Interstate 69 Business (Lansing, Michigan)
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| Interstate 69 Business Business loop of the Interstate Highway System |
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| Length: | 14.37 mi[1] (23.13 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1987[1] | ||||||||
| South end: |   I-69 I-96 in Waverly Exit 93b |
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| Major junctions: |
 M-99 in Lansing
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| North end: | I-69 in Haslett Exit 94 |
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| Counties: | Eaton, Ingham, Clinton | ||||||||
| Major cities: | Lansing, East Lansing | ||||||||
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Business Loop I-69 is a route in Lansing area that serves the downtown area of the state capitol. It starts off with a concurrency with M-43 that goes for over 8 miles (13 km) on the local road of Saginaw Hwy or Saginaw St. Inside of Lansing itself it gets split with two local streets carrying the traffic. Saginaw carries the eastbound traffic with around 4 lanes of traffic and the westbound is served by Oakland Ave with 3 lanes of traffic. After the interchange with US 127 the concurency with M-43 ends. At that point M-43 turns southeast and the Business Loop turns northeast. For the next 2 miles (3 km) it continues its run on Saginaw St as a local two way street. The final stretch of the Business Loop is setup as an expressway with only a few local roads crossing the road.
The route was first designated in 1987 after the completion of the northern freeway loop of I-69 around Lansing. It is the longest business route in the state of michigan at a length of over 14 miles. It beat the nearest contender by .75 miles (1.21 km)[1]. At least a portion of the route was the now truncated M-78[1].
On a more intersting note several of the high schools in the Lansing area are less than a half a mile away from BL I-69 or BL I-96.
