Bus Tour Cancelled

It's too bad that Kevyn Orr cancelled this bus tour. I really think Detroit's creditors should see just how bad it really has gotten in the city.

Earlier Orr said: 

Imagine what it’s like to be a mother riding that bus with no air-conditioning, that shows up late and takes an hour and a half to get you where you need to go. See what these neighborhoods look like, what you travel through and go home to every day. I think people don’t really believe it when I describe it. Even my friends in Washington say it can’t be as dire as what I’m describing. But it is.

Orr said if the creditors don’t take the deal he has offered, the city’s conditions — the blight, the lack of services, the profound deterioration of once-thriving neighborhoods — could get worse. “I need them to see that up-close,” he said.