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M-14
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M-14 is the highway running west to east past the northern edge of Ann Arbor. Major towns to the east are Plymouth, Livonia, and Detroit; major towns to the west include Jackson, Battle Creek, Benton Harbor, Gary, Indiana, and Chicago.
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[edit] Real time traffic
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[edit] History
After the US-12 bypass (now I-94) was built south of town in 1956, M-14 was created on its former route through town: Jackson Road (now BL-94), Main Street (now BR-23), and Plymouth Road to Detroit. Eight years later, the first part of the northern bypass was built, from Main Street (now exit 3) to Ford Road (now exit 10); M-14 then continued on Ford Road (now M-153) to Plymouth Road, and then into Detroit. In 1965, the section from I-94 to Main was completed, but the rest of the freeway wasn't built until the routing of I-96 in Detroit was decided on in 1977, and didn't open until late in 1979.
Sections of M-14 along the northern edge of Ann Arbor were reconstructed in the late 1990s.
There is currently (April 2006) construction on M-14 from its terminus at I-275 and I-96 in Livonia to the Washtenaw County border. Some M-14 alternative routes will get you around the construction delays.
[edit] M-14 exits in Washtenaw County
- Exit 1: I-94
- Access only from eastbound 94 to eastbound 14 and from westbound 14 to westbound 94.
- Exit 2: Miller Road and North Maple Road
- Due to narrow lanes and a sharpish curve in the road, the speed limit on the Miller--Main section is still 55 mph, though most Michigan highways are now 70 mph.
- Exit 3: North Main Street/Business Route US-23
- from westbound 14 to southbound Main only and from northbound Main to eastbound 14 only. There is no simple access from Main to westbound 14, nor from eastbound 14 to Main, though in both cases drivers may use the Barton Drive exit, a thousand feet north, to turn around.
- Exit 4: Barton Drive and Whitmore Lake Road
- Built as a "temporary" solution when the highway was first constructed in 1964, the exit from eastbound 14 to Barton Drive has long been considered one of the most dangerous in the state---drivers must go from 55 mph freeway traffic, weave among drivers entering from 45 mph Main Street, and slow to a 15 mph hairpin turn exit ramp, in less than 1,000 feet. The entrance ramp from Barton to eastbound 14 isn't much better--- up a steep hill, dead stop at the top of the ramp, and immediately merge with traffic: there's no acceleration lane. M-DOT and the City have been making concerted efforts to get the ramp replaced for ten years, but money concerns and opposition by homeowners who have turned the original "permanent" ramp's easement-to-be into a park have prevented anything from actually happening.
- Exit 5: northbound US-23, Brighton/Flint
- Exit 8: southbound US-23, Toledo
- Exit 10: M-153/Ford Road, Plymouth/Canton Township
- Terminus of the original 1964 freeway. The rest was built in the 1970s and opened to traffic in 1979.
- Exit 15: Gotfredson Road, Plymouth
- Last exit in Washtenaw County. The last seven miles of the highway are in Wayne County; it ends at the junction of I-275 and I-96 in Livonia.
