Michigan's First Tri-Level Intersection - Ferndale, MI.
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N 42° 26.827 W 083° 07.409
17T E 325371 N 4701605
Seen while traveling along Woodward Ave.
Waymark Code: WM85CP
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 01/31/2010
Views: 19
This was the first tri-level intersection in Michigan.
During the 1950's, as Oakland County's population soared, the corner of Eight Mile Road and Woodward Avenue became the most congested crossroad in Michigan. The solution, envisioned in a plan created by Detroit and it's surrounding counties in the 1920's, was the Eight Mile - Woodward tri-level intersection. Built in 1956-57, it used two levels for the Woodward Avenue and Eight Mile "superhighways" and one for the localaccess intersection.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Place or Location
Date of FIRST: 01/01/1957
More Information - Web URL: Not listed
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