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Dearborn's mayor wants narrower, slower main roads and is asking residents to weigh in before plans are drawn
DEARBORN, Mich. — Mayor Abdullah Hammoud is pressing ahead with plans to redesign several of Dearborn's busiest roads for slower traffic and is asking residents to say what they want before engineers draw the plans, MLive reported.
The roads under study include Industrial, Maple, Outer Drive, Golfview, Military and Monroe, along with Michigan Avenue, which runs about nine lanes wide through parts of the city. Options include fewer travel lanes, bike lanes, landscaped medians and other traffic-calming features.
Some work is already done or under way. MLive reported that a redesign of Schaefer Road near Prospect wrapped up Oct. 5, and that construction of the city's first roundabout, at Chase Road and Ruby Street, was set to begin Sept. 21. Warren Avenue, which received a $25 million grant, is expected to have final plans around early 2027.
The city credits its approach with early results. According to figures cited by MLive, crashes fell 7% in 2025 and injury crashes fell 14%, while police wrote 32,263 traffic citations, up 24%.
Road diets draw complaints in many cities from drivers worried about backups, delivery access and emergency response times, and residents who commute through Dearborn will want to see traffic studies before lanes come out. The mayor has framed the effort around safety for pedestrians and families on residential corridors.
Residents can follow the projects and comment through the city's website and upcoming public sessions. Separately, the City Council's Oct. 20 agenda included an $8.85 million engineering contract for design work on local and major roads, plus a notice of intent to borrow up to $70 million for sewer and water work tied to the city's road program.
Sources:
MLive, “Dearborn's roads could look very different. Mayor asks residents to weigh in,” October 2026, https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2026/10/dearborns-roads-could-look-very-different-mayor-asks-residents-to-weigh-in.html
City of Dearborn, “City Council regular meeting agenda,” Oct. 20, 2026, https://dearborn.gov/sites/default/files/2026-10/2026-10-20%20-%20Council%20Meeting%20Agenda.pdf
Photo: formulanone, “US12 Michigan Avenue M-153 Ford Road Aerial - Dearborn (45575000665).jpg,” Nov. 16, 2015, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped and color-adjusted, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US12_Michigan_Avenue_M-153_Ford_Road_Aerial_-_Dearborn_(45575000665).jpg
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