Michigan State Highway 50
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Michigan State Highway 50, or M-50 is a state highway in Michigan. Although designated as an east-west highway, it is nearly a diagonal northwest-southeast route. It has its western terminus on Interstate 96 near Alto, Michigan a few miles/kilometers east of greater Grand Rapids and its eastern terminus in downtown Monroe, Michigan at Michigan State Highway 125, just short of Interstate 75.
M-50 has junctions with the following highways and/or passes through the following towns:
- Woodbury, junction with M-43 and M-66
- Charlotte, junction with Interstate 69 and M-79
- Eaton Rapids, junction with M-99 and M-188 (M-50 and M-99 follow the same route for about six miles south of Eaton Rapids)
- Jackson, the largest city through which it passes. It meets U.S. Highway 127 just north of Jackson and coincides with it for about a mile to Interstate 94; it there splits with US 127 but coincides with Business Route US 127 on a north-south route through Jackson; it meets M-106 in downtown Jackson, and again meets US 127 on the southeast side of Jackson, and then heads southeast toward Napoleon where it turns south
- Brooklyn, Michigan, junction with M-124
- Cambridge Junction, junction with U.S. Highway 12 (the old U.S. Highway 112), where it passes the Michigan International Speedway
- Tecumseh, junction with M-52 a few miles west of Tecumseh
- Dundee, junction with U.S. Highway 23
- Monroe, junction with U.S. Highway 24 and M-125
In the pre-Interstate era, M-50 served as most of the Grand-Rapids-Jackson route for those who sought to avoid greater Lansing. Except for segments in which it coincides with US 127 it is all undivided surface road. At one time, M-50 extended west all the way to Agnew on Lake Michigan in Ottawa County. In the 1960s, M-50 was truncated at Lowell and the segment west of Grand Rapids was redesignated as M-45.
External link
- Michigan highways (http://www.michiganhighways.org/listings/MichHwys50-59.html#M-050)