Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/January 2017

1955 map of the proposed Michigan Turnpike

• ... that a proposed Michigan Turnpike (map pictured) would have run through the Detroit area if the State Highway Commissioner did not stall it until the creation of the Interstate Highway System made the proposal obsolete?
• ... that US 45 runs from Mobile, Alabama, to Ontonagon in the Upper Peninsula?
• ... that M-168 in Elberta previously connected to a car ferry dock?
• ... that M-154 is one of three state highways on an island?
• ... that M-80 serves the Chippewa County International Airport on the site of the former Kinross Air Force Base?