Everything about M-50 Michigan Highway totally explained
M-50 is a
trunkline and
state highway in the
U.S. state of
Michigan. Although designated as an east-west highway, it's nearly a diagonal northwest-southeast route. It has its western terminus near
Alto a few miles/kilometers east of greater
Grand Rapids and its eastern terminus in downtown
Monroe now at Telegraph Road as of
October 1,
2006.
History
In the pre-Interstate era, M-50 served as most of the Grand-Rapids-
Jackson route for those who sought to avoid greater
Lansing. Except for segments in which it coincides with
US 127 it's all undivided surface road. When M-50 was first commissioned into the highway system in 1920, it started at a junction with
M-23 in
Cambridge, just south of
Brooklyn which is present day
US 12. From there it ran to the southeast, similar to its present day routing, through
Dundee and
Tecumseh to
M-65 (later
US 23) where it then turned north to Grape then southeast into downtown
Monroe. In 1925, the western end of M-50 is extended north through Brooklyn and
Napoleon to a new terminus in
Jackson.
In 1928, M-50 undergoes a major lengthening as its western terminus is extended from Jackson to
Eaton Rapids,
Charlotte and
Vermontville before intersecting
M-39 just east of
Woodbury. From this point, M-50 is routed over M-39 to
US 16 near
Alto. M-50 then runs concurrently with US 16 into
Grand Rapids where it turned to the west and traveled through
Allendale before heading northwest and terminating in
Grand Haven at a junction with
US 31. A few years later, the western end of the route is realigned to run out of Grand Rapids to
Agnew, terminating at US 31 eight miles (13 km) south of its previous end.
In 1951, when the
US 12 bypass is constructed,
US 127 and M-50 are routed onto it on the north side of
Jackson. In 1953, the route is realigned onto the south and west beltline to bypass
Grand Rapids. The old routing through Grand Rapids becomes Business M-50. The M-50 assignment is also removed from the US 12 bypass of Jackson west of US 127 once it was finished.
In 1959, when the US 127 freeway bypass east of Jackson opens up, and the old routing through town becomes Business US 127 and Business M-50. The concurrency with
US 23 between
Dundee and the Ohio border is dropped after the new US 23 freeway is opened, the old route becomes designated, solely, M-50. In 1961, when the
I-96/US 16/M-50 freeway is extended to the northwest in Grand Rapids, the old M-50 routing through the city becomes
M-11.
In 1964, the western end of M-50 gets truncated from its junction with US 31 back to
I-96 south of
Lowell at exit 52. The decommissioned alignment from exit 40 to Agnew is then given the
M-45 designation. In 1966, the eastern end of M-50 is extended to take over the remaining portion of
M-56 shifting the terminus to the southeast to end at an interchange with
I-75 at exit 15. Thirty years later, this extension would get truncated as the terminus is scaled back to
M-125 in Monroe. Finally in 2006, the section of M-50 between M-125 and
US 24 is also removed, shortening the highway by about a mile.}}
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