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OK... how many of you even know that there already is a 3 lane service drive along both sides of the freeway between Woodward & I-75?? So lets not say we're going from 6 to 14 lanes... were only...

Thanks Hermod... I remember as a kid going to Schwaben Park, a German ethnic park located where I-94 makes its' bend into Macomb County... only a stand of trees east of the Freeway [[and just north of...

I-94 didn't make it to 8 Mile until the early 1960s. So it was still a work in progress on the east side up until at least the late 1950s. Most of the homes in the 48224 zip code were built by...

OH NO! Not this thread again!! ;)

Maybe with the razing of the American Beauty Building, coupled with WSU moving 200 people to Troy... there will still be a lot of room for both parking and...

Ummm.... I think that boulevards are the last thing that will recreate Detroit's urban fabric.... there are at least a dozen things that have to happen first.... better police protection, better...

Wesley, yeah, I was referring more to freeway-to-roadway... although in Port Huron you either get into the tollway plaza or get onto a boulevard going to points northward. Yes the Southfield is a...

Have you ever even been at locations where freeways end during rush or peak hours?

Such as the I-94/I69 freeways as they end in Port Huron going either across the bridge or trying to go northbound...

I believe the only 4 lane stretch of I-75 in Bay County is where the M-10 Freeway does a cloverleaf towards Claire MI. Maybe they should just straighten out the cloverleafs.... ;)

Perhaps for a freeway heading downtown HOV lanes would make more sense. But for a crosstown freeway, I doubt it. For all we know MDOT may have studied that idea and found that there aren't enough...

Yeah.... lets spend spend money to make the freeway smaller so that we can have what? More empty land? Or maybe they can widen the service drives... that idea seems to be going over pretty well on...

I disagree.... Harper Ave. is intertwined with I-94 like no other street/Fwy in Detroit [[maybe Vernor Hwy.).... I-94 was completed in Detroit on the east side by 1963, and for many decades Harper...

I'm going to try to be diplomatic here [[although it will be difficult)....

What lesson from HURON CHURCH LINE RD..... [[the street going thru Windsor that handles all the Ambassador Bridge...

As someone who enjoys my suburban sprawldom... let's look at your logic...

Midtown is already surrounded by 4 freeways that are its' perimeter. And 2 of those 4 freeways have 4 travel lanes in...

That's true. During this whole discourse, I've been for the widening of I-94 to 4 lanes from I-75 to I-96 [[even if it means flat cement walls to minimize neighborhood impact), beyond that I see no...

I don't think that that scenario exists at all along any Freeway that I can think of in Detroit. On I-94 west side the entire freeway goes thru residential areas, with no commercial strips along any...

Oh gee.... now I am getting a headache.... spending $5 billion on a bridge that would require relocating the folks living in a huge track of SW Detroit for an enormous customs/toll plaza and even...

Good post DetroitPlanner!

While I don't agree with everything about the expansion of I-94 [[such as the need for 3 lanes of service drives in each direction), there are some things that are truly...

Novine, that I-275 discussion reminded me of the fuss that was raised by Livonia residents over the last I-275 rebuild [[versus just black top repaving). Many residents along the I-275 corridor...

... or the Mound Rd. Fwy....

The state spent an awful lot of money for the I-696/Mound Rd. interchange, as well as all the land along the west side of Mound Rd. going out to nearly 18 Mile Rd.,...

^ That is coincidence. One reason freeway construction may have stopped in the area of Chandler Park is that there is an underground river in the area [[can't find the thread mentioning it), and also...

As a side note about covered and walled freeways... there are rules that trucks carrying explosive [[or hazardous?) materials cannot use those routes. Example all Gas Tanker trucks going out M-10...

Like I said earlier... if they just expanded the roadway strictly between the interchanges I-75 to I-96 to 4 lanes, it would address the safety issue, which deserves attention. Having northbound and...

Actually there is a crosstown bus along I-94 that covers 1/3 of the route thru town along I-94. That is the Cadillac-Harper... which starts at St. John Hospital [[like the other one that follows...

I can't speak for the Jeffries and Grand River... but for over 30 years the stretch of Harper along I-94 has been booming even after the freeway was installed right next door.

Why is it not now...

Anyone who likes the idea of boulevarding should just take a drive on Davidson between I-96 and M-10, to experience it....