  Middleageguy Member Username: Middleageguy Post Number: 12 Registered: 01-2007 |
Hey, are any cool old tunnels or underpasses still in existence? | ||
Bussey Member Username: Bussey Post Number: 500 Registered: 12-2003 |
The 8' 9", or whatever ridiculously low height it is, bridge on Grand Blvd. just before you approach Vernor from the North. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 790 Registered: 10-2003 |
When was the underpass leading to Belle Isle filled in? | ||
Stryker81 Member Username: Stryker81 Post Number: 31 Registered: 10-2006 |
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 790 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 8:11 pm: ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------- When was the underpass leading to Belle Isle filled in? Also, why was it? Was never able to figure that out. | ||
Adamjab19 Member Username: Adamjab19 Post Number: 760 Registered: 11-2003 |
The underpass for the Mt. Olivet cemetery under Outer Drive is pretty neat. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1246 Registered: 01-2005 |
There's a freeway spur in Las Vegas that goes under the runways at McCarran Airport. Every time I go through it, I'd swear I was in the Detroit/Windsor tunnel. | ||
Detroitplanner Member Username: Detroitplanner Post Number: 1126 Registered: 04-2006 |
It was filled in in the early 1980's. It was phase one of the bridge rehab. It also included a new traffic pattern at the Blvd and Jefferson. I would suspect that it was done mainly due to the cost. It was at the end of its life cycle and rather than replace it, they just got rid of it all together. Probably a combination of cost and need. By the 1980's the City had already lost a sizable chunk of its population, so traffic was less of a concern on both Jefferson and the Blvd. I spent a fair amount of time on that construction site. I was in high school then, but my dad worked on it and my older brother and I were always going over there to visit him. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 317 Registered: 02-2007 |
Typo Alert. Surprised no one picked up on it. Saying Belle Isle with an "e" at the end makes it seem more important or fancy. | ||
Stryker81 Member Username: Stryker81 Post Number: 32 Registered: 10-2006 |
Makes sense. I was only a toddler in the early 1980's so I have no recollection of the underpass. By looking at that area now its hard to imagine it ever existing. | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 503 Registered: 11-2005 |
I love the one by MCS. If you head toward Michigan Avenue at night, you can't see the train station (cuz it's dark and there are no lights on inside it, obviously). You come up outta that tunnel and your headlights hit the train station. Very spooky, but very cool. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 1207 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: It is the French word for beautiful. It needs the e or else it is a totally different word. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1265 Registered: 03-2006 |
i know what you're talking about Ray. I have family in Vegas and I remember when they updated the airport | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6215 Registered: 10-2003 |
I agree Bussey, that overpass always seems freakishly low... As for the B.I. approach, I put some photos of it up last week here: http://internationalmetropolis .com/?p=334 |
