Interstate 94

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Interstate 94
Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Length: 1604 mi (2581 km)
West end: I-90 in Billings, MT
Major
junctions:		 I-35W in Minneapolis, MN
I-35E in St. Paul, MN
I-90 in Tomah, WI
I-39/I-90 in Madison, WI
I-43 in Milwaukee, WI
I-55 in Chicago, IL
in Chicago, IL
I-80 near Lansing, IL
I-65 in Gary, IN
in Lake Station, IN
I-75 in Detroit, MI
East end: ON 402 at Canadian border on Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, MI

Interstate 94 (abbreviated I-94) is the northernmost east-west interstate highway, connecting the Great Lakes and Intermountain regions of the United States. Its western terminus is in Billings, Montana at a junction with Interstate 90; its eastern terminus is the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan, at the Sarnia, Ontario, Canada border, where together with Interstate 69 it meets Ontario provincial highway 402.

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[edit] Route description

Miles km state
249 401 Montana
352 567 North Dakota
259 418 Minnesota
348 560 Wisconsin
77 124 Illinois
46 74 Indiana
275 443 Michigan
1604 2581 Total[1]

[edit] Montana

Main article: Interstate 94 in Montana

I-94 begins at Billings and travels northeastward towards Glendive before exiting the state to the east.

[edit] North Dakota

Main article: Interstate 94 in North Dakota

The route enters at Beach and travels east past Bismarck on the way to Fargo where it leaves the state and crosses into Minnesota.

[edit] Minnesota

Main article: Interstate 94 in Minnesota

I-94 travels in a northwest-southeast trajectory passing Moorhead and St Cloud prior to traveling through the Twin Cities and heading east out of the state. It crosses the Red River, the Mississippi River, and finally the St. Croix River as it crosses into Wisconsin.

Lowry Hill Tunnel in Minneapolis.
Lowry Hill Tunnel in Minneapolis.

[edit] Wisconsin

Main article: Interstate 94 in Wisconsin

Interstate 94 enters Wisconsin East of the Twin Cities. It passes Eau Claire before turning southeastward and joining with Interstate 90 in Tomah and Interstate 39 in Portage. I-94 branches off eastward in Madison and travels east to Milwaukee before turning south and heading to Chicago, entering Illinois at Pleasant Prairie.

[edit] Illinois

Main article: Interstate 94 in Illinois
See also: Tri-State Tollway, Edens Expressway, Dan Ryan Expressway, Bishop Ford Freeway, and Kingery Expressway

In the state of Illinois, I-94 runs south from Wisconsin to Indiana via downtown Chicago. It is tolled on the Tri-State Tollway to the I-94/I-294 split; it then runs east to the Skokie Highway, where it turns south through the city of Chicago. At Interstate 80, I-94 runs east to Indiana on the Kingery Expressway.

[edit] Indiana

Main article: Interstate 94 in Indiana
See also: Borman Expressway

In the state of Indiana, I-94 runs east from Illinois multiplexed with I-80. It crosses Interstate 90 (Indiana Toll Road), where I-80 joins I-90 east towards Ohio. I-94 continues northeast, paralleling the Lake Michigan shoreline into Michigan.

[edit] Michigan

Main article: Interstate 94 in Michigan

I-94 runs north along Lake Michigan to St. Joseph before heading east on the long road to Detroit. It turns northeast to Port Huron where it meets I-69 and ends at ON Hwy 402 on the Blue Water Bridge.

Major cities
All cities are control cities for I-94.[2]

[edit] Intersections with other interstates

[edit] Spur routes

 Auxiliary routes of Interstate 94
Current and Future (F) Former
I-194 Michigan - North Dakota
I-294 Illinois
I-394 Minnesota
I-494 Minnesota
I-694 Minnesota
I-794 Wisconsin
I-894 Wisconsin

[edit] Notes

  • Interstate 94 is the only purely east-west interstate to form a direct connection into a foreign country (Canada). No such interstate currently ends at the U.S.-Mexico border, although I-905 in California will once designated. At Port Huron, I-94 crosses the Blue Water Bridge into Sarnia, Ontario and becomes Highway 402, which can be used by motorists going to Toronto. I-94's multiplex at that crossing, I-69, is posted east-west in eastern Michigan, but changes to north-south near Lansing and remains north-south in the remainder of Michigan and throughout its run in Indiana.
  • Through much of Michigan, Interstate 94 follows the route of Old U.S. Highway 12. In the 1990s Michigan set up an "emergency Interstate" system. This system is designed as a permanent set of detours for Interstates in case an impassable problem occurs on the Interstates (in the case of I-94 in this area, the problem is usually very heavy lake effect snow in the winter months and construction in the summer).
  • In Detroit, Interstate 94 was routed over the existing Edsel Ford Freeway, and remained signed as such until the late 1980s when Michigan deemphasized proper names on Interstate guide signs. Its interchange with the Lodge Freeway, built in 1953, is significant as the first full freeway-to-freeway interchange built in the United States.[3]
  • Immediately west of the Detroit city limits, I-94 was routed over the existing Detroit Industrial Expressway, built during World War II to accommodate transportation of workers. Its intersection with US-24 (Telegraph Road) was one of the nation's more unusual full interchange designs. Only two bridges were used and left hand exits were used throughout.[4] The interchange was reconfigured in 2005 to a SPUI design, I-94's first.
  • Games between the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs are known as the I-94 Series.
  • The stretch of I-94 between Chicago and Detroit is sometimes referred to as the Chicago-Detroit Industrial Freeway.

[edit] Past & recent news

  • In 2005, the I-94 bridge over the Crow River near Saint Michael, Minnesota, about 35 miles northwest of Minneapolis, is being rebuilt. As well, I-94 in downtown St. Paul between Minnesota State Highway 120 and McKnight Road is being widened, from two to four lanes.
  • In 2005, a new bridge called the Gateway to Detroit was completed by the Michigan Department Of Transportation (otherwise known as MDOT).
  • The interchange at 95th Ave. N in Maple Grove, Minnesota is also being rebuilt. A new, wider bridge will replace the two-lane bridge there, which was demolished in July, 2006.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/reports/routefinder/table1.htm
  2. ^ Interstate Highway Control Cities (2004). Retrieved on 2006-12-04.
  3. ^ Preliminary List of Nationally and Exceptionally Significant Features of the Interstate Highway System. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.
  4. ^ http://dse.webonastick.com/maps/1971-detroit-suburbs-aaa

[edit] External links


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Main Interstate Highways (multiples of 5 in pink)		 Interstate Highway marker
4 5 8 10 12 15 16 17 19 20 22 24 25 26 27 29 30
35 37 39 40 43 44 45 49 55 57 59 64 65 66 66 (W) 68
69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 (W) 76 (E) 77 78 79 80 81 82
83 84 (W) 84 (E) 85 86 (W) 86 (E) 87 88 (W) 88 (E) 89 90
91 93 94 95 96 97 99 (238) H-1 H-2 H-3
Unsigned  A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 PRI-1 PRI-2 PRI-3
Lists  Main - Auxiliary - Suffixed - Business - Proposed - Unsigned
Gaps - Intrastate - Interstate standards - Replaced
Browse numbered routes
< US 93 MT I-115 >
< ND-91 ND ND-97 >
< MN 93 MN MN 95 >
< WIS 93 WI WIS 94 >
< ILL 93 IL ILL 94 >
< M-93 MI M-94 >
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