It’s because county-wide funding would primarily benefit Ann Arbor, where all routes would lead. There certainly won’t be buses on every corner, running at 15 minute intervals in the outlying areas of the county. AATA is leading the effort because it seeks to expand its bureaucracy and grow the salaries of its executives. It would be in the best interests of Ann Arbor residents to not spend the money up front for a system that is very unlikely to be bought into by the rest of the county, especially in these tough economic times. The residents of Ypsilanti Township turned down the millage for police yesterday. Do you think it is likely that they would vote to support expanding the expensive bus service provided by AATA? AATA has already priced itself beyond the financial capabilities of the City of Ypsilanti.

There’s actually a specific archival benefit to that approach that becomes clearer when one considers other uses of red-lining and blue-facing in The Chronicle’s material. E.g., We sometimes use the same technique to make clear contrasts between original versions of public documents and revised versions.

If we coded our corrections differently from other uses, and let CSS color them (presumably still the same), it would still be possible to search the corpus of Chronicle material and find all instances of corrections, without having to manually filter out other uses of red and blue text.

It’s something that’s not exactly a top priority to implement, but is in the mix of “things to eventually attend to.”

In the 8th paragraph (beginning “Annis”) under the subhead “Form an Act 196 organization”, you say, “The Act 51 organization of AA would not disappear as soon as an Act 196 organization was established.” I know that P.A. 51 is part of the legislation that makes public transportation possible, but did you mean Act 55 here?

The agenda provided before the meeting contained this statement: “Reorganization under Act 196 requires no change in the City’s ownership of the transit system, the make-up of the Board of Directors, or in the current method of providing transit services inside or outside of the City.” You mention board makeup as an unresolved question. I found this agenda statement confusing because what I heard when interviewing for a story about this last year was that each jurisdiction that joined the new authority would naturally expect to have representation. The picture that was emerging at that time was that the county BOC would establish seats for each jurisdiction and Ann Arbor’s mayor would no longer appoint a majority of members.