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Starting at Michigan Avenue (modern-day US Highway 12) in downtown Detroit, it generally parallels the present-day Interstate 94. The 200-mile (320 km) route runs from Detroit to Ann Arbor, Albion, Marshall, Battle Creek, Paw Paw, and Benton Harbor. In some areas, it is still known as Territorial Road, like Calhoun County. [2]
The entire length of I-94 is listed on the National Highway System, [3] a network of roadways important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility. [4] The freeway carried 168,200 vehicles on average between I-75 and Chene Street in Detroit, which is the peak traffic count in 2015, and it carried 12,554 vehicles immediately west of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, the lowest traffic ...
Battle Creek is a city in northwestern Calhoun County, Michigan, United States, at the confluence of the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek rivers. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 52,731. [8]
In late 1940, a southerly bypass of downtown Battle Creek opened. US 12 was rerouted out of downtown to follow Columbia Avenue. The former route was redesignated Business US Highway 12 (Bus. US 12). [39] [40] In 1958 or 1959, a section of the route of Bus. US 12 was split onto a one-way pairing of streets through downtown Battle Creek.
Map of the pre-statehood Indian trails. The first major overland transportation corridors in the future state of Michigan were the Indian trails. [9] Two of these trails are relevant to US 12. The St. Joseph Trail ran between the Benton Harbor–St. Joseph area and Detroit by way of what is now Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Jackson, and Ann Arbor.
This section of highway ran from Battle Creek to Grand Rapids, roughly along the modern routing. [3] By 1929, the highway was extended north to Peacock in Lake County, replacing the contemporary M-54 in the process. [25] A group of local leaders formed an organization to lobby for the completion of the highway in 1928 when state efforts to do ...
The next year, M-66 was rerouted through Battle Creek to use the completed I-194 freeway. [38] [39] A 90° turn in Missaukee County was removed north of Lake City in 1972. [40] [41] In late 1973 or early 1974, M-66 and M-72 were shifted around the south side of Kalkaska.
Detroit and Mackinac Railway: Battle Creek and Bay City Railway: NYC: 1888 1889 Bay City and Battle Creek Railway: Battle Creek and Sturgis Railway: NYC: 1889 1969 Penndel Company: Bay City and Alpena Railroad: D&M: 1881 1883 Detroit, Bay City and Alpena Railroad: Bay City and Battle Creek Railway: NYC: 1889 1916 Michigan Central Railroad: Bay ...