"In the next 20 years if you don’t have it, game over."
That’s what Rick Weddle, the president and CEO of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) said about mass transit during a recent speech at the headquarters of NextEnergy in Detroit’s TechTown.
According to metromode, the speech focused on how RTP became the enormous new economy powerhouse it is today and how metro Detroit could do the same, if we truly work regionally over the long term and make serious investments in an entirely new way.
He noted that, "You guys have a lot of opportunities that maybe you haven’t been fully exploring. … Its shameful how well endowed you all are and how under performing you all are."
Weddle believes that Michigan must commit to investing in itself, ending his talk with, "The most costly investment ahead of you is the one you don’t make."
Read all of Jon Zemke’s article and interview at metromode.