Interstate 69 in Michigan

Interstate 69
Interstate 69
	I-69 highlighted in red
Route information
	Maintained by MDOT
Length	202.317 mi (325.598 km)
Existed	October 11, 1967–present
History	Completed October 17, 1992
Tourist; routes	I-69 Recreational Heritage Route; Lake Huron Circle Tour;
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
South end	I-69 at the Indiana border near Kinderhook
	US 12 in Coldwater; I-94 near Marshall; I-96 near Lansing; US 127 near East Lansing; I-75 / US 23 in Flint; I-94 near Port Huron;
East end	Highway 402 at Canadian border in Port Huron
Location
Country	United States
State	Michigan
Counties	Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Genesee, Lapeer, St. Clair
Highway system
	Interstate Highway System; Main; Auxiliary; Suffixed; Business; Future; Michigan State Trunkline Highway System; Interstate; US; State; Byways;

Interstate 69 (I-69) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that will eventually run from the Mexican border in Texas to the Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan. In Michigan, it is a state trunkline highway that enters the state south of Coldwater and passes the cities of Lansing and Flint in the Lower Peninsula. A north–south freeway from the Indiana–Michigan border to the Lansing area, it changes direction to east–west after running concurrently with I-96. The freeway continues to Port Huron before terminating in the middle of the twin-span Blue Water Bridge while running concurrently with I-94 at the border. There are four related business loops for I-69 in the state, connecting the freeway to adjacent cities.

Predecessors to I-69 include the first M-29, US Highway 27 (US 27), M-78 and M-21. The freeway was not included on the original Interstate Highway System planning maps in the mid-1950s, but it was added in 1958 along a shorter route. Michigan built segments of freeway for the future Interstate in the 1960s, and the state was granted additional Interstate mileage in 1968 to extend I-69 north and east to Flint. Later extensions in 1973 and 1987 resulted in the modern-day highway. The first freeway segment designated as I-69 in Michigan opened in 1967, and the last was completed in 1992, finishing Michigan's Interstate System. US 27 previously ran concurrently with I-69 from the Indiana–Michigan state line north to the Lansing area, but this designation was removed in 2002.

^ "Indiana, Mich., To Open Road". The News-Palladium. Benton Harbor, Michigan. Associated Press. September 29, 1967. p. 12. OCLC 10117334. Retrieved July 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
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