Good review, we love Belleisle. We just live a mile away off of Jefferson and go to it 3 to 4 times a week, often early mornings ,it’s beautiful, we are so glad they nixed the idea of making it two way traffic ,which we and many others felt would be absolutely disastrous. Terrible for traffic, flow, accidents, head-ons, speeding ,Anger, drivers responding to different speeds. Thank goodness, they kept it in one direction.
When you can't even go to a _park_ and get by on foot without having to cross a multiple lane road with fairly wide lanes that are found on The Strand, and have to worry about a lot of traffic at busier times of the day in the summer and end up having a person run over and killed, you know you are failing as a metro area regarding a transportation system and it bleeds over into a major park like Belle Isle. Didn't happen decades ago. Granted, it was a hit and run and was at the beach of Belle Isle but the amount of car traffic is excessive and the beach incident possibly involved drugs. Most of the TV news _cares so deeply_ about these people that they do follow up stories when these incidents have new info (not, they just want your attention and sell ads to exploit tragedies).
Remember that episode of gangland on tv and they talked about how Belle Isle was territorial turf and there used to be fights there all the time. Miss those days.
Gangland has 2 lessons. 1. Every major city has a gang problem, stemming from the 1960s. 2. Cash is King. Blue and Red doesn’t matter anymore, Green does. They fight over Green, not Red Vs Blue.
Good review, we love Belleisle. We just live a mile away off of Jefferson and go to it 3 to 4 times a week, often early mornings ,it’s beautiful, we are so glad they nixed the idea of making it two way traffic ,which we and many others felt would be absolutely disastrous. Terrible for traffic, flow, accidents, head-ons, speeding ,Anger, drivers responding to different speeds. Thank goodness, they kept it in one direction.
I think it’s more Jefferson than Belle Isle. It needs to become an Avenue.
Fewer streets and cars is a good start.
When you can't even go to a _park_ and get by on foot without having to cross a multiple lane road with fairly wide lanes that are found on The Strand, and have to worry about a lot of traffic at busier times of the day in the summer and end up having a person run over and killed, you know you are failing as a metro area regarding a transportation system and it bleeds over into a major park like Belle Isle. Didn't happen decades ago.
Granted, it was a hit and run and was at the beach of Belle Isle but the amount of car traffic is excessive and the beach incident possibly involved drugs. Most of the TV news _cares so deeply_ about these people that they do follow up stories when these incidents have new info (not, they just want your attention and sell ads to exploit tragedies).
2.5 years of community engagement/public input is an insane amt of time. Feel like we could have moved quicker on this.
They redid the road in the fall and it’s ALREADY DESTROYED. Cheap material and cheap labor gets you a poor product. Now they’ve wasted money!
Remember that episode of gangland on tv and they talked about how Belle Isle was territorial turf and there used to be fights there all the time. Miss those days.
Gangland has 2 lessons.
1. Every major city has a gang problem, stemming from the 1960s.
2. Cash is King. Blue and Red doesn’t matter anymore, Green does.
They fight over Green, not Red Vs Blue.
PLEASE PAVE THE TRAIL TO LIVINGSTON LIGHTHOUSE> it is almost impossible to push a wheelchair on gravel
So no mention of remaking and beautifying the beach is crazy 🤦🏽♂️
please bring back the rose garden that was there in the 1900's
No need to mess with central ave there is plenty of room on both sides if you want to put walking paths
People like this in charge will ruin Belle Isle, seeing only money
Dont mess with Central Ave
Nah, you have enough space to race around everywhere carbrain
Taco Town
Calm down on the "ummms"!!! 😂
Look to Olmsted's original plan.