Our presenter on Dec 4th was Todd Scott, the Executive Director of the Detroit Greenways Coalition.
The Coalition’s vision is for a strong, healthy, vibrant City of Detroit and region where a seamless network of greenways, green spaces, blue ways, and complete streets is an integral part of people’s active lifestyle including day-to-day transportation and recreation. It was able to sell this vision to the city with the improved health of its population and the resulting economic development.
Mr. Scott talked about bike lanes around the city (Jefferson, Bagley, and Livernois), the building of RiverWalk, the Dequindre Cut, a westside cut called the May Creek Greenway, the possibility of turning I-375 into a boulevard, and the ambitious 32-mile Joe Louis Greenway. The Coalition even helped to make sure there is a bike/walk lane on the Gordie Howe Bridge. To learn more, please visit www.detroitgreenways.org.