Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/March 2017

Looking south down Woodward Avenue from the Maccabees Building with the Detroit skyline in the distance in July 1942

• ... that Woodward Avenue (pictured in 1942) was planned to be the most important of the five major avenues planned by Judge Augustus Woodward that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions?
• ... that the M-64 highway designation was moved twice in two years by exchanging the number with different roads?
• ... that US 23 in Michigan was the proposed site for General Motors bid to develop an electronic highway in 1961?
• ...that M-134 was designated as a Pure Michigan Byway?
• ... that in 1919, Michigan was the second state to sign numbered highways after Wisconsin?