Detroit is inching closer and closer to mass transit.
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Detroit may be one step closer to a light rail system after the U.S. House passed a provision in a bill Thursday clearing a key funding hurdle for the city.
The provision means that $125 million private donors would pay for one part of the $430 million project could be counted toward the match the city has to come up with to get federal funding for a two-part rail system that would run along Woodward from downtown to Eight Mile, said U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Detroit.
"I am confident that we will be able to break ground on this project by summer," she said.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing called the action "an important development for the future of mass transit" in the city.
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