The problem is entirely political. I cannot stress how important simply being willing to discuss concerns openly and honestly is. Just speaking up is enough to change the atmosphere, and eventually effect meaningful change.
The repaving of E. Michigan from 127 east has begun! The timing of how long this has taken to happen is a mystery, oh well, who cares now! They were digging up the "Michigan Left" across from Stapels, so there is some configuration changes planned.
It's going to be different out that way, the repaved road is sort of the cherry on top. I personally am excited to see what's in store for the 2027/'28 127 rebuild through Frandor. I'm hoping for two lanes from 496 east to 127 north, along with better solutions to turn east on Kalamazoo and Saginaw when exiting northbound. A shared use path/wide sidewalk along the freeway side of Homer and Howard would truly be welcomed. Fingers crossed.
I can't wait for this repaving to finally be done, as well as the work on 127 by Frandor. Given the new state budget has been passed it will also be interesting to see what additional projects will crop up on state owned roads as well as the local roads around here. As someone that lives near Saginaw/Grand River by Frandor the partial paving they did a few weeks back only knocked out the worst sections, but there are plenty others that are just as bad. I did see that they will be repaving Saginaw east from roughly the downtown area to Penn on the city construction map so that will be nice as well.
I've said it before but I'd love for them to repave the one way areas and either road diet them or revert to two ways as the current setup makes people go consistently 20-30 over the speed limit at times and it's like playing frogger trying to legally cross the roadways.
Yeah, it really can't be stated enough how great getting Oakland and Saginaw to smaller two-way streets would be for the surrounding neighborhoods. Hopefully if enough people get to talking about it we can at least get some studies as to what options might be acceptable for the State.
Just walking through this evening (pretty photo). But yeah... nobody, walking on the sidewalk, is going to think "this side of the sidewalk is for people, and this side is for bicycles". Not unless there is an absolute ton of bike traffic. Is kind of a weird thing.
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I've said it before but I'd love for them to repave the one way areas and either road diet them or revert to two ways as the current setup makes people go consistently 20-30 over the speed limit at times and it's like playing frogger trying to legally cross the roadways.