Roads and freeways in Michigan

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Several counties in the state of Michigan use a Mile Road System to name different roads and streets. The most commonly known system is that of Detroit, including 8 Mile Road, the dividing line between Detroit and its northern suburbs as well as Wayne County and both Oakland and Macomb counties.

The Michigan is criss-crossed by several major Interstate highways and freeways. Traditionally, residents refer to their freeways by name rather than route number. Residents may precede each freeway name with the word 'the' as in The Lodge, The Southfield, and The Davison. This is also true for the Chrysler, Fisher, and Ford Freeways (also the Jeffries and Reuther Freeways) before the Department of Transportation mandated deemphasis of the use of proper names on guide signs for Interstates. Other freeways are referred to only by number (I-275 and M-59); their names, if any, were never in common everyday usage. There are no toll roads in Michigan.

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[edit] Freeways

Michigan left turn lanes facilitate an even flow of traffic in Metro Detroit.
I-69.svg
 I-69, though, comes no closer than 40 miles to the City of Detroit and is generally not considered to serve Metro Detroit.)
I-75.svg
 I-75 (Walter P. Chrysler and Fisher Freeways) is the region's main north-south route, serving Flint, Pontiac, Troy, and Detroit, before continuing south (as the Detroit-Toledo and Seaway Freeways) to serve many of the communities along the shore of Lake Erie.
I-94.svg
 I-94 (Edsel Ford Freeway) runs east-west through Detroit and serves Ann Arbor to the west (where it continues to Chicago) and Port Huron to the northeast. The stretch of the current I-94 freeway from Ypsilanti to Detroit was one of America's earlier limited-access highways. A portion was known as the Willow Run Expressway.
I-96.svg
 I-96 runs northwest-southeast through Livingston, Oakland and Wayne Counties and (as the Jeffries Freeway) has its eastern terminus in downtown Detroit.
I-275.svg
 I-275 runs north-south from I-75 in the south to the junction of I-96 and I-696 in the north, providing a bypass through the western suburbs of Detroit.
I-375.svg
 I-375 is a short spur route in downtown Detroit, an extension of the Chrysler Freeway.
I-475.svg
 I-475 is the UAW Freeway in nearby Flint.
I-696.svg
 I-696 (Walter P. Reuther Freeway) runs east-west from the junction of I-96 and I-275, providing a route through the northern suburbs of Detroit. Taken together, I-275 and I-696 form a semicircle around Detroit.
US 12.svg
 US 12 has an eastern terminus in downtown Detroit. From there, US 12 continues through the western suburbs and on toward Ypsilanti.
US 23.svg
 US 23
US 24.svg
 US 24 has a northern terminus northwest of Pontiac at I-75. To the south, US 24 serves suburban Detroit and Monroe before entering Ohio.
US 223.svg
 US 223
M-6.svg
 M-6 is the Paul B. Henry Freeway in Grand Rapids
M-8.svg
 M-8 is the Davison Freeway. Opened in 1944, this was the first modern depressed limited-access freeway in America.
M-10.svg
 M-10: The John C. Lodge Freeway runs largely parallel to I-75 from Southfield to downtown.
M-14.svg
 M-14 runs east-west from I-275 in Livonia to Ann Arbor.
M-39.svg
 M-39: The Southfield Freeway runs north-south from Southfield to Allen Park from I-94. North of 10 Mile Road, the freeway ends and continues as Southfield Road into Birmingham.
M-53.svg
 M-53 (Christopher Columbus Freeway from Sterling Heights to Washington), more commonly known as the Van Dyke Expressway or Van Dyke Freeway. Continues as Van Dyke Road or Van Dyke Avenue north to Port Austin and south through Warren to Gratiot Avenue in Detroit.
M-59.svg
 M-59 (Veterans Memorial Freeway from Utica to Pontiac), continues east as Hall Road to Clinton Township and west as various surface roads to I-96 near Howell

[edit] Bay County Mile Roads

In Bay County, roads west of the Saginaw River are numbered with either the river (or, north of the river, State Street) marking the origin.

[edit] Detroit Mile Roads

Main article: Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit

[edit] Grand Traverse County Mile Roads

[edit] Kent County Mile Roads

Fulton St is the North/South dividing line of the city of Grand Rapids. But since Fulton St. is on a half section line, Michigan St is the baseline, not Fulton St.

[edit] Midland County Mile Roads

[edit] Calhoun County Mile Roads

Going east from the county line between Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties. Many of the roads are known by both their mile names and their traditional names.

[edit] External links

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