Saw that story this morning and it really took me back. Further up that freeway there is another bridge that my sister and I crossed each day to go to school. For Detroiters on here it's Edison Elementary and unlike a lot of Detroit schools it's still open;<). The difference is when we walked it the bridge was fairly new. Sure hope that there's a state agency watching at least old bridges that school kids use.

From the article, MDOT is supposed to be doing yearly inspections on all of these bridges, but they clearly skimped on that the last couple of years or they would have closed this one sooner. They are kinda responsive to heavily trafficked ones -- I used to have to take I-96 to M-39 (Southfield Fwy) and the ramp between them had a large hole you could see the next layer down through for a couple weeks before they repaved, and it was only like 6 more months from when that happened that they redid the whole ramp, making my commute unbearable for a month.

Well then someone isn't doing their job! I wonder if the past two years if they got to work from home?

Remember a few years ago when the freeways flooded and they found out copper thieves had stolen the copper out of their pumping stations! They should have known to check because one of them who was a bit learning deficient electrocuted themselves and it made the news.

There really is no reason to have this freeway there. It makes the area worse and goes nowhere.

This being the United states, I'll go ahead and assume it was designed to go through (or isolate) a black neighborhood.

Not really applicable, as Detroit is one of the blackest cities in the U.S., with ~80% black population. It's a high-speed corridor from the northern and northwestern suburbs to downtown. The east, west, and south also have freeways heading downtown.

Isn’t it sort of a gift to be cut off from downtown Detroit? I’ve never been there but I’ve got an acquaintance who was held at gun point while fueling in “vibrant” downtown Detroit…

I live in Detroit, a couple of miles north of downtown. I wouldn’t think twice about wandering around downtown, anywhere downtown, at any hour of the day or night. It’s just not dangerous at all.

There are certainly neighborhoods where I wouldn’t do that, but the most surprising thing for me when I moved here was how aggressively friendly everybody is, and how off-base the “Detroit is a crime-ridden wasteland” comments are.

Yep. It's not like crime doesn't exist, but you're probably not going to encounter it unless you're a criminal or unlucky. Almost all of the murders are about drug money.

There is someone who was held at gunpoint in pretty much every town on earth.

Poor guy.

Stupid jokes aside, the safest city on earth has victims of crime.

You and I both know Detroit is very far from the safest city on earth. It’s among the most dangerous in the U.S.

Eh. It's #14 for Violent Crime / Robbery, behind a pretty interesting list of other cities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

The main thing I'm getting from that list is that I sure don't remember Fremont being some kind of mecca, of safety or otherwise. So that's surprising.

#3 in murder, after St. Louis and Baltimore.

The thing about the cities in really bad shape is that all we get is the reported crime rate, which tends to be lower. Murder rates are a more accurate statistic since you can't ignore a body like a jacked car or a rape.

Man there's a case in Virginia where they did just that.