Farewell, Hated Livernois Median: One Of 7 Things To Know Around Detroit
Good Wednesday afternoon, and welcome to a super Detroit-y edition of your Daily Detroit.
Today, we walked over to the Avenue of Fashion, where Mayor Mike Duggan came to speak about the streetscape redevelopment of a roughly 1-mile section of Livernois to calm traffic and make the commercial district more attractive to pedestrians and, hopefully, prosperous to business owners.
Construction crews were already at work demolishing the 13-year-old median added by now-imprisoned former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Plans call for narrowing traffic to one lane in each direction, adding 24-foot-wide…
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