Interstate 69 in Michigan
I-69 is a state trunkline highway that enters the state south of Coldwater and passes the cities of Lansing and Flint in the Lower Peninsula. The freeway was not included on the original Interstate Highway System planning maps in the mid-1950s, but it was added in 1958 along a shorter route. The first freeway segment designated as I-69 in Michigan opened in 1967, and the last was completed in 1992. The entire highway is listed on the National Highway System, which is a network of roadways important to the country’s economy, defense, and mobility.
About Interstate 69 in Michigan in brief
I-69 is a state trunkline highway that enters the state south of Coldwater and passes the cities of Lansing and Flint in the Lower Peninsula. The freeway was not included on the original Interstate Highway System planning maps in the mid-1950s, but it was added in 1958 along a shorter route. The first freeway segment designated as I-69 in Michigan opened in 1967, and the last was completed in 1992. The entire highway is listed on the National Highway System, which is a network of roadways important to the country’s economy, defense, and mobility. It carries 91,100 vehicles on average each day between I-475 and M-54 in Flint and 14,085 vehicles between M-53 and Capac Road near the Lapeer–St. Clair county line, the highest and lowest traffic counts in 2012. It is mostly a four-lane freeway in the state of Michigan, with exceptions in the Lansing and Flint metro areas where it is six lanes and in Port Huron where it is three lanes westbound and three lanes eastbound until eastbound traffic splits into six lanes of local traffic to Port Hur on and two lanes to the Blue Water Bridge. US 27 previously ran concurrently with I- 69 from the Indiana–Michigan state line north to the Lansing area, but this designation was removed in 2002. The freeway carries the Lake Huron Circle Tour in the PortHuron area and the I-67 Recreational Heritage Route from theIndiana state line to the Calhoun–Eaton county line.
The entirety of I-68 is listed as part of the U.S. Highway System and is expected to be completed by the end of the 20th century. It will eventually run from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border atPort Huron, Michigan. It was added to the Interstate Highway system in the 1960s and the state was granted additional Interstate mileage in 1968 to extend I-70 north and east to Flint. The highway is a north–south freeway from the Indiana–Michigan border to the Lansing area. It changes direction to east–west after running concurrently with I-96. The Interstate will run from Texas to Canada in the 2030s, when it will be extended from the Texas border to the Canada border in the 1990s. It ends in the middle of the twin-span Blue Water Bridge while running concurrently with I-94 at the border. There are four related business loops, connecting the freeway to adjacent cities, including the first M-29, US Highway 27, M-78 and M-21. It also has a junction with the Battle Creek River and an interchange with M-50, a former routing of the former US Highway 27, next to the next end of the business loop for the city of Farther Farthers. It turns northward and bypasses Tekonsha to the town’s west, intersecting M-60 in the process. It continues northward through southern Calhoun County.
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