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The intersection of Maple Road and Eton Street was selected for a road safety audit.
Grant to fund road safety audit for Maple and Eton Photo by Patricia O’Blenes
BY MARY GENSON
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard addresses a May 13 town hall meeting at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills.
Sheriff hosts town hall to address high-end home robberies BLOOMFIELD HILLS — A recent town hall meeting drew more attention to an issue that has been a source of concern for some Oakland County residents going back at least as far as last year. More than 200 people attended a meeting at
Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills May 13 to address concerns about international organized gangs that have been targeting affluent neighborhoods in the county, according to a press release from state Rep. Donni Steele. “Obviously, the Bloomfields have been very much in the crosshairs, Birmingham, Novi, Frank-
BIRMINGHAM — The city of Birmingham recently received a grant from the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments for a road safety audit of the intersection of Maple Road and Eton Street. The audit will address road safety concerns related to the geometry and configuration of the intersection, officials said. SEMCOG received funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All supplemental planning grant for the project. “We applied for funding to conduct regional road safety audits throughout the region for intersections and road corridors that either locally or regionally were identified as safety concerns,” SEMCOG Planning Director Kevin Vettraino said.
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