Metro Detroit trail construction updates
Conner Creek construction in Maheras Gentry Park
Conner Creek construction in Maheras Gentry Park
Conner Creek Greenway (Detroit)
The greenway segment from Jefferson to the Detroit River (at Mahera Gentry Park) should be completed this week. Most of this route is bike lanes, but there is also a new pathway through the park.
Clinton River Trail
The new bridge over Telegraph Road in Pontiac will be completed this spring when they are able to pour the bridge’s concrete surface. It will remain closed until then.
Macomb Orchard Trail
The County expects that one closed bridge to be repaired this winter while the remainder of the trail is paved in the spring.
I-275 Metro Trail
MDOT construction and re-construction projects continue to move further along this pathway. From the north to the south:
- MDOT expects to build the trail between 14 Mile and Maple next year.
- The segment between 13 Mile and 14 Mile is nearly done. While the pathway is open, some landscaping work remains and won’t be completed until spring.
- MDOT and Novi will be developing the connection from 13 Mile Road to the I-275 Metro Trail at Meadowbrook.
- The trail maintenance from Meadowbrook to Hines Drive is completed and the trail is open.
- Construction on the segment from Hines Drive to Michigan Avenue continues. MDOT expects the trail to open next month.
- Construction is also underway from Michigan Avenue to I-94. That should be completed by October 2011.
- From I-94 to Sibley Road, MDOT is replacing 6 bridges. They do not have funding yet to improve the trail surface.
- There are no funded reconstruction projects yet for the I-275 path once it gets to Monroe County. That is actually in a different MDOT region. Monroe is very much interested in seeing this trail continued into Downtown Monroe, the Raisin River battlefield (War of 1812), and Sterling State Park.
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Tags: Clinton River Trail, Conner Creek Greenway, Detroit, I-275, M-5, Macomb Orchard Trail, MDOT