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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]
US 24 (Telegraph Road) along the west edge of Detroit, Michigan, was one of the first roads where Michigan left turns were implemented. This pattern was introduced at the time of, or soon after, its widening to a six- to eight-lane divided highway between 1960 and 1963.
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]
On April 5, 2014, MDOT closed I-96 between Newburgh Road and US 24 (Telegraph Road). The project was estimated to cost $148 million (equivalent to $188 million in 2023 [41]), and would rebuild the seven miles (11 km) of roadway, replace two bridges, and repair 32 other bridges. The department also planned to install new drainage and replace the ...
Gratiot Avenue, then also called Detroit–Port Huron Road, [8] was authorized by the United States Congress on March 2, 1827, as a supply road from Detroit to Port Huron for Fort Gratiot. Construction started in Detroit in 1829, and the roadway was completed in the same year to Mount Clemens. The rest was finished in 1833. [10]
Ford Road serves as the zero-mile line for the Detroit area's Mile Road System, [5] though it is rarely referred to as such, nor is any other road south of 5 Mile on the grid. From the Canton Center Road intersection eastward, all of M-153 is a part of the National Highway System , [ 6 ] a network of roads important to the country's economy ...
IL 8 is assigned to travel west, while US 24 Bus. travels east, forming a 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) wrong-way concurrency. On this concurrency, both routes travel on a four-lane divided highway, signed as McClugage Road. After the concurrency ended, US 24 Bus. then turns eastward along Washington Road, continuing on another four-lane highway.
M-50 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan.Although designated as an east–west highway, it is nearly a diagonal northwest–southeast route. The western terminus is at exit 52 along Interstate 96 (I-96) near Alto a few miles east of the metro Grand Rapids area, and its eastern terminus is in downtown Monroe at US Highway 24 (US 24, Telegraph Road).