Definitions

Landscaped Triangle. 
This has become a required part of local ordinances where parking is in front of commercial properties. The developer has to install a zone of landscaping that surrounds the intersection corner.  Usually if not always a large identifying sign rises from the grass. The sign is large enough to be seen by a driver travelling at high speed, even though this may be a slow city street.  Although a cut-through sidewalk path is allowed, it is seldom required, and pedestrians who cross the street must follow an indirect path to reach the retail establishment.  Many of these triangles are contoured for decorative purposed in such a way that even person who walk have a hard time crossing them.  How far the pedestrians must travel indirectly depends on whether the City gave any thought to them.  This presentation has examples where there IS a cut-through path (for users who can walk),  where sidewalk paths exist closer than driveways, and (unfortunately most commonly) where pedestrians must walk in wherever the nearest automobile driver happens to be.

Bicycle Parking    
A hardware device that is fixed into the ground in such a way that a bicycle can be fit with space to stand up with the wheel through the rack. The user can also lock the frame of the bicycle with a u-lock.  Some developers just place a light bike rack on the ground or place it too close to their building to be usable.  This does not qualify.

M-43: 
Both directions of the major non-freeway highway that is a one-way pair across Lansing.  The local street name can be Saginaw, Grand River or Oakland.  This display uses the highway designation to simplify things and because we ourselves can't keep track of the name. East Lansing uses the name Saginaw/Business-69 or Grand River east of US-127 where this confusion is no longer a factor.

West Saginaw: 
This is M-43 or Businss Route 69 where the highway is two-way beginning on the west side of Lansing and continuing into Delta Township/Eaton County: