Originally Posted by
nain rouge
Inside the Boulevard, the grid is an absolute wreck. Sorry, but it is. Between the freeways, Wayne State, the stadiums, and the casinos, finding a continuous street can be shockingly difficult if you haven't mapped out a route beforehand. Roads mysteriously end for blocks at a time, cut off by a "super developments", or merge into freeway service drives.
Try driving from Midtown to Mexicantown one day on surface streets. Unless you know beforehand to take Mack or Warren to Trumbull or Rosa Parks, or to merge into Grand Boulevard from Mack [[though they start calling it MLK by that, which hopefully doesn't confuse you), you'll end up crying in frustration. Even then, it's not so simple. Bagley is blocked off TWICE, and Vernor just randomly pops out of the train station after not existing for the entire Midtown stretch. Hell, most visitors to the traditional Mexicantown on Bagley never notice the vibrant commercial stretch on Vernor because Bagley is cut off at I-75, and that you have to go north and take a road that didn't exist a couple blocks ago to get there. It's awful.
I feel like Detroit is so starved for development that whenever a developer comes along the city hands the person a map of the street grid and says, "Here, do whatever you want with this junk."