:Interstate 675 (Michigan)

Splitting from I-75/US 23 on the eastern side of Saginaw, I-675 turns west toward downtown. The freeway runs between residential neighborhoods and has an interchange with Veterans Memorial Parkway. West of that interchange, it crosses a line of the Huron and Eastern Railway.{{cite map |author = Michigan Department of Transportation |date = January 2011 |url = http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDOT_Official_Rail_130897_7.pdf |title = Michigan's Railroad System |scale = Scale not given |location = Lansing |publisher = Michigan Department of Transportation |access-date = February 1, 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120904065017/http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDOT_Official_Rail_130897_7.pdf |archive-date = September 4, 2012 }} From there, it runs on the northern edge of downtown near the Dow Event Center, spanning the Saginaw River on the Henry G. Marsh Bridge. On the west side of the river, the trunkline meets an interchange with M-58. From there it turns northward, crossing a line of the Mid-Michigan Railroad. I-675 continues northward, passing to the east of the Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center and through more residential neighborhoods in Saginaw Township North. After the interchange with Tittabawassee Road, which provides access to the Fashion Square Mall, I-675 turns northeasterly to connect back to I-75/US 23 north of the Zilwaukee Bridge.{{cite MDOT map |year = 2012 |inset = Saginaw }}{{google maps |url = https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Unknown+road&daddr=Unknown+road&hl=en&sll=43.47491,-83.917522&sspn=0.060043,0.058279&geocode=FZfBlgIdFub_-g%3BFTaylwIdnEv_-g&t=h&mra=ls&z=13 |title = Overview Map of I-675 |access-date = July 12, 2012 }} The entire length of the freeway has four lanes (two in each direction).

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Like other state highways in Michigan, I-675 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). In 2015, the department's traffic surveys showed that on average, 31,300 vehicles used the freeway daily across the river and 9,400 vehicles did so each day north of Tittabawassee Road, the highest and lowest counts along the trunkline, respectively.{{cite web |author = Bureau of Transportation Planning |year = 2015 |url = http://mdotnetpublic.state.mi.us/tmispublic/ |title = Traffic Monitoring Information System |publisher = Michigan Department of Transportation |access-date = January 28, 2017 }} As an Interstate Highway, all of I-675 is listed on the National Highway System,{{cite map |author = Michigan Department of Transportation |title = National Highway System, Michigan |date = April 23, 2006 |scale = Scale not given |location = Lansing |publisher = Michigan Department of Transportation |url = http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDOT_NHS_Statewide_150626_7.pdf |format = PDF |access-date = October 7, 2008 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121004040152/http://www.michigan.gov/documents/MDOT_NHS_Statewide_150626_7.pdf |archive-date = October 4, 2012 }} a network of roads important to the country's economy, defense, and mobility.{{cite web |first1 = Stefan |last1 = Natzke |first2 = Mike |last2 = Neathery |first3 = Kevin |last3 = Adderly |name-list-style = amp |url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/ |title = What is the National Highway System? |work = National Highway System |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |date = June 20, 2012 |access-date = July 1, 2012 }}

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I-675 was initially planned in the mid-1950s,{{cite map |map-url = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saginaw,_Michigan_1955_Yellow_Book.jpg |title = General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955 |map = Saginaw |scale = Scale not given |page = 46 |author = Bureau of Public Roads |author-link = Bureau of Public Roads |location = Washington, DC |publisher = Government Printing Office |year = 1955 |oclc = 4165975 |access-date = September 18, 2016 |via = Wikimedia Commons }} and the Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) originally proposed the number I-275 for the freeway through Saginaw in 1958, while the MSHD proposed an I-73 number for what is now I-275.{{cite web |author = Michigan State Highway Department |date = April 25, 1958 |title = Recommended Interstate Route Numbering for Michigan |url = http://nwindianahwys.homestead.com/michiplan.html |location = Lansing |publisher = Michigan State Highway Department |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20040805182658/http://nwindianahwys.homestead.com/michiplan.html |archive-date = August 5, 2004 |url-status = dead }} The state started construction on I-675 in 1969.{{cite MDOT map |year = 1969 |link = yes |c-link = yes |section = J12 }}{{cite MDOT map |year = 1970 |section = J12 }} The freeway was to provide access to the downtown Saginaw area and serve as a bypass for the original Zilwaukee Bridge northeast of downtown, roles that continue today. At the time, the Zilwaukee Bridge was a bascule bridge that could be raised to allow shipping traffic to use the Saginaw River. Opening the drawbridge would back traffic up on the freeway for up to four hours on holiday weekends. I-675 helped relieve the congestion during such times.{{cite book |last = Hyde |first = Charles K. |year = 1993 |title = Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan |location = Detroit |publisher = Wayne State University Press |pages = 166–168 |isbn = 0-8143-2448-7 |oclc = 27011079 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/historichighwayb0000hyde/page/166 |access-date = September 7, 2019 |via = Archive.org }} The record was a {{convert|56|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} traffic jam on Labor Day 1968, although {{convert|20|mi|km|adj=on}} backups were common until the shipping companies using the Saginaw River limited their traffic in 1970.{{cite news |first = Nancy |last = Benac |date = July 27, 1981 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=19810727&id=3G8iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Pa0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4340,2103297&hl=en |title = Drawbridge to Be Traded for Huge Span at Zilwaukee |work = The Argus-Press |location = Owosso, Michigan |agency = Associated Press |page = 2 |access-date = September 18, 2016 |via = Google News }} The freeway was completed in 1971 and opened to traffic that year.{{cite news |first = Gus |last = Burns |date = June 30, 2011 |title = Saginaw Interstate 675 Work: 1,000 Truckloads of Fill Sand, $14.4 million |url = http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/06/saginaw_interstate_675_work_10.html |work = The Saginaw News |access-date = July 12, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110908150752/http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/06/saginaw_interstate_675_work_10.html |archive-date = September 8, 2011 |url-status = dead }} After completion, the state considered reconstructing I-675 to make the downtown freeway the through routing for I-75/US 23 in the Saginaw area to bypass the bascule bridge.{{cite book |author = Michigan Department of Transportation |year = 1987 |chapter = Section 2: Background |chapter-url = http://www.michiganhighways.org/indepth/zilwaukee_report2.html |title = The Zilwaukee Bridge: From the Beginning |location = Lansing |publisher = Michigan Department of Transportation |oclc = 16106385 |access-date = September 18, 2016 |via = Michigan Highways }} Originally to be completed in 1983, the replacement bridge on I-75/US 23 finally opened on September 19, 1988.{{cite news |author = Staff writer |date = September 19, 1988 |url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=C3BRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zw0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3349,13274&dq=zilwaukee+bridge&hl=en |title = Zilwaukee Bridge Now Open North, South—Partly |work = The Blade |location = Toledo, Ohio |page = 1 |oclc = 12962717 |access-date = July 12, 2012 |via = Google News }} The next year, southbound I-675 was used to divert traffic around a temporary closure on the southbound span of the Zilwaukee Bridge. At the same time, northbound I-675 was closed while crews replaced the deck on the bridge over the Saginaw River.{{cite news |last = Gillmore |first = Dan |date = July 17, 1989 |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9266687/detroit_free_press/ |title = Construction Closes Lanes on I-75, Bridge |work = Detroit Free Press |page = 3 |issn = 1055-2758 |oclc = 474189830 |access-date = March 1, 2017 |via = Newspapers.com }}

In 2002, the Zilwaukee Bridge was closed for a few months for joint repair work, and traffic was diverted onto I-675.{{cite news |last = Leach |first = Hugh |date = March 4, 2002 |title = Projects Affect Jackson Route |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9266562/lansing_state_journal/ |work = Lansing State Journal |page = 9 |oclc = 61312043 |access-date = March 1, 2017 |via = Newspapers.com }} The freeway through downtown was pressed back into service as a detour around the Zilwaukee Bridge for six months in 2008 as a mishap involving several steel reinforcement rods during a maintenance project closed that structure for an extended period of time.{{cite news |first = Barrie |last = Barber |date = November 28, 2010 |url = http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/11/mdot_says_its_still_investigat.html |title = Two Years Later, MDOT Still Investigating Zilwaukee Bridge Maintenance Mishap that Closed Span for Months |work = The Saginaw News |access-date = September 18, 2016 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130129085406/http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2010/11/mdot_says_its_still_investigat.html |archive-date = January 29, 2013 |url-status = dead }} Then, starting in May 2009 and ending in November 2011, sections of I-675 were closed from exit 2 easterly to begin renovations during the summer construction seasons. These projects included rehabilitation of the Henry G. Marsh Bridge, the reconstruction of overpasses, and a redesigned exit at Warren Avenue to ease access into downtown Saginaw.{{cite news |first = Stacey |last = Henson |date = May 26, 2009 |url = http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2009/05/interstate_675_closures_begin.html |title = Interstate 675 Closures Begin Today in Saginaw County |work = The Saginaw News |access-date = October 10, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111027173447/http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2009/05/interstate_675_closures_begin.html |archive-date = October 27, 2011 |url-status = dead }}{{cite news |first = Barrie |last = Barber |date = November 2, 2011 |url = http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/11/mdot_now_says_i-675_will_reope.html |title = MDOT Now Says I-675 Will Reopen Mid-Day |work = The Saginaw News |access-date = July 12, 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151117030307/http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/11/mdot_now_says_i-675_will_reope.html |archive-date = November 17, 2015 |url-status = dead }} The project cost $42 million (equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|42000000|2010}}}} in {{inflation-year|US-GDP}}{{inflation-fn|US-GDP|name-list-style=amp}}).{{cite news |title = County with Worst Bridges to Get Fixes: Saginaw in Line for Two-Year, $42 Million Repair on I-675 |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9266435/the_times_herald/ |work = The Times Herald |location = Port Huron, Michigan |page = 3 |oclc = 36177739 |access-date = March 1, 2017 |via = Newspapers.com }}

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• [http://www.michiganhighways.org/listings/MichHwys250-696.html#I-675 I-675] at Michigan Highways
• [http://www.interstate-guide.com/i-675_mi.html I-675 Michigan] at AARoad's Interstate Guide
• [http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/i675.html#675mi I-675 Michigan] at Kurumi

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