Source CRAIN'S DETROIT BUSINESS
Wayne County Executive Warren Evans plans to present a new mass transportation plan Thursday to the four-county Regional Transit Authority board in a last-ditch effort to get a plan before voters this fall.
In his annual State of the County address on Tuesday evening, Evans said the revised transit plan he's been working on with regional leaders for nearly a year will be "bigger, better and more flexible" than the $3 billion, 20-year transit plan and 1.2-mill property tax that voters narrowly rejected in 2016.
The Wayne County executive and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan have stepped up their push for putting a new regional transportation tax on the November ballot in the wake of Amazon.com Inc. rejecting the region for its new 50,000-employee headquarters, in part, because of what Evans called a "horribly inefficient" existing system.
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