Underground Crosswalks

[CLAUDE G]

Just doing a little research on this and came up with what looks like the 1916 plans for a sub-way system in Detroit...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yj4...page&q&f=false

[Detroitnerd]

Just doing a little research on this and came up with what looks like the 1916 plans for a sub-way system in Detroit...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yj4pAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=Detroi t's+underground+subway+passages&source=bl&ots=zTk-ylVFSP&sig=QXzNwmoHodmSTZILEIXYAIAH7X8&hl=en&ei=z1 PGTJLgNMiKnQfDuvWGAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result &resnum=7&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q&f=false

Not that kind of subway!

[DetroitDad]

Yes, off topic, but still interesting. I will have to read that report this week. It is my understanding [[through unsubstantiated rumor) that at least part of the Detroit Subway System was actually constructed, in some part, and remains sealed off and abandoned.

Just doing a little research on this and came up with what looks like the 1916 plans for a sub-way system in Detroit...

http://books.google.com/books?id=Yj4...page&q&f=false

[CLAUDE G]

Yes, off topic, but still interesting. I will have to read that report this week. It is my understanding [[through unsubstantiated rumor) that at least part of the Detroit Subway System was actually constructed, in some part, and remains sealed off and abandoned.

You know what, if you read the plans it looked like they planned a line to go up Van Dyke.

I remember several years ago they where doing some construction work at 7 Mile and Van Dyke, and had the street opened to expose a big underground tunnel that I believe is now being used to run utilities.

I wonder if that was part of the proposed subway system?