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Like other state highways in Michigan, US 24 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). In 2011, the department's traffic surveys showed that on average, 85,302 vehicles used the highway daily between the "Mixing Bowl" and 12 Mile Road and 6,401 vehicles did so each day in southern Monroe County, the highest and lowest counts along the highway, respectively. [3]
The following are images from various Michigan highway-related articles on Wikipedia. Image 1 Milemarker used in 1922 for M-14 Image 2 Grand River Avenue, once a part of M-16 and later US 16 , was originally an Indian trail converted as a plank road before becoming a state highway.
Map of the United States with Michigan highlighted. Michigan is a state located in the Midwest region of the United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Michigan is the 10th most populous state with 10,077,331 inhabitants and the 22nd largest by land area spanning 56,538.90 square miles (146,435.1 km 2) of land. [1]
The north–south highways range from the low 20s into the 40s. There are also three three-digit highways numbered in the 100s and one in the 200s as branches of related two-digit highways. [8] In Michigan, the US Highway System covers about 2,300 miles (3,701 km) of mainline highways and another 160 miles (257 km) of special routes. [3]
The last name applied to M-53 is the Earle Memorial Highway, named in honor of Horatio Earle, Michigan's first State Highway Commissioner. Earle was instrumental in the early Good Roads Movement in the state and the creation of the Michigan State Highway Department, which is now MDOT. When the original legislation creating a highway agency was ...
The Town of Detroit [a] created 120-foot-wide (37 m) rights-of-way for the principal streets of the city in 1805, including Michigan Avenue. [12] This street plan was devised by Augustus B. Woodward and others following a devastating fire in Detroit, [ 13 ] with a mandate from the territorial governor to improve on the previous plan. [ 14 ]
The original route of the East Michigan Pike included a section along the coast of The Thumb between Bay City and Port Huron and used the same route as the Dixie Highway north of Bay City. Backers of this auto trail lost out in terms of name recognition to the Dixie Highway, relegating the East Michigan Pike to the list of failed auto trails. [17]