A2-Saline Road Construction Delays to Affect Traffic for 1 or 2 U-M Football Games
Due to the harsh winter and Michigan frost laws, which prevented heavy equipment from being moved until later in April, the start of construction on Ann Arbor-Saline Road was delayed for 23 days, so construction will go into September. There's one bad weather day per week built into the schedule, but any more than that will mean further delay.
This will affect football traffic for App St and possibly for 9/13 Miami (NTM).
Although not in Ann Arbor, I live near a similar pain in southern Wayne County - portions of Eureka Road in Romulus on the south side of the airport are shut down (or down to a single lane) for rebuild / repair until a time that Wayne County would not exactly specify. It makes getting to I-275 around this area a major pain, to say the least, and creates residual backups on secondary streets in the area.
As I plan on going to both of those game, however, I will probably follow the thousands of other smart people and totally back up Washtenaw at US-23 when approaching the stadium on those Saturdays.
Thanks for the heads up.
makes me want to kill someone. It takes like half an hour to get to Meijer from campus. And who is the genius who decided to shut down Ann Arbor Saline AND South State at the same time?
Grocery shopping or getting on I-94 is now a 3 hour affair.
My anger has subsided. Thank you all for your time.
Midnight shopping trip! (Or whenever there's less traffic.)
Or go to the one on Carpenter or the one on Jackson.
Or the Kroger on Stadium. Or the kroger right next to south campus across from Cubs AC. Or the kroger on north campus.
I was a Meijer devotee when a student - because its huge and I used to work there. But now, I go to kroger. The 15 minute one-way trip + extra gas is not worth it unless I'm goign to Best Buy or Kohl's.
S. Industrial Kroger is closing in two weeks. It will be replaced by Lucky's Market, a Colorado-based natural foods store, aiming to open in October.
It's a flaming disaster now; I can't begin to imagine what game days will be like. It might cost a few more bucks, but in some jurisdictions, people actually do road work at night. Since the damned roads are or will be closed in both directions, nothing except maybe some money, is keeping crews from working double shifts.
Are they expecting the four or five lanes of traffic that normally head southbound on AA-Saline to go to State Street? It will be the equivalent of a Hill Street post-game gridlock for hours.
I know. I found out the hard way last weekend, when I went to Briarwood and then tried to go to Meijer and Best Buy. Brilliant planning on my part there.
Now imagine this plus 110,000 more people trying to get to the stadium on a Saturday morning.
Wow factor
It might not be as bad as everyone thinks. I thought it would be a fiasco when Stadium was shut down when they were redoing the bridge, but it wasn't bad at all.