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DETROIT – The big I-75 Modernization project has made traffic slowdowns the norm along parts of the freeway, even with far fewer people commuting to work. Now, another big project is underway as traffic slowly starts to increase. “Since we are still working on the modernization project section between 8 Mile and I-696. Let’s put this project in this year so we can get this bridge work done at this time,” MDOT spokesperson Rob Morosi said. The project takes place between the Davison Freeway and 7 Mile Road and includes heavy-duty repairs on 12 bridges. “We’re to the point now, cond...

Cadillac Avenue overpass demolition requires closing I-94 this weekend in Detroit Cadillac Avenue overpass demolition requires closing I-94 this weekend in Detroit Contact: Rob Morosi, MDOT Office of Communications, 248-483-5107 Agency: Transportation Fast facts: - MDOT is replacing the Cadillac Avenue overpass above I-94. - Demolition work requires closing I-94 between I-75 and Conner Avenue starting Friday night. All lanes on I-94 are expected to reopen by 5 a.m. Monday, March 15. - Ramp closures will continue through the rebuilding of the Cadillac Avenue overpass. March 10, 2021 -- Weath...

Highways that destroyed Black neighborhoods are crumbling. Some want to undo that legacy CNN 2/27/2021 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg/Getty Images Motorists drive their vehicles along Interstate 20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a file photo from 2007. Njeri Camara, 61, can't visit the Shreveport, Louisiana home where she was born. Like many Black homes and neighborhoods across the country in the 1960s, it was bulldozed to clear space for highways. Camara says her parents moved when she was a baby to another Shreveport neighborhood, Allendale,...

The orange barrels placed around Michigan's roads for the 2021 construction season are a sure sign that spring is also near. The Michigan Department of Transportation is resuming the modernization project of I-75 in Oakland County Friday, according to a news release, causing the closure of both directions of the freeway between 8 Mile Road and I-696, beginning at 11 p.m. The closure is needed to allow crews to safely demolish the Shevlin Avenue vehicular and Highland Avenue pedestrian bridges over the freeway in the city of Hazel Park, according to MDOT. I-75 will reopen to traffic by 5 a....

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