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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm recently signed legislation that aims to create non-profit entities to build and operate rail lines in the state, and provide financing mechanisms to operate the lines.

The legislation will help advance The Regional Area Initial Link (TRAIL), a 3.5-mile light-rail line along Woodward Avenue in downtown Detroit. TRAIL would serve as the first corridor in a proposed 406-mile regional transit system. The line would run between Hart Plaza and the New Center.

Matt Cullen, president and chief operating officer of Rock Ventures, will serve as TRAIL’s volunteer chief executive officer on an interim basis.

“Planning and engineering for the Woodward project can now begin in earnest,” said Cullen in a prepared statement.