 obama rewards his minions this is not really news but apparently the federal goverment doesn t have better things to spend money on but this  detroit mdash federal officials are planning an environmental impact study ahead of a lightrail system stretching north along woodward avenue from downtown detroit to eight mile road the study and anticipated construction date of the 450 million to 500 million project were announced monday about 125 million in private and public funds have been raised for the 34mile first phase from downtown to west grand boulevard phase two would be completed by 2016 and link grand boulevard to eight mile 125 million for less than four miles of track for that kind of money you could buy a car for everyone who was going to ride it and many many who will not which would be far more useful as cars can go to more than a handful of destinations and besides are there plenty of other places where the residents of detroit can go to spray their graffiti  why do we need an expensive train for them to deface  