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Kay:remember the little red button?

You know I must have gotten off at that State st exit 2,000 times and never turned left. Always right going to either Briarwood Mall, the Football/basketball game or further up to the University of Michigan. Although when I ran the tutoring center at Eastern I used to go across the bridge on the #6 bus. Which went to the Members on Carpenter rd and I could get the #4 or 5 to EMU.

3:45 The Golden Butthole.

GOLDEN BUTTHOLE ALERT!

Road surface quality way better than michigan

Great video! How do you get all the guide signs for your videos? Some of them I see are taken directly from the video feed but others look like you made them yourself

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I live in Meadville so I live close to Erie

That bulldozer track at the 19:43 mark is actually a safety feature to alert a driver they are headed off the road. Very effective on drivers falling asleep. The rumble is sure to get your attention. Great video.

3:20 Certified "What the F is a kilometer!!??" moment

Thanks for the update! I got to see the bridge from both sides back in July, but progress has been quick! Hope to take a ride on it, if it opens by next fall 2025. Also nice seeing a civil highway design perspective on it! I work in a section of transportation engineering, but much more on the urbanism side of things.

The 401 just east of Windsor is a very nice stretch of six lane highway!

Nice job walking around the project! Can't wait to watch your future video of driving on it!!

My grandfather worked on the freeway south of the bridge on the segment going from Exits 313 to 337. That section opened in November 1960 and allowed motorists to bypass the city of Cheboygan on US-27 (now M-27). I remember he said something about doing sod work? I assume for the roadway. He also has some 2x2 Kodak color slides of the actual Mackinac Bridge under construction taken around 1956 I would guess. They have never been seen before. However, he didn't work on the actual bridge and I'm not sure who took the photos. They were just in his closet and I found the boxes containing family photos and the carousel projector. Also, the bridge at 4:58 (Rondo Road) is a rare example of a bridge with a unique railing that the MSHD (now MDOT) was using on their overpasses from 1960-1962, when I-75 was built between Grayling and Mackinaw City. Most of the bridges that had this type of railing have had the railing replaced by an ugly Jersey barrier, but this is one of the only examples in Michigan/Ontario where it has never been replaced. 11:00 and 11:55 are examples of the famous "R4" railing, which was used in Michigan for many years until the early 1960s. However, these examples have had modern Armco guardrails bolted on for safety purposes, but the original railing is still there. Many of these railings have been replaced with Jersey barriers like I mentioned earlier, which is sad. I think it's because they aren't up to freeway specifications anymore and they aren't "safe" enough.

Can't wait to drive on it once it's fully opened. I went down there in November and snapped some photos on my 1999 Sony Mavica camera. I've surprised it's taken so long to build, the Mackinac Bridge was completed quicker back in the 1950s.

Great work on the video, it was nice to see such detailed progress on the US side of the Gordie Howe Bridge. I've never seen pre-cast concrete piles used for bridges in Ontario either. Typically bridge pies here are steel H-beams. I suppose it must be a thing somewhere here though.

Thank you for including the municipal limits signs here. You do excellent graphics all around!

As a canadian driving this road I found the drivers especially aggressive and leaving no safety space between other drivers

Will have the CITY STATE of INDIA inside TROY. MICHIGAN will connect the CHINESE Consult to DETROIT

I-75 had to RE built 3 TIMES for this COST MILLION of WASTE D TAX BUCKS

cool video love michigan

Great vid!!

Hey Ed! Great video :) I never knew those green slats were glare reducers! -Maggie

Great video. It was nice to see the HOV lane markings finally installed on I-75, and it was great to see an update on both the I-696 resurfacing project, as well as the flex lanes on I-696. I'm happy to see that they actually fully reconstructed I-96 with new concrete pavement as part of their installation. Has the work on I-275 been completed yet?

As you take Maryland Route 414 towards Oxon Hill, Maryland, which is a city that lies in Southern Prince George's County, Maryland, did you know that there's a Checkers by Rivertowne Commons Shopping Center, which is currently located on Oxon Hill Road in Oxon Hill, Maryland?

I need to find an excuse to go to Grand Rapids again, its such a cool city, Great video, and the song slaps🔥

Nice work on the video. I hadn't seen the reconfigured interchange between I-196 and I-96 at the East Beltline since it was reconstructed. Definitely an improvement, although it kind of still sucks that I-196 is reduced to a single lane before the merge.

The Country Dairy (at time mark 1:36) I was hooked on their Boston Coolers when I had moved back to St Clair Shores in 1976 living on Trombly at the Jefferson end. The Shish Kabob place at 9 Mile & Harper (time mark 2:08) was a Red Barn fast food restaurant my grandfather back in 1969 would take me & my brother thru their drive thru for milk shakes, I ended up working for Red Barn in Maryland when I was in High School.

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Do you pay tolls with cash, card, or I-pass?

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I miss it.

Cool work on the video. I've always really liked the Zilwaukee Bridge, and the improvements to I-675 in Saginaw look like a nice improvement.

Great video! You had commented on my community post a while back about getting summer internships. Well, this summer I'm working with the bridge team at MDOT Metro Region. It's neat to be at the same organization as a fellow road videographer!

I think I-675 is the only loop highway that goes through a downtown area in Michigan besides 475 in Flint

Michigan's traffic signals are obsolete! Old-fashioned design with span wires, signal heads not centered with the lanes, no reflectorized backplates, etc.

They didn't even build a true freeway to freeway interchange at I-94/US 31, LOL.

Thank you for the video. If only MDOT would rebuild 131 between 28th and Ann St.

Nice fresh pavement!

2:11 open-says-me

Why did you not cross the border to canada

Michigan

Canada 🇨🇦

Bro that was epic

Your video and camera quality is really impressive! The DVP is such a nice drive, had the chance to head down during the daylight back in October, smooth sailing until the Gardiner, but it’s very rare to have a smooth journey unless it’s the middle of night.

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Toronto is such an amazing city, I would love to live there. Too bad Detroit's freeways are all urban depressed unlike Toronto.

Great work on the video. I always enjoy watching content from the GTA from non residents. You did well not to encounter any congestion on the Parkway or the Gardiner. Too bad you didn't catch a subway train on the Prince Edward Viaduct. I always love catching something like that when I film a road.