DETROIT, MI – It’s time for Detroit to move away from the Motor City moniker, according to a handful of locals. A small group of residents, local politicians and activists gathered Wednesday in the basement of the United Sound System Recording Studio in midtown, said the city doesn’t need anymore vehicular traffic.
Over 200 petitions and 60 letters to Gov. Rick Snyder say so, too. The building the group gathered in bumped with the bass line from the recording studio upstairs. Saving the active recording studio, which has hosted Aretha Franklin, the MC5 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was only part of the group’s argument against what they called a “highway boondoggle.”
All the money that will be spent on the expansion could be better used in dozens of other ways throughout the city, according Annalise Dobbelstein, campaign organizer at The Public Interest Research Group in Michigan.