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In 1974, the state highway map of the time showed the highway under construction, but no parts completed. [15] The first four miles (6.4 km) of the freeway were shown opened to traffic from M-153 (Ford Road) in Canton to Schoolcraft Avenue (just south of the I-96 and M-14 interchange) in Plymouth Township by the start of 1975.
Augustus Woodward's plan following the 1805 fire for Detroit's baroque styled radial avenues and Grand Circus Park.. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a plan similar to Pierre Charles L'Enfant's design for Washington, D.C. Detroit's monumental avenues and traffic circles fan out in a baroque-styled radial fashion from Grand Circus Park in the heart of the ...
M-85, also known as Fort Street or Fort Road for its entire length, is a state trunkline highway in the U.S. state of Michigan. The highway serves several Downriver suburbs of Detroit , as well as neighborhoods in the city itself.
In the 1950s, a Michigan Turnpike was proposed as a tolled, controlled-access highway in the Lower Peninsula. After passage of the Federal Highway Act of 1956, this turnpike proposal was shelved as a free Interstate Highway was planned. Construction started in 1957, signs went up in 1959, and I-75 was completed in 1973.
Sibley, Michigan would not be incorporated into Trenton until 1929. Trenton was incorporated as a village in 1855. A Detroit businessman and later Michigan's first U.S. attorney, Solomon Sibley , started a limestone quarry near Trenton, near what is today Fort Street and Sibley Road.
[22] [23] Construction started on the Romeo Bypass in 1989. [24] [25] Completed in 1992, the bypass extended a two-lane expressway to 34 Mile Road. [26] [27] Further construction on the remaining two lanes was started in 2002. [28] When it was finished in 2003, the highway had two remaining intersections but is otherwise a limited-access freeway.
The Frederic M. Sibley Lumber Company Office Building is an office building located at 6460 Kercheval Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1989 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] The building is known for being the beginning of a major trailer manufacturing company.
[11] [12] Prior to the construction of present-day Hemlock Road through Tawas City, M-55 entered Tawas City via present-day Plank Road, Second Street, Fifth Avenue, and Mathews Street, ending at the present-day intersection of US 23 and Mathews Street. [13] [14] In 1949, US 27 was moved to run to the west of Houghton and Higgins lakes.