Downtown Kalamazoo has been called a spaghetti bowl, with a traffic pattern motorists compare to tangled pasta.
One knot of noodles is at the west end, where two major streets cross; West Main Street and West Michigan Avenue, which becomes Stadium Drive when you travel Southwest.
A railroad track runs alongside the intersection and a web of little streets branches off to the north. One of those streets is called Elm Crossover.
There’s no good way to go west from this intersection. With the help of Elm Crossover, you used to be able to go north on Elm Street and then west. But the road closed in 2024…