Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, center, M-1 President and CEO Matt Cullen, left, and M-1 Board Chairman Roger Penske gather at the start of a long-awaited commuter light rail project on Woodward Avenue in Detroit on Monday, July 28, 2014. A large portion of Woodward Avenue was closed off Monday morning while workers began cutting concrete. Work on the $137 million, 3.3-mile line project, which is expected to take two years and stretch from downtown to New Center, will at times shut down parts of Woodward and two interstate bridges. (AP Photo/Detroit News, David Coates) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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