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2. Transportation in metropolitan Detroit - Wikipedia

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   The Erie Canal, which had first been proposed in 1807, opened in 1825 and greatly improved access to Detroit and other Michigan ports from Europe and the eastern seaboard. From Detroit, settlers were able to use the Chicago Road and other land routes. [2] Land sales in Detroit reached a peak in that year with 92,232 acres (373.25 km 2) being ...

3. Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. U.S. Route 16 in Michigan - Wikipedia

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   At Howell the road connected with the Detroit–Howell Plank Road, establishing the first improved connection direct from the state capital to Michigan's largest metropolis. The Lansing–Detroit Plank Road was a toll road until the 1880s, and it eventually evolved into the eastern part of the modern Grand River Avenue. [28]

5. M-5 (Michigan highway) - Wikipedia

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   The Lansing–Detroit Plank Road was a toll road until the 1880s. It eventually evolved into the eastern part of the modern Grand River Avenue. [22] By 1900, only a short stretch of the Detroit–Howell Plank Road was still make of planks; most of the other plank roads had been converted to gravel by this time. [23]

6. Business routes of Interstate 96 - Wikipedia

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   The former routing through Downtown Lansing on Michigan Avenue became part of M-39. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] This was redesignated US 16 in 1926. [ 10 ] With the completion of I-96 in between Lansing and Brighton , US 16 was decommissioned in Michigan in 1962.

7. M-59 (Michigan highway) - Wikipedia

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   M-59 starts at I-96 in Howell Township as Highland Road near a large outlet mall. Highland Road carries M-59 concurrently with the westernmost section of Business Loop I-96 (BL I-96). Highland Road widens out into a boulevard south of the county airport before the roadway reaches Grand River Avenue. At this intersection, BL I-96 departs to the ...