Yes, Detroit used to actually have a rail network back in the day, it actually had TWO commuter rail lines going north and west from downtown respectively. Their discontinuation was blamed on the decline of business moving out of downtown from the suburbs, but, if you're a local, you know full and well transit planning in this region has been dominated by auto industry interests since day #1. I mean, the only mayor in Detroit's history who proposed that the city build a subway was literally a good personal friend of John Dodge and appointed a shareholder& former vice president of the early Ford company to the position of police chief, who would, after Marx stepped down, mysteriously become mayor of Detroit

Look at how they massacred my boys...

PS: Also, on a related note- if you've ever seen any B-roll of images from Detroit, you've probably seen this massive train station at some point. Well, the Ford motor company bought the building not too long ago from a notorious slumlord and is going to rip the majority of the platforms out in order to build their new " autonomous mobility platform " instead of... i don't know... utilizing all of the empty blocks and streets we have in the city?.. Funny how this all turns out isn't it?