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Several counties in the state of Michigan use a Mile Road System to name different roads and streets. The most commonly known system is that of Detroit, including 8 Mile Road, the dividing line between Detroit and its northern suburbs as well as Wayne County and Oakland, Macomb and Washtenaw counties.
[8] [9] Two of the mainline highways in the Upper Peninsula exit the state and re-enter, resulting in two discontinuous segments of highway for each in Michigan. [10] The longest US Highway in the state is US Highway 23 (US 23) at just over 362 miles (583 km) spanning from the Ohio state line north to the Straits of Mackinac in the Lower ...
7 Mile Road—runs from Kelly Road in eastern Detroit to Whitmore Lake, with brief interruption in Northville. 8 Mile Road— M-102 (8 Mile Road/Base Line Road)—northern border of Detroit and Wayne County; widely considered the socioeconomic dividing line between the city and its northern suburbs. Divided highway, designated M-102 from ...
Ford Road M-154: 6.125: 9.857 Green Road in Sans Souci: Ferry dock in Sans Souci 1931 [32] current Located on Harsens Island M-155: 3.420: 5.504 Howell State Hospital: BL I-96 in Howell: 1931 [112] [113] current No longer signed since 1987, still under state control M-156: 10.665: 17.164 SR 108 at the Ohio state line near Morenci: M-34 in Clayton
The first state road agency, the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD), was created on July 1, 1905. At first the department administered rewards to the counties and townships for building roads to state minimum specifications. In 1905, there were 68,000 miles (110,000 km) of roads in Michigan.
M-36 ends as 9 Mile Road at exit 54 on US 23 in Whitmore Lake. [4] [5] M-36 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) like other state highways in Michigan. As a part of these maintenance responsibilities, the department tracks the volume of traffic that uses the roadways under its jurisdiction.
The percentage of local roads in good or fair condition fell in the last two years from 46% to 44%, the County Road Association of Michigan said.
A mile road system is a system of naming roads by their mile distance from a baseline. Implementations include: Mile Road System (Michigan), used throughout the state of Michigan The roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit include a large mile road system; Mile Road System (Cincinnati), with the mouth of the Little Miami River as the baseline