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===Major highways=== *{{jct|state=MI|I|94|name1=[[Edsel Ford]] Freeway}} runs –west through Detroit and serves Ann Arbor to the west (where it continues to [[Chicago]]) and Port Huron to the northeast. The stretch of the current I-94 freeway from Ypsilanti to Detroit was one of the first American limited-access freeways. Henry Ford built it to link his factories at [[Willow Run]] and [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]] during [[World War II]]. It was called the [[M-112 (Michigan highway)|Willow Run Expressway]]. *{{jct|state=MI|I|696|name1=[[Walter Reuther]] Freeway}} runs east–west from the junction of I-96, I-275, and M-5 to I-94, providing a route through the northern suburbs of Detroit. *{{jct|state=MI|M|3|name1=Gratiot Avenue}} is a major road that runs from Marysville to downtown Detroit. The portion of the road between 23 Mile Road and New Haven Road is not numbered. Between New Haven Road and Main Street in the city of Richmond, the road is part of M-19. Between Richmond and Marysville the road is not numbered. *{{jct|state=MI|M|19}} starts in New Haven goes up Gratiot to Richmond. The route leaves Gratiot and goes northwest through Richmond and then north through Memphis. Then it goes north through St. Clair and Sanilac Counties and ends at M-142 near Bad Axe in Huron County. *{{jct|state=MI|M|29}} begins as part of 23 Mile Road, east of I-94, and ends in Marysville. *{{jct|state=MI|M|53}} which is called the Van Dyke Freeway and Christopher Columbus Freeway from 18 Mile Road in [[Sterling Heights, Michigan|Sterling Heights]] to 27 {{frac|1|2}} Mile Road in [[Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan|Washington Township]]. It is also called the POW/MIA Memorial Freeway from 27 {{frac|1|2}} Mile Road in Washington Township to the freeway's end at 34 Mile Road in [[Bruce Township, Macomb County, Michigan|Bruce Township]], however, it is locally known as the Van Dyke Freeway. It continues as Van Dyke Road or Van Dyke Avenue north to Port Austin and south through [[Warren, Michigan|Warren]] to Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. *{{jct|state=MI|M|59}} (Veterans Memorial Freeway) from [[Utica, Michigan|Utica]] to [[Pontiac, Michigan|Pontiac]], continues east as Hall Road to Gratiot Avenue and as William P. Rosso Highway to its terminus at I-94 and west as various surface roads to I-96 near [[Howell, Michigan|Howell]] *{{jct|state=MI|M|97}} (Groesbeck Highway) begins in Detroit at Gratiot (M-3) and ends at Hall Road (M-59). *{{jct|state=MI|M|102|name1=8 Mile Road}}, known by many due to the film ''[[8 Mile (film)|8 Mile]]'', forms the dividing line between Detroit on the south and the suburbs of Macomb and Oakland counties on the north. It is also known as Baseline Road outside of Detroit, because it coincides with the [[Baseline (surveying)|baseline]] used in surveying Michigan; that baseline is also the boundary for many Michigan counties.
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