Detroit asks bankruptcy [carmageddon, updated]
Posted on 19-07-2013 at 8:08 by CasperH – 53 Comments”
Ever was “Motown” to be the figurehead of the American industry, it is now the largest city ever in the United States files for bankruptcy: Detroit is $18,58 billion dollar deficit.
That it is not going well with Detroit should not be a secret anymore for the average Autoblog visitor. For years it went worse and worse with the city where ever the model T is a piece of the groundwork for one of the largest industrial cities in the world. However, two of the three large autoconcerns which once flourished in the city went hard over the years to wriggle out of, first had to be Fiat, the ailing Chrysler from the doom guard and then followed the bankruptcy of GM. How serious it was to do with the city was also painfully clear when Wouter with a driver from Detroit drove to there yourself to take a look. The man told how his city was still but a glimpse of what it once had been, and how he -just like many others – wanted to get away from the poverty elsewhere to start again.
With 70,000 abandoned buildings in the city and the public sector on the brink of the abyss will find the city beautiful now has been this: there is for bankruptcy. The mayor Dave Bing has said that salaries for the public sector, are guaranteed, but things like the pension funds are, according to financial specialists under great pressure.
GM has indicated that it does not expect adverse repercussions of the bankruptcy of the city. Although some analysts fear expressed that there may be companies out of Detroit would be able to leave by the bankruptcy will remain GM committed, and says it is “proud that Detroit its home”.
Kevyn Orr, the “Financial Emergency Manager” and the man who at this moment stands at the head of a team that tries the city to save it from collapse, says that this is the first step in the direction of rescue for Detroit. The mayor adds that he is absolutely not this side wanted but that he had no choice and that the people of Detroit a new start deserves. That is only possible if the debts of the city be repaid. He gave in addition the warranty that salaries for staff of the municipality paid and that the public services will just continue. Also, Rick Snyder, governor of the state of Michigan, has indicated that a bankruptcy is the only way for the city to significantly restructure and reorganize. The White House has held the developments to follow.
The financial problems cause more severe problems in the city: the population runs huge return because people their luck to search elsewhere, in the ’50s, lived there more than 1.85 million people in Detroit, according to the latest figures there are now more than 700,000. The crime celebrates rampant, corruption is a huge problem emerged. The moordcijfers are the highest since forty years and only a third of all ambulances is in a state that allows it to actually to be called out. The police and other emergency services have difficult and the huge workload is not, an average response time of the police in the US? 11 minutes, but in Detroit are 58 minutes. This sounds vaguely familiar in the ears of all? The people who are the Robocop movies came up there were not far off the mark…
Update 28-09: In the first instance, it appeared that Detroit his own the beans had pods, but now the federal government is still $ 300 million (222 million euros) in aid promised. Support the town hard.
