I Visited the Capital of Motordom and I Have Thoughts

If the only things you know about Detroit are what you've seen in the national news in the last few decades...you're in for a shock.

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Resources:
https://detroitmi.gov/departments/off...
https://mogodetroit.org/
https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/project...
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...

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Images
Detroit's former main train station, the 'Michigan Central Station,' in Detroit, USA, 22 May 2015. Photo by: Johannes Schmitt-Tegge/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
Big Lebowski Credit: Michael Ochs Archives / Handout, Editorial #: 468723269, Collection: Moviepix
Ford Field By Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Little Caesar's pizza by Flickr user Mike Mozart, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepers... under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Tiger Stadium 1961 By Tony Spina - Detroit Free Press Archives, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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