M-50 (Michigan highway)
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| M-50 |
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| Length: | 140.62 mi[1] (226 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1926[1] | ||||||||
| West end: |  I-96 near Alto |
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| Major junctions: |
  M-43/M-66 at Woodbury
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| East end: |  US 24 near Monroe [2] |
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M-50 is a trunkline and state highway in Michigan. Although designated as an east-west highway, it is 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.
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 is all undivided surface road. At one time, M-50 extended west all the way to Agnew on Lake Michigan in Ottawa County. In the 1960s, M-50 was truncated at Lowell and the segment west of Grand Rapids was redesignated as M-45.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Michigan Highways: Highways 50 through 59 Christopher J. Bessert, URL accessed 6 Oct 2006
- ^ M-50 jurisdictional transfer.Patrick Allen. 5 October 2006.
