Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/December 2015

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Looking south down Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance in July 1942
Looking south down Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance in July 1942
  • ... that Woodward Avenue (pictured in 1942) was planned to be the most important of the five major avenues planned by Judge Augustus Woodward that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions?
  • ... that M-38 was previously a part of M-35 that was 65 miles (105 km) away from the rest of the highway?
  • ... that the centerline was invented in Wayne County in 1911?
  • ... that M-95 has been named for Leif Ericson, the Norse explorer?
  • ...that prior to the opening of M-231, a "M23.1k Run" was held with participation limited to 231 runners?