A Houstonians Take on Moving to Detroit

[EastsideAl]

The "Michigan Left" does seem to confuse many people.

The so-called Michigan left is really more a suburban thing than a city thing though. I can think of only a very few places inside the city where you see it. In fact, when I mentioned it to my dad, who has rarely left the City of Detroit and close-in Grosse Pointes in his life, he didn't even really know what I was talking about.

Confusing though it may be, from what I can see on my forays into the suburbs that traffic pattern does seem to pretty effectively keep left-turning traffic from clogging up smaller roads. And it totally eliminates clogging in the short median strip, along with potential backups into cross traffic, while waiting for the oncoming traffic to clear. Of course, what it does create instead is cars quickly crossing several lanes after turning right to get immediately to the left, and then backing up in the turnaround lane.

Strange to me though that newcomers apparently think the city's problems date back only to the most recent "recession".