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View Poll Results: What do you hate most about Michigan?
The long cold winters. 12 25.00%
The fact that the job's are not here. 15 31.25%
Grandhole 9 18.75%
The people who say that things are fine. 12 25.00%
Voters: 48. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-26-2013, 12:24 PM
 
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The only thing I really disliked about Michigan was the lack of public transportation between cities, or even in cities.

Some kind of rail system connecting Detroit-Lansing-Grand Rapids would be great. Also, I lived in Flint briefly and was very annoyed that there weren't even any shuttles or buses to get to DTW. At least Lansing is serviced by the Michigan Flyer.

And then, Lansing had a nice bus system run by CATA, but none of the other cities seemed to have very good public transportation.
Long overdue. Unfortunately, Michigan has so many status-quo minded people in power that they might be the last state to ever implement something like this.

It's a shame, because the Detroit Metro is really in need of commuter rail. People there act like you have two heads when you mention it, but one simply needs to go to its neighbors, Chicago and Toronto, to see how its done. Apparently nobody from Metro Detroit goes to Chicago or Toronto. Huh.
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Old 09-26-2013, 12:59 PM
 
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As for Global warming how does anyone really know since there was a weather man back in the 1800's or even the 1700's well you did have Ben Franklin with his kite and flying it in a thunderstorm. But did they care about the weather back then I think not, there was to much going on to worry about the weather. Governments need to crack down on Big Business cause these companies pay for Senate and Congress memebers and these Lame Brains work for money not their concession, Otherwise they would do more to slow down the way we are Destorying the Earth
Measure the amount of snow in the artic and copmpare it that measurement to previous and sibsequent measurements and notice it is greatly reduced with each passing year?
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Old 10-08-2013, 01:29 AM
 
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pokuku, I totally agree. I love the Chicago L/Metra and Toronto Subway/Go Trains when I visit and so much so that I wish we had it in Metro Detroit. But let's face it, the Metro Detroit region is a extremely car centric region due to its history. I just wish we had more transportation options in MI.
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