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In June 2023, the MSU Board of Trustees approved the construction of a 293,000-square-foot recreation center with modern facilities to replace the aging IM West recreation facility. Construction ...
Highway construction in the 1920s earned Michigan national attention. The first trunklline completed in concrete was M-16 (later part of US 16). The road was built to a standard of 20 ft (6.1 m) and between 7–9 in (17.8–22.9 cm) thick. The current standard at the time was 16 ft (4.9 m) wide and 6 in (15.2 cm) thick. [15]
Shortly after the creation of the Michigan Territory in 1805, the new government established the first road districts. The federal government aided in the construction of roads to connect population centers in the territory. At the time, road construction was under the control of the township and county governments. The state government was ...
Interstate 696 (I-696) is an east–west auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Metro Detroit region of the US state of Michigan.The state trunkline highway is also known as the Walter P. Reuther Freeway, named for the prominent auto industry union head by the Michigan Legislature in 1971.
More money is being pledged in Michigan for the development of a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant after Ford Motor Co. said it would pause construction until it's sure it can run the ...
[22] [23] Construction started on the Romeo Bypass in 1989. [24] [25] Completed in 1992, the bypass extended a two-lane expressway to 34 Mile Road. [26] [27] Further construction on the remaining two lanes was started in 2002. [28] When it was finished in 2003, the highway had two remaining intersections but is otherwise a limited-access freeway.
MDOT gave the South Beltline its numerical designation on the July 1999 edition of the state map, marking M-6 for the first time as a dotted line, to denote it was "under construction". [20] The legislature approved Engler's "Build Michigan III" program in 2000; the plan accelerated road projects in the state. [34]
The bridge is topped with a 9-inch-thick (23 cm) concrete deck—which is standard in Michigan—and a 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) microsilica concrete overlay to protect the concrete's structural integrity. addition of a microsilica concrete overlay was unusual in Michigan at the time of the bridge's construction. [2]