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sabatoa · June 2

MDOT seeking input for the redesign of West Saginaw near marketplace.

hood · June 2

I feel like trusting the traffic engineers would be largely be my take on this, at least within the realm of realistic outcomes. A diverging diamond might work well on Saginaw at the freeway.

EDIT:
The project to add pedestrian islands along south MLK is starting soon:
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2025/06/02/lansing-construction-mlk-m99-martin-luther-king-pedestrian-safety/83990471007/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAYnJpZBExSWwyV2hsRHJHZDJDMFJyUgEe7LfniE1okkIru8z13mRTT8kVxeNte2WLQx3NsicmN_b_LrdUqpdX8-F4sEQ_aem_5fvcmkBWbcdHSd8x9wbIFg

david_shane · June 9

For the interested (and yes, I haven't posted in 43 years), caught Amtrak's Blue Water over the River Trail this evening.

gbdinlansing · June 10

Cool shot, I do like seeing the Blue Water! it looks like someone should be clearing all the logs away from the bridge.

david_shane · June 10

And the graffiti. That bridge in particular, and quite a few places on the river trail, need someone to go through and remove all the graffiti.

hood · June 10

Michigan Waterways Stewards has been doing a lot of the log jam clean up, they just had one of their two main trail & waterway clean-ups on Saturday. They're also the ones behind the new little path to Brody and the brush clearing along the Red Cedar (they may be working with an invasive species group on the brush clean-up).

gbdinlansing · June 11

I wonder if the state could provide funds the clear the waterways through the area. Seems like a super DNR project! Or maybe the local parks and rec. department should have a waterway petrol boat with equipment that could regularly lift the logs out of the rivers. We have these beautiful rivers here and should think of ourselves as a riverside community that better cares for these wonderful riverfronts we have here. These logs jams impede boaters, aquatic wildlife, and freshwater flow and look gross. The pools behind the jams are breading stops for mosquitos so public health is also a reason to clean these waterways up.

hood · June 13

I'm pretty sure there are grant funds involved. The logjams are just something that has to be dealt with, trees overhang the rivers everywhere and every year some fall into the water then collect at bridges and dams. Keeping things clear is no small feat.

gbdinlansing · June 14

It would be great if they would clear the waterways, I don't think a canoe could make from East Lansing to the Grand on the Red Cedar right now. It is a shame as the trip is really pretty along the way, is it a Lansing thing or DNR responsibility?

hood · June 15

I've seen grants and whatnot come through for waterways clean ups, at least a couple rounds of funding through the county trails millage has went to that effort. I was surprised riding the trail this week to see that the Waterways Stewards didn't seem to do much waterway clean-up during their event last weekend. I expected them to at least have enough of a path for canoes/kayaks cleared.

Anyways, here's the Waterway Stewards info page on waterway debris clean-up rules:
https://www.miwaterwaysstewards.org/woody-debris-management.html

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