Talk:Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit

7​1⁄2 Mile Road (Pembroke Ave.)
In the "Mile roads traveling north" section, I propose deleting the entry for 7 1/2 mile Road. As it currently exists, the text is not grammatically correct and repeats itself. Pembroke is fragmentary and is never signed as 7 1/2 mile Road. I don't believe it meets the standard of notability.--Thomprod (talk) 14:52, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Deleted, seeing no objections. --Thomprod (talk) 12:03, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

"Mile road system" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Mile road system. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 6 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. snood1205(Say Hi! (talk)) 02:37, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

M-10 routing along Northwestern
Northwestern Highway was an existing surface boulevard from Wyoming to beyond Telegraph. The portion within Detroit had, by mid-century, acquired (and present-day service drives retain) the name James Couzens. In the mid-1960s Northwestern was reconstructed as freeway. [Tighten up this prose and add to the M-10 section of the article] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.154.192.197 (talk) 00:32, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Lapeer County
If none of the roads in Lapeer County have mile numbering, then arguably they're just roads running along section lines which are spaced a mile apart, as noted in the lede, and have nothing to do with the Detroit system. Mapsax (talk) 22:04, 10 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I have to wholeheartedly agree with this, as well as the "southern" Mile Roads south of Ford Rd, which also don't actually exist in reality. If one were to use the logic in including all of Lapeer and St. Clair Counties (and the "south of Ford" roads), then we could make lists of the "Mile Roads" from Detroit all the way to the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula! Most roads in Michigan were constructed along section lines (spaced one mile apart) or quarterlines (the 1/2-mile lines through each section). In some places these were assigned "Mile Road" names, but those are just road names and should not be extended beyond their actual range. There are also "Mile Roads" in Kent County from Grand Rapids northerly to the north county line, but they aren't related to the Detroit system and no one should "extend" these "Mile Roads" into Newaygo or Montcalm Counties. In fact, Newaygo County has its own "Mile Road" system completely unrelated to any other "Mile Road" system. The only time I believe including any currently non-existant "Mile Road" is when one of them is renamed to something else—as a historical reference. For example, 16 Mile Rd as Metropolitan Parkway or 7 Mile Rd as McNichols Rd. Just because Hall Rd lies exactly one mile between 19 Mile Rd and 21 Mile Rd doesn't mean it is or ever was "20 Mile Road" and, other than a possible reference to the fact there is NO "20 Mile Road" in the system, there should be no reference to it anywhere as it does not nor has ever exited. Any "20 Mile Road" in Macomb County is merely something someone made up in their own minds. That's my two cents worth, at least... CBessert (talk) 10:14, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Point of information, McNichols is SIX Mile. In any case, I don't think I ever heard a true Detroiter say the name McNichols. To us it was always 'Six'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.65.77.184 (talk) 00:23, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

M-97 @ M-102
A recent addition stated that M-97 (Groesbeck Highway) is discontinuous at M-102 (8 Mile Road) in the southbound direction. This is demonstrably false. Per satellite imagery, there are two through lanes southbound along M-97. Traffic is not forced to make a right turn to continue along M-97 in that direction. MDOT's Next Generation PR Finder does not show the section of Hoover Street between Groesbeck and 8 Mile under state jurisdiction, and the bare URL cited for the note does not mention this supposed discontinuity.

The routing that was described is impossible to take as the median crossover for a Michigan left on M-102 is east of the intersection with Hoover Street. For these reasons, I've removed it from this article. Also, that text added did not come from another article, so I've removed the "attribution" on this talk page statement as unnecessary.  Imzadi 1979  →   07:18, 17 July 2023 (UTC)


 * please address the comments above before reinserting your edit. Please quote exactly where Chris Bessert has written that this roadway is discontinuous at his webpage on M-97, because I cannot find anything there to support your contention.  Imzadi 1979  →   21:23, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I, too, would love to know where I ever stated M-97 was or is discontinuous at M-102/Eight Mile Rd. I just reviewed my own M-97 route listing (https://www.michiganhighways.org/listings/M-097.html) and I don't see anything there which could be misconstrued as M-97 being discontinuous anywhere. As Imazdi 1979 correctly notes, a quick and easy check of Google Maps shows this is untrue. CBessert (talk) 10:20, 9 February 2024 (UTC)