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State Trunk Highway 312 (often called Highway 312, STH 312 or WIS 312) is a short Wisconsin state highway running along the north side of Eau Claire. It was first established by legislation in 2005 as a new route number for the stretch of Highway 124 running from Interstate 94 to U.S. Highway 53. A secondary effect of assigning the designation 312 to the route was to shorten WIS 124 to a length and routing nearly identical to that it had in 1992, before it was extended as a State Highway route to cover the then-new "North Crossing" in Eau Claire. While the legislation establishing Highway 312 was intended to only take effect once the Highway 53 bypass of Eau Claire was completed in late-summer 2006, local authorities "jumped the gun", posting new "WIS 312" signs as early as November 2005. The highway is a major transit route bypassing the north side of Eau Claire by connecting I-94 with US-53. The route number is derived as a "spur route" of U.S. Highway 12.
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- ^ STH-312 on Christopher J. Bessert's "Highways 200-399" page at WisconsinHighways.org
I-94 near Eau Claire
US-53 in Eau Claire
