I’m looking to transition to Detroit to start a new business and it’s difficult to determine the quality and density of the neighborhoods on Google Maps Street View because they haven’t been updated since 2013 and sometimes even longer. I’d like to know why that is. Why haven’t the maps been updated?

CuriosiD: Why Isn't Google's Street View of Detroit Up-to-date?

WDET listener Dan Lombardo asks, why there are brick pavers at Michigan and Trumbull and if they are original or if they are something they redo every now and then.

Why Does Michigan Avenue Have Brick Pavers?

As part of WDET's series CuriosID, a listener wonders if driving an electric car could actually create more pollution, since it would force power plants to generate more electricity to charge it, thereby generating more smog.

Could Electric Cars Increase Pollution

A British plane had a catastrophic electrical failure over Canada while flying to a training mission in Nebraska on Oct.. 24, 1958.

Rumor of a British Bomber Crash In a Detroit Neighborhood Haunts a Listener

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WDET listener Priya Ganji has a diverse group of friends of Arab heritage, and she’s noticed their family, religious and cultural traditions are sometimes different from her own and other Americans’. So the 14-year-old asked
“How did the Arab community grow to be what it is today in Detroit?”

How Did Detroit Become a Center for Arabs in the United States?

Yes, but other than miners, few people have ever seen the inside of them.

Are There Salt Mines Under Detroit?

A listener asked why there is no subway or elevated transportation in Detroit, and whether it was determined before or after the rise of the auto industry.

Why Doesn’t Detroit Have A Subway Or Elevated Rail?

An entire Detroit neighborhood vanished to make way for the future. Here’s Black Bottom’s story.

How A 1900s Black Detroit Community Was Razed For A Freeway

CuriosiD explores the history of the pesky, head-scratchingly prevalent traffic design known as a Michigan Left

Where Did the Michigan Left Come From?

Your favorite place in Detroit just may have bones buried under it from the early days.

Where the Bodies are Buried … Beneath the Streets

This week’s CuriosiD tackles the question any Detroiter is asking - why is my auto insurance so expensive?

Why is Detroit Auto Insurance SO Expensive?

“There used to be a Times Square in Detroit. I know there’s still a People Mover stop, and I know there’s a street, but there used to be an actual square. And I think it was named after the old newspaper, the Detroit Times, but where was the newspaper headquartered? And also, how big of a paper was the Times?”

What is the History of Detroit’s Times Square?

Listener Steven Gold remembers seeing a Nike missile base in Detroit as a kid. “Am I crazy?”

When Detroit was Armed with Nuclear Missiles

This week’s installment of CuriosiD looks at 1930s Detroit poverty and the events surrounding the “Ford Massacre"

What was the 1932 Ford Hunger March?

WDET investigates the confusion behind just how we should be saying and spelling Lahser Road.

Do You Pronounce the Road Lahser or Lasher?

“Why are sidewalks in Indian Village stamped with Swastikas? The stamps are uniform and official, like a company laying the concrete made them. Do they predate the Nazi party in Germany? Are they associated with a company affiliated with the Nazi party? The sidewalks are clearly old, but I’m not sure they are date stamped to provide a clue.”

Why Are There Swastikas in Parts of Indian Village?

Detroit's French connection is more than 300 years old, but is the comparison a modern invention?

Why Is Detroit Sometimes Called "The Paris of the Midwest?"

Listener Josh Wilt’s asks, “What was the history of Norton Company located in Woodbridge?”

Former Tenant of this Man’s Apartment Reformed the Auto Industry

Listener Bailey Townsend asks “Why is the Detroit River called ‘Detroit River’ when it’s actually a Strait?”

That Waterway in Detroit, Is it a Strait or a River?

“I show American Saddlebred Horses and we used to have a couple big shows up here at the state fairgrounds which are no longer available. And it was very sad to see that the Michigan legislature decided not to pay for the maintenance of the coliseum and the grounds.

What’s Happened at the State Fairgrounds?

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A listener asks, "Are the many different Cass locations in Michigan named after Lewis Cass? Do people know how horrible he was?"

Lewis Cass, Michigan Governor, Architect of Indian Removal

Listener Cheryl Pernell was intereted in examples of busing in Detroit Public Schools around 1963. Pernell was bused to Dossin Elementary for the 1st through 7th grades, instead of going to Ruthruff in her neighborhood.

Was there busing in Detroit in the early 1960’s?

“Why is it just ‘John R?’ Most people use the last name of a person, not the first name, and an initial, so, I always thought that was kind of strange. And also, who was John R., and why was the street named after him?”

Who Was John R?

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