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Interstate 196
Interstate 196 (I-196) is an List of auxiliary Interstate Highways, auxiliary Interstate Highway that runs for in the US state of Michigan. It is a Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, state trunkline highway that links Benton Harbor, Michigan, Benton Harbor, South Haven, Michigan, South Haven, Holland, Michigan, Holland, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, Grand Rapids. In Kent County, Michigan, Kent, Ottawa County, Michigan, Ottawa, and Allegan County, Michigan, Allegan counties, I-196 is known as the Gerald R. Ford Freeway, or simply the Ford Freeway, after President Gerald Ford, who was raised in Grand Rapids and served Michigan in the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives for 25 years. This name generally refers only to the section between Holland and Grand Rapids. I-196 changes direction; it is signed as a north–south highway from its southern terminus to the junction with U.S. Route 31 in Michigan, US Highway 31 (US 31) just south of ...
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Lake Michigan Circle Tour
The Great Lakes Circle Tour is a designated scenic road system connecting all of the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence River. It consists of routes for circumnavigating the lakes, either individually or collectively. It was designated by the Great Lakes Commission in 1988. Tours Lake Superior Circle Tour The Lake Superior Circle Tour (LSCT) follows state and provincial highways that are nearby the lake to loop around the entirety of Lake Superior. The LSCT follows state highways in the US states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and provincial highways in the Canadian province of Ontario. Michigan In Michigan, the tour runs from the state line at Ironwood, Michigan, Ironwood to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Sault Ste. Marie. In between it follows U.S. Route 2 in Michigan, U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) to Wakefield, Michigan, Wakefield, M-28 (Michigan highway), M-28 to Bergland, Michigan, Bergland and M-64 (Michigan highway), M-64 to Ontonagon, Michi ...
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United States House Of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Article One of the United States Constitution, Article One of the Constitution of the United States, U.S. Constitution to pass or defeat federal legislation, known as Bill (United States Congress), bills. Those that are also passed by the Senate are sent to President of the United States, the president for signature or veto. The House's exclusive powers include initiating all revenue bills, Impeachment in the United States, impeaching federal officers, and Contingent election, electing the president if no candidate receives a majority of votes in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College. Members of the House serve a Fixed-term election, fixed term of two years, with each seat up for election before the start of the next Congress. ...
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M-63 (Michigan Highway)
M-63 is a Michigan Highway System, state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs from M-139 (Michigan highway), M-139 at Scottdale, Michigan, Scottdale through the cities of Benton Harbor, Michigan, Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan, St. Joseph to Interstate 196/U.S. Route 31 in Michigan, US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31) at exit 7 just outside Hagar Shores, Michigan, Hagar Shores. The trunkline runs through residential areas south of St. Joseph and through the central business districts of the Twin cities (geographical proximity), twin cities. Further north, M-63 runs along the Lake Michigan shoreline. All of M-63's routing was part of U.S. Route 33 in Michigan, US 33 before that highway's truncation south of Niles, Michigan, Niles in 1986. A previous designation of M-63 was used farther north in Lake County, Michigan, Lake and Osceola County, Michigan, Osceola counties from 1919 until 1961. Since the current designation was created, the Michigan De ...
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Michigan Department Of State
The Michigan Department of State is a principal executive department of the government of Michigan. It is responsible for administering Election, elections, regulating Notary public, notaries public, and maintaining records of statutes and the Seal of Michigan, Great Seal of Michigan. It also serves as the state's department of motor vehicles, administering motor vehicle registration and driving license, licensing automobile drivers. The department is led by the secretary of state of Michigan, a constitutional executive officer elected on a partisan ballot every four years alongside gubernatorial elections. The office is currently held by Jocelyn Benson of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, first elected in 2018 Michigan Secretary of State election, 2018. As the name implies, the officeholder was originally responsible for much of state government, but now the duties are similar to those of the other 46 Secretary of State (U.S. state government), secretaries ...
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Michigan History (magazine)
''Michigan History'' is a bimonthly state history magazine published by the Historical Society of Michigan in Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1917 as a “magazine of Michigan history for Michigan people by Michigan writers.” Since then, it has expanded into a full-color, 68-page international publication with a subscription base of over 20,000 and a total readership of nearly 100,000. The magazine is published six times a year and offered either as an individual subscription or an enhancement to a membership with the Historical Society of Michigan. History ''Michigan History'' magazine traces its roots to the ''Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections'', an annual, single-volume publication first published in 1874 by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. With the publication of Volume 40 in 1916, the Pioneer Collections ceased production. The following year, the Michigan Historical Commission, organized in 1913, and the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society ...
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Michigan Legislature
The Michigan Legislature is the legislature of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is organized as a bicameral body composed of the Senate (the upper chamber) and the House of Representatives (the lower chamber). Article IV of the Michigan Constitution, adopted in 1963, defines the role of the Legislature and how it is to be constituted. The chief purposes of the Legislature are to enact new laws and amend or repeal existing laws. The Legislature meets in the Capitol building in Lansing. The 103rd Michigan Legislature was sworn in on January 11, 2025. Titles Members of the Senate are referred to as Senators and members of the House of Representatives are referred to as Representatives. Michigan Senate The Senate is the upper house of the Legislature. Its members are elected on a partisan basis for four-year terms, concurrent with the election of the Governor of Michigan. The Senate consists of 38 members elected from single-member election districts ranging from 212,400 ...
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Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs, the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry, Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads. History Background With the coming of the bicycle in the 1890s, interest grew regarding the improvement of streets and roads in America. The traditional method of putting the burden on maintaining roads on local landowners was increasingly inadequate. In 1893, the federal Office of Road Inquiry (ORI) was founded; in 1905, it was renamed the Office of Public Roads (OPR) and made a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. Demands grew for local and state government to take charge. With the coming of the automobile, urgent efforts were made to upgrade and moderniz ...
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National Highway System (United States)
The National Highway System (NHS) is a network of strategic highways within the United States, including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, military bases, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities. Altogether, it constitutes the largest highway system in the world. Individual states are encouraged to focus federal funds on improving the efficiency and safety of this network. The roads within the system were identified by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) in cooperation with the states, local officials, and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and approved by the United States Congress in 1995. Legislation The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) in 1991 established certain key routes such as the Interstate Highway System, be included. The act provided a framework to develop a National Intermodal Transportation System which "co ...
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Average Annual Daily Traffic
Annual average daily traffic (AADT) is a measure used primarily in transportation planning, transport engineering, transportation engineering and retail Location_intelligence, location selection. Traditionally, it is the total volume of vehicle traffic of a highway or road for a year divided by 365 days. AADT is a simple, but useful, measurement of how busy the road is. AADT is the standard measurement for vehicle traffic load on a section of road, and the basis for some decisions regarding transport planning, or the environmental hazards of pollution related to road transport. Uses One of the most important uses of AADT is for determining funding for the maintenance and improvement of highways. In the United States, the amount of federal funding a state will receive is related to the total traffic measured across its highway network. Each year on June 15, every state's department of transportation (DOT) submits a Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) report. The HPMS repo ...
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Michigan Department Of Transportation
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is a constitutional government principal department of the US state of Michigan. The primary purpose of MDOT is to maintain the Michigan State Trunkline Highway System which includes all Interstate, US and state highways in Michigan with the exception of the Mackinac Bridge. Other responsibilities that fall under MDOT's mandate include airports, shipping and rail in Michigan. The predecessor to today's MDOT was the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) that was formed on July 1, 1905 after a constitutional amendment was approved that year. The first activities of the department were to distribute rewards payments to local units of government for road construction and maintenance. In 1913, the state legislature authorized the creation of the state trunkline highway system, and the MSHD paid double rewards for those roads. These trunklines were signed in 1919, making Michigan the second state to post numbers on its highways. The ...
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Grandville, Michigan
Grandville is a city in Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,378 at the 2010 census. Grandville is just southwest of the city of Grand Rapids and is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. It was first settled in 1833 and later incorporated as a city in 1933. History Settlement Anishinaabe peoples are indigenous to the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. Grandville was geographically an important place during the logging years in Michigan's history due to its location at the "river-bend" of the Grand River. It was important to have people there to make sure the logs did not jam up as the river turned north-west toward Grand Haven. Grandville was founded in 1833 and incorporated as a city in 1933. Recent history By the 1980s due to the growth of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area following the early 1980s recession in the United States, Grandville began to experience even more growth. In 1987, color measurement and manufacturer X-Rite established i ...
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Interstate 94 In Michigan
Interstate 94 (I-94) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Billings, Montana, to the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. In Michigan, it is a Michigan State Trunkline Highway System, state trunkline highway that enters the state south of New Buffalo, Michigan, New Buffalo and runs eastward through several metropolitan areas in the southern section of the state. The highway serves Benton Harbor, Michigan, Benton Harbor–St. Joseph, Michigan, St. Joseph near Lake Michigan before turning inland toward Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, Michigan, Battle Creek on the west side of the peninsula. Heading farther east, I-94 passes through rural areas in the middle of the southern Lower Peninsula, crossing Interstate 69 in Michigan, I-69 in the process. I-94 then runs through Jackson, Michigan, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ann Arbor, and portions of Metro Detroit, connecting Michigan's largest city to its Detr ...
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