From there, M-99 would have been routed concurrently with I-94 for 2½ miles to present-day Exit 124 where it would turn northerly along its existing route toward Springport. As I-94 was being constructed in the late 1950s, the State Highway Dept's original plans were to reroute M-99 northerly from downtown Albion along Superior St, then westerly on Austin Ave, and then northerly again via Eaton St to the new I-94 freeway at present-day Exit 122. I-94 along E Michigan Ave, exiting the city and meeting I-94 at present-day Exit 124, before proceeding northerly toward Springport. In Albion, M-99 enters the city from the south via Superior St into downtown, then turns easterly with BL Signs, while brand-new "M-99 - M L King Blvd/Eaton Rapids" signs In 1999, MDOT covered up "Logan St" on the I-496 exit While MDOT was able to use "M-99 - Logan St/M L King Blvd" on theĪ mid-1990s re-signing project, all exit signs on I-96 atĮxit 101 read "M-99 - Logan St/Eaton Rapids." MDOT, however, didĮrect smaller auxillary signs before the interchange indicating the M L King Removed and the street became known only as M L King Jr Blvd within the city, Of Lansing was co-named M L King Jr Blvd. Later re-used beginning in the 1970s, the M-9 designation has never been re-used.ĭuring the early 1990s, all of Logan St in the city Never quite came to be and many of the single-digit route designations were While this single-digit-designated "superhighway" network To reserve all single-digit designations for a planned network of "superhighways"Īcross the state. State trunkline route was given a two- or three-digit route designation, reportedly
Luther King Jr Blvd & St Joseph St)ġ939, what is now M-99 was designated as M-9. Olds Frwy at Exit 5 in Lansing at jct with Capitol (connection w/OH SR-15) southeast of Frontier, 18 miles south of Hillsdale Michigan Highways > Route Listings > M-99 Back to Previous Route: