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Detroit From Car Capital to ??
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Peter_L



Joined: 10 Apr 2008
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Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:10 pm    Post subject: Detroit From Car Capital to ?? Reply with quote
This short clip provides information about the decline of Detroit as a city.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18271118

Could it now be called a monument to industrial suicide ? I went on to read, elsewhere, that without Government funding, the city cannot afford the demolition and cleanup costs.
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Bitumen Boy



Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
PostPosted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Wow.

Mind you, a lot of towns in this country would be like that if only there was anywhere else for people to go...
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