We pay a lot of taxes here. For answers, I turned to Roger Safford, the Metro Region Development Engineer for the Michigan Department of Transportation. They're separators between the freeway and the service drive where they're at the same level. Additionally, we have no plans to build any sound walls on the Southfield freeway. In fact, our current commission has put an indefinite moratorium on building sound walls on existing roads.
Type one is to build walls on new roadways or roadways that are to be widened.
The type two criteria is to build walls on existing roads where we know we have a problem. But that's the program that's been halted for three or four years now. The plans to build that wall had been in the pipeline for years, and it was grandfathered in because it was so long in development. Also closed are ramps from Beaubien to east I-94 and ramps to and from Chene. Tom Greenwood's column appears weekdays.