Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/June 2014

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-80 serves the Chippewa County International Airport on the site of the former Kinross Air Force Base?
• ...that US 16 followed Grand River Avenue between Grand Rapids and Detroit, using the path of a plank road used by some of the state's earliest settlers?
• ...that a private company wanted to pay for the construction of County Road 595 in Marquette County to connect its nickel mine to its processing mill?
• ... that I-375 was the shortest signed Interstate Highway in the country at 1.06 miles (1.71 km) until I-110 in Texas was signed?