Commuter rails – coming to a city near you, maybe

Commuter trains are coming! Commuter trains are coming! At least that’s the plan. A study just finished up that checked out the feasibility of a commuter rail from Ann Arbor to Detroit – and stops along the way.

As for Dearborn, they would be getting a brand new station, as long as everything goes according to plan. They’d call it the Intermodal Rail Passenger Station. Pretty cool, huh? Sounds like the future.

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The commuter transit system is planned ot have stops in Ypsilanti and at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in addition to Detroit, Ann Arbor and Dearborn, Murray said.

Until the station is completed, Murray said the commuter trains would go through the Dearborn Amtrak Station.

“Detroit is the last major metropolitan center without a local transit system,” Murray said.

“We need a transit system in this region to be competitive. It’s just something a major metropolitan area needs to have.”

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