Roundabout construction at 36th Street and Shaffer Avenue in Kentwood has been underway since the beginning of June, and while the roundabout itself is now complete, construction in the area continues with the intersection still closed.
Neighbors had just begun adjusting to the original detours when a new closure on Breton Road, approved by the City of Grand Rapids, forced another change to the detour route.
The original detour directed southbound travelers to Breton Road. That road is now closed, pushing drivers to Kalamazoo Avenue as the city’s new recommended southbound detour route.
For residents like Beth DeGrote, who lives at a retirement complex on Breton Road, the changes have created real hardship.
“I use Breton every day, and it’s just crazy,” DeGrote said…