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May have been assigned to service drives along I-96 in Livonia, but not marked on official state maps as such M-3: 7.807: 12.564 US 25 in Detroit: US 16 in Detroit 1937 [5] 1939 [6] Became M-39 (now Schaefer Highway) M-3: 26.685: 42.945 Randolph & Broadway streets in Detroit: I-94 and M-29 in Chesterfield Township: 1973 [7] current
It starts as a continuation of State Road 9 (SR 9), which provides access to the Indiana Toll Road. The total length is approximately 272.9 miles (439.2 km), which includes almost 3.4 miles (5.5 km) of freeway between Interstate 94 (I-94) and downtown Battle Creek designated as I-194 .
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.
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]
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.
M-89 was extended along the roadway used by M-96 west of Battle Creek to M-37 in 1965, truncating M-96 in the process. [21] [22] M-96 was reextended back to Battle Creek along Dickman Road and Fort Custer Highway from Augusta east in 1971. [23] [24] Several changes in Battle Creek were made to the area trunklines in 1998. M-96 was extended ...
M-60 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. It runs from the Niles area at a junction with US Highway 12 (US 12) to the Jackson area where it ends at Interstate 94 (I-94). The trunkline passes through a mix of farm fields and woodlands, crosses or runs along several rivers and connects several small towns of the ...
M-136 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs from Brockway to Fort Gratiot in the lower part of The Thumb of the Lower Peninsula. The highway serves as a connector between M-19 on the west and M-25 northwest of Port Huron. In between, the highway runs through rural St. Clair County through farm fields and along a ...