Duggan opposes widening of highways.

[DetroitPlanner]

Geometric reconfiguration of an interchange does not require widening of the freeway. Unless you work for MDOT, where widening is always required. You're smart enough to know this, Planner.

The point I am making is you will be spending billions on this roadway for a reconstruction in order to fix many problems [[not the least of this is that it is heavily congested most of the day). To not address this now means never addressing it. Short of building another crosstown freeway through mid-town [[which is not a proposal) there are few other options. Much of this congestion is being caused by truck traffic and we are an industrial town. If we don't address what is important to job growth some other region will.

Grand Rapids used nearly all of their ARRA money to widen freeways. In addition, they have also built more lane miles per capita than we have yet many on this board holds them as the place we should admire and has its economic act together, they did this with great support. http://michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-15...9--RSS,00.html
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi..._us_131_i.html