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Eric
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Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 2:08 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Beatrice Ivey lives just north of Fenkell in Detroit and regularly has to dodge potholes and other hazards while driving on it.

"It's really rough out there," said Ivey, 70, of the stretch of road between Schaefer and Greenfield on the west side. "I'm looking out for something that could damage my car."

But Ivey and other motorists are stuck with the buckled and repeatedly patched stretch of Fenkell because of a continuing dispute between Wayne County -- which owns the road and is in charge of maintaining it -- and the City of Detroit over what pot of money is supposed to pay for repairing it.

Most county roads are outside Detroit, but the county does own 82 miles of roads within the city, mostly on the west side, dating to the mid-1800s when Detroit had not yet expanded its city limits to present-day boundaries.

http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20060917/NEWS02/ 609170715

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