High-speed road infrastructure altered travel patterns and also changed the neighborhoods through which it passed. This room treats expressways as both transportation systems and agents of urban transformation.
REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Traffic on Second Avenue in Detroit at 5:30 p.m., July 1942. Source: Arthur S. Siegel / Library of Congress FSA/OWI · Public domain.PRE-EXPRESSWAY TRAFFIC CONTEXT — not the Lodge Freeway.
RESEARCH LENS
Reading the new road network
Changes in travel time and route choice
Neighborhood disruption and altered street connections
Commercial shifts around road infrastructure
Connections to redevelopment and population movement
Then/Now map overlays for comparison
CONNECT THE CITY
Road building changed more than travel.
Routes, construction, neighborhood effects, and travel changes stay tied to plans, maps, photographs, and dated records.