M-10 (Michigan highway)

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John C. Lodge Freeway

Northwestern Highway

Length:

22.88 mi^[1] (36.82 km)

Formed:

Current route, 1986

South end:

M-3/BS I-375 in Downtown Detroit

Major
junctions:

I-75 in Downtown Detroit

I-94 in Detroit
M-8 near Highland Park
M-39 in Southfield
I-696 in Southfield

North end:

Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield

Counties:

Wayne & Oakland

Michigan highways
< US 10		M-11 >

M-10, also known as the John C. Lodge Freeway, and Northwestern Highway. Its southernmost portion runs on Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit, Michigan, and its southern terminus is at the intersection of Jefferson and Randolph Street; its northern terminus is in West Bloomfield at the intersection with Orchard Lake Road. M-10 was built in segments throughout much of the 1950s and 1960s. It carried several different names before the entire route was finally officially named The John C. Lodge Freeway in 1987. ^[2] M-10 was named after John C. Lodge, an influential Detroiter and mayor of Detroit from 1927-1928.

1 John C. Lodge freeway portion
2 Northwestern Highway portion
3 Previous incarnations of M-10
- 3.1 First iteration
- 3.2 Second iteration
4 Exit List & Major intersections
5 External links
6 References

[edit] John C. Lodge freeway portion

This freeway, almost always referred to as "the Lodge" rather than by route number or full name, is one of several major highways in metropolitan Detroit running northwesterly from downtown to the Oakland County suburbs. The freeway portion of M-10 ends at "The Mixing Bowl" — the local name for the sprawling interchange of I-696, US-24/Telegraph Rd, the Lodge, Northwestern Hwy, Lahser Rd and Franklin Rd in Southfield. The M-10 designation continues for several miles beyond as a four to six-lane divided highway.

The John C. Lodge Expressway was originally constructed and opened without any state trunkline route designation until it was assigned as a part of US 12 in the 1950s. US 12 ran along the long from the Edsel Ford Freeway (now I-94) into downtown Detroit. Then it was assigned as Business Spur I-696 in 1964 with the completion of I-696. It was signed as a business spur of I-696 as a way to circumvent the elements it had that rendered it substandard to the Interstate Highway System. Soon after, though, the Lodge became part of US 10 when that route was removed from Woodward Avenue. In the 1986, when US 10 was truncated at Bay City, the Lodge was redesignated as M-10. The southernmost portion was also redesignated as a portion of BS I-375 on paper from I-75 south. When the US 10 shields were removed, they were universally replaced with M-10 shields instead of BS I-375 shields.^[3]

Southfield Town Center along the Lodge.

With the Michigan Department of Transportation's deemphasization of proper names historically used by Metro Detroiters for the area's Interstates, the Lodge is now one of only three (the others being the Davison Freeway and the Southfield Freeway) in the Detroit area universally referred to by name rather than route number.

The Lodge was originally made up of three legs with unique names: the John C. Lodge ran from Jefferson Avenue in downtown Detroit to Wyoming Avenue; the James Couzens ran from Wyoming to M-102/8 Mile Road; and the portion north of 8 Mile was named Northwestern Highway (see below). While the service drives retain the existing names, the freeway itself has come to be referred to as the Lodge for its entire length.

I-94's intersection with M-10, built in 1953 before the Interstate system was even developed, is significant as the first full freeway-to-freeway interchange built in the United States.^[4]

The Lodge is going through a major reconstruction which has forced it to close down from the Davison Expressway to Lahser Road until November.^[5]

[edit] Northwestern Highway portion

The portion of M-10 from "The Mixing Bowl" until its terminus with Orchard Lake Rd and Fourteen Mile Rd is known as Northwestern Highway. It was designed as a scenic divided four to six-lane sloping highway with a wide tree lined center median. Travelling Southbound down the hills gives a scenic views of distant downtown Detroit contrasted with the surrounding woodland area. Unfortunately, the build up of office and medical buildings on Northwestern has lessened the experience over the years.

During the 1950s, this highway was proposed to be extended as far as the Fenton-Clio Expressway (US 23) at Fenton, but was cancelled when I-75 was, instead, routed between Detroit and Flint via Pontiac. A Northwestern Highway extension was again proposed in the late 1960s to connect with the proposed I-275 extension. When the I-275 project was cancelled in the late-1970s, the Northwestern extension was ostensibly cancelled as well, although a dispute between the Road Commission for Oakland County and the Michigan Department of Transportation lasted through the 1990s. Due to the continuing development of the land along the proposed right-of-way (including a strip mall right at the current terminus of M-10), the Northwestern extension will likely never be built as planned.

Up until the Lodge was stripped of its US 10 designation, this portion of modern-day M-10 was designated as M-4.

[edit] Previous incarnations of M-10

The Lodge Freeway is the third distinct iteration of the M-10 designation since Michigan first posted its highway designations in 1918. Note: All incarnations of M-10 also had parts designated as US 10 at one time.

[edit] First iteration

The first iteration of M-10 utilized the present-day segments of these following highways; US 24, M-13, US 23 and M-33 (former alignment of US 23). This first iteration of M-10 also coincided with the Dixie Highway (east branch) in much of its length.

[edit] Second iteration

The second iteration of M-10 was, technically, the much-reduced remnant of the original, first iteration of the route in the Flint area, serving as a business connection for the city as the through route, US 10, bypassed it on the east. This second M-10 iteration was later re-designated as BUS US 10, then as BUS M-54 in the 1960s before being turned back to local control in the 1980s.

[edit] Exit List & Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Roads	Notes
Wayne	Detroit	0.0	Business Spur I-375 M-3 Randolph Street	Southern terminus
		(1A)	W Jefferson Ave	Beginning of Controlled Access
		(1B)	Larned St	SB Only, Left Exit
		1C	Howard St	SB Only. Access to/from M-85Fort Street via service drives.
		(2A)	Bagley Ave	SB Only. Left Exit. Access to/from US 12 and M-10 North via Bagley Street frontage road and 3rd Street
		(2B)	I-75 South - Toledo/to I-96 I-75 North - Flint Fisher Freeway
		2C	Gd River Ave	SB Only
		3	Forest Ave / Warren Ave
		(4A) 4B	I-94 West - Chicago I-94 East - Port Huron Edsel Ford Freeway
		4C	Milwaukee Ave / W Grand Blvd
		5A	Pallister Ave	SB Only
		5B	Clairmont Ave	NB Exit / SB Entrance Only
		(6A)	Hamilton Ave / Chicago Blvd
		6B	Webb Ave	NB Exit Only / NB & SB Entrance
		6C	Elmhurst Ave	SB Exit Only / No entrance
		7A	Glendale Ave	NB Exit / SB Entrance Only
	Highland Park	7B/C	M-8 Davison Freeway	NB Exits to EB(7B) and WB(7C) SB Exit to EB Only
	Detroit	8	Linwood Ave
		9	Livernois Ave
		10A	Wyoming Ave
		10B	Meyers Rd / Mc Nichols Rd	NB Exit / SB Entrance Only
		12	7 Mile Rd
		13A	Greenfield Rd M-102 8 Mile Road
Oakland	Southfield	13B	Northland	NB is also access to 9 Mile Rd
		(14A)	M-39 Southfield Freeway	NB exit only to Southfield Rd NB SB exit only to M-39 Southfield Fwy SB
		(14B)	9 Mile Rd	SB Only
		(15)	10 Mile Rd / Evergreen Rd
		(16)	Lahser Rd
		(18)	I-696 East - Port Huron US 24 North - Pontiac US 24 South - Monroe I-696 West - Lansing	Access to/from I-696 East only from M-10 South. Access to/from I-696 West only from M-10 North. End of Controlled Access.
	Farmington Hills	22.8	Orchard Lake Road	Northern terminus