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M-99 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan.It runs from the Ohio state border, where it connects to State Route 15 (SR 15), north to Lansing, where it terminates at a junction with Interstate 496 (I-496).
M-78 separated from US 27 in downtown Lansing and continued northeasterly through the northern part of East Lansing. [16] M-39 was replaced with an extended M-43 in 1938. [25] [26] As the freeways in the Lansing area were completed in the 1960s through the 1980s, the highways through downtown changed designations.
M-16 was rerouted in the Lansing area in 1925, running along Grand River Avenue from Grand Ledge to East Lansing. The former routing through Downtown Lansing on Michigan Avenue became part of M-39 and the section north of Grand Ledge was eventually redesignated M-100. A second realignment moved M-16 to follow Grand River Avenue from Ionia ...
The entirety of I-69 is listed on the National Highway System, [4] which is a network of roadways important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility. [5] The freeway carries 91,100 vehicles on average each day between I-475 and M-54 in Flint and 14,085 vehicles between M-53 and Capac Road near the Lapeer–St. Clair county line, the highest and lowest traffic counts in 2012 ...
This side of the city is mostly residential neighborhoods as US 127 runs along the East Lansing border, but there is a commercial area surrounding the Lake Lansing Road interchange before the highway crosses into Clinton County. US 127 meets I-69 northeast of Lansing, [7] [8] at the 1998 [10] [11] –2002 terminus of the highway.
After leaving town, the road meets M-66, and together they head north to a junction with M-50. [2] [3] M-43 running along Grand River Avenue at Collingwood Drive in East Lansing. M-43 then turns east with M-50, and they briefly run together before M-50 diverges to the southeast.
The first section of I-496 was opened in December 1963, [1] and ran from I-96 northerly to M-43/M-78 (Saginaw and Kalamazoo streets) between Lansing and East Lansing. The freeway, comprising the southern two-thirds, was designated I-496/M-78/ BL I-96 while the northern portion was on city streets as M-78/BL I-96.
East Lansing is located on land that was an important junction of two major Native American groups: the Potawatomi and the Fox. [5] By 1850, the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company was established to connect a toll road to the Detroit and Howell Plank Road, improving travel between Detroit and Lansing, which cut right through what is now East Lansing.