(MI)  Detroit Free Press - Transportation is an inherently regional issue. Everyone enjoys the economic, social and environmental benefits of a good mass transit system, whether they ride it themselves or not. (Skeptical? Ask employees at local grocery stores, hospitals and coffee shops how they got to work.) The best way to ensure that benefit is to put every community in a service area on board. But that’s not how it works in southeast Michigan, where communities in Wayne and Oakland counties are allowed to opt out of SMART, the suburban bus system. More