Thanks to the Northwest Ordinance Act of 1789 or so, Oakland and macomb counties are laid out and were developed on the "township and section" grid system. As a result, mopst of the roads follow the section and half-section N-S and E-W straight lines. As a result, traffic is far less congested there than it is in other suburbs around the US. Also, with the dispersed locations of employment and shopping in the area, there is no gridlock where everyone is trying to get to and from the same place. We don't have three-quarters of the population trying to get into and out of downtown Detroit every day like you do in NY and DC. Detroit suburbs are far more sustainable and could survive even if you made 8-mile into a moat with no bridges.
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