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The first centerline was painted on a state highway in 1917 along the Marquette–Negaunee Road which was designated Trunkline 15, now County Road 492 in Marquette County. [ f ] Winter maintenance started during World War I to keep 590 miles (950 km) of strategic highways clear; [ 59 ] some $13,200 (equivalent to $177,600 in 2023 [ 54 ] ) was ...
The new state lacked the money to continue improvements to the road, and Michigan petitioned Congress for the better part of the next decade for money to complete the work. [26] When the state capital was moved to Lansing in 1847, an improved road was needed to the capital city. [25] The first segments of roadway were privatized starting in ...
Lake City Experiment Station at Call Road near Lake City 1929 [32] [112] 1939 [125] now Jennings Road M-142: 39.186: 63.064 M-25 in Bay Port: M-25 in Harbor Beach: 1939 [68] current M-143 — — US 27 near Cheboygan: Cheboygan State Park 1931 [113] 1960 [126] Lincoln Avenue M-143: 0.936: 1.506 Lansing–East Lansing city line
M-6, or the Paul B. Henry Freeway, is a 19.7-mile-long (31.7 km) east–west freeway and state trunkline highway in the United States that serves portions of southern Kent and eastern Ottawa counties south of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
[13] [14] All in-city portions of M-21 were transferred to state control in 1931 with the passage of the Dykstra Act of 1931 (PA 131 of 1931). [15] A Bypass M-21 (Byp. M-21) designation was created in the Grand Rapids area in 1945. This designation ran from the corner of 28th Street and Chicago Drive along Byp. US 16 and Byp. US 131 on 28th ...
According to the 2020 United States Census, Michigan is the 10th most populous state with 10,077,331 inhabitants and the 22nd largest by land area spanning 56,538.90 square miles (146,435.1 km 2) of land. [1] Michigan is divided into 83 counties and contains 1,773 municipalities consisting of 276 cities, 257 villages, and 1,240 townships. [2]
The Michigan Trail, another auto trail from the 1920s, "followed just about every major trunk line at that time in the Lower Peninsula and covered over a thousand miles [1,600 km] of state highways." [118] The Michigan Trail started in Toledo, Ohio, and ran to Detroit; its branches extended to New Buffalo, Grand Rapids, and Port Huron.
M-20 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs from New Era to Midland.It crosses through rural Lower Peninsula forest land between the two ends. The highway serves the college towns of Big Rapids and Mt. Pleasant, home of the main campuses of Ferris State University and Central Michigan University, both located near the trunkline.