Interstate 94

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Interstate 94
Main route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

1604 mi (2581 km)

West end:

I-90 near Billings, MT

Major
junctions:

I-29 in Fargo, ND

I-35W in Minneapolis, MN

I-35E in St. Paul, MN

I-39 in Madison, WI

I-43 in Milwaukee, WI

I-55 in Chicago, IL

I-57 in Chicago, IL

I-80 in South Holland, IL

I-65 in Gary, IN

I-75 in Detroit, MI

East end:

ONT 402 at Canadian border on Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, MI

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Interstate 94

Interstate 94 (abbreviated I-94) is the northernmost east-west interstate highway, connecting the Great Lakes and Intermountain regions of the United States. Its western terminus is in Billings, Montana at a junction with Interstate 90; its eastern terminus is the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan, at the Sarnia, Ontario, Canada border, where together with Interstate 69 it meets Highway 402. I-94 is the longest interstate highway that does not end in a '0' or '5'.

1 Route description
2 History
3 Intersections with other interstates
4 Spur routes
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Route description

Lengths
	mi	km
MT	249	401
ND	352	567
MN	259	418
WI	348	560
IL	77	124
IN	46	74
MI	275	443
Total^[1]	1604	2581

Major cities
All cities are control cities for I-94.^[2]
Billings, Montana Bismarck, North Dakota Fargo, North Dakota Moorhead, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota Eau Claire, Wisconsin Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Chicago, Illinois Detroit, Michigan Port Huron, Michigan

Interstate 94 is the only purely east-west interstate to form a direct connection into a foreign country (Canada). No such interstate currently ends at the U.S.-Mexico border, although I-905 in California will become such when upgrades are completed. At Port Huron, I-94 crosses the Blue Water Bridge into Sarnia, Ontario and becomes Highway 402, which can be used by motorists going to Toronto. I-94's concurrency at that crossing, I-69, is posted east-west in eastern Michigan, but changes to north-south near Lansing and remains north-south in the remainder of Michigan and throughout its run in Indiana.

[edit] Montana

Main article: Interstate 94 in Montana

I-94 begins at Billings and travels northeastward towards Glendive before exiting the state to the east.

[edit] North Dakota

Main article: Interstate 94 in North Dakota

The route enters at Beach, passes through some beautiful scenery in the Badlands near Medora (near the Theodore Roosevelt National Park (South Unit)). A public rest area about seven miles (11 km) east of Medora provides a scenic view and the Painted Canyon Trail that provides the opportunity to hike through some of the scenery. I-94 then travels east past Bismarck on the way to Fargo where it leaves the state and crosses into Minnesota.

[edit] Minnesota

Main article: Interstate 94 in Minnesota

I-94 travels in a northwest-southeast trajectory passing Moorhead and St Cloud prior to traveling through the Twin Cities and heading east out of the state. Leaving Fargo, ND and entering Moorhead, MN, I-94 crosses the Red River. In Minneapolis it crosses the Mississippi River, and leaving Minnesota between Lakeland, MN and Hudson, WI, I-94 crosses the St. Croix River. Between northbound I-35W and MN-280 in the Twin Cities, the highway is not up to interstate standards because the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) added a temporary extra lane to help relieve traffic congestion caused by the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River bridge.

Lowry Hill Tunnel in Minneapolis.

[edit] Wisconsin

Main article: Interstate 94 in Wisconsin

Interstate 94 enters Wisconsin east of the Twin Cities at the town of Hudson. It passes Eau Claire before turning southeastward and joining with Interstate 90 in Tomah and Interstate 39 in Portage. I-94 branches off eastward in Madison and travels east to Milwaukee before turning south and heading to Chicago, entering Illinois at Pleasant Prairie.

[edit] Illinois

Main article: Interstate 94 in Illinois

See also: Tri-State Tollway, Edens Expressway, Dan Ryan Expressway, Bishop Ford Freeway, and Kingery Expressway

In the state of Illinois, I-94 runs south from Wisconsin to Indiana via downtown Chicago. It is tolled on the Tri-State Tollway to the I-94/I-294 split; it then runs east to the Skokie Highway, where it turns south through the city of Chicago. At Interstate 80, I-94 runs east to Indiana on the Kingery Expressway.

[edit] Indiana

Main article: Interstate 94 in Indiana

See also: Borman Expressway

In the state of Indiana, I-94 runs east from Illinois concurrent with I-80. It crosses Interstate 90 (Indiana Toll Road), where I-80 joins I-90 east towards Ohio. I-94 continues northeast, paralleling the Lake Michigan shoreline into Michigan.

[edit] Michigan

Main article: Interstate 94 in Michigan

I-94 runs north along Lake Michigan to St. Joseph before heading east on the long road to Detroit. It turns northeast to Port Huron where it meets I-69 and ends at ON Hwy 402 on the Blue Water Bridge.

[edit] History

North of Chicago, I-94 is being widened from six to eight lanes from Illinois Route 22 (Half Day Road) to just south of the Wisconsin state line at Illinois Route 173 and 95th Street to 159th Street.

In 2005, the I-94 bridge over the Crow River near St. Michael, Minnesota, about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Minneapolis, is being rebuilt. In 2006, a project to widen I-94 east of downtown St. Paul between Minnesota State Highway 120 and McKnight Road from four to six lanes was completed.

The new Marquette Interchange, in downtown Milwaukee, will be completed in 2008 at a cost of $810 million.

The interchange at 95th Ave. N in Maple Grove, Minnesota is also being rebuilt. A new, wider bridge will replace the two-lane bridge there, which was demolished in July, 2006.

In Detroit, Interstate 94 was routed over the existing Edsel Ford Freeway, and remained signed as such until the late 1980s when Michigan deemphasized proper names on Interstate guide signs. Its interchange with the Lodge Freeway, built in 1953, is significant as the first full freeway-to-freeway interchange built in the United States.^[3]

[edit] Intersections with other interstates

Interstate 90 in Billings, Montana
Interstate 29 in Fargo, North Dakota
Interstate 35W in Minneapolis, Minnesota; concurrent for less than one mile (1.6 km)
Interstate 35E in St. Paul, Minnesota
Interstate 90 in Tomah, Wisconsin
Interstate 39 at Portage, Wisconsin
Interstate 43 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Interstate 90 in Chicago, Illinois
Interstate 55 in Chicago, Illinois
Interstate 57 in Chicago, Illinois
Interstate 80 in South Holland, Illinois
Interstate 65 in Gary, Indiana
Interstate 90 in Lake Station, Indiana
Interstate 196 near Benton Harbor, Michigan
Interstate 194 in Battle Creek, Michigan
Interstate 69 in Marshall, Michigan
Interstate 275 in Romulus, Michigan
Interstate 96 in Detroit, Michigan
Interstate 75 in Detroit, Michigan
Interstate 696 in Roseville, Michigan
Interstate 69 in Port Huron, Michigan^[1]

[edit] Spur routes

Bismarck, North Dakota - I-194 (unsigned)
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota - I-394, I-494, I-694
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - I-794, I-894
Chicago, Illinois - I-294 (Tri-State Tollway)
Battle Creek, Michigan - I-194

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Route Log- Main Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 1
^ Interstate Highway Control Cities (2004). Retrieved on 2006-12-04.
^ Preliminary List of Nationally and Exceptionally Significant Features of the Interstate Highway System. Retrieved on 2006-07-06.

[edit] External links

Interstate 94 at Michigan Highways
Interstate 94 at Wisconsin Highways
Illinois Highway Ends: I-94
Indiana Highway Ends: I-94
The Old Red Trail documentary about the history of I-94 in North Dakota

v • d • e Auxiliary routes of Interstate 94

North Dakota: 194 (unsigned) — Minnesota: 394 • 494 • 694 — Wisconsin: 794 • 894 — Illinois: 294 — Michigan: 194

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