Interstate 96
An intrastate route from Muskegon off Lake Michigan to the Ambassador Bridge at Detroit, Interstate 96 is a 194 mile long freeway in Michigan. I-96 heads east from U.S. 31 to Grand Rapids, which it encircles from Walker to Forest Hills. Unsigned I-296 overlaps with U.S. 131 south to Downtown and I-196 ties into Grand Rapids from Holland to the southwest.
Continuing east to Ionia County, I-96 travels to Portland and then Lansing. I-96 bypasses the capital city, overlapping with I-69 to the west. I-496 comprises an urban loop to the city center and State Capitol to the north. I-96 advances from I-496/U.S. 127 in Ingham County to Howell and Brighton in Livingston County. I-696 branches east from I-96 at Novi across the northern suburbs of Detroit.
Interstate 96 combines with I-275 south from I-696/M-5 at Farmington Hills to Livonia. The Jeffries Freeway leads the route east into the city of Detroit. I-96 expands with an Express/Local roadway configuration from Exit 180 with Outer Drive W to Exit 186A at Wyoming Avenue. I-96 runs alongside I-75 (Fisher Freeway) by Corktown west of Downtown Detroit to the ramps for the Ambassador Bridge spanning the Detroit River to Windsor in Ontario, Canada.
I-96 east at the directional cloverleaf interchange (Exit 106) with I-496/U.S. 127 north in Delhi Township. I-496 overlaps with U.S. 127 north to East Lansing en route to Downtown Lansing. Replacing U.S. 27 in 2002, U.S. 127 constitutes a freeway south to Jackson and north to St. Johns.
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Interstate 496 comprises a 11.83 mile long urban loop through the capital city. The freeway was fully completed by 1970.1
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I-96 (Jeffries Freeway) angles 1.1 miles southeast from the Maplewood Avenue overpass to Exit 190A for Interstate 94. I-94 links Detroit with Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) at Romulus.
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A multi level systems interchange joins I-96 (Jeffries Freeway) with I-94 (Edsel Ford Freeway) at Exit 190A. I-94 heads southwest from Detroit to Dearborn, Melvindale, and Allen Park and continues northeast toward Hamtramck.
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Interstate 94 continues northeast through Detroit to I-69 at Port Huron. Westward the freeway continues to Ann Arbor, Jackson, and Chicago, Illinois.
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I-96 advances 1.25 miles southeast from the exchange with I-94 to Interstate 75. I-75 comprises the main route between Toledo and Downtown Detroit. The route travels 395.40 miles in the state.
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Exit 190B departs just beyond I-94 onto the Jeffries Freeway service road ahead of Warren Avenue. Warren Avenue heads east to Wayne State University and west to north Dearborn.
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Motorists destined for Canada are partitioned to either Interstate 75 north to M-10 (John Lodge Freeway) east for the Windsor Tunnel or the exit for Vernor Highway to the Ambassador Bridge.
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A three-wye interchange connects I-96 east with I-75 (Fisher Freeway) south to Lincoln Park, Southgate and Monroe. M-10 converges with Interstate 75 outside of Downtown by the North Corktown neighborhood.
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A half diamond interchange at Exit 191 joins I-96 with Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. U.S. 12 (Michigan Avenue) crosses nearby from Dearborn into the Corktown neighborhood west of Downtown.
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Ramps to Interstate 75 north partition into connections to the freeway mainline north of Downtown and a collector distributor roadway to M-10 and the Detroit Civic Center / Cobo Arena and Hall.
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Completed in July 2009 as part of the $230 million Ambassador Bridge Gateway Project, the interchange joining I-75/96 was reconstructed. The project was designed to improve access for the Ambassador Bridge to Windsor, Ontario.
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I-96 east parallels southbound I-75 to Exit 192A for Vernor Highway and Exit 192B for the Ambassador Bridge.
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Exit 192A joins the Fisher Freeway service road ahead of Vernor Highway. Vernor Highway leads west to Dix Street and the Springwells community and east to U.S. 12 (Michigan Avenue).
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The Ambassador Bridge appears beyond the Bagley Pedestrian Bridge. The tolled suspension bridge joins I-75/96 with King's Highway 3 (Huron Church Road) in Windsor, Ontario. Operated by the Detroit International Bridge Company, the span opened on November 14, 1929.
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Vernor Highway crosses over I-96, 0.75 miles north of the diamond interchange (Exit 47A) connecting I-75 with Clark Street at Mexicantown.
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Constructed during the Gateway Project, the flyover at Exit 192B leads directly to the Ambassador Bridge. Left Exit 47C loops from Interstate 75 south back to Vernor Highway.
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Linking I-96 with 36th Street SE north of Gerald R. Ford International Airport (GRR), a directional T interchange was added at Exit 44 in 2005. 36th Street heads west through a cluster of warehouses and other industrial buildings to Patterson Avenue north of the airport terminal.
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- Ryan Pooya: 08/29/07, 09/07/09, 09/29/09
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Page Updated Friday August 06, 2021.