Dequindre Cut, Detroit -- Opinion

   "Hey! Great! They got rid of all that messy, oxygen-producing, water-filtering animal & bird habitat and replaced it 
   with some nice, clean, sterile asphalt. Much better than leaving the habitat and sacrificing some already paved 
   surface to a bike-lane."

   "The new path is terrible looking, might as well go walk down the side of a highway. What once looked lush and 
    beautiful is now paved over. Looks like two steps forward and one step back."

   "People are and will continue to resettle Detroit. One day it will be full of people again. And small steps and choices 
    being made today to develop rail trails and begin to rebuild around a human scale.
 
   "The people of Detroit need at network of these types of greenways to make the city livable again. It benefits 
    the people and ecology of Detroit now and in the future.  I say all this as a resident of Michigan and a strong 
    advocate for mass transit and human powered transportation in my state. We need this type of development."  
    (Bloggers on Treehugger.com)

    “The physical characteristics of the Dequindre Cut are unmatched anywhere in this region.  “It’s developed a level 
    of enthusiasm that we’ve never seen.” (Tom Woiwode, director of Community Foundation for SE Michi­gan’s GreenWays Initiative)