M-102 (Michigan highway)

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M-102

Eight Mile Road

Length:

20.78 mi^[1] (33.44 km)

Formed:

1928

West end:

M-5 at Livonia

Major
junctions:

US 24 at Southfield

M-39/M-10 at Southfield
M-1/I-75 at Detroit
M-53/M-97/M-3 at Warren

East end:

I-94 at Harper Woods

Michigan highways
< US-102		M-103 >

M-102 is a highway in the U.S. state of Michigan, running along the northern boundary of Detroit. It is known as 8 Mile Road for most of its length. Its name changes to Vernier road just west of Beaconsfield Road. M-102's eastern terminus is at the junction of Vernier and I-94. Its western terminus is at the junction of 8 Mile Road and M-5/Grand River Avenue.

The eastern terminus of M-102 changed a number of times before the completion of I-94. Initially terminating at US 25/Gratiot Avenue (present-day M-3, M-102 was, for a time, extended east, then north, to connect with M-29. However, once I-94 was completed, M-102's eastern terminus became fixed at the new freeway.

Prior to the completion of the Jeffries Freeway (present day I-96), M-102 had the same western terminus as today, but for several years, M-102 extended onto a segment of what is now M-5 between the present western terminus for M-102 and the major freeway junction for M-5, I-96, I-696 and I-275. The freeway portion had previously carried I-96, as the Jeffries had originally been proposed to run along Grand River Avenue (which was signed as BS I-96). As I-96 was rerouted, Grand River southeast of its junction with 8 Mile became M-5, and M-102 was thus extended along Grand River and the former I-96. In 1994, a northerly extension originally planned as part of I-275 opened, and M-102 was scaled back to the junction of 8 Mile and Grand River, while M-5 was lengthened to include the new extension.

Eminem made M-102 famous in his movie 8 Mile.