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It was reported that in the lead-up to the APEC forum in Sydney held in September 2007 certain key locations in images of the city's central business district, where APEC leaders were meeting, might have been intentionally reduced in resolution; however, Google has indicated that the change was unrelated to APEC, while the NSW police said that ...
Outer Drive is a bypass road which encircles both the eastern and western portions of the Detroit, Michigan region.It resembles a jagged horseshoe and was not originally intended to move traffic as much as it was to provide a pleasurable drive around the City of Detroit and some of its suburbs.
M-3, known for most of its length as Gratiot Avenue (/ ˈ ɡ r æ ʃ ɪ t /, GRASH-it [4]), is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Detroit metropolitan area of the US state of Michigan. The trunkline starts in Downtown Detroit and runs through the city in a northeasterly direction along one of Detroit's five major avenues. The ...
M-59 is an east–west state trunkline highway that crosses the northern part of Metropolitan Detroit in the US state of Michigan.It runs between Howell at Interstate 96 (I-96) and I-94 on the Chesterfield–Harrison township line near the Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
A freighter that ran aground on the Detroit River near Belle Isle last year is, for now, immortalized in satellite images on Google Maps. The Mark W. Barker was marooned near the east end of Belle ...
The sections of highway through the Detroit metro area were given Business Loop (BL) or Business Spur (BS) I-96 designations. [38] [39] Until the 1970s, the freeway section of M-5 was part of I-96. When I-96 was completed in 1977, several highway designations were shifted in the Metro Detroit area.
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque-styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park Streetcars on Woodward Avenue, circa 1900s. The period from 1800 to 1929 was one of considerable growth of the city, from 1,800 people in 1820 to 1.56 million in 1930 (2.3 million for the metropolitan area).
Yet speculation can also go the other way. Perhaps a Chicago-style subway with some elevated lines and light rail would have unlocked an alternative course of history for Detroit, one in which it ...