tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6990781065550766734.post966384570680596610..comments2023-10-29T04:13:04.708-04:00Comments on think Detroit = RethinkDetroit.org: Dublin, Detroit, and taxesCooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04109032704358054733noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6990781065550766734.post-47983815422790667242008-08-28T00:11:00.000-04:002008-08-28T00:11:00.000-04:001. You clearly know more about Dublin than I do; w...1. You clearly know more about Dublin than I do; we need mass transit.<BR/><BR/>2. The Free Press should publish one every week: "What Detroit can't learn from [insert city] and why!"<BR/><BR/>Yet my inner economist couldn't resist the chance to talk about taxes. Who have I become?Cooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04109032704358054733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6990781065550766734.post-66318175314690194632008-08-27T22:45:00.000-04:002008-08-27T22:45:00.000-04:00I read the second page of that article when I was ...I read the second page of that article when I was at home (it was open, but flipping newspaper pages? too hard). I thought it was kind of ridiculous. Blah blah Dublin oh wait Detroit isn't like that.Marisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07744439275163908881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6990781065550766734.post-65100312663834165512008-08-27T09:09:00.000-04:002008-08-27T09:09:00.000-04:00As Michigan attempts to solve Detroit's woes, it's...As Michigan attempts to solve Detroit's woes, it's important to take a look at other successful city turnarounds, taking bits and pieces from every success story.<BR/><BR/>The lesson to take away from Dublin is that their Luas line public transit system provides an easy way for suburbanites to get downtown and spend money on Grafton St, thus keeping business operating, even thriving, in the city center.<BR/><BR/>But overall, Dublin might not be the best role model. In fact, Dublin still faces most of the same problems Detroit does - <BR/><BR/>Aside from Grafton St., head north of the Liffey and Dublin is filled with impoverished eastern European immigrants. Most "Dubliners" live in extraordinarily overpriced suburbs, and as the bubble bursts on their housing market, Dublin's middle class is drowning in debt.<BR/><BR/>So what we can learn from Dublin might not be in tax incentives or education (both of which are important, of course), but in viable public transit to first get suburbanites downtown, in the hope that some will relocate to the area and turn Detroit into a walkable city, with dining, shopping, entertainment, and even a grocery store.Tim Chilcotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08080505507775164074noreply@blogger.com