Interstate 275 (Michigan)
Interstate 275 is an Interstate in the US state of Michigan that acts as a western bypass of the Detroit metropolitan area. The southern terminus is the interchange with I-75 near Newport, northeast of Monroe. A highway roughly parallel to the modern I-275 was included in early planning maps for the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s. Some plans in the 1970s had the northern Novi–Davisburg section numbered as state highway M-275.
About Interstate 275 (Michigan) in brief
Interstate 275 is an Interstate in the US state of Michigan that acts as a western bypass of the Detroit metropolitan area. The southern terminus is the interchange with I-75 near Newport, northeast of Monroe. A highway roughly parallel to the modern I-275 was included in early planning maps for the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s. Some plans in the 1970s had the northern Novi–Davisburg section numbered as a state highway M-275. M-5 opened along part of the former I- 275M-275 right-of-way between 1994 and 2000. The freeway runs through the western suburbs near Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, and crosses several rivers and rail lines in the area. It was built in segments that were completed in January 1977, but later that month the state canceled the northern section because of local opposition. A later attempt to revive the proposal failed in 1979. Additional plans to complete M- 275 through Oakland County were kept on the drawing boards through the 1980s, but failed to materialize. The Federal Highway Administration considers the length of the Interstate to be 29. 97 miles, but other map makers, like the American Automobile Association, Rand McNally and Google Maps follow MDOT’s practice. The Interstate is signed as I-I-275, and the unbuilt segment of freeway from Novi to Davisburg was still an active proposal in the late 1970s and 1980s that was either to be either I275-275 or M-75-275; it was signed as either I-276 or I-96.
The highway is also known as the Detroit Freeway and the Detroit River Freeway. It is the only freeway in the state that is not signed as a major highway. It has a total length of about 35. 03 miles, which is backed up by official signage. It runs parallel to a CSX Transportation line through southern Wayne County. It also crosses over another NS railroad line also used by Amtrak trains from Chicago and Pontiac, US 12 and M-153 in Canton. It passes a campus of Wayne County Community College and the headquarters of the Visteon Corporation, a major auto parts supplier spun off from Ford Motor Company. In the city of Romulus, the freeway begins to take on a more suburban character when it passes the southwestern boundary of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. It turns to the north, running east of Carleton, crossing the Canadian National Railway and Conrail Shared Assets lines north of exit 5. At Will Carleton Road, the trunkline crosses into Wayne County, There it continues on a northerly path parallel to an CSX line. It crosses the Huron River at South Huron Road, adjacent to Willow Metropark. At the time the freeway from this interchange northward to Farmington Hills was opened to traffic to traffic, it was opened as dual dual-lane dual-highway I-277. It then turns north again, running parallel and to the east of Haggerty Road. It ends at the junction with M-14 along the boundary between Livonia and Plymouth Township.
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