Detroit, MI
MDOT plans to finish diverging diamond interchange at Telegraph/8 Mile Rd. by late fall
Starting later this year, motorists on Telegraph Road will notice that as they pass beneath Eight Mile, they’ll be routed to the left side of the roadway before returning to the right side.
This layout is called a diverging diamond interchange. The Michigan Department of Transportation built a series of these interchanges underneath key points on Interstate 75 in Oakland County between 2015 and 2023. And now it’s constructing one on Telegraph (U.S. 24) at the border of Detroit and Southfield.
This $54 million project also involves replacing the pavement on Telegraph between just south of Grand River and just north of Eight Mile, said Bill Erben, the MDOT construction manager overseeing the project. The construction work began in February 2023 and is expected to end in the late fall.
Erben said the pavement on this section of Telegraph and in the Telegraph/Eight Mile interchange was “falling apart” and needed to be reconstructed. They also decided to update the interchange itself. The existing one has free-flowing ramps that allow motorists to get from Telegraph to Eight Mile or vice versa. But because the ramps are “so short,” he said, the driver must pause at a stop or yield sign at the end of the ramp before continuing onto the road.
“We could have just rebuilt the old interchange back to the old, outdated standard,” he said. “We had to upgrade it to a current design standard.”
The new layout, a diverging diamond interchange, is a kind of interchange that temporarily shifts traffic to the oppose side of the road before returning it to the right side. This allow motorists to make free-flowing left turns onto an interstate or main road. Traffic signals control the flow of traffic in these interchanges. Erben said diverging diamonds prevent people from turning left in front of traffic.
In Oakland County, the state built these kind of interchanges off I-75 at 12, 14 and 16 Mile roads. He said he isn’t aware of any diverging diamond interchanges in Metro Detroit that aren’t underneath interstates, so this appears to be the first one. Diane Cross, an MDOT spokesperson, said her agency can only speak to state roads since MDOT doesn’t control county or city roads.
MDOT is also replacing the pavement on Telegraph. The roadway in the interchange will be made of concrete, and Telegraph between Grand River and just south of Eight Mile will be made of asphalt. He said MDOT is about 90% done with installing the asphalt and nearly 50% done with the concrete.
Mario Gjolaj, one of the owners of Omega Coney Island on 8 Mile in Detroit, said people will be confused by the diverging diamond interchange at first, because it’s something they’re unfamiliar with.
“But as they use it, you know, they’ll conform to the design and they’ll obviously see it for what it’s supposed to be,” he said. He is familiar with the diverging diamond at Big Beaver Road and Interstate 75.
Gjolaj said there has been other construction work in his area over the last few years as well. He can’t wait for the projects to be done.
“Because they affect my ability to come and go, and the costumers that I serve are affected by it also,” he added. He said he’s had fewer customers than normal because of the construction.
However, he said Telegraph was “horrible” in the few years leading up to the construction project. He noted that it was choppy and had potholes.
“It’s about time they repaired it,” he said.
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This is the full list of drivers participating in the 2025 IndyCar and Indy NXT races at the Detroit Grand Prix through downtown.
The 2025 Detroit Grand Prix is approaching quickly, with drivers from all around the world looking to capture a critical win on the IndyCar calendar.
The big race is on Sunday, June 1, when the NTT IndyCar series will start at 12:30 p.m., broadcasted on Fox. Before that race, the lower-level Indy NXT circuit will hold its race at 10:30 a.m., televised on FS1. Both can be streamed on Fubo (free trial).
This will be the third race since the Grand Prix returned to downtown Detroit in 2023 after years at nearby Belle Isle. The winner of the first revamped downtown race was IndyCar legend Scott Dixon, while his teammate at Chip Ganassi Racing Álex Palou won in 2024.
Palou is looking to continue his dominance of the 2025 IndyCar season, as the Spanish racer has won five of the year’s first six races, including his first Indianapolis 500 win one week ago.
Here is the field for both of Sunday’s races:
Who is racing in the 2025 Detroit Grand Prix?
Here is the full list of all 27 drivers scheduled to race in the IndyCar Grand Prix in Detroit on Sunday, with drivers listed by car number, team and engine:
- #2: Josef Newgarden – Team Penske (Chevrolet)
- #3 Scott McLaughlin – Team Penske (Chevrolet)
- #4 David Malukas – A.J. Foyt Enterprises (Chevrolet)
- #5 Pato O’Ward – Arrow McLaren (Chevrolet)
- #6 Nolan Siegel – Arrow McLaren (Chevrolet)
- #7 Christian Lundgaard – Arrow McLaren (Chevrolet)
- #8 Kyffin Simpson – Chip Ganassi Racing (Honda)
- #9 Scott Dixon – Chip Ganassi Racing (Honda)
- #10 Álex Palou – Chip Ganassi Racing (Honda)
- #12 Will Power – Team Penske (Chevrolet)
- #14 Santino Ferrucci – A.J. Foyt Enterprises (Chevrolet)
- #15 Graham Rahal – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Honda)
- #18 Rinus VeeKay – Dale Coyne Racing (Honda)
- #20 Alexander Rossi – Ed Carpenter Racing (Chevrolet)
- #21 Christian Rasmussen – Ed Carpenter Racing (Chevrolet)
- #26 Colton Herta – Andretti Global/Curb-Agajanian (Honda)
- #27 Kyle Kirkwood – Andretti Global (Honda)
- #28 Marcus Ericsson – Andretti Global (Honda)
- #30 Devlin DeFrancesco – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Honda)
- #45 Louis Foster* – Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (Honda)
- #51 Jacob Abel* – Dale Coyne Racing (Honda)
- #60 Felix Rosenqvist – Meyer Shank Racing/Curb-Agajanian (Honda)
- #66 Marcus Armstrong – Meyer Shank Racing/Curb-Agajanian (Honda)
- #76 Conor Daly – Juncos Hollinger Racing (Chevrolet)
- #77 Sting Ray Robb – Juncos Hollinger Racing (Chevrolet)
- #83 Robert Shwartzman* – PREMA Racing (Chevrolet)
- #90 Callum Ilott – PREMA Racing (Chevrolet)
*Rookie of the year candidate
Who is racing in Indy NXT at Detroit?
Here is the full list of drivers scheduled to compete in the Indy NXT race in Detroit on Sunday, with drivers listed by car number and team:
- #2 Sebastian Murray – Andretti/Cape Motorsport
- #3 Ricardo Escotto – Andretti/Cape Motorsport
- #9 Bryce Aron – Chip Ganassi Racing
- #10 Niels Koolen – Chip Ganassi Racing
- #11 Nolan Allaer – HMD Motorsports
- #14 Josh Pierson – HMD Motorports
- #16 Tommy Smith – HMD Motorsports
- #17 Callum Hedge – Abel Motorsports
- #18 Max Taylor – HMD Motorsports
- #26 Lochie Hughes – Andretti Global
- #27 Salvador De Alba – Andretti Global
- #28 Dennis Hauger – Andretti Global
- #29 James Roe – Andretti Global
- #30 Liam Sceats – HMD Motorsports
- #38 Hailie Deegan – HMD Motorsports
- #39 Jaun Manuel Correa – HMD Motorsports
- #40 Jack William Miller – Abel Motorsports
- #48 Jordan Missig – Abel Motorsports
- #76 Caio Collet – HMD Motorsports
- #99 Myles Rowe – Abel Motorsports
All Indy NXT drivers use AER engines.
How to watch Detroit Grand Prix
Series: NTT IndyCar.
Warmup: Sunday, June 1, 9:30 a.m. ET (FS1)
Race: Sunday, June 1, 12:30 p.m. ET (Fox)
All IndyCar practices, qualifications and races for the Detroit Grand Prix can be streamed on Fubo, which hosts Fox Sports Networks including FS1 and FS2, and offers a free trial to potential subscribers.
Watch the Detroit Grand Prix on Fubo
You can reach Christian at cromo@freepress.com.
DETROIT (FOX 2) – A special reunion on Friday gave a young woman who suffered a medical emergency the chance to thank the person who saved her life.
The backstory:
Emily Morgan was in a fitness class when suddenly Emily collapsed.
Luckily, Dr. Dema Fawaz, an emergency room physician at Corewell Health, was in the right place at the right time.
“I turned around and saw Emily being slowly lowered to the ground,” said Dr. Fawaz. “I sensed a lot of panic in the room and I immediately identified myself and said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m a physician, I can help.’”
Fawaz said she performed CPR until the ambulance arrived, helping save Emily’s life. It was her first time doing CPR outside of work.
Big picture view:
At only 27 years old, Emily survived cardiac arrest, and all she remembers is waking up in the hospital.
“They told me someone in my class had saved me, and I didn’t know who it was. But I immediately recognized her when she came in at the hospital. We’d taken classes together before, and I just didn’t know her name, so it was emotional in the hospital when she came and visited me,” she said.
Meanwhile, the heartfelt reunion was just another reminder of why learning CPR could save a life. Every second counts, and even though Fawaz is a doctor, CPR is not hard to learn, and the more people who know it, the better.
It might just save a life.
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