Interstate 96: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Interstate 96 is an intrastate Interstate highway entirely within the state of Michigan. Its western terminus is U.S. Highway 31, on the western boundary of Norton Shores southeast of Muskegon. Its eastern terminus is Interstate 75 near the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. From Detroit to Grand Rapids, it parallels Grand River Avenue, never straying more than a few miles from the decommisioned U.S. Highway 16.

In Detroit, I-96 is known as the Jeffries Freeway from its eastern terminus to the junction with Interstate 275 and M-14.

Length

• Muskegon
• Grand Rapids
• Lansing
• Detroit

• Interstate 69 in Lansing
• Interstates 75 and 94 in Detroit

• Interstate 196, Gerald R. Ford Freeway through Grand Rapids and continuing southwesterly to Benton Harbor.
• Interstate 296 (unsigned), a short portion of the US-131 freeway in Grand Rapids.
• Interstate 496, Ransom E. Olds Freeway, a loop through Lansing
• Interstate 696, Walter P. Reuther Freeway through north side Detroit suburbs

• I-96 is an intrastate Interstate.

• While I-696 is part of the original Interstate highway system as outlined in 1956-58 with the first portion opening in 1962, the section portion was not completed until 1979 with the last link in the middle completed in 1989.