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The Plymouth Subdivision is a freight railroad line in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is owned by CSX . It connects the Plymouth Diamond at milepost CH 24.5 to Grand Rapids at CH 148.1, passing through the Lansing metropolitan area en route.
Most of the following connectors are unsigned, [232] but they were inventoried publicly as part of the 6th edition of the Michigan Geographic Framework in 2006. [233] Up through the 7th edition, MDOT used a different numbering system, [234] which was changed in May 2008 with the publication of the 8th edition. [235]
MDOT is the agency responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and operations of the State Trunkline Highway System, which includes the U.S. Highways in Michigan.The numbering for these highways is coordinated through AASHTO, [6] an organization composed of the various state departments of transportation in the United States. [7]
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]
Between the state line near Michiana and the interchange with I-94 near New Buffalo, US 12 forms a portion of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour (LMCT). The full length of the highway in the state is also a Pure Michigan Byway. [3] Outside of the various cities, most of US 12 is a rural, two-lane state highway.
The main line of the Northern Division, which ran from Jackson to Lansing, was constructed in 1909, and was a rare instance of the Michigan United building a line itself rather than acquiring an existing company. The line was 37.34 miles (60.09 km) in length, and connected the Southern Division with the Lansing–St. Johns line.
The Michigan State Highway Department designated it M-153 upon transfer to their responsibility. [2] The highway designation was determined to continue west of the county line into Washtenaw County as a northerly bypass of Ann Arbor, but the segment between Canton Center Road and US 12 on Plymouth Road was not built at the time. [9]
M-36 is a state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that runs in a west–east direction from Mason to Whitmore Lake. The trunkline connects US Highway 127 (US 127) south of Lansing and US 23 north of Ann Arbor. The highway connects several smaller communities in the rural areas along its route.