  Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6099 Registered: 10-2003 |
Here is the final instalment. The final vision in this awesome plan was a downtown ring road. | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1969 Registered: 07-2004 |
I'm glad that never happened. | ||
Tarkus Member Username: Tarkus Post Number: 191 Registered: 04-2006 |
Did anyone notice the Masonic symbol in scheme picture. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4651 Registered: 11-2003 |
Sure glad 50% of Downtown Detroit didn't get scooped up as expressways. It looks this plan was the onliest one executed. Tell us, Andrew, what things actually got built. Excellent series. Thanks. jjaba, Westsider. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 55 Registered: 08-2006 |
Such is the nature of the Woodward Plan. Being an early 19th-century judge from NY, Woodward was probably a Freemason and incorporated the fraternity's geometries into the layout. As for this truly, truly ghastly plan for downtown, would anything from the old downtown have remained?? I see that the pedestrian shopping mall uses JL Hudson as a focal point... Irony, anyone? | ||
Royce Member Username: Royce Post Number: 1970 Registered: 07-2004 |
John Mullett doesn't get enough credit for revising Woodward's street plan for Detroit. It is his plan, not Woodward's, that we use today. It's time to accept the "Mullett." | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4654 Registered: 11-2003 |
Isn't there a Detroit street, Mullett. Mullett is the Official Haircut of Hazel Park (tucky), Michigan. jjaba. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1009 Registered: 11-2003 |
I notice all kinds of Masonic references when I am driving around the city all the time. Vizion MW Prince Hall GL of Michigan Free & Accepted Masons Traveling since 4/23/00 | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 82 Registered: 03-2006 |
Washington DC is full of symbols of USA's Masonic foundings and it's streets have several masonic designs. All you have to do is Google it. But Tupper Saussy's book, "Rulers Of Evil", has a lot more information on the founding of America, the Masonic/Jesuit connection, and incredible history of the Washington DC land. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3477 Registered: 10-2003 |
The ring road sort of got carried out by the People Mover route. [thankfully] | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 613 Registered: 04-2006 |
What redundancy, a ring road, and the freeways! | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 4658 Registered: 11-2003 |
So if you want ring roads, head for Grand Blvd. and Outer Drive. Oakman blvd. also has similar characteristic, running between Ford Highland Park and Ford Rouge, built for that reason. Nice Westside drive. jjaba. | ||
Futurecity Member Username: Futurecity Post Number: 418 Registered: 05-2005 |
Evil carhead architects scheming. What a disaster. | ||
Wolverine Member Username: Wolverine Post Number: 250 Registered: 04-2004 |
As an architecture student, I've seen some crazy schitt. But this by far tops it all. I can't imagine how much demolition would have taken place to make this mess possible. | ||
Boshna Member Username: Boshna Post Number: 146 Registered: 01-2005 |
Thanks Aiw for this series. It has been a fun read. |
