Construction on M-14 west of Barton Drive
Year
1965
Month
November
Construction on M-14 west of Barton Drive
In mid-1956 after the Detroit Industrial Expressway was extended to west of Ann Arbor, the US-12 designation was shifted to that road and the old US-12 route, the Plymouth and Ann Arbor roads, became M-14 from Detroit to Ann Arbor. In 1964 a two mile stretch of freeway was built from US-23 east of Ann Arbor to Ann Arbor Road and connected with Ford Road, M-153. This new stretch of freeway was then designated as M-14 and bypassed Dixboro.
In 1965 the Ann Arbor north belt freeway opened connecting I-94 with U.S. 23 over which the M-14 route was directed, it no longer having to go through a western portion of the City of Ann Arbor.
In 1979 the final leg of the new freeway was completed connecting the existing western section with I-275 and the entire route designated M-14, the termini being where it intersected the I-275 free on the east, and where it connected to the I-94 freeway west of Ann Arbor. When the freeway north of Plymouth-Ann Arbor road was completed and designated as M-14, Plymouth-Ann Arbor road for the first time in 53 years was no longer a numbered highway. Shortly thereafter it was turned over to the County of Washtenaw. (The History of the Numbered Routes That Pass or Have Passed Through Superior Township.)
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