Tell us you are a Republican without saying you are a Republican. But honestly my biggest problem is that he pardoned Nixon. In all fairness, he wasn't a bad President. It's just that he's been dead since 2006. Or he is 111 years old.
As a Michigander who lives in Grand Rapids, and frequently travels most of this interstate to go watch the Lions games in Detroit, this was so cool to see almost every slide be somewhere I recognized. Thanks for showing I-96 Todd!
Been looking forward to this one since I live just north of Kalamazoo, even though I knew this would be a cut and dry highway. Michigan usually hits it on the mark with their control cities anyway. Well done.
I-96 DEFINITELY HAS GOOD CONTROL AND NAVIGATION CITIES!!! I'm not gonna even bother to put up a Sam Sedd's "The Way it Should Be" for I-96! Todd's "The Way it Should Be" is basically the way it is all the way, so GREAT SIGNAGE FOR I-96, MICHIGAN!!!
Holland's a major tourist destination in the Midwest in the summer because of the tulip festival. Keeping it on there makes sense; I'd go three cities to add Chicago.
I-275 is pretty interesting at the 696 interchange. MDOT and map makers designate the concurrency between 96 and 275 as such, but the FHWA does not recognize 275 as continuing north from its interchange with 96.
M-5 is sort of a memorial of cancelled freeways. The north-sout part of 5 north of 96 was planned as I-275 toward Pontiac. The east-west freeway part of 5 south of I-696 through Farmington Hills and Farmington was planned as I-96 toward Detroit.
Also, 275 wasn't supposed to end there as planned. It was supposed to weave through western Oakland county and meet up with 75 somewhere near Clarkston.
@@MyManEarlwhich I presume is why 275 is signed north of the 96/14 interchange. makes some sense .... but since 275 isn't going to be extended north of the 5/696 interchange, it should just get truncated at 96/14.
I-96 is the last real 2 dig interstate (apart from I-42). I-97 is less than 20 miles and goes through only 1 county. I-99 is out of grid, incomplete and has not 1 but 2 breezwood style interchanges.
He can still do a video sooner for the completed sections, Although I-42 won’t be 100% finished till the 2030s, parts of it are already finished & officially I-42, just unsigned
I-99 is a little different ... I-99 could be extended down US15 to Williamsport, as US15 has been upgraded to interstate standards ... it could be signed any day now, but I assume that it won't be until 99 is connected to 80. portions of US220 (which 99 will follow from US15 to I-80) need to be upgraded ... and the other I-80/US220 interchange needs to be upgraded too (not the one already being upgraded). as of the US15 segment, as well as parts of the US220 segment, of future I-99 already has had its exit numbers switched to what they would be for 99.
14:46 Gerald Ford is our greatest _living_ president? Well, I guess the airport was named while he was still alive. Ford passed in late 2006 I believe. And he didn't "invent cars" - you're probably thinking Henry Ford, who also didn't invent cars but made major breakthroughs in car manufacturing.
Fellow road enthusiast here, and I really love your series. I'm surprised that nobody from Michigan has pointed this out to you yet. I grew up there, and nobody in Michigan refers to their state highways as state route xx. It's always M-xx, as in M5, M39, M102, or whatever. Just thought you might appreciate a little bit of local insight. On another side note, I'm moving to Alaska soon and hopefully you might do a series on the Alaska interstates. Maybe? Anyway, appreciate you man.
In Kansas it's always K-10, K-32, etc. In KC metro "10 Highway" is also acceptable, but people do that with Interstates and US Highways as well, like how SoCal does "The XY"
@@ControlCityFreakthat is what makes America interesting, all the local variations on how to say the same thing, especially with place names. Growing up near Charlotte and Reading Michigan I have to remind myself the town in Pennsylvania pronounces it wrong. 😉
Davison Ave is noteworthy because a bit further east of I-96 it becomes the Davison Freeway, the first controlled-access below-grade freeway in the United States.
Thank you for sharing, I’m a Michigander that has traveled the whole entire length of I-96, I also live at the southern end of U.S.131 in White Pigeon, Mi
Looks like you covered all the important stuff, thanks! A few notes: - 96 doesn’t really give off good views of downtown Grand Rapids, you’re better off with finding them on US-131 and I-196 if you plan to do videos on those two. - The correct control city for US-127 should have been Mount Pleasant as it is the next major place it goes to, it’s a college town as that’s where Central Michigan University is. I’m surprised they didn’t sign Mount Pleasant from the split with 496. - I-275 was meant to continue northward to the northern Oakland County suburbs, ending near Holly, but it wasn’t meant to be as it was meant with opposition from Michigan US senator Carl Levin and environmentalist groups. M-5 actually was the path that 275 was supposed to follow to Holly, as it is a freeway for a short while then turns into a major divided highway. M-5 is a freeway in the southern Oakland County suburbs and then follows Grand River Avenue, one of the main boulevards of Detroit’s street plan near 8 Mile. - The Southfield Freeway will take you to Dearborn, where Ford Motor Company’s world headquarters are if you go south. Northbound takes you to the suburb it was named for - Southfield - Davison Ave is Michigan Highway 8 (M-8), which was supposed to be a continuation of the Davison Freeway, the nation’s first urban-depressed freeway. It first opened during World War II and serves as a nice shortcut to the Lodge Freeway in case traffic on I-75 is bad and you wanna get to Downtown Detroit faster. It was meant for the auto workers in Highland Park at that time so they could get to work faster, before that suburb was abandoned in the 70s and 80s when Chrysler moved to Auburn Hills. You can access the freeway from either I-75 of M-10. - Spartan Stadium and the Breslin Center are located more north of I-496 which is why you weren’t able to cover it. Some members of my family are Michigan State alumni and fans, as well as some of my friends. - Speaking of MSU basketball, I was wondering if you were still salty about 2009, as that was the year Sparty knocked off then-defending national champion Kansas in the Sweet 16 before they ultimately fell in the championship game to North Carolina. - On I-696 I was surprised that Warren hasn’t been made a control city for it by now. I would make a good case for it - Warren is the third largest city in Michigan, the largest Metro Detroit suburb, and the GM Technical Center is located there. Oh, and it’s where Eminem grew up. So I’m kinda surprised MDOT didn’t sign 696 for Warren. I would have done it until at least the exit for M-53. You could also make a case for Royal Oak or Southfield too, at least for Westbound. You ever thought about doing a future video on the other Detroit freeways (M-8, M-10, M-39, I-696)? It’s an interesting subject to cover, as the former three are among the first urban freeways ever built and remain very historically significant to America’s freeway system and also Detroit history as a whole. 696 is worthy of a vid because the history behind it is interesting. I’d volunteer to make that video for your channel, but I’m unfortunately too bogged down at the moment. Well, can’t wait to see the two most questionable 2-digit interstates next! Especially the trainwreck that is I-99.
Thanks! Yeah will delve into more Detroit and other major metro freeways at some point. Not too salty about 2009, we were fresh off a chip and we lost something like 7 of our top 9 guys to the League and/or graduation.
15:07 Holland is a major city (not big) but has a major tourism draw every May for Tulip Time, and as a local of the Holland area, every hotel is sold out.
You said in this video that 96 is the northernmost interstate. Isn’t 94 in Minnesota and North Dakota farther north? Also can we add the Muskegon-Milwaukee ferry to the interstate system?
A few interesting notes. Charlotte is so pronounced due to the founder. He had a family member named Charlotte(same pronunciation as NC) but he didn’t want to acknowledge the South and their thoughts on things like slavery. If you go west on I-496 you’ll notice that there’s a gap showing possible eastbound lanes. Back in the mid 70s I-69 was supposed to go straight past the aforementioned Charlotte head north and then turn east and meet with 496 at what is now 96/69. Through Lansing 69 took numerous routes, including expressway concurrence with 496 to 127 and then through East Lansing to Perry where it became expressway again. The opposition to it was so strong and numerous politicians tan on and succeeded in saving acres and acres of farm land. The current 69 stretches from Charlotte to Lansing and East Lansing to Perry was finally completed in the early 90. 2 decades or so after construction stopped in Charlotte. The main reason for Pontiac being a main city on an exit so far away is due to “emergency” 96. Many expressways here have that designation.
According to Wikipedia, the section of US-131 between I-196 and I-96 is legally known as I-296. They decided to remove 296 from the signs because it was confusing.
We are two weeks before the main interstates are complete. Will you do the auxillary interstates next or other highways or maybe foreign highways? Also, I-96 replaces US 16 from Muskegon to Detroit as you can see here.
Question: why is 196 an offbranch of 96 and not 94? Its purpose is to connect I-94 and Grand Rapids? Also 696 should not be a separate freeway. I don’t know if 96 or 275 should be rerouted onto it, but if it’s 96, then current 96 east of 275 should be 675
Sorry, not sure why but it never showed up. When I search 96 and From Superthanks I didn't see it, and even searching your handle only brings up this specific comment.
I'll add a bit of color around the signage for Cadillac. The Cadillac/Houghton Lake area is a fairly well-traveled destination for Michiganders heading "up north," particularly for hunting season. I get that Cadillac may seem fairly random for an out-of-stater, but it's pretty well known to natives of the mitten.
It also is where 131 stops being a freeway (used to now it goes a little farther to Manton), and it meets M-115 there, which is good for getting diagonally where you need to go lol
Ford Airport doesn't get an overhead sign on 96 because access to it from the freeway is super awkward. There are plans to build a direct connection to the airport at the 36th Street interchange.
You should do a video on US 127 in Michigan, going from Jackson to Grayling, where it meets with I-75. There is an 18 mile stretch between St. Johns and Ithaca where it's a four lane road with a railroad crossing. Plus there's a popular rest area in Clare.
Grand Havenites would be insulted to be called a suburb of Muskegon. It's smaller and close by but definitely its own place. 31 also becomes a drawbridge and then a surface boulevard there, which is why it gets the control city.
8:10 The exit at Davison Avenue was meant to be a freeway continuation of the Davison Freeway from the Lodge (M-10) to the Jeffries (I-96). 12:26: M-5 North would best be signed as "12 Mile Road" at that point.
For the upcoming I-99 video, I am requesting Exit 69 (nice) northbound - although the exit tab is missing on a couple of the BGS - and Exit 73. Great views of Beaver Stadium - the second largest stadium in the country - and Mount Nittany on the flyover ramp. #WeAre... Penn State! Keep on truckin'!
7:17 - the suburb you were at just before passing US-24 was Redford Township. Plus they hardly put any control cities on US-24 signs, don’t know why either, it would be northbound for Pontiac? Southbound for Toledo? 7:43 - thanks! Just a thought: The eastbound Express lanes don’t have an exit off to M-39, but there’s an eastbound entrance onto eastbound 96 Express. If you saw the westbound Express lanes, there it is exit to M-39… but no way to get onto westbound Express. 8:34 - 95 north Flint? 😂
I-96 has SEVEN Grand River Avenue exits, as the roads essentially run the same path until Grand Rapids. (It's 8 exits, if you count Cascade Road, which is the same street with a different name.) Is that a record for most times a simple named street has exits on the same highway? I've always wondered this driving on 96.
To answer your question as to why 275 and 696 both end at 96 instead of one triple digit bypass. Is because 275 was meant to connect back to 75 (hence the even number) and they extend the roadway north Via M5. Every few years they extend the roadway north as an arterial road until you get into Commerce where local opposition has killed further extensions for the time being but traffic problems are changing opinion.
My first time going to MI was a business trip to Novi right next to the I-96/I-275/I-696/MI 5 interchange. On the one hand, it was roadgeek heaven; on the other hand, I couldn't figure out which river was granted deity status whenever I saw the "Gd River" signs 😂.
I'm with you. Is it so hard to put 3 more letters on these huge signs to spell out Grand. They had no problem spelling out Muskegon and all the other cities. Maybe they just wanted to have GD on signs most of the way across Michigan. Michigan is fairly long word, maybe I should abbreviate it... Mi-gan, Michin?
Ive driven on this road so many times on my own, its honestly a nice drive when theres no traffic. The dan ryan kind of section is unnerving at first but still a good drive
I can see the logic for GR residents ... but I am guessing MDOT opted not to do that cuz 96 traffic from Flint would likely take 69S to 94W for that ... traffic from Port Huron would just stay on 69 ... and traffic from Detroit would not be on 96 altogether. so it made sense in their collective to put Holland (the western terminus for 196), where if drivers would see Chicago at the 94W exit ramp.
At least the mile marker sign after the Lane Ave exit lists Chicago, as do most of those signs on the route. I think "Holland / Chicago" and then just either "Benton Harbor / Chicago" or just "Chicago" makes the most sense on 196. In addition to GR residents, a lot of people from up north would be taking 131 to 196 to get to Chicago, so it makes sense to sign it. If you search Sault Saint Marie to Chicago, it routes you down the Mackinaw Bridge to 127, cutting to 131, then through downtown GR to 196.
I think the reason why 696 and 275 are separate numbers is that 696 goes east-west and 275 goes north-south. To be honest, I'm not sure why 275 doesn't just end at the I-96/M-14/I-275 interchange. Would make more sense.
@@danhobson2879 I was looking for this comment, 275 was supposed to be extended but they scrapped it and whats left of that plan is the haggerty connector of M 5
I-275 was planned to reconnect with I-75 in the Clarkston area, but it was shot down by the residents of Oakland County as they did not want an expressway cutting through areas where neighborhoods with many small lakes are present (environmental and property value reasons). I don't believe I-275 continues past I-96 and M-14 interchange according to the National Highway System, only the MDOT continues to recognize it to the Mixing Bowl interchange (I-696 and M-5).
14:47 Not to disappoint you, but Gerald Ford is NOT our greatest "living" president (only because he passed away in 2006). Other than that. another great informative video!
Thanks! For I-97 can you do exit 12 for Rt. 3 for Glen Burnie. I've only been on I-97 once in my entire life back in 2020 and I needed to go to that exit.
Whenever you do H3, I'd like to see Exit 14. I'm originally from the KC area and a fellow Jayhawk fan, but I've been in Hawaii for a couple years now and recently moved to Kailua, so this exit is now part of my daily commute.
I've only been in the Gd Rapids area a couple of times, but I remember the first time because the GPS would actually say "G-D Rapids" rather than saying "Grand Rapids." The odd need to eliminate three letters to shorten "Grand" has always puzzled me.
The 96, 275, 696, M-5 interchange is that way because M-5 North wasn't supposed to exist, Instead 275 was supposed to continue north weaving between local lakes until reaching where 19 1/2 mile road is and rejoining 75 just outside of Pontiac. And as that was my commute for four years,.. I would have rather it been completed as planned.
At the US-23 exit, what is now the distributor/collector lanes for the exit ramps used to be the the main carriageways...A few years ago, MDOT built the now main carriageways in the middle On 96 to the east, and 23 to the south, MDOT is building "flex" lanes in the medians to help with the morning/evening commutes to Ann Arbor and the NW Detroit suburbs
I’m a little surprised you didn’t mention that so many if not all of the Michigan state route shields on the BGS interstate signage lack the little “M” that distinguishes the Michigan shields from the North Carolina shields having the same diamond-type shape. You could have had some fun in the Eastbound direction at the M-50 interchange by pretending that this interchange is for NC 50 going to the “big” Charlotte.😊
Does any other state have as many long distance intercity US Highway freeways as Michigan? 131, 127, 23, and 10 could be interstates 67, 73, 875, and 98, but they all have portions that aren't interstate standard. And Michigan does not care about making them interstates.
I99 is going to be messy with control cities. Southbound from Corning should be Pittsburgh for those Syracuse fans driving to Pitt for a game as it leads to i80. Then the PA section southbound from i80 its state college then I76 (philly east Pittsburgh west) northbound state college then i80. Hawaii interstates will be interesting. Just cannot wait for H-3 in Oahu
i-275 was originally planned to go all the way to Flint. That was cancelled because of all of the wet lands and lakes between I-275 and Flint. M-5 was an after thought. I am surprised that "Davison" was not signed M-8. It's been a numbered highway for a few years now.
I 96 is one interstate then I can say I’ve traveled on. I have only been on it from where you exit off of US 23 in Ann Arbor until the grand rapids exit. I would then get on US 131 for about 34 miles until the Newaygo exit. I’ve been to Muskegon a couple of times but never on 96.
@@pzdf8v I think ive travelled I-77 end to end, but thats it. US 421 peaks my interest, but I don't know if Ill ever get to travel the northern part. Its a north-south highway but runs east-west direction in NC, especially from Greensboro to Boone.
so I think 275 was supposed to split from its parent in Monroe and I think the idea was for it to meet up again somewhere north of the suburbs but instead we got m5 which ends shortly there after on Martin parkway so yeah I think they should end 275 at 14 and 96 especially since they use 96 mileage markers
14:40 there are no overhead signs for GRR/ Gerald R Ford International Airport, and I’ve driven on I-196 at the M-6 interchange, this point, and on M-6, so I confidently say that
Was planning to do AK and PR after HI, but after researching their Interstates a bit, I'm not. They are all unsigned, and the routes they follow are sections of other signed and more well-known roads. I'll cover the more well known routes at some point, but not in the next month.
I wonder if the reason why the 96 shield is on the sign with 75 is they are planning on duplexing it down and have the US side of the Gordie Howie Bridge is part of I-96. I would love to see that then the sign could say I-75/96 Toldeo Toronto.
The closest thing to another palindrome concurrency is I-44 and I-55 in St. Louis since it’s a concurrency of two double number interstates. And an interesting thing about I-196 is that half of the route is signed east-west and then becomes north-south. I-180 in PA is also half east-west and half north-south but it’s signed east-west throughout it’s route
That i44 with i55 alignment was recent because they built a bridge around downtown for i70. They put i44 for the old route. In all honesty they should rename I44 to I50 and the leg to witcha falls I33. Theres no I50 nor I60. I64 should also be renamed to I60.
@@timbo303official9 They used to try not to have an interstate and US highway with the same number in the same state except in California, which is so long north to south, and 24 in Illinois. So on the even side, 44 and 64 are (were?) consecutive.
To correct something Todd mentioned regarding the freeway originally intended for the Davison Ave exit in Detroit, the freeway was not completed due to opposition from neighborhoods directly effected by it in the 1950s. The Davison Freeway (M-8) only exists between M-10 to just a mile to two east past I-75 and based on my understanding, was the first full functioning expressway in the US at the time. There was no plans for this expressway to reach I-275 unless it was within the original routing for I-96, now M-5 South.
To clarify my comment in the original superthanks, the freeway would gone from 96/Davison, through the existing Davison Freeway, then to 696/Mound, and then connect to what is now the M-53 Freeway. And then from there to...Imlay City/I-69?
@@ChristopherKhorey You're on the right track here sir. The original plan for the Davison Freeway was to connect the I-96 to the what-would-have-been extension of the Van Dyke Freeway (North-South) to around the Davison-Mound intersection, north of Hamtramck. The Van Dyke Freeway (M-53) currently exists been 17 Mile and 34 Mile Roads, although there are a couple non-interstate intersections that also exist on the Romeo Bypass (between 27 and 34 Mile Roads). This original planning would explain the over-engineered interchange monstrosity we know and "love" at 696/Mound.
Maybe the reason for I 275 and I 96. I 96 was one of the last sections to be completed from I 275 to I 75 . Flint not being mentioned is stange. You go east on I 694 to I 75. But more congestion. I 96 to US 23 less traffic. Guess now more people are dependent on GPS then Control city signs .
The M-5 Freeway stub that goes into Farmington was supposed to be the route of I-96, and meet the stub built to the northwest from it's starting point at I-75 (near Tiger Stadium's hallowed grounds), but Mayor Coleman Young was the leader in the freeway revolt that led MDOT to build the remainder of the freeway along Schoolcraft Rd from I-275 to Davison Ave
If you add the time I've been on every other freeway in the country and add it together it doesn't add up to half the time I've spent on 96. Of my 54 years 41 have been in Michigan and 39 of those years have been within 2 miles of I-96.
I used to live in Michigan in my preteen years and back then I-96 took the M5 fork of the wye interchange just east of the I-275 split. It bypassed Farmington on the town's south side and merged with Grand River Avenue and became Business Spur 96. Originally it was supposed to parallel the avenue all the way to the I-94 interchange and then head right for the Ambassador Bridge just like it does now. But some MDOT genius decided to route I-96 along Schoolcraft Road until it meets I-275. I-275 originally was supposed to run north through several areas of critical environmental concern until it would have met I-75 due east of Howell, hence the duplex route signing.
I don’t think signing Toledo east of 275 makes sense. I think it should be “Downtown Detroit/Ambassador Bridge” and Toronto should be signed on the ambassador bridge because that’s where the freeway it joins in Canada goes
Kinda anticlimactic that the 3 final mainline Continental US interstates are all short intrastate routes. Especially after spending over a month on the behemoth of I-95
Gerald Ford, “our greatest living President.” 😂
I-70 in Eagle County, CO is also named after Gerald Ford, as he had property in Beaver Creek, and was instrumental in the development of Vail Valley
Tell us you are a Republican without saying you are a Republican. But honestly my biggest problem is that he pardoned Nixon.
In all fairness, he wasn't a bad President. It's just that he's been dead since 2006. Or he is 111 years old.
As a Michigander who lives in Grand Rapids, and frequently travels most of this interstate to go watch the Lions games in Detroit, this was so cool to see almost every slide be somewhere I recognized.
Thanks for showing I-96 Todd!
I was born in GR and mainly grew up in Grand Haven until moving to Texas in 2011. Was waiting for I 96 for awhile lol.
Cool 😎 that you're doing the Hawaii interstates before the 3 digits...
Been looking forward to this one since I live just north of Kalamazoo, even though I knew this would be a cut and dry highway. Michigan usually hits it on the mark with their control cities anyway. Well done.
Thanks!
5 North just ventures into some suburbs.
@@kevinjeffrey8449 Pontiac, Walled Lake, West Bloomfield, or Commerce would all be better than nothing, though.
I-96 DEFINITELY HAS GOOD CONTROL AND NAVIGATION CITIES!!! I'm not gonna even bother to put up a Sam Sedd's "The Way it Should Be" for I-96! Todd's "The Way it Should Be" is basically the way it is all the way, so GREAT SIGNAGE FOR I-96, MICHIGAN!!!
Holland's a major tourist destination in the Midwest in the summer because of the tulip festival. Keeping it on there makes sense; I'd go three cities to add Chicago.
On I-96, you can be doing 96 mph in the right lane with a bunch of other cars, and be being passed by cars going well over 100 on the left lane.
I can confirm. I-696 is the american autobahn
On what part of the interstate does this happen? Every time I'm on 96 I get stuck behind people doing 60 in the fast lane.
I-275 is pretty interesting at the 696 interchange. MDOT and map makers designate the concurrency between 96 and 275 as such, but the FHWA does not recognize 275 as continuing north from its interchange with 96.
Babe wake up, Control City Freak just uploaded
M-5 is sort of a memorial of cancelled freeways. The north-sout part of 5 north of 96 was planned as I-275 toward Pontiac. The east-west freeway part of 5 south of I-696 through Farmington Hills and Farmington was planned as I-96 toward Detroit.
Also, 275 wasn't supposed to end there as planned. It was supposed to weave through western Oakland county and meet up with 75 somewhere near Clarkston.
@@MyManEarlwhich I presume is why 275 is signed north of the 96/14 interchange. makes some sense .... but since 275 isn't going to be extended north of the 5/696 interchange, it should just get truncated at 96/14.
I-96 is the last real 2 dig interstate (apart from I-42). I-97 is less than 20 miles and goes through only 1 county. I-99 is out of grid, incomplete and has not 1 but 2 breezwood style interchanges.
I-99 was created by Congress and only congress can fix it
It’s gonna be a while until he does I-42. I-42 is supposed to be completed by the early 2030’s.
He can still do a video sooner for the completed sections, Although I-42 won’t be 100% finished till the 2030s, parts of it are already finished & officially I-42, just unsigned
@@zimz1096Todd doesn't seem to be a fan of disjointed interstate segments (which North Carolina has a lot of) 😂😂 so he probably won't do that one.
I-99 is a little different ... I-99 could be extended down US15 to Williamsport, as US15 has been upgraded to interstate standards ... it could be signed any day now, but I assume that it won't be until 99 is connected to 80. portions of US220 (which 99 will follow from US15 to I-80) need to be upgraded ... and the other I-80/US220 interchange needs to be upgraded too (not the one already being upgraded). as of the US15 segment, as well as parts of the US220 segment, of future I-99 already has had its exit numbers switched to what they would be for 99.
14:46 Gerald Ford is our greatest _living_ president? Well, I guess the airport was named while he was still alive. Ford passed in late 2006 I believe. And he didn't "invent cars" - you're probably thinking Henry Ford, who also didn't invent cars but made major breakthroughs in car manufacturing.
Fellow road enthusiast here, and I really love your series. I'm surprised that nobody from Michigan has pointed this out to you yet. I grew up there, and nobody in Michigan refers to their state highways as state route xx. It's always M-xx, as in M5, M39, M102, or whatever. Just thought you might appreciate a little bit of local insight. On another side note, I'm moving to Alaska soon and hopefully you might do a series on the Alaska interstates. Maybe? Anyway, appreciate you man.
I have pointed this out in the past, its jarring to hear someone to say State Highway 10.
I was born in Michigan but live in Colorado and neither state refers to state highways that way. Do you find it unusual?
In Kansas it's always K-10, K-32, etc. In KC metro "10 Highway" is also acceptable, but people do that with Interstates and US Highways as well, like how SoCal does "The XY"
@@ControlCityFreakthat is what makes America interesting, all the local variations on how to say the same thing, especially with place names. Growing up near Charlotte and Reading Michigan I have to remind myself the town in Pennsylvania pronounces it wrong. 😉
@@kneemeister Especially when everyone calls it "The Lodge", not M-10.
See also, "The Southfield" or just "Southfield."
Davison Ave is noteworthy because a bit further east of I-96 it becomes the Davison Freeway, the first controlled-access below-grade freeway in the United States.
Thank you for sharing, I’m a Michigander that has traveled the whole entire length of I-96, I also live at the southern end of U.S.131 in White Pigeon, Mi
Looks like you covered all the important stuff, thanks!
A few notes:
- 96 doesn’t really give off good views of downtown Grand Rapids, you’re better off with finding them on US-131 and I-196 if you plan to do videos on those two.
- The correct control city for US-127 should have been Mount Pleasant as it is the next major place it goes to, it’s a college town as that’s where Central Michigan University is. I’m surprised they didn’t sign Mount Pleasant from the split with 496.
- I-275 was meant to continue northward to the northern Oakland County suburbs, ending near Holly, but it wasn’t meant to be as it was meant with opposition from Michigan US senator Carl Levin and environmentalist groups. M-5 actually was the path that 275 was supposed to follow to Holly, as it is a freeway for a short while then turns into a major divided highway. M-5 is a freeway in the southern Oakland County suburbs and then follows Grand River Avenue, one of the main boulevards of Detroit’s street plan near 8 Mile.
- The Southfield Freeway will take you to Dearborn, where Ford Motor Company’s world headquarters are if you go south. Northbound takes you to the suburb it was named for - Southfield
- Davison Ave is Michigan Highway 8 (M-8), which was supposed to be a continuation of the Davison Freeway, the nation’s first urban-depressed freeway. It first opened during World War II and serves as a nice shortcut to the Lodge Freeway in case traffic on I-75 is bad and you wanna get to Downtown Detroit faster. It was meant for the auto workers in Highland Park at that time so they could get to work faster, before that suburb was abandoned in the 70s and 80s when Chrysler moved to Auburn Hills. You can access the freeway from either I-75 of M-10.
- Spartan Stadium and the Breslin Center are located more north of I-496 which is why you weren’t able to cover it. Some members of my family are Michigan State alumni and fans, as well as some of my friends.
- Speaking of MSU basketball, I was wondering if you were still salty about 2009, as that was the year Sparty knocked off then-defending national champion Kansas in the Sweet 16 before they ultimately fell in the championship game to North Carolina.
- On I-696 I was surprised that Warren hasn’t been made a control city for it by now. I would make a good case for it - Warren is the third largest city in Michigan, the largest Metro Detroit suburb, and the GM Technical Center is located there. Oh, and it’s where Eminem grew up. So I’m kinda surprised MDOT didn’t sign 696 for Warren. I would have done it until at least the exit for M-53. You could also make a case for Royal Oak or Southfield too, at least for Westbound.
You ever thought about doing a future video on the other Detroit freeways (M-8, M-10, M-39, I-696)? It’s an interesting subject to cover, as the former three are among the first urban freeways ever built and remain very historically significant to America’s freeway system and also Detroit history as a whole. 696 is worthy of a vid because the history behind it is interesting. I’d volunteer to make that video for your channel, but I’m unfortunately too bogged down at the moment.
Well, can’t wait to see the two most questionable 2-digit interstates next! Especially the trainwreck that is I-99.
Thanks! Yeah will delve into more Detroit and other major metro freeways at some point. Not too salty about 2009, we were fresh off a chip and we lost something like 7 of our top 9 guys to the League and/or graduation.
When I lived in Michigan as a preteen the Lodge (M10) was originally Business Spur 696.
Finally! I've been waiting for this when I started watching.
15:07 Holland is a major city (not big) but has a major tourism draw every May for Tulip Time, and as a local of the Holland area, every hotel is sold out.
You said in this video that 96 is the northernmost interstate. Isn’t 94 in Minnesota and North Dakota farther north?
Also can we add the Muskegon-Milwaukee ferry to the interstate system?
A few interesting notes.
Charlotte is so pronounced due to the founder. He had a family member named Charlotte(same pronunciation as NC) but he didn’t want to acknowledge the South and their thoughts on things like slavery.
If you go west on I-496 you’ll notice that there’s a gap showing possible eastbound lanes. Back in the mid 70s I-69 was supposed to go straight past the aforementioned Charlotte head north and then turn east and meet with 496 at what is now 96/69. Through Lansing 69 took numerous routes, including expressway concurrence with 496 to 127 and then through East Lansing to Perry where it became expressway again. The opposition to it was so strong and numerous politicians tan on and succeeded in saving acres and acres of farm land. The current 69 stretches from Charlotte to Lansing and East Lansing to Perry was finally completed in the early 90. 2 decades or so after construction stopped in Charlotte.
The main reason for Pontiac being a main city on an exit so far away is due to “emergency” 96. Many expressways here have that designation.
According to Wikipedia, the section of US-131 between I-196 and I-96 is legally known as I-296. They decided to remove 296 from the signs because it was confusing.
M-6 is what should be I-296.
@@dvferyance THAT would make more sense, but my guess is that MI-6 isn't built up to interstate standards.
We are two weeks before the main interstates are complete. Will you do the auxillary interstates next or other highways or maybe foreign highways? Also, I-96 replaces US 16 from Muskegon to Detroit as you can see here.
Question: why is 196 an offbranch of 96 and not 94? Its purpose is to connect I-94 and Grand Rapids?
Also 696 should not be a separate freeway. I don’t know if 96 or 275 should be rerouted onto it, but if it’s 96, then current 96 east of 275 should be 675
Not sure. Guessing because 96 is in GR and that's the largest city on 196.
You must have missed my Super Sticker. I was really hoping you would talk about unsigned I-296 when you covered the EB exit to 131 South. Bummer ....
Sorry, not sure why but it never showed up. When I search 96 and From Superthanks I didn't see it, and even searching your handle only brings up this specific comment.
Those Three Year Letterman references were hilarious.
No waterbed financing on this channel
I'll add a bit of color around the signage for Cadillac. The Cadillac/Houghton Lake area is a fairly well-traveled destination for Michiganders heading "up north," particularly for hunting season. I get that Cadillac may seem fairly random for an out-of-stater, but it's pretty well known to natives of the mitten.
It also is where 131 stops being a freeway (used to now it goes a little farther to Manton), and it meets M-115 there, which is good for getting diagonally where you need to go lol
Finally!! My intrastate!! Thanks for the shoutout!! By the way, it’s pronounced X-ay-vier
Ford Airport doesn't get an overhead sign on 96 because access to it from the freeway is super awkward. There are plans to build a direct connection to the airport at the 36th Street interchange.
Once you finished covering I-95 a big part of it collapsed between NJ and Philly, coincidence?
Yes. Karmic retribution for terrible control cities? Nah.
You should do a video on US 127 in Michigan, going from Jackson to Grayling, where it meets with I-75. There is an 18 mile stretch between St. Johns and Ithaca where it's a four lane road with a railroad crossing. Plus there's a popular rest area in Clare.
Wait until you cover 196 and it not being signed for Chicago at all for its entire length.
Can't wait for that one
Yeah he is not going to like seeing Benton Harbor over Chicago, especially considering 196 is the fastest route from up north to Chicago.
Grand Havenites would be insulted to be called a suburb of Muskegon. It's smaller and close by but definitely its own place.
31 also becomes a drawbridge and then a surface boulevard there, which is why it gets the control city.
I passed through once on that way to that water park in Muskegon. I was like 10 or 11 but it looked like a really nice town!
8:10 The exit at Davison Avenue was meant to be a freeway continuation of the Davison Freeway from the Lodge (M-10) to the Jeffries (I-96).
12:26: M-5 North would best be signed as "12 Mile Road" at that point.
Imagine driving down I-96 and you see a "Gd Rapids" sign!!
"I can't find these G**damn rapids!!"
"No that's GRAND Rapids"
For the upcoming I-99 video, I am requesting Exit 69 (nice) northbound - although the exit tab is missing on a couple of the BGS - and Exit 73. Great views of Beaver Stadium - the second largest stadium in the country - and Mount Nittany on the flyover ramp.
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Keep on truckin'!
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Here we go the beginning of the end for two digit interstates
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7:17 - the suburb you were at just before passing US-24 was Redford Township. Plus they hardly put any control cities on US-24 signs, don’t know why either, it would be northbound for Pontiac? Southbound for Toledo?
7:43 - thanks! Just a thought: The eastbound Express lanes don’t have an exit off to M-39, but there’s an eastbound entrance onto eastbound 96 Express. If you saw the westbound Express lanes, there it is exit to M-39… but no way to get onto westbound Express.
8:34 - 95 north Flint? 😂
I-96 has SEVEN Grand River Avenue exits, as the roads essentially run the same path until Grand Rapids. (It's 8 exits, if you count Cascade Road, which is the same street with a different name.)
Is that a record for most times a simple named street has exits on the same highway? I've always wondered this driving on 96.
Yeah that could be. Technically every exit on the southern half of the Dan Ryan in Chicago is for State Street, but I just count 6 exits
Can you make a list of all 3-digit Interstate in every state and the places it goes through?
Believe 275 was originally supposed to continue north and connect back up to 75 but was cancelled due to enviro and public opp reasons?
To answer your question as to why 275 and 696 both end at 96 instead of one triple digit bypass. Is because 275 was meant to connect back to 75 (hence the even number) and they extend the roadway north Via M5. Every few years they extend the roadway north as an arterial road until you get into Commerce where local opposition has killed further extensions for the time being but traffic problems are changing opinion.
My first time going to MI was a business trip to Novi right next to the I-96/I-275/I-696/MI 5 interchange. On the one hand, it was roadgeek heaven; on the other hand, I couldn't figure out which river was granted deity status whenever I saw the "Gd River" signs 😂.
My in-laws call it "God Damn River Avenue"
I'm with you. Is it so hard to put 3 more letters on these huge signs to spell out Grand. They had no problem spelling out Muskegon and all the other cities. Maybe they just wanted to have GD on signs most of the way across Michigan. Michigan is fairly long word, maybe I should abbreviate it... Mi-gan, Michin?
Ive driven on this road so many times on my own, its honestly a nice drive when theres no traffic. The dan ryan kind of section is unnerving at first but still a good drive
7:16 you know, if US 24 gets signed for Lawrence, Kansas, it would probably have to be on the condition that LIMON, Colorado is signed there, too.
No way, the toll is too high!
I agree, lived in Grand Rapids my whole life and I think they should sign Chicago, lots of people come and go from GR to Chicago
I can see the logic for GR residents ... but I am guessing MDOT opted not to do that cuz 96 traffic from Flint would likely take 69S to 94W for that ... traffic from Port Huron would just stay on 69 ... and traffic from Detroit would not be on 96 altogether. so it made sense in their collective to put Holland (the western terminus for 196), where if drivers would see Chicago at the 94W exit ramp.
At least the mile marker sign after the Lane Ave exit lists Chicago, as do most of those signs on the route. I think "Holland / Chicago" and then just either "Benton Harbor / Chicago" or just "Chicago" makes the most sense on 196. In addition to GR residents, a lot of people from up north would be taking 131 to 196 to get to Chicago, so it makes sense to sign it. If you search Sault Saint Marie to Chicago, it routes you down the Mackinaw Bridge to 127, cutting to 131, then through downtown GR to 196.
I think the reason why 696 and 275 are separate numbers is that 696 goes east-west and 275 goes north-south. To be honest, I'm not sure why 275 doesn't just end at the I-96/M-14/I-275 interchange. Would make more sense.
275 was planned to continue north towards Pontiac on Mich 5 but was scrapped because of NIMBYs.
@@danhobson2879 I was looking for this comment, 275 was supposed to be extended but they scrapped it and whats left of that plan is the haggerty connector of M 5
The south end of I-275 is at I-75 near Monroe. The plan had been for the north end of I-275 to be at I-75 near Pontiac.
I-275 was planned to reconnect with I-75 in the Clarkston area, but it was shot down by the residents of Oakland County as they did not want an expressway cutting through areas where neighborhoods with many small lakes are present (environmental and property value reasons). I don't believe I-275 continues past I-96 and M-14 interchange according to the National Highway System, only the MDOT continues to recognize it to the Mixing Bowl interchange (I-696 and M-5).
The FHWA says I-275 ends at 96 East/M-14
14:47 Not to disappoint you, but Gerald Ford is NOT our greatest "living" president (only because he passed away in 2006). Other than that. another great informative video!
Every time I see Gd Rapids, I want to say “Goddamn Rapids”!
Same!
MDOT seems to be moving away from Goddam Rapids to Grand Rapids. Which is a good sign.
@@brianmiddleton2956 Nice pun.
What Brian Middleton said. Signs on US 131 at on ramps are spelling out Grand Rapids, at least going north from Kalamazoo just like I-96.
Fun fact Kalamazoo is the home of the original Gibson guitar factory
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For I-97 can you do exit 12 for Rt. 3 for Glen Burnie.
I've only been on I-97 once in my entire life back in 2020 and I needed to go to that exit.
You got it, thanks!
Only a small break before you get to US-1! Interstate 95's father, This was a good video, Wonder what you will do once we hit interstate 99 or 100.
There’s no Interstate 100. He’ll probably do Hawaii interstates next.
Lol I’m not touching US 1 anytime soon
@@ControlCityFreak I was planning on doing US 401. It’s right by house and it’s an important highway in the area that I live in.
Whenever you do H3, I'd like to see Exit 14. I'm originally from the KC area and a fellow Jayhawk fan, but I've been in Hawaii for a couple years now and recently moved to Kailua, so this exit is now part of my daily commute.
Thanks, you got it!
You'll be doing the Hawaii vids after 🗽
Good morning Todd
4th!
I've only been on most of this road: Detroit to Grand Rapids
The Gr Haven sign at 1:50 refers to Grand Haven, as US-31 goes south through Grand Haven to Holland.
I've only been in the Gd Rapids area a couple of times, but I remember the first time because the GPS would actually say "G-D Rapids" rather than saying "Grand Rapids." The odd need to eliminate three letters to shorten "Grand" has always puzzled me.
The 96, 275, 696, M-5 interchange is that way because M-5 North wasn't supposed to exist, Instead 275 was supposed to continue north weaving between local lakes until reaching where 19 1/2 mile road is and rejoining 75 just outside of Pontiac. And as that was my commute for four years,.. I would have rather it been completed as planned.
At the US-23 exit, what is now the distributor/collector lanes for the exit ramps used to be the the main carriageways...A few years ago, MDOT built the now main carriageways in the middle
On 96 to the east, and 23 to the south, MDOT is building "flex" lanes in the medians to help with the morning/evening commutes to Ann Arbor and the NW Detroit suburbs
I’m a little surprised you didn’t mention that so many if not all of the Michigan state route shields on the BGS interstate signage lack the little “M” that distinguishes the Michigan shields from the North Carolina shields having the same diamond-type shape. You could have had some fun in the Eastbound direction at the M-50 interchange by pretending that this interchange is for NC 50 going to the “big” Charlotte.😊
Does any other state have as many long distance intercity US Highway freeways as Michigan?
131, 127, 23, and 10 could be interstates 67, 73, 875, and 98, but they all have portions that aren't interstate standard. And Michigan does not care about making them interstates.
Michigan would be tough to beat in that. Texas has a few but it seems they want to put a shield on most of them
Come on, Holland is famous for producing Kirk Cousins 😂😂😂😂
like 2 days after i go on it for the first time lol nice
I99 is going to be messy with control cities. Southbound from Corning should be Pittsburgh for those Syracuse fans driving to Pitt for a game as it leads to i80. Then the PA section southbound from i80 its state college then I76 (philly east Pittsburgh west) northbound state college then i80.
Hawaii interstates will be interesting. Just cannot wait for H-3 in Oahu
Technically not only one because there’s a currency and US Highway palindromes US 96 in US 69
Michigan has a lot of Grand places, which, of course, are GD places. One suburb of Lansing that 96 passes near is Gd Ledge, and it is signed as such.
And a major road Gd River which runs from Detroit to Lansing.
Grand Ledge has a double meaning. There are some very cool cliffs/ledges which are climbable and there are paths as well.
Not to mention the 7 Gd River Ave exits on 96. Someone at MDOT had a real creative idea for saving $500 on their lettering budget and it took off lol
If you do the supercut version of (I-96) i have 2 exits to request
(Exit 190A) Warren W Ave & (I-94 Edsel Ford Fwy W)
(Exit 187)
Grand River Ave (M-5)
It's one episode as is, nothing to cut together
i-275 was originally planned to go all the way to Flint. That was cancelled because of all of the wet lands and lakes between I-275 and Flint.
M-5 was an after thought.
I am surprised that "Davison" was not signed M-8. It's been a numbered highway for a few years now.
I 96 is one interstate then I can say I’ve traveled on. I have only been on it from where you exit off of US 23 in Ann Arbor until the grand rapids exit. I would then get on US 131 for about 34 miles until the Newaygo exit. I’ve been to Muskegon a couple of times but never on 96.
I've only travelled three two-digit interstates from end to end. (I-77, I-94 and I-96). I'm so close to adding I-75 to the list.
@@pzdf8v I think ive travelled I-77 end to end, but thats it. US 421 peaks my interest, but I don't know if Ill ever get to travel the northern part. Its a north-south highway but runs east-west direction in NC, especially from Greensboro to Boone.
For I-99, can you please show the "To I-390 North, Rochester, Use I-86 West" sign? It's about a 1/2 mile before the I-86 interchange.
Can do, thanks!
so I think 275 was supposed to split from its parent in Monroe and I think the idea was for it to meet up again somewhere north of the suburbs but instead we got m5 which ends shortly there after on Martin parkway so yeah I think they should end 275 at 14 and 96 especially since they use 96 mileage markers
14:40 there are no overhead signs for GRR/ Gerald R Ford International Airport, and I’ve driven on I-196 at the M-6 interchange, this point, and on M-6, so I confidently say that
The reason that it's the "Gerald R Ford" airport and not just the "Ford" Airport is that there's another "Ford" airport in Iron Mountain, MI.
Gerald R Ford is the 38th President, Henry Ford (not related) invented the automobile
Hopefully he was just joking about it 😂
@@brianmiddleton2956 I’m sure he did
Hey Todd, what happens when we get to the last 2 digit interstate?
After the Interstates for Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, are you going to do control cities on US Highways?
Todd will cover the interstates in Hawaii & he will cover some US Highways. He might do something for Alaska.
Was planning to do AK and PR after HI, but after researching their Interstates a bit, I'm not. They are all unsigned, and the routes they follow are sections of other signed and more well-known roads. I'll cover the more well known routes at some point, but not in the next month.
I wonder if the reason why the 96 shield is on the sign with 75 is they are planning on duplexing it down and have the US side of the Gordie Howie Bridge is part of I-96. I would love to see that then the sign could say I-75/96 Toldeo Toronto.
That would be cool!
The closest thing to another palindrome concurrency is I-44 and I-55 in St. Louis since it’s a concurrency of two double number interstates. And an interesting thing about I-196 is that half of the route is signed east-west and then becomes north-south. I-180 in PA is also half east-west and half north-south but it’s signed east-west throughout it’s route
That i44 with i55 alignment was recent because they built a bridge around downtown for i70. They put i44 for the old route. In all honesty they should rename I44 to I50 and the leg to witcha falls I33. Theres no I50 nor I60. I64 should also be renamed to I60.
@@timbo303official9 They used to try not to have an interstate and US highway with the same number in the same state except in California, which is so long north to south, and 24 in Illinois. So on the even side, 44 and 64 are (were?) consecutive.
I was conceived in Muskegon.
To correct something Todd mentioned regarding the freeway originally intended for the Davison Ave exit in Detroit, the freeway was not completed due to opposition from neighborhoods directly effected by it in the 1950s. The Davison Freeway (M-8) only exists between M-10 to just a mile to two east past I-75 and based on my understanding, was the first full functioning expressway in the US at the time. There was no plans for this expressway to reach I-275 unless it was within the original routing for I-96, now M-5 South.
I was just going off what a previous commenter said
@@ControlCityFreak You're good Todd. Not trying to upstage, just trying to educate. 🤓
To clarify my comment in the original superthanks, the freeway would gone from 96/Davison, through the existing Davison Freeway, then to 696/Mound, and then connect to what is now the M-53 Freeway. And then from there to...Imlay City/I-69?
@@ChristopherKhorey You're on the right track here sir. The original plan for the Davison Freeway was to connect the I-96 to the what-would-have-been extension of the Van Dyke Freeway (North-South) to around the Davison-Mound intersection, north of Hamtramck. The Van Dyke Freeway (M-53) currently exists been 17 Mile and 34 Mile Roads, although there are a couple non-interstate intersections that also exist on the Romeo Bypass (between 27 and 34 Mile Roads). This original planning would explain the over-engineered interchange monstrosity we know and "love" at 696/Mound.
My Control Cities for I-96
East:
Grand Rapids
Lansing
Detroit
West:
Lansing
Grand Rapids
Muskegon
It is strange how I-96 bypasses lansing and Grand rapids. Never ends at I-94 in western Michigan and route 10 in Downtown Detroit.
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Maybe the reason for I 275 and I 96. I 96 was one of the last sections to be completed from I 275 to I 75 . Flint not being mentioned is stange. You go east on I 694 to I 75. But more congestion. I 96 to US 23 less traffic. Guess now more people are dependent on GPS then Control city signs .
As said in the forum. Michigan 5 was supposed to connect with I 75 in the northern burbs. Canceled in the later 70s.
The M-5 Freeway stub that goes into Farmington was supposed to be the route of I-96, and meet the stub built to the northwest from it's starting point at I-75 (near Tiger Stadium's hallowed grounds), but Mayor Coleman Young was the leader in the freeway revolt that led MDOT to build the remainder of the freeway along Schoolcraft Rd from I-275 to Davison Ave
11:44 I-275 should maybe be I-175
16:06 Grand Haven has a draw for the Coast Guard Festival in July or August
If you add the time I've been on every other freeway in the country and add it together it doesn't add up to half the time I've spent on 96. Of my 54 years 41 have been in Michigan and 39 of those years have been within 2 miles of I-96.
Grand Rapids was named because that section of the Grand River used to be rapids. You showed the canal which obliterated the rapids.
They're trying to bring them back, though!
Two more mainland non-three-digit interstates, then Hawaii the remainder of the summer and preuto 🇵🇷.more tdis
I-97 is also an intra county interstate
MICHIGANDERS UNITE!!!
I used to live in Michigan in my preteen years and back then I-96 took the M5 fork of the wye interchange just east of the I-275 split. It bypassed Farmington on the town's south side and merged with Grand River Avenue and became Business Spur 96. Originally it was supposed to parallel the avenue all the way to the I-94 interchange and then head right for the Ambassador Bridge just like it does now. But some MDOT genius decided to route I-96 along Schoolcraft Road until it meets I-275.
I-275 originally was supposed to run north through several areas of critical environmental concern until it would have met I-75 due east of Howell, hence the duplex route signing.
What a great video
Thanks!
@@ControlCityFreak your welcome
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Just two more episodes remain!
So we were deprived of another wrong-way concurrency (I-69 switches to E-W in the wrong place to get it so 96 west could have been also 69 "east").
I don’t think signing Toledo east of 275 makes sense. I think it should be “Downtown Detroit/Ambassador Bridge” and Toronto should be signed on the ambassador bridge because that’s where the freeway it joins in Canada goes
11:51 M-5 goes like a few miles north of the I-96/696 interchange and just terminates
At a roundabout with Pontiac Trail
Im excited for i99
Kinda anticlimactic that the 3 final mainline Continental US interstates are all short intrastate routes. Especially after spending over a month on the behemoth of I-95
Interstate H1 exit request: Exit 15B. Thank you so very much! Here's $5 from me to you. I'm looking forward to seeing H1.
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Yay! Finally after 95!