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to noon carry the highest risk of heart attack and stroke. Yet a new poll says most people don't know that morning hours are of heightened risk and it happens to be the time of day many of us endure a stress-filled commute to work. The poll, done by Harris Interactive for Biovail Pharmaceuticals, isn't meant to scare us into not driving to work, but rather to remind us about health and stress (and, of course, get in a plug for Biovail's products.) Other results of the Aug. 11-13 poll of 2,119 U.S. adults nationwide: The most stressful day of the week for commuting is Monday ToW Ow at StgnM 11500 October.

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There are northbound single lane closures between East Holly Road and the Oakland Genesee county line. M-39 (Southfield Freeway) The southbound entrance ramp to westbound I-94 Is closed. M-53 (Van Dyke) The northbound lanes are closed between the westbound I-94 service drive and McNIchols. The Wyoming, Schaefer and Greenfield ramps to westbound I-96 also are closed. Two westbound lanes of Grand River are closed from Berg to Telegraph.

Eastbound Grand River is closed at Telegraph. Eastbound I-94 is reduced to two lanes between Telegraph and the Southfield Freeway. The ramp from eastbound I-96 to i-94 is closed. The eastbound I-94 ramp to the northbound Lodge is closed. The Davison ramps to the southbound Lodge will be closed at noon today.

OTHER FREEWAY PROJECTS 1-94 (Ford Freeway) The eastbound ramp to northbound Telegraph and the westbound ramp to southbound Telegraph are closed. The westbound ramp to northbound Telegraph is closed. There are single westbound lane closures between Pelham and Beech Daly. The westbound Grand River entrance ramp and eastbound exit ramp is closed. 1-75 (ChryslerFisher Freeway) The northbound exit ramp to the Southfield Freeway is closed.

Southbound 1-75 is down to two lanes from 1-475 to the Oakland-Genesee county line. The northbound lane is closed at the Michigan-Ohio border from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. One northbound lane is closed from M-15 to Grange Hall Road. The left southbound lane is closed between WEEKEND CONSTRUCTION There will be a total closure of 1-94 between the Lodge Freeway and 1-96 from 9 p.m.

today until 5 a.m. Monday. All ramps within the construction zone also will be closed. The westbound 1-96 ramp to eastbound 1-94 will be closed from 10 p.m. today until 5 a.m.

Monday. The eastbound I-96 ramp to northbound Grand River will be closed from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday. The northbound M-53 ramp to eastbound 23 Mile will be closed from 5 a.m.

Saturday until 5 a.m. Monday. MAJOR PROJECTS There will be multiple southbound lane closures on the Lodge Freeway between 8 Mile and I-94 from 10 a m. to 7 p.m. and multiple northbound lane closures between downtown and I-94 from 7 to 9 m.

today. Starting at 9 p.m., the Lodge will be closed, but drivers headed southbound to the New Center area or Henry Ford Hospital may stay on the Lodge past the Davison, where one lane will remain open. Drivers must exit at West Grand Boulevard. The southbound Llnwood, Davison, Glendale, Webb, Chicago Boulevard and northbound Forest Warren ramps will also be closed. There are multiple lane closures In both directions and eastbound ramp closures on I-96 between Telegraph and the Southfield Freeway.

There are multiple lane and ramp closures on westbound I-96 between Wyoming and Tele- -graph. All entrance and exit ramps are closed between the Southfield Freeway and Telegraph. OTHER MAJOR WORK 18V4 Mile is closed between Mound and Van Dyke. M-59 Is reduced to one lane In each direction between Williams Lake and Airport roads. DOWNTOWN Fort Is closed between Woodward and Grls-wold.

One eastbound lane is closed on Grand River between Woodward and Griswold. Shelby is closed between Michigan and State. Two lanes are closed on Michigan between Griswold and Washington Boulevard. Two eastbound lanes on Jefferson are closed between Randolph and St. Antoine.

There are intermittent lane closures on: Congress between Woodward and Washington Boulevard. Shelby between Congress and Lamed. Bates between Randolph and Congress. -PKV 1 1tWrTff fr fl- September 20th- 29th Please join us in celebrating our lO Anniversary. The party begins with the cutting (and eating!) of a gigantic, anniversary cake on September 20 from 2 p.m.

to 5 p.m. in the Promenade Ballroom. The festivities continue for ten days through September 29 with daily prize drawings, special offers and fun events. 30 PRIZE DRAWS EVERY DAY! We're giving away 300 prizes over ten days WOW! FREEWAYS I Detroit had big hopes the Lodge from the Ford. Signs From Page IB prohibit such kamikaze moves to day, but such driving caused YOU RAN chaos 49 years ago.

"Too many drivers have not learned to use the expressways properly," Ernest Davis, safety WIN PRIZE CASH ANaofHElf" i GREAT PRIZES! 2005 PT Cruiser Convertible Grand Prize drawn September 2004 FREE MINI SLOT TOURNAMENT! America." What officials didn't realize is that the freeways also opened up suburbia to Detroiters, who used the new roads to leave the city in droves. Between 1950 and 1960, Detroit's white population fell by 362,877 people. The Ford-Lodge interchange "was a huge deal," said Neal Shine, retired Free Press publisher. "I think the planners really believed this would solve every traffic problem the city ever had. Really, all it did was give us new traffic problems." The traffic jams began immediately.

The Free Press reported a disastrous morning commute the day after the Ford-Lodge opened: "Thousands of work-bound motorists boiled the alcohol out of their radiators and nudged fenders as they crept through the bottleneck." One of the early problems was a lack of guardrails on the Lodge Freeway. The two sides of speeding autos were separated by only a curb, and head-on collisions tended to result. Planners also didn't realize that drivers couldn't exit immediately by crossing over several lanes of traffic after they had entered, say, Join us September 27th for a chance to win your share of Lodge as one drives over the Ford Freeway and wrote: "It's a lovely ride, especially to people accustomed to years of jockeying through heavy traffic and stoplights on their way downtown." At the time, the Ford and Lodge were Detroit's only freeways, and they extended for only a portion of their current routes. The freeways opened in stages, and VIPs usually would hold a ceremony on the first morning, then repair to a hotel for lunch and to make announcements about plans for new and better freeways. The Ford-Lodge interchange was no different.

Right after its opening festivities, officials unveiled an even more grandiose project an elevated skyway for the Lodge through northwest Detroit. It never was built. Two years later, when the Davison-Lodge interchange opened a couple of miles north of the Ford-Lodge interchange, state Highway Commissioner John Mackie announced a 10-year plan to build enough expressways to make metro Detroit what he called "the most accessible city in and traffic director of AAA Michigan, said at the time. Beyond the driving woes, there were major fights in the 1950s over the routes, names and costs for freeways. Today, there are about 309 miles of freeway in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and St.

Clair counties, and traffic jams galore, unending sprawl, and fights about whether to enlarge old freeways and build new ones. Despite the problems nearly 50 years ago, many drivers appreciated the new mobility the concrete ribbons brought. Ed Hustoles, former head of the Southeastern Michigan Council of Governments, recalled the joy of zipping across town. "We had an office at the time in Southfield and the Lodge gave us great access to downtown," he said "It was a snap." nn 4 1 uu Space is limited. AND THERE'S MORE.

AERIAL PERFBHMERS Contact BEN SCHMITT at 313-223-4296 or schmittfreepress.com. Exciting entertainment SOOTH FUN PHOTOS Get a souvenir photo where everyone becomes a winner at our photo fun-station! FOOD FEATURES Visit any of our great restaurants for 10th Anniversary features. USEB SHOWS Dazzling indoor and outdoor laser light shows daily. commemorating our 10 years of fun! FLINT I Mayor has carrier arrested Us, Join us and see how ten years of fun has made us a great place to play! From Page IB i For more information, visit www.casinowindsor.com. 1Y I I if ib ership is using Gestapo-like tactics, then people may be reluctant to listen to you." Williamson rode into office on a wave of street-tough populism last November.

The previous mayor Woodrow Stanley had been recalled from office and Flint, facing a $26-million municipal debt, was polarized along racial lines. But Williamson won the election against Genesee County Commissioner Floyd Clack, a well-known, veteran, black politician, gathering almost half the black vote on his way to a 2-1 margin-Williamson rode around and still does in a black van with his name painted across the sides. With a personal worth estimated at $400 million, he offered to write a check to get the city out of debt. When he took over, the state was running the city an emergency financial manager had been appointed to straighten out the budget and Williamson had no power. In July, the state officials left and Williamson took the reins.

One of the first things he did was ban the reading material. Riddle said his friend and client doesn't seem to get that Flint isn't one of his companies. He thinks its his city, his City Hall," Riddle said, "it's not; it's the people's City Hall. He is a good and decent man who wants to fix the city, but he has to come to grips with the fact that Flint is a democracy, it is not his fiefdom." Contact SHAWN WINDSOR at 313-222-6487 or Windsors freepress.com nal they have forwarded the matter to the city attorney for review. Williamson couldn't be reached for comment, but friend and political consultant, Sam Riddle, who ran Williamson's campaign for mayor last fall, said the two talked early Thursday about the ban.

"In fact," said Riddle, "We both were raising our voices at one another. Trampling on the First Amendment is not exhibiting the brand of leadership that led some cf us to support him." Riddle said Williamson told him that he issued the order and arrested the carrier Thomas Hansen, 57, of Burton as a way to improve efficiency at his cash-strapped City Hall. "But," said Riddle, "if your lead Local Classified iVlarkefplace Reach people right in your neighborhood 800 WANT ADS i.