Mid-April project photos from around Detroit
Below are photos taken from various projects around Detroit that are key components to a more bike friendly city.
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- This new section of Milliken State Park opened late last year
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- This new section of trail will connect the Dequindre Cut to Atwater/Riverwalk
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- Henry Ford apprenticed at the Globe Building shown in the upper-right
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- The west entrance to the Bagley pedestrian bridge, scheduled to open for Cinco de Mayo
Also, M-Live/Associated Press has published a more thorough story on the Midtown Loop, which is set to break ground this Thursday.
Construction starts next week on the Midtown Greenway, which by the fall will be an improved route for pedestrians and bicyclists around Detroit’s Cultural Center area and Wayne State University’s campus.
It’s the first part of a four-phase project that by 2012 is expected to link the area with Eastern Market and the Detroit riverfront. It will widen walkways, as well as add landscaping, bike racks, benches and small park areas.
“We wanted to create a more walkable district … and to beautify the neighborhood and to really help spur on more economic development,” Susan Mosey, president of the University Cultural Center Association, which is spearheading the project, said Friday.
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Tags: Bagley bridge, Dequindre Cut, Detroit Riverwalk, Midtown Loop, William Milliken State Park