Mr. Wendell Cox

The Detroit Department of Transportation is by all accounts costly and inefficient. Officials should consider the benefits of privatizing D-DOT's fleet of buses to provide citizens with better and more reliable service at less cost.

This manual provides answers to the costly woes of transportation. When transit bus service, for instance, is competitively contracted out to private firms, savings range from 30 percent to 60 percent with no reduction in safety or service quality. 20 pages.