page_title: Interstate 275 (Michigan)
section_title: Bike trail
hierarchical_section_title: Interstate 275 (Michigan) / History / Bike trail
caption_attribution_description: English: The I-275 Bikeway in Canton, Michigan
context_page_description: Interstate 275 is an Interstate in the US state of Michigan that acts as a western bypass of the Detroit metropolitan area. The Michigan Department of Transportation maintains the highway as part of the larger state trunkline highway system. The freeway runs through the western suburbs near Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, and crosses several rivers and rail lines in the area. The southern terminus is the interchange with I-75 near Newport, northeast of Monroe. MDOT considers the Interstate to run to an interchange with I-96, I-696 and M-5 on the Farmington Hills–Novi city line, running concurrently with I-96 for about five miles. This gives a total length of about 35.03 miles, which is backed up by official signage. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the length is 29.97 miles because that agency considers I-275 to end at the junction with I-96 and M-14 along the boundary between Livonia and Plymouth Township. All other map makers, like the American Automobile Association, Rand McNally and Google Maps follow MDOT's practice.
  A highway roughly parallel to the modern I-275 was included in early planning maps for the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s.
context_section_description: In the mid-1970s, MDOT constructed a bike trail parallel to I-275 in response to the energy crisis. Since 2006, the Michigan Trails & Greenway Alliance and MDOT have been working to improve the bike trail. At the time of the alliance's initial studies, the trail was overgrown with vegetation in locations. Since a grand re-opening in 2011, the bike path has been called the I-275 Metro Trail. In the middle of 2015, MDOT completed reconstruction of the bike trail, resulting in a paved trail from a junction with the Downriver Linked Greenways East–West Trail near South Huron Road in Huron Township northward to 12 Mile Road in Novi.
caption: I-275 Metro Trail in Canton, December 2008
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