As of a week or so ago, lines are now painted on Sellers Ave, something I've also thought was needed for a long time. But why, oh why, was the block between Clippert and Homer painted as two lanes, instead of three? As the previous posted pointed out, a dedicated right-turn lane is what is needed here. There seems to be plenty of space for two through lanes and a right-turn lane.

Sellers was striped as two lanes (as opposed to three) to make it line up better at Clippert and because the volume of right turns at Homer does not justify a turn lane. As the intersections at Homer and Howard are also under the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation, any change in lane use at these intersections would need MDOT approval. The long term plan for both Vine and Sellers is to convert them to two way operation, however, there are a number of issues to work out prior to moving forward on this.

Andy Kilpatrick
Transportation Engineer

Three lanes would have lined up perfectly. I drive this street nearly every day. Two lanes going straight and one right turn would have been the most efficient and logical pattern.

Thanks for fixing this issue!

Thanks for the explanation Andy. I'm definitely not a tx engineer, so this is just my opinion. The problem as I see it is when drivers proceed up the center of the new lanes, they have to shift left to continue through Homer. Especially so in the right lane, because that lane leads straight to a curb. I will say this is better than no lines at all though. Ultimately, a two-way operation makes sense too, so hopefully that can happen. Thanks again.

This needed doing for years and I'm surprised but happy to see it done. The main problem I saw is that drivers could not decide if this was supposed to be two or three lanes, so this ambiguity was always causing people to drift around. Some people treated it as two, some as three. I always thought three made the most sense since there's enough space and the rightmost area lines up with a curb, as Andy notes. Still, I'm glad to see the matter finally settled.