roads

When the first pavement was laid in the mid 1910s, the route that today is Grand River Avenue was called the Wolverine Pavedway.

This might come as a surprise to some but Michigan has some issues when it comes to potholes.

A nearly forgotten figure in the history of Chicago is the man who dreamed up the city's street grid. He did it while on vacation across the lake in Paw Paw, Michigan.

A winter storm is heading for the Mitten State Wednesday through Friday and Michigan State Police are urging southern Lower Peninsula residents to be prepared.

Hundreds of drivers near Port Huron drive through this intersection daily and likely don't realize there's a quirk here that makes it unlike almost any other roadway in America.

Turkeys crossed wet pavement when this abandoned section of Route 66 was being built in the 1920s. The tracks are still visible 100 years later.

Route 66 is memorialized in our collective memory as the epitome of the 'open road.' One stretch of the old highway between Chicago and Joliet is closed and abandoned as it's just too unstable to drive.

Michigan Road beings its journey north through Indiana at the Ohio River town of Madison. It travels northwesterly, diagonally through the state passing through Indianapolis. But, despite the name, it won't take you to Michigan.

This railroad crossing south of Ithaca, Michigan lights up every time a train passes. The problem, there's no road there.

Based on comments from the public and stakeholders, US-131 was identified as a major future transportation project.

You can now alert other drivers of ice and unplowed roads when using the Waze app.

MDOT is trying to get the OK to look into it.