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Old Redford Meijer (Northwest Detroit) Detroit Metro Airport Evans Terminal 23.0 miles (37.0 km) 60 75 75 Only services Evans Terminal at Metro Airport 305: Grand River: Wixom Meijer 16.1 miles (25.9 km) 60 60 60 375: Telegraph - Old Redford/Pontiac: Amazon Pontiac: 24.4 miles (39.3 km) 60 60 -Overlaps with 275 from 7 Mile to 12 Mile 405 ...
It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which the plan was to freeze Fram into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole. Fram is preserved as a museum ship at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway.
The Fram Museum (Norwegian: Frammuseet) is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. [1] Fram Museum is in an area with several other museums including the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
The Fram's seaworthiness also left much to be desired: the hull, designed for ice pressure, was wobbly, the ship was capricious in steering, turning too quickly to the wind under sail, and also had a low speed. In July 1897, the Fram was towed to Colin Archer's shipyard in Larvik. All changes in the ship's design were justified by the ...
The 'Detroit Non-Motorized Master Plan' was also published which proposed 400 miles (640 km) of bike lanes primarily through road diets. [19] The Rosa Parks bus terminal opened. In 2010, the new 407-foot (124 m)-long Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge re-connected Mexicantown bridging both I-75 and I-96. [20]
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
The Port of Detroit is located along the west side of the Detroit River, and is the largest inland port in the state of Michigan. The port is overseen by the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority, a five-member board of directors appointed by the State of Michigan, Wayne County and the City of Detroit. The authority coordinates river commerce on ...
The Smith Terminal, named for Detroit-Wayne Major airport visionary Leroy C. Smith, was built in 1958. Though cited as the oldest of Metro Airport's terminals, that designation belongs to the Executive Terminal building located near Middlebelt Road and Lucas Drive, one-quarter-mile east. The Executive Terminal was built in the late 1920s and is ...