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The Lyndon Avenue Greenway is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2.4 km) route in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood and runs between Eliza Howell Park and Stoepel Park. Besides connecting the two large area parks, the greenway also includes many pocket parks. This segment of Lyndon Avenue will have bike lanes added once the greenway is completed. [1]
Joe Louis Greenway is a 39-mile (63 km) biking and walking trail through the cities of Detroit, Hamtramck, [1] Highland Park, and Dearborn. [2] It connects 23 Detroit neighborhoods to Detroit's international waterfront. [ 3 ]
Portions of the Conner Creek Greenway on Detroit's east side are also completed. [7] Though still in the early planning stages, United States Bicycle Routes 25, 30, and 36 provide connection through Detroit. [8] The 'Detroit Non-Motorized Master Plan' calls for 400 miles of bike lanes primarily through road diets. [9]
The first stretch of greenway, a 1.2–mile section encompassing most of the Dequindre Cut, opened in 2009. [2] Construction began in September 2013 to build the remaining greenway half mile section from Mack Avenue to Gratiot. This segment includes a trail entrance into Eastern Market along the northwest side of the Wilkins Street bridge.
5 Mile Road—Fenkell Avenue (in Detroit) 6 Mile Road—McNichols Avenue (in Detroit) 7 Mile Road—No other name (Ends at the curve west of Kelly Rd. Moross Avenue in Grosse Pointe is not a mile road) 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 Mile Road—State Fair St. (Outer Drive E in Eastbound direction starting at Dequindre St. Returns to E State Fair Avenue at Conner St.)
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park.. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque-styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the ...
USBR 7 runs parallel to U.S. Route 7 from a junction with the East Coast Greenway in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Route Verte 4 at the Canadian border. [2] The route is currently only signed in Connecticut. [4]
This street plan was devised by Augustus Woodward and others following a devastating fire in Detroit. [18] Gratiot Avenue, then also called Detroit–Port Huron Road, [17] was authorized by the US Congress on March 2, 1827, as a supply road from Detroit to Port Huron for Fort Gratiot. Construction started in Detroit in 1829, and the roadway was ...