Grosse Pointe vs. Bloomfield Hills: best days behind them?

[Bham1982]

Why is 696 more "strategic"? In case you have to go to Novi or East Lansing? 94 goes through Detroit, DTW, Ann Arbor, Chicago.

Jobs and amenities, obviously. 696 is the main east-west corridor for the region.

If you're doing a long-distance drive to somewhere out-of-state, it doesn't really matter whether you're exactly on the direct freeway or not. No one cares if you're 300 or 310 miles from a once-a-year destination; they do care if you're 5 or 15 miles from a daily destination.

[rb336]

Jobs and amenities, obviously. 696 is the main east-west corridor for the region..

No. Unless you are limiting the region to SCS to Novi
696: SCS/Warren/MH/RO/SF/FH
96: Detroit/Livonia/Plymouth/FH/Novi
94 [[just from SCS): SCS/the Pointes/Detroit/Hamtramck/Detroit/Dearborn/Taylor/Romulus/Ypsi/Ann Arbor