[Wealthy Street Mega Thread]

You have to admit though, some of the old architecture found on wealthy is still magnificent.

[Photos De Jour - Grand Rapids and West Michigan Area]

who likes cops anyways?

[Medical Mile/Michigan Street Developments]

My guess is extending the ramp not quite into a destination lane, but just longer to support higher traffic volume to the off ramp and increase safety. When I did work out on that stretch of highway it seemed like that was one of the busiest off ramps and backed up a bit.

Edit: I just looked a little closer, you can see the stakes in the ground. Those represent the edge of the pavement and you can see that it tapers off from where they started work on the shoulder all the way up to the ramp currently starts.

Edit 2: I look closer yet again and see the other side. It looks like they are lengthening the on ramp over there. The roller is packing the sand down (unless it is roller compacted concrete, but I doubt they used that).

I read on some website i was looking up 196 news, they are expanding the highway to 3 lanes from I-96 to US-131 (about time thank god), also a neat proposal was to make a junction from 196 to I-96 WEST which currently there is no junction.