Makin’ Bacon: Detroit Style

Thanks MOTUS!

Michelle Obama's Mirror: Makin’ Bacon: Detroit Style
12-6-12


"After the election of Jimmy Carter, the honorable Coleman Alexander Young, he went to Washington, D.C. He came home with some bacon," said Watson. "That's what you do."

I thought you might enjoy a little history lesson, and see some of the “bacon” that the honorable and legendary Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young brought home from then President Jimmy Carter’s stash.
The primo bacon prize was surely the Detroit People Mover:
A train bound for nowhere

A brief history: The Detroit People Mover (DPM) was the brainchild of a Congressional  agency created in 1966, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA).  It was originally conceived as a demonstration project for the nascent agency seeking permanent funding - that part worked, the UMTA is now the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The demonstration project went on to become the one way rail system running in a perpetual 2.9 mile loop around the increasingly vacant city center of Detroit (reports to the contrary are greatly exaggerated).

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