A two-lane roadway and bridge project that will mitigate traffic build-up by providing a route for an additional 15,000 to 20,000 vehicles daily.
Delayed: 16 Years
Investment: $170 Million
“After close to two decades of debate, the final hurdle has been cleared for $170 million in improvements to the U.S. 31 corridor… Discussions on the bypass date back to 1993, with the project having been scaled back in recent years. Instead of a new freeway along 120th Avenue through the center of a largely rural area — originally proposed more than a decade ago — the project calls for building the M-231 bypass from M-45 (Lake Michigan Drive) to the interchange at I-96 and M-104 near Nunica.”
MLive, 2010