This is one of the worst things about this region. There is no such thing as the "flow of traffic"...if you drive 5 over, there's someone going 10 over. If you drive 10 over, there's someone going 15 over. All this mentality does is lead to a speeding arms race that causes needless deaths.
Does anyone know if this info is generally accurate for concert events? Like, say, for Chris Stapleton tonight?
https://www.fordfield.com/assets/doc/Events-Rideshare-Drop-off-Location-fdd964984e.pdf
It's fairly buried on the Ford Field website, and the guest services woman I spoke with didn't know... She just said "if it's on the website, it must be correct" 🙄🙄
So much for this path being anything more than a tourist attraction, and not a serious regional network link, especially for commuters...
Open hours from Apr 1st to Oct 31st are 8am to 8pm
Open hours from Nov 1st to Mar 31st are 8am to 4pm
So I need a reality check on this. We just ordered a brand new Ethan Allen coffee table, spent almost $3,000. Our first Ethan Allen purchase.
I met the delivery guys outside today, and I was surprised to see the coffee table completely unpackaged in the back of their delivery truck. According to the delivery guys, it's standard practice for the table to be unpackaged at the local warehouse, inspected, and then put in the delivery vehicle still unpackaged. They threw a heavy moving blanket on top of the table, but the blanket looked heavily used, and the guy threw it on the truck floor after taking it off the coffee table.
The whole thing is covered with dust, so I asked him to dust it off before they hauled it upstairs for inspection. He did an okay job, but of course this is outside on the curb and there's still dust. I didn't immediately see any problems, so I had them bring it upstairs. He wiped it down again once inside and I looked. But you know, I look for maybe 5 minutes, while they're standing there with a stack of other deliveries, and I didn't see any obvious scratches or damage, so I signed the form and sent them on their way.
As I'm looking at this further, however, there are a number of these minor specs and flaws in the finish on the top surface. Lots of what I thought, for example, was simply dust, seems to be embedded in the actual finish. I asked my wife to look at the table, without any commentary to her, and she immediately zeroed in the same spots.
These are objectively tiny issues, and will undoubtedly be forgotten over time, but honestly, for $3,000, I expected this to be completely flawless. Is this unreasonable? I'm waiting on a call back from our Ethan Allen rep, but I'm curious what others think, and if my expectations are out of line?
So I need a reality check on this. We just ordered a brand new Ethan Allen coffee table, spent almost $3,000. Our first Ethan Allen purchase.
I met the delivery guys outside today, and I was surprised to see the coffee table completely unpackaged in the back of their delivery truck. According to the delivery guys, it's standard practice for the table to be unpackaged at the local warehouse, inspected, and then put in the delivery vehicle still unpackaged. They threw a heavy moving blanket on top of the table, but the blanket looked heavily used, and the guy threw it on the truck floor after taking it off the coffee table.
The whole thing is covered with dust, so I asked him to dust it off before they hauled it upstairs for inspection. He did an okay job, but of course this is outside on the curb and there's still dust. I didn't immediately see any problems, so I had them bring it upstairs. He wiped it down again once inside and I looked. But you know, I look for maybe 5 minutes, while they're standing there with a stack of other deliveries, and I didn't see any obvious scratches or damage, so I signed the form and sent them on their way.
As I'm looking at this further, however, there are a number of these minor specs and flaws in the finish on the top surface. Lots of what I thought, for example, was simply dust, seems to be embedded in the actual finish. I asked my wife to look at the table, without any commentary to her, and she immediately zeroed in the same spots.
These are objectively tiny issues, and will undoubtedly be forgotten over time, but honestly, for $3,000, I expected this to be completely flawless. Is this unreasonable? I'm waiting on a call back from our Ethan Allen rep, but I'm curious what others think, and if my expectations are out of line?
Gettin' hard to keep track of all of the downtown-only investment happening in the city at the expense of the neighborhoods, what with all of these investments happening in the neighborhoods /s
Edit: wow, there are some...differently abled...folks on here. This is meant to be a riff on the constant complaining that all of the City's investment only goes to downtown, and none of it to the neighborhoods.
Let's hope we apply...
Dequindre Cut is an absolute urban gem of Detroit. But the City and Riverfront conservancy aren't maintaining it properly, and I'm worried that it's the first of many splashy investments over the past decade to fall into disrepair.
The pavement markings along the path are almost completely gone... There's supposed to be dedicated spaces for biking and walking, but most of that is gone. End result is a significant expectations mismatch between different users, and I've seen several close calls and arguments along the theme of "you're using the wrong lane"
Ditto for many of the signs along the path... 10+ years old and sun bleached. Most are barely legible.
Retaining wall blocks are falling out at multiple places along the sides... I counted at least 3 on my ride this morning.
Multiple of the emergency call boxes are broken... Either the lights don't work or the box itself has been physically tampered with by vandals.
Starting to see tags/graffiti/vandalism creep into more spots that are clearly not part of the artwork... Just some guy or some gang making their mark.
I was hoping things would be different this time... That post bankruptcy, the importance of spending $$ not only on splashy ribbon cuttings, but also on long term maintenance, would be understood. Maybe not.
Starting to see similar deferred maintenance and vandalism along the general Riverwalk as well. I hope this doesn't mean that the late 2010s/2020s were just a "flash in the pan" reset for Detroit...
Feels ridiculous from the outside that the entire building has to now be affordable housing because they "couldn't make market rate work" for the top five floors. You're in a gentrifying area buoyed by a billion $ in investment at Henry Ford and you're an 8-minute bus ride straight down Grand Blvd to the hospital.
This could've been a perfect spot to anchor a high-density housing development for doctors and nurses, with the stretch of land in between Henry Ford and Lee Plaza filling in/building up over the next decade or two.
What a worthless collection of unknowledgeable people. A week ago, my ecobee suddenly stopped being able to connect to my wifi network with an invalid password error, even though nothing changed. I just wasted an hour of my life with ecobee customer service reps who clearly don't understand the first thing about networking.
I tell the first guy the problem, and what I've done, including multiple power cycles and resets. He won't move forward with troubleshooting until I do another 5 minute power cycle with him on the line. Fine, whatever. Same behavior as before.
It does downhill from there. He starts insisting, with absolutely nothing to back it up, that my signal strength is too low from my router...my router is 4 feet away from my thermostat, and hasn't moved in 2 years. Says anything below 95% won't connect...lol, k.
He then proceeds to tell me I should go ahead and change the password on my network...I have 89 different devices connected to my network, that's not happening...and the password wouldn't work for 5 years and then one day start not working.
At that point, I ask to connect to a supervisor. After multiple hesitations, he finally sends me to someone who claims to be a supervisor. I sit for 5 minutes while he reviews everything...and then he asks me to power cycle everything again! I tell him no, I'm not doing that. He then says, quite definitively, that it's an issue with my internet service provider changing settings on my router. As I try to explain that I don't have an integrated modem/router combo, and even if I did, I own everything so settings changes like that wouldn't be possible...he says there's nothing else to do except call Xfinity.
What a waste of time, money, and energy...from me, and from this company employing these people.
I finally fixed the issue on my own...somehow 'explicit beamforming' on my mesh network got corrupted and turning it off/on again fixed the connection issue.
This has been a big fear of mine for a few years now. Expensive new housing, or even medium-price housing, being built all over the city. And a small amount of population uptick.
But despite all the headlines, the poverty rate needle has barely moved.
It simultaneously feels like we have so much more to do/further to go vis-a-vis new housing, better "big city" feel, etc.. Yet it also feels like we're almost tapped out in terms of the people in Detroit who can actually afford any of this stuff.
It's official...the owner of the Detroit Club is racist.
Damn, I wish she'd just sell the place...we used to have a membership, but we cancelled when these allegations first hit. I'd really like to go back, but I'm not going to give a dime to someone like this.
Not one MRI outpatient clinic in the City of Detroit. Insurance won't authorize the procedure at a hospital due to higher cost. Literally dozens, perhaps a hundred or more, in the suburbs.
I'm so sick of this redlining bullshit I could vomit.
ETA: I am perfectly capable of driving to an outpatient clinic in the suburbs, or even paying out of pocket if I had to. It's more just an extremely frustrated commentary on how no category of service is seemingly immune from the redlining. It can't possibly be that the 650k+ people don't need MRIs. What, every single neighborhood in Detroit is too crime-ridden for an MRI clinic??
I say this unsarcastically...I'm grateful for ShotSpotter. Good chance it saved this little boy's life.
The 33-year-old's attorney, David Cripps, said Monday he thought she did an excellent job of showing the court how remorseful she is...
"She is a wonderful person, and I'm sure when she gets beyond her sentence, she'll be a good, contributing citizen in our community."
She helped beat her son to death and could be out in as little as a year and a half. The defense attorney's comments are abhorrent...'wonderful people' don't beat their children, let alone to the point of death.