M-10 (Michigan highway)

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This article is about a Michigan state trunkline highway numbered M-10. For the U.S. Highway, see U.S. Route 10 in Michigan.

BS I-375 in Detroit
Major intersections
North endOrchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield Township
Location
CountryUnited States
StateMichigan
CountiesWayne, Oakland
Highway system
←
M-4
M-4→ M-5

M-10 is a

Detroit–Windsor Tunnel. The northern terminus is in West Bloomfield Township at the intersection with Orchard Lake Road. The highway has several names as it runs through residential and commercial areas of the west side of Detroit and into the suburb of Southfield
. It is called the John C. Lodge Freeway (The Lodge), James Couzens Highway, and Northwestern Highway. One segment has also been named the Aretha Franklin Memorial Highway.

M-10 was built in segments through the late 1950s and early 1960s. It carried several different names before the entire route was finally officially named the John C. Lodge Freeway in 1987. The

Mayor of Detroit
from 1927–28.

Route description

Running about 22.8 miles (36.7 km) in the

on average near on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, and 139,800 vehicles do so between US 24 (Telegraph Road) and Lahser Road in Southfield, the lowest and highest traffic counts along the highway in 2013, respectively.[6]

Detroit

M-10 passing under Cobo Center (now Huntington Place) in 2007

M-10 starts at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Randolph Street in

service drives as it leaves the commercial areas near the MGM Grand Detroit and the interchange with I-75 (Fisher Freeway).[2][5]

North of I-75, M-10 forms the border between

enclave within the city of Detroit. M-10 intersects M-8 where it transitions between Davison Avenue and the Davison Freeway on the western edge of Highland Park before the Lodge Freeway curves around to run due west.[2][5]

M-10 runs for about two miles (3.2 km) on this due westward course before it intersects Wyoming Avenue and turns northwest. The frontage roads change names from John C. Lodge Service Drive to James Couzens Freeway at the Wyoming Avenue interchange. The freeway continues for another 3+1⁄2 miles (5.6 km) with interchanges for local streets in this part of Detroit, including 7 Mile Road. At the interchange with M-102 (8 Mile Road), the freeway crosses out of Detroit and Wayne County into Southfield in Oakland County.[2][5]

Oakland County

Looking southbound

The service drives change names again to Northwestern Highway upon crossing into Oakland County. The east side of M-10 is flanked by the former Northland Shopping Center and a campus of

Mile Roads, such as the campus of Lawrence Technological University at 10 Mile Road.[2][5] Near Lahser and 11 Mile roads, M-10 meets I-696 (Reuther Freeway) and US 24 (Telegraph Road) in a complex interchange called the Mixing Bowl.[8] This interchange spans over two miles (3.2 km) near the American Center. The carriageways for I-696 run in the median of M-10 while partial interchanges connect to Lahser and Franklin roads on either end of the various ramps that connect to I-696 and US 24.[2][5]

Northwest of this interchange, M-10 transitions to a boulevard with Michigan lefts. Called just Northwestern Highway, M-10 runs through suburban residential areas of Southfield. At the intersection with Inkster Road, the highway clips the southwest corner of the city of Franklin and enters the northeastern corner of Farmington Hills. The roadway is lined with commercial properties while just behind them are residential subdivisions and two golf courses. At the intersection with 14 Mile Road, Northwestern Highway crosses into West Bloomfield Township, and 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) further on, the highway ends at Orchard Lake Road.[2][5]

History

Previous designations

M-10 marker

M-10

LocationOhio state line–Mackinaw City
Existedc. July 1, 1919[9]–November 11, 1926[10]

In 1919, the state numbered its highways for the first time.

US 112 between Dearborn and Detroit, US 10 from Detroit to Saginaw, and US 23 from Saginaw to Mackinaw City.[10] At the time, no M-10 designation was reassigned to any other roads.[13]

Mt. Morris
Length14.767 mi[1] (23.765 km)
Existed1929[14][15]–1941[16][17]

The second iteration of M-10 was designated in 1929 on a much shorter segment of the original M-10 through the Flint area, serving as a business connection for the city as the through route, US 10, bypassed it on the east.

Bus. M-54 in 1962[18][19] before being turned back to local control in 1974.[20][21]

Current designation

During the 1950s, the Lodge Freeway was proposed to run from Detroit as far as the Fenton–Clio Expressway (US 23) at Fenton[22] and was to play a significant role in the city’s greater plan for urban renewal. Ardent supporters of freeway construction, such as Mayor Albert Cobo, argued that improved access to the city's downtown from the suburbs and outer residential areas would allow for the easy transportation of goods, services, and workers, ultimately bolstering the city's economy. The Lodge Freeway portion carved through mostly white, upper middle class neighborhoods of central and northwestern Detroit as well as economically distressed white areas closer to downtown and the western edge of Detroit's Chinese neighborhood. Although Detroit city planners were careful to not disrupt middle-class White residential areas in construction, they showed little concern for Black neighborhoods, especially those that stood in the way of the main thoroughfare into downtown, which were small. In fact, the destruction of Black communities in many cases was seen to be positive, "a handy device for razing slums".[23] The first three-mile (4.8 km) stretch of the Lodge Freeway leveled large portions of the densely populated Lower West Side, the increasingly Black area bordering Twelfth Street, and a 15-block area of mixed Black and Jewish bordering Highland Park.[23] The construction of the freeway partitioned communities in half and by 1950, 423 single family residences, 109 businesses, 22 manufacturing plants, and 93 vacant lots had been condemned. By 1958, from its terminus in downtown Detroit to Wyoming Ave (about seven miles [11 km]), 2,222 more buildings had been destroyed.[24]

The interchange with the Edsel Ford Freeway, next to Wayne State University, occasionally called the Ford–Lodge interchange, was built in 1953; it was the first full freeway-to-freeway interchange built in the United States.[25] Engineers at the time rejected the conventional design to connect two freeways, the cloverleaf as too hazardous, instead initially preferring a rotary interchange. Such a design would only accommodate 3,000 vehicles per hour, far less than what the Michigan engineers anticipated,[26] so the design was changed to a full interchange, with ramps on both the right and left sides of the roadways. This "right-to-go-right-left-to-go-left" design was considered progressive for its time.[27] The interchange, which cost $15.3 million (equivalent to $136 million in 2023[28]) to build[29] and used 14 bridges to complete its connections,[30] was heralded as an engineering marvel. The interchange opened in stages during 1955.[31] At the time, The Detroit News reported that the rush of traffic created "a haze of concrete dust" as traffic passed through,[29] but by the next day, the interchange was the site of traffic jams and head-on collisions because of bad design, according to the Detroit Free Press.[31]

The freeway was dedicated on November 7, 1957,[32] and opened without any state trunkline designation between downtown and the Wyoming Curve.[33] The section from the Edsel Ford Freeway (now I-94) into downtown Detroit was designated as US 12 by the middle of 1960.[34]

Between September 5 and December 5, 1961, the Lodge Freeway's partial interchange with Greenlawn Avenue was closed on a 90-day trial basis, due to concerns from local citizens over an exit leading directly into a residential area.[35][36] When the trial basis expired, the Detroit Streets and Traffic Commission ruled to keep the ramps permanently closed.[37]

Business Spur Interstate 696 marker

Business Spur Interstate 696

LocationDetroit–Southfield
Length17.538 mi[1] (28.225 km)
Existed1962[38][39]–1970[40][41]

The freeway was then redesignated

Business Spur I-696 (BS I-696) in 1962,[38][39] and the next year the freeway was extended northwesterly along James Couzens Highway and Northwestern Highway into Southfield,[39][42] connecting with the completed first phase of I-696 that opened in 1963-64.[43] That designation remained until 1970 when US 10 was shifted off Woodward Avenue to follow the Lodge Freeway between downtown Detroit and Telegraph Road, replacing the BS I-696 designation.[40][41]

M-4 marker

M-4

LocationFarmington Hills–Southfield
Length4.687 mi[1] (7.543 km)
Existed1979[44][45]–1986[46][47]

An extension to the Northwestern Highway was again proposed in 1966 to connect with the proposed I-275 extension.[48] The I-275 project was then cancelled in 1977.[49] The section of Northwestern Highway under state control between the West Bloomfield Township–Farmington Hills border into Southfield was numbered M-4 in 1979.[44][45]

The

BS I-375 from I-75 south.[46][47] By the next year however, the southern end of M-10 was moved to the corner of Jefferson and Randolph, placing all of the Lodge Freeway as part of M-10.[47][51]

From 2006 to 2007, the Lodge underwent major reconstruction to ease traffic congestion in the metro area, temporarily closing down much of the freeway.[52] The $133 million project (equivalent to $188 million in 2023[28]) included concrete pavement reconstruction and rehabilitation, new barrier walls, repairs or replacements to 50 bridges, upgrades to 22 ramps, utility upgrades, and replacement of freeway signs between Lahser Road in Southfield and Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.[53]

Memorial highway names

Portrait of James J. Couzens
Portrait of John C. Lodge
Portrait of Aretha Franklin
James J. Couzens (left), John C. Lodge (center), and Aretha Franklin (right) have been namesakes for parts of M-10 in Detroit

Starting in 1924, officials in southeastern Michigan proposed building a highway from Detroit to run northwesterly across the state to

Grand River avenues. This roadway was named Northwestern Highway when it was built in 1929 to an endpoint at 14 Mile Road. Further construction on Northwestern Highway was halted by the Great Depression.[54]

The freeway segment northwest of Wyoming Avenue to the county line was previously known as James Couzens Highway after the street it replaced. That street was named after the death of

Mayor of Detroit from 1919 until 1922 and United States Senator from Michigan from 1922 until his death on October 22, 1936. During his years of public service, he is said not to have accepted a salary, giving it all to charity. After his death, Detroit renamed its section of Northwestern Highway after Couzens.[54]

John C. Lodge was a member of the constitutional convention which drafted the Michigan Constitution of 1908, a former member of the Michigan Legislature and Detroit alderman and councilman. He later served as Mayor of Detroit in 1918–1919 before returned to the City Common Council from 1932 to 1947. He was then elected to the Wayne County Board of Supervisors from 1948 until 1950. In total, he held elective office longer than anyone in city history. He died on February 6, 1950, and the future Lodge Freeway was named in his honor on January 20, 1953.[54] The entire freeway, including segments previously named for James Couzens and the Northwestern Highway was named the John C. Lodge Freeway in 1987, although the service drives retained their original names.[55]

In 2019, the section between Livernois and I-94 was named the Aretha Franklin Memorial Highway after Detroit native

Civil Rights Movement.[58]

Exit list

CountyLocationmi[1]kmExitDestinationsNotes
Detroit–Windsor Tunnel – Canada
Southern termini of M-10, M-3 and unsigned BS I-375; Jefferson Avenue continues east as unsigned BS I-375
0.590–
0.722		0.950–
1.162		1BLarned Street – DowntownSouthern end of freeway; southbound left exit and northbound entrance
1AWest Jefferson Avenue – Joe Louis ArenaLeft exit northbound; no northbound entrance; to Joe Louis Parking Center and Riverfront Apartments
1.1311.8201CHoward Street – DowntownSouthbound exit and northbound entrance
1.5332.4672BBagley AvenueSouthbound left exit and northbound left entrance
1.7752.857—Vernor HighwayInterchange removed for construction of I-75 interchange[59]
1.7752.8572A I-75 (Fisher Freeway) – Flint, ToledoExit 49 on I-75; includes direct southbound exit and northbound, southbound entrance ramps for Trumbull Avenue; ramps to I-75 southbound also directly connect to I-96
2.0523.3022C
Grand River Avenue
)		Southbound exit and northbound entrance
2.9194.6983Forest Avenue, Warren Avenue
3.1275.0324
Chicago
Signed as exits 4A (east) and 4B (west); exit 215 on I-94
3.7376.0144CMilwaukee Avenue, West Grand BoulevardSouthbound signed as West Grand Boulevard only
4.3326.9725APallister AvenueSouthbound exit and northbound entrance
4.7517.6465BClairmount AvenueNorthbound exit and southbound entrance
5.3918.6765CHamilton Avenue, Chicago BoulevardHamilton Avenue signed northbound only
5.6529.0966AWebb AvenueNo southbound exit
6.0519.7386BElmhurst AvenueSouthbound exit only
6.1949.9687AGlendale AvenueNorthbound exit and southbound entrance
Detroit–Highland Park city line6.406–
6.777		10.309–
10.907		7 M-8 (Davison Freeway)Signed as exits 7B (east) and 7C (west) northbound and 7B (east) southbound; no access from southbound M-10 to westbound M-8 or eastbound M-8 to northbound M-10
Detroit
7.45311.9948Linwood Avenue
8.10713.0479Livernois Avenue
7.57112.184—Greenlawn AvenueFormer northbound exit and southbound entrance; ramps closed 1961[36]
9.14614.71910Wyoming Avenue
9.86815.88111Meyers Road, McNichols RoadNorthbound exit and southbound entrance
11.33718.245127 Mile Road
8 Mile Road
) / Greenfield Avenue		8 Mile Road is the city and county line
OaklandSouthfield13.81722.236149 Mile Road, Northland CenterSigned as exits 14A (Northland) and 14B (9 Mile Road); complete access to Northland Center, no entrances from 9 Mile Road; 14B exit is north of 14C southbound; 14A and 14B ramps are combined northbound
14.31023.03014C
 M-39 south (Southfield Freeway)
Southfield Road		Exit 16 on M-39; signed as Southfield Road northbound only; directional access (northbound to northbound or southbound to southbound) only; northern terminus of M-39
15.62925.15215Evergreen Road, 10 Mile Road
16.78727.01616Lahser RoadNorthbound access to eastbound I-696
17.53828.22517
 I-696 east (Reuther Freeway) – Port Huron		Exit 10 on I-696; southbound left exit and northbound entrance
18.19429.28018 US 24 (Telegraph Road) – Dearborn, PontiacSigned as exits 18A (north) and 18B (south); I-696 is located in the median of M-10
18.56229.87318C
 I-696 west (Reuther Freeway) – Lansing		Exit 8 on I-696; northbound left exit and southbound entrance; north end of freeway
West Bloomfield Township22.88136.823Orchard Lake Road northNorthern terminus
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

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