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Username: Tiberius
Post Number: 34
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 8:33 pm: |    |
Is Michigan Avenue from the Boulevard to downtown the roughest road into the city? This may have been asked before but I wonder why they paved over the bricks. The bricks for the most part remain fairly smooth, but that broken up asphalt on top is like a washboard. I find myself thinking about those poor souls that layed the brick. Ouch! |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1204
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 8:56 pm: | |
That's a bad stretch of road, but you're right, Tiberius. It seems the asphalt (covering the old DSR tracks) is the culprit, not the brick. |
Buddyinrichmond
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Username: Buddyinrichmond
Post Number: 194
Registered: 02-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 9:06 pm: | |
wtf are you talking about? It's not even bad from the blvd to 12th. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1205
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 9:18 pm: | |
Yeah, true, Buddy. Only a few blocks are brick. |
Tiberius
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Username: Tiberius
Post Number: 35
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 9:35 pm: | |
Well true, it gets better going west from Rosa Parks, but is especially bad from there east. I didn't realize that there weren't any bricks west of 12th, I assumed they were buried under the asphalt. |
Waz
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Username: Waz
Post Number: 121
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 9:47 pm: | |
If you're talking main roads, that's probably true. I think that Franklin through the warehouse district and West Jefferson are contenders for secondary roads with problems, too. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1206
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 9:47 pm: | |
Tib: They prolly are, except, of course, for the Lodge overpass. There's some gnarly resurfacing work this week on Jos. Campau north of Caniff right now, exposing some old Baker Street Car rail. |
Detroitplanner
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Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 1328
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 9:59 pm: | |
the worst streach I regularly drive is Ford Rd in E Dearborn, I'm so happy its getting reconstructed. |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1207
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 10:06 pm: | |
Re: Ford Road: Aw, hell, they'll just run more 50-ton trucks over it and it'll be much the same in five winters. |
Dustin89
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Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 61
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 11:06 pm: | |
Not to sound too positive ( ), but when I was downtown the other day, I was pleasantly surprised by how good the roads were-I-75, E. Jefferson, Warren, Woodward. There are some rough, rough roads in Detroit, but the worst roads I regularly drive are in Pontiac (many of which are being fixed at this very moment.) |
Dustin89
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Username: Dustin89
Post Number: 62
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007 - 11:10 pm: | |
Now that I think of it, one of the worst stretches of a major road that I can think of is 11 Mile from Coolidge to Woodward. I'm pretty sure it's being reconstructed, but I haven't been through there in several months. |