We have been fighting these traffic problems since 2000, they kept taking place.
People have been hit, left laying while the car left the seen, 7 year old hit, a six
year old hit and died, 14 year old hit while ridding his bike, a man killed coming
off I-94 at Edsel Ford W, too many accidents that have “not been accounted” for
because they leave the seen of the accidents.

Cecil is a fire route with one lane of parking, with all kinds of veh’s running the 3-
way stop signs 24 hours a day. DCDC each of you know Dingeman Playfield fences
have been run down by speeding veh’s, the park plans we had everyone was worried
about the traffic, remember I have those designs for Dingeman Park whom was
designed by DCDC. We can’t leave out the drunk drivers, adding all the problems
we have now, everyone knows there are not enough police to help with our problems
we must face everyday 24 hours a day as is. Then for you to add more problems to
our lives this is not fair for anyone to do such a deed to our people whom live, walk
& drive these streets. Adding the new school that will hold up to 1,100 students, each
one will be driven to school, adding there will be those whom will have to walk to
school. DCDC and Bridging Communities do you not understand these streets are
not safe now, what will it be like when this school is open for Martin, McGraw, Cecil,
Edsel Ford W, & all other streets that will meet.

Remember we lost our Safe Routes 2 School grant money because of Robert Bobb,
so this means there will be “No Safe Routes 2 School” for this new school that will be
on Martin. By the way, we are not other cities we are the City of Detroit with small streets that are not wide enough, not safe enough, for what you want to add to our
problems. This will not stop the veh’s from begin in our Claytown neighborhood.

Question for the staff of DCDC, will you be ridding a bike when you come to our
Claytown neighborhood & all the rest of the City of Detroit & beyond? We would like
an answer to that question, DCDC, also know’s the Claytown residents were not
involved, only the ones BCI wanted & needed.

This means also means the City of Detroit has to come up with money to install
signs at each stop sign in Detroit signs for bikers to come to a complete stop
They don’t have money now, for the problems we have that need to be taken
care of today. What we have need & must be taken care of now before any new problems are added to our Claytown lives..

Fair is fair, we have to have ins, tags, reg lien, all that we do to drive on the streets
why shouldn’t each bike rider have to have the same, after all you are making
these bike riders the same as the rest of us just on two wheels, “Fair is Fair..

From: Sheila Crowell
Advocated For All Problems, That Have Brought To Our Claytown
Neighborhood Residents of All Ages..

@Eric, According to the Governor, Michigan is the only state with separate county road commissions.

Bikes and Murder don’t have this event on their calendar:
http://www.bikesandmurder.com/events.php

Of course, the real problem with the Road Commission is that they have a massive road network that can’t be supported by the funding they get. Unlike cities and villages, which have some opportunity to offset the cost of new roads with revenue from new development, the Road Commission gets zero new revenue when new development leads to new and widened roads. All that new infrastructure needs to be maintained and eventually replaced but the Road Commission gets no revenue from that development. This system that allows Townships to approve new development with no consideration of the short and long-term impacts that places on the Road Commission is unsustainable. The pleas from the Road Commission for increased gas taxes and mileage-based taxes won’t address the inherit unsustainable nature of how we allow untrammeled development. Cities and villages aren’t much better off but they at least have the ability to levy local millages to capture some of that value and plow it back into roads. The future liabilities for the long-term replacement of our road system has to be somewhere in the billions of dollars range.