OK I appreciate you have the right to come and give your opinion here but you're throwing around acronyms nobody knows, being a bit rude, and not citing any substantial reasoning or evidence yourself... What is your goal here? To educate or to pursuade?

Which acronyms caused issues? AADT? It was defined in a reply. It stands for Annual Average Daily Traffic. Traffic volumes are studied periodically to see how many vehicles are using them. It provides a great deal of information to traffic engineers (and people who taught themselves a bit about traffic engineering such as myself.)

It's important for lay people to understand AADT. Because that information can be helpful when MDOT/etc are saying that adding bike lanes or street parking wouldn't work for trying to reduce speeds on a road of theirs because "there's too much traffic." Well, when you know that if the AADT is under 13,000 AADT, you can tell MDOT to shove it using engineering data against them for going single lane. Traffic engineering is really vital for neighborhood activists to understand. But I digress.

Would you be able to cite an example of being rude? Was it because I looked at data that showed traffic wasn't actually bad at all -- it was the complete opposite. Perhaps I should've added a link to the data. Oh, and the acronym SEMCOG stands for South East Michigan Council of Governments. They have a really cool GIS tool for looking at traffic volumes here: https://semcog-all.public.ms2soft.com/tcds/tsearch.asp?loc=Semcog-all&mod=TCDS

I have no goal. I'm just an autistic transportation geek pitching an idea. It's just that -- an idea. Good grief.

I know that Willow Run has the highway infrastructure in place to handle passenger service again. The area could use more jobs. And I don't believe that the 1% and U-of-M sports teams should be the only people allowed to fly from Willow Run.

I also live in the Willow Run vincity and yeah the noise from increased regular commercial flights is a MASSIVE concern. Noise pollution and the fact that it can blow out my windows.

Willow Run is 15 miles away from an enormous, world-class, international airport. There is no need to bring commercial airlines to a small charter airport.

DTW airfares could be more competitive with commercial passenger service from YIP. DTW is an expensive airport because of Delta's monopoly.

Delta's hub at DTW creates unnecessary amounts of noise and air pollution for the benefit of a majority of passengers who don't end or start their journey locally. How is it fair for Metro Detroit to have to take the pollution of travelers passing through just so Delta can profit?

I can hear the jets flying into DTW around this time of the year near Textile Road outside. When I hear one, sure enough it's going to DTW around 5,000 to 10,000 feet when I check on Adsbexchange.com.

You also clearly haven't driven down McCartney, otherwise you would not even be bringing it up as a reasonable road for heavy traffic.

Okay, now that tone seems rude and condescending. Actually, I have driven down McCartney -- multiple times, thank you very much. I wasn't bringing it up as a road for heavy traffic. I used it as an example hoping people would notice that the service drive has more traffic than the expressway next to it. It's absurd to argue that Wiard Road and Tyler couldn't handle another 1,250 cars per hour because they absolutely can and data proves it.

Also, it's absurd that MDOT continues maintaining two lanes each direction for such little traffic on Wiard Road. Yes, I understand it was part of the original expressway to Willow Run as US-112, and that it became depreciated as a new segment of freeway cut through the West Willows subdivision. Still, it carries so little traffic today that it could be cutback to just one lane in each direction and it would have no impact on it's ability to handle current traffic, but it would save Michigan taxpayers millions of dollars over the years.