Interstate Highways of Michigan
The Interstate Highways in Michigan are the segments of the national Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways that are owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Michigan, totaling about 1,239 miles (1,994 km). On a national level, the standards and numbering for the system are handled by the Federal Highway Administration and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, while the highways in Michigan are maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation and the Mackinac Bridge Authority. These highways have their origins in World War II-era expressways built in the Detroit area before the 1956 creation of the Interstate Highway System. The last highway was completed in 1992, giving Michigan a total of 13 Interstate freeways. There are also 26 current and six former business routes associated with the system in the state and one planned, but unbuilt, freeway.
- Contributor(s): Imzadi1979
This is a high-quality, and so far the first of its kind, collection of articles encompassing a single state's components of the national Interstate Highway System along with the related business routes. If the contents of the I-96 subtopic are included with the above, there would be another 5 FAs added here giving this 50% featured content. As my editing continues in the future, the featured percentage will only increase as I have plans to take I-94, I-275 and I-675 to FAC at a minimum. -- Imzadi 1979 → 06:15, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
This is also the first of three subtopics about the Michigan State Trunkline Highway System. The other two subtopics on Michigan's U.S. Highways and "plain" state highways will be coming to FTC/GTC later this year as FLCs and a few more GANs are completed. Once these subtopics are promoted, I plan a FTC using the system article and the four lists of roads in the overall system. ( Pure Michigan Byway won't have its own topic.) Imzadi 1979 → 06:27, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support - Meets the criteria for a GT. Hopefully more articles in the topic can be brought to FA in the future so this can become a FT. Dough 4872 13:43, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- I think there is no good reason to keep interstate 96 as a separate subtopic. It can be easily included in its entirety within this topic, as it does not appear that it could be a subtopic somewhere else. Nergaal ( talk) 20:04, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support. Not sure about keeping I-96 as a separate topic or not. In the future, theoretically each interstate could get its own subtopic (provided they had two additional articles). In that case, I think it would serve well to have both interstates by each state as well as each route. This just happens to be the first time this has come up (to my knowledge). ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk) 15:21, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
- Support -- Rs chen 7754 23:30, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
- Closed with a consensus to promote to Good Topic.-- 十 八 20:00, 1 September 2015 (UTC)