Interstate 194, Battle Creek, Michigan 2022
Scrap Yard Alongside Sojourner Truth Downtown Parkway, Battle Creek 2022
Sojourner Truth Monument Park, Battle Creek, 2022
GM Motors, Lansing, Michigan 2022 In Lansing, Michigan GM Motors had significant sway in interstate planning. It was at their will that the interstate was placed through the black community of W. St. Joseph Street.
GM Motors, Lansing, Michigan 2022
Home Alongside Interstate 196 & 131, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2022
St.Mary’s Catholic Church and Interstate 196, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2022
Grand River underneath Interstate 196, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2022
Houses Behind Interstate 675, Saginaw, Michigan 2022
Pedestrian Path over Interstate 675, Saginaw, Michigan 2022
I-75 Zilwaukee Bridge, Saginaw, Michigan 2022 A woman stands on her porch with the Zilwaukee bridge in the distance. Saginaw has seen a population decline of 48% in the past 50 years due to manufacturing and automotive industries moving out of the city. Many cities are home to massive interstates for a population they no longer serve.
Zilwaukee Bridge, Saginaw, Michigan, 2022
Interstate Construction, Flint, Michigan 2022
Burnt Home, I-69 & 475 Interchange, Flint, Michigan A home destroyed by fire sits on the edge of the I-69 and I-475 interchange in Flint MI. Homes on the edges of highways suffer loss of value and often succumb to blight.
Former St. John’s Neighborhood, Flint, Michigan 2022 Cleared land in the former St. John’s neighborhood. The black neighborhood was cleared for “urban renewal” and Buick alongside interstate 475.
Modernize 75 Project, Detroit, MI 2022 Rebuilding of 8 miles on the I-75 in Detroit to include HOV lanes.
Ford Field over Black Bottom, Detroit, Michigan 2022 In the 1960s the black bottom neighborhood was destroyed for the construction of the Chrysler Freeway and urban renewal.
Public Roads Administration - Federal Works Agency (predecessor to the United States Department of Transportation)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Public Roads Administration - Federal Works Agency (predecessor to the United States Department of Transportation)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Public Roads Administration - Federal Works Agency (predecessor to the United States Department of Transportation)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Public Roads Administration - Federal Works Agency (predecessor to the United States Department of Transportation)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Public Roads Administration - Federal Works Agency (predecessor to the United States Department of Transportation)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Public Roads Administration - Federal Works Agency (predecessor to the United States Department of Transportation)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons