Talk:M-8 (Michigan highway)

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[edit] "Urban depressed freeway"

What does that mean? The article mentions it twice without explaining its definition. 68.40.65.164 04:14, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree. There is no article on it, and searching google "urban depressed freeway" it seems to mostly come up with the davison. It seems pretty selfexplanatory, but english is not my main language and especially for 'people like me' it should be explained..

The short of it is: it's a highway that is recessed relative to the surrounding landscape, kind of like a tunnel with no top. They are relatively frequent in urban areas. I'll try to look for a source sometime. Stratosphere ^{(U T)} 17:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

The freeway was the first to be below street level. This was so that tanks, or whatever else they were making at the factories, could be trucked across town over to Detroit City Airport, without disrupting city traffic, and vice versa. I'm sure I read about it in the Detroit papers if you want to know more. MMetro 19:43, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woodward Interchange

Does anybody know if the Woodward interchange was part of the original design? The renovation didn't happen until the 1990's, so it is important to know in the Vincent Chin case. The Fancy Pants was right on the SE corner of Davison and Woodward and if the on ramp to WB Davison existed, it would have been a quicker route to the hospital (Lodge->Henry Ford, but 75 -> Warren/Mack DMC is also better) than Woodward, and maybe Vincent Chin would be alive today, if Ebens alibi was the truth. MMetro 19:43, 8 September 2007 (UTC)