Interstate 96
Interstate 96 is an east–west Interstate Highway that runs for approximately 192 miles in Michigan. The western terminus is at an interchange with US Highway 31 southeast of Muskegon. The eastern terminus of I-96 is at I-75 near the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. There are four auxiliary Interstates as well as two current and four former business routes associated with I- 96.
About Interstate 96 in brief
Interstate 96 is an east–west Interstate Highway that runs for approximately 192 miles in Michigan. The western terminus is at an interchange with US Highway 31 and Business US 31 southeast of Muskegon. The eastern terminus of I-96 is at I-75 near the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. The freeway parallels Grand River Avenue, never straying more than a few miles from the decommissioned US 16. The portion within the city of Detroit was renamed by the state legislature as the Rosa Parks Memorial Highway in December 2005 in honor of the late civil rights pioneer. There are four auxiliary Interstates as well as two current and four former business routes associated with I- 96. All of the highway is included in the National Highway System, a network of roads important to the country’s economy, defense, and mobility. In 2011, the department’s traffic surveys showed that on average, 201,200 vehicles used the highway daily between 6 and 7 Mile roads in Livonia. The segment from Livonia west to I-275 is the Jeffries Freeway, named for a former mayor of Detroit, Edward Jeffries. The highway was completed on November 21, 1977, in the Detroit area, closing the last gap along the route. It is part of the larger State Trunkline Highway System and the U.S. Numbered Highway System. It was originally known as M-16 and later the United States Numbered. Highway System as US-16. In 1919, it was added to the State Trunksline Highway system and the US Numbered highway system.
It has been named the Interstate Highway System since the mid-20th century. It runs from Norton Shores, Michigan, to Grand Rapids, Michigan. It also runs from Grand Rapids through Lansing to Detroit. It ends at an intersection with US 131 and Business US-131 next to the East River crossing of the Grand Rapids River. It then heads eastward toward Coopersville and ends at the junction with M-37. At the end of the freeway, the two run concurrently past the iconic weatherball, WZZM-TV studios with its 16-foot sphere 100 feet above the ground. It turns northeasterly past a commercial area to a three-quarter cloverleaf interchange that provides all of the commercial area’s commercial connections with all other connections with the other connections of the other Interstates. The Wayne County section is named the Jeffry Freeway from its easternterminus to the junction with I-275 and M-14. It continues eastward through a light industrial area of Walker as it enters the suburbs of Grand Rapids metropolitan area. Near Ironwood Drive, the freeway turns southeastly again and goes through Marne. Beyond Marne, I-95 passes the western end of M-11 and crosses into Kent County, curving around a rest area for the eastbound lanes. After a distance of about five miles in the county, the trunkline reaches Nunica.
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This page is based on the article Interstate 96 published in Wikipedia (as of Nov. 14, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence.
