[Reopened!] Kercheval at Wayburn will be closed to traffic in Grosse Pointe Park.

**EastsideAl** · May-02-13, 01:10 PM

Unlike the Chrysler Fwy. [[I-375), Kercheval is a surface street with 3 street-level retail business areas. Totally different situations.

**Lowell** · August-12-19, 12:48 PM

Common sense and humanity have prevailed. The Kercheval "border wall" is gone.

"It's been nearly a half-decade since twoway traffic has flowed along Kercheval at the Detroit-Grosse Pointe Park border.

But this week - if the concrete on a newly poured westbound lane is ready - that will change.

"Traffic will start flowing into and out of Grosse Pointe Park on Kercheval, between Wayburn and Alter, after five years of either being blocked by farmers' market sheds or - more recently - being only open to a single lane of traffic, which flowed out of Detroit into the wealthier, predominantly white suburb to the east.

"The barrier wasn't just a physical one; it created social and emotional ones, too, "
https://freep-mi.newsmemory.com/?publink=1b7039244_1341080

**GPCharles** · August-13-19, 09:58 AM

So let's see what changes occur as a result of this re-opening.

My money is on absolutely none.

There are so few residences left on the Detroit side of Alter.