Raise The Railroad Tracks

RAISE THE RAILROAD TRACKS

WHY SECOND AND THIRD WARDERS SHOULD PETITION.

The Good Work Can be Accomplished if It is Only Tried in Earnest.

The question of the opening of W. Ann st. will be solved when the Ann Arbor railroad tracks are raised. At the present time the road is naturally unfavorable to this project on account of the risk of accident on a grade crossing. This fact should spur on the real estate owners of the Third ward to circulate petitions that the railroad be made to raise its tracks. No one thing would cause such a rise in values in the Second and Third wards as the raising of the tracks. Then all danger of grade crossings would be obviated. It is not an unreasonable request to make to the railroad because it means the certainty of missing a large number of damage suits which must come in time. The Michigan Central appreciates the overhead bridge on Detroit st. for this reason. The city paid for that and will have more to pay. The raising of the Ann Arbor tracks will have to be paid for by the company.