{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Detroit","slug":"daily-detroit-403697","podcast_index_feed_id":403697,"rss_url":"https://dailydetroitnewsbyte.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.dailydetroit.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/5/7/d/257d06f978223a63d959afa2a1bf1c87/smaller-phezzy.png","author":"Daily Detroit","episode_count":1916,"summary":"What to know and where to go in Metro Detroit! We have conversations that push Detroit forward and share local stories about restaurants, business, development, local government, policy, technology, things to do, transit and more. All in about 22 minutes a day.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-12T08:19:32.808216+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-detroit-403697"},"episode":{"title":"Wayne County's High‑Stakes Transit Vote","slug":"wayne-county-s-high-stakes-transit-vote","published_at":"2026-05-27T16:19:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-detroit-403697/wayne-county-s-high-stakes-transit-vote","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-detroit-403697","url":"https://dailydetroitnewsbyte.libsyn.com/wayne-countys-highstakes-transit-vote","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/dailydetroitnewsbyte/daily-detroit-may-27-2026.mp3?dest-id=497871","summary":"Transit in Metro Detroit is at an inflection point. We talk with Transportation Riders United executive director Megan Owens about the new Wayne County‑wide transit millage, what an extra eight bucks a month could unlock, and how our region invests less in buses than almost any big metro in America. The vote is crucial for the future of transit as it would finally opt-in all communites in Wayne County to transit, similar to how most places nationall work. If it fails, we could lose what service we do have. They dig into Lansing's latest budget \"switcheroo,\" how Oakland County's all‑in vote reshaped service, and TRU's upcoming Round‑the‑Mitten tour to prove you really can ride public transit from Detroit to Marquette.","meta_description":"Transit in Metro Detroit is at an inflection point. We talk with Transportation Riders United executive director Megan Owens about the new Wayne County‑wi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1160,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-detroit-403697/episodes/wayne-county-s-high-stakes-transit-vote/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-detroit-403697/wayne-county-s-high-stakes-transit-vote.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}