That's spurring local leaders to talk about going back to voters in 2018.
- RTA ballot issue failed last year when Macomb County voted strongly against it.
The race to position metro Detroit for Amazon's second headquarters has injected a new sense of urgency into addressing the region's disjointed public transportation systems as leaders contemplate going back to voters next year with a different regional transit proposal.
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and the leaders of Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Macomb counties had already been in talks for months about how to revise the regional transit proposal that voters narrowly defeated last November.
And then online retail behemoth Amazon dropped its request for proposals that said access to mass transit options and connections to an international airport were critical components to its plans to plant up to 50,000 workers in a city outside of its hometown of Seattle..."
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