Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
Definitely. Note that the representative opposed to the expansion is from Royal Oak, a city that owes its prosperity to a competing east-west freeway [[and a much wider one than the expanded I-94, which apparently isn't an "epic waste of money" according to the good Rep. Townsend...)

Maybe Rep. Townsend can prove he isn't a hypocrite, and will agree to permanently shut down lanes on I-696 through Royal Oak? Didn't think so.
While I-696 did remove a lot of the traffic off of the east-west "mile roads", I hardly see where it is a financial windfall to Royal Oak or any of the other southern tier suburbs. I-696 removed quite a bit of property tax base from the cities it traverses.