We had some freeway revolts.

In NW Detroit, notice how the Lodge runs in a trench, along the old James Couzens? It's because the neighborhood [[then upper middle class and heavily white) fought the Lodge for many years, and finally settled upon the current lesser-impact alignment.

I mentioned the sociodemographics because the issue was not only one of urban planning. There was a fear of the "neighborhood changing" due to neighborhoods changed further south along the traditional Lodge alignment.

There was a book written about the neighborhood protests.

I'm pretty sure there were also community protests against the proposed Davison expansion. Notice how the Davison just ends for no reason? The Dexter-Davison neighborhood would have been destroyed if the highway exteneded to meet the Jeffries.