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Originally Posted by LMich
Isn't it funny how the Fisher lane seperation (between local and express) is never mentioned, while the Jeffries seperation is? Is there some kind of technical definition that prevents the Fisher lanes from formally being designated express-local? BTW, just for what it did to Corktown I curse that section of the Fisher. It looks like a wasteland because of the overbuilt freeway. I get you need all of the capacity because you're connecting the bridge to the northern suburbs. But, there had to have been some other way to do it. Maybe simply have directed the truck traffic up the Jefferies, and made them go up to the Ford, and then cutting across and connecting to the Chryslere to get them north?
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Technically, the only one exit into Corktown from 75 is at Rosa Parks. The entrance ramp from Rosa Parks leads directly into 75.
The other "lane" is technically an off-ramp to the Lodge Freeway for both north and south and is counted as exit 49 from 75, however, it also is fed traffic that is coming from the Jeffries.
Coming from the Jeffries, the two options are to the Lodge Freeway or the Fisher Freeway either north or southbound.
If you're going to the Lodge, you keep to the right and merge with exit 49 from Fisher. This also counts as an exit from Jeffries to Rosa Parks.
If you're going to Fisher, you keep to the left and the ramp splits off leading you directly into the main trunk of 75.
However, for whatever reason there's a
redundant off-ramp that leads you back onto 75 from the ramp going to the Lodge. It really shouldn't even exist because that's what makes the whole thing confusing. There's no new source of traffic weaving into the Lodge off-ramp that would require an off-ramp back on to 75 (as stated above, the Rosa Parks on-ramp leads directly onto Fisher).
Going in the southbound direction, traffic coming from the Lodge never merges with Fisher until you get to Michigan Avenue. However, there is an off-ramp allow Lodge traffic to merge with Fisher traffic both going to Jeffries. Both the Lodge and Fisher have their own respective off-ramps leading onto local streets.
In the end, you have the 75/96, 75/Lodge, 75-96/Gateway Crossing, and local exits all overlapping each other.