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An enclave of Detroit, Hamtramck is located roughly 5 miles (8.0 km) north of downtown Detroit, and is surrounded by Detroit on most sides. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 28,433, [ 3 ] and was by far the most densely populated municipality in Michigan.
M-8 is a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan lying within the cities of Detroit and Highland Park.Much of it is the Davison Freeway, the nation's first urban depressed freeway, which became a connector between the Lodge and the Chrysler (Interstate 75, I-75) freeways.
Northland Center, one of four new suburban shopping malls (the others were Eastland Center, Southland Center, and Westland Center) which opened 1954, was built by J. L. Hudson Company, a major upscale Detroit-based department store chain. The Jefferson Avenue line streetcar line was converted to buses in 1954, then the Michigan Avenue in line 1955.
Michigan Avenue Local: Fairlane Town Center: Michigan Avenue + John Hix Road 11.4 miles (18.3 km) 90 120 120 Concurrent from Wayne Road east Select late-night trips start and end at Michigan + Schaefer 210: Westland Meijer 16.8 miles (27.0 km) 90 120 120 250: Ford Road: Dearborn Transit Center 14.4 miles (23.2 km) 60 --Interlined with 140 275
Michigan: Rosa Parks Transit Center Fairlane Town Center, Dearborn: 10.5 mi (16.9 km) 30 60 60 3: Grand River: Jefferson + Beaubien Grand River + 7 Mile 15.0 mi (24.1 km) 15–20 30 30 4: Woodward: Woodward + Larned Jason Hargrove Transit Center: 8.8 mi (14.2 km) 15 20 20 5: Van Dyke/Lafayette: Rosa Parks Transit Center Bel Air Center 15.0 mi ...
Running about 22.8 miles (36.7 km) in the Metro Detroit area, M-10 runs roughly northwest–southeast from Downtown Detroit into the northern suburbs in Oakland County. [2] The entire length of the highway is listed as a part of the National Highway System , [ 3 ] a system of roads importance to the nation's economy, defense and mobility. [ 4 ]
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park.. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque-styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the ...
The freeway bears several names in addition to the I-75 designation. The southern segment was called the Detroit–Toledo Expressway during planning in the 1950s and 1960s. Through Detroit, I-75 is the Fisher Freeway or the Walter P. Chrysler Freeway, named for pioneers in the auto industry.