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Posted this over at Skyscrapercity in the summer. This one looks like Option #6, which I was not excited about, at all. In my mind, the whole point was to bring the roadway to grade, and simply reusing it as a trail is duplicating the function of the Dequindre Cut literally a few blocks east. Kind of dreading to see what the other option is...

#1: This is the as-is option with few improvements. The most notable is a widened off-ramps.



#2: Same as #1, but this actually extends the freeway beyond Jefferson with a connector. This one also adds bikelanes to the service drives.



#3: This one totally reconstructs the freeway shifting it west south of Lafayette also bringing it at-grade south of Lafayette. It also keeps the riverfront connector in #2 and shifts Jefferson northward opening up new land for development between the avenue and Woodbridge.



#4: This option gets to the most radical point of elevating the entire street to a surface street south of Gratiot, shifting the now-street a full block to the east opening up lots of land for redevelopment. This also keeps shifting Jefferson north opening up land to the south. This option would also include a significant non-motorized path running adjacent and east to the new boulevard.



#5: This option is the similar to #4, but shifts the new boulevard to the west opening up land to the east.



#6: The final option keeps the freeway footprint, but turns it into non-motorized path similiar in function to the Dequindre Cut. The former freeway is instead rerouted onto the service drives.