I agree. When was there public comment on the reduction of the lane change? I can understand trying to reduce the traffic speed and flow on maple road; however, there is still a freeway entrance onto M-14 from Maple road, which is the reason for the traffic. There isn't an alternative route for a large percentage of the population on the west side to access M-14, nor is there an interchange between I-94 and M-14 for drivers to access M-14 from the Jackson freeway entrance.

This lane reduction is absolute insanity. Maple Rd connects I-94 business route to M-14. The amount of traffic this stretch of road gets cannot be handled by one lane in each direction. The abrupt reduction from 2 lanes each way to 1 is too much to accomplish in the short length of roadway provided with the new lines. Good luck getting anywhere during rush hour or on MI football game weekends! Yet another horrible decision taken by the city without resident input!

Pretty sure residents don't always get a say in these things. That why there are civil engineers and the like who actually know more about traffic patterns and transportation. I am sorry to say, it's likely you will no longer be able to drive 50 down Maple. Bummer. Remember when this happened on Jackson heading out of town? I think people predicted doom and gloom and no one has died yet. Amazing.

Where is there evidence that the city conducted a traffic analysis and presented the findings to the public? There should be public hearings to present evidence and the city's rationale for making this type of change to the residents of the neighborhood. There are multiple options of reducing the speed along maple without eliminating a lane of traffic, and to my knowledge the city didn't present the options to the public or inform the public of the change ahead of time.

There should? Says who?

If the engineers are so smart, why are there no signs or lane markings indicating the lane reduction? If they are there they put them up a week late. And if they asre so smart why can't they get the light at Dexter and Maple adjusted so cars on Dexter do not have to sit until they run out of gas waiting for the light to chance? And I can see Maple from my house, have not seen a single cyclist use the bike lane provided. However I did have a cyclist at dark dart in front of me on Maple to get to Aldi's.

Always with the, "if they're so smart..." here's a tip: There is a sign and I don't live right on Maple but drive it more than twice a day and have seen several bikes using the new lanes. Again, I'm sorry you can't go 50 mph down that street anymore but maybe you should pay attention to posts from the city about street updates. If you're waiting for them to call you personally, it probably won't happen.

Don't you have kids on your lawn to yell at or something?

Wait, is this SeeClickFix, the site for notifying the city of concerns? Seems I was mistakenly redirected to accidentally to mlive.com where BabsMcPhee likes to heckle commenters she disagrees with.

I've lived near this intersection for over 20 years and drive down N Maple Rd multiple times a day. The issue here is not necessarily the reduction to one lane, but how it is implemented near the intersections. With the reduction to a single lane, only half the amount of vehicles make it through the intersection when the light is green, which causes back ups. When traffic is backed up to the neighborhoods, crosswalks, and bus stops, there is more potential for dangerous situations which defeats the original purpose of reducing it to one lane which was safety. It is also incredibly inefficient. At the very least, they could turn the single lane traveling southbound into two lanes earlier on than it currently is, so that more cars can make it through the intersection. For northbound traffic, turn that right most lane into a right hand turn lane only or allow more time for cars to merge past the intersection before it narrows into a single lane. Let the engineers figure that one out...

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