List of unused highways in Michigan

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Main article: List of unused highways in the United States

An unused highway may reference a highway or highway ramp that was partially or fully constructed but was unused^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} or later closed^[10][11][12]. An unused ramp can be referred to as a stub ramp^[13], stub street^[14][2][15], stub-out^[2], or simply stub^[16][17]. The following is a list:

Contents 1 Michigan 1.1 Monroe County 1.2 Berrien County 1.3 Mason County 1.4 Saginaw County 1.5 Washtenaw County 1.6 Arenac County 2 See also 3 References

[edit] Michigan

[edit] Monroe County

• On U.S. Route 23, a stub exit exists within the median to connect a projected freeway once designated as part of a proposed Interstate 73 to supplant U.S. Route 223. Due to lack of funding, support in neighboring Ohio^[18], and local opposition^[19], I-73 in Michigan will not be built as of right now. [19]

[edit] Berrien County

• The freeway portion carrying U.S. Route 31, which is the St. Joseph Valley Parkway in other sections, ends at a completed diamond at exit 24, and the pavement continues north for about one-half mile. [20] The plans to employ this stretch of unused pavement are still active^[20][21].

• Interstate 94 was extended from the town of New Buffalo to the Indiana border in 1963. However, due to delays in the completion of Indiana's section of I-94 to connect with it, the freeway was closed to traffic west of the present-day exit 1, forcing traffic to use M-239 and Indiana State Route 39 to transfer to Interstate 80/Interstate 90 (Indiana Toll Road) to continue to Chicago. This left approximately one mile of completed, but unused freeway blocked off to traffic, dead-ending at the state line. Following the completion of the connecting section in Indiana in 1972, the barricades forcing traffic into the exit, known to locals as the "Cornfield Roadblock," were removed, opening the unused stub to traffic^[22]. A ramp from M-239 to southbound I-94 was not built until after 1978, which supported all traffic exiting at Exit 1 until Indiana completed its I-94 portion, as seen here.

[edit] Mason County

• The U.S. Route 10/U.S. Route 31 interchange has an implication of a northward extension of the U.S. 31 freeway, and a stub that would carry southbound U.S. 31 is located at the end of the ramp which currently carries southbound U.S. 31^[23]. [21]

[edit] Saginaw County

• The U.S. Route 10/M-47 interchange has an implication of a northward extension of M-47, as stubs exist north of the ramps. The interchange was partially rebuilt in 2006^[24], but a field check states that the north side of the interchange was undisturbed^[25]. [22]

[edit] Washtenaw County

• Just north of the Lenawee County border, M-52 encounters a cloverleaf which was graded but never paved. This was intended as the U.S. Route 112/M-52 interchange^[26], but where the two intersected was relocated. U.S. 112 has since been decommissioned and replaced by U.S. Route 12^[27]. [23] [24]

[edit] Arenac County

• The short freeway carrying U.S. Route 23 between Interstate 75 and M-13 contains a stub at its east end which would lead from a bridge carrying U.S. 23 westbound traffic over the roadway currently carrying U.S. 23 to the north and M-13 to the south.[25] This extension would be a freeway whose construction is highly contested^[28].

[edit] See also

• List of unused highways in the United States
• List of unused highways
• List of ghost towns

[edit] References