A proposal to rebuild the street as a six-lane, limited-access highway was approved by the Highland Park City Council on March 17, 1941. A traffic survey showed that 96% of the traffic using the street was crossing Highland Park with no destination in the city. This road was heavily congested, approaching gridlock during rush hour by 1940. The street was the only one of the 30 parallel streets in Highland Park that crossed through the city from border to border and connected with Detroit streets. The roadway was named for Jarad Davison, an English immigrant and one of the early settlers of the area. History ĭavison Avenue predates both the Davison Freeway and the M-8 state trunkline designation in the area. Of this traffic, 1,900 trucks and other commercial vehicles used the trunkline. The section of freeway in between carried in excess of 50,000 vehicles a day in 2007 between M-10 and I-75. An average of 38,000 vehicles used the western section of M-8 along Davison Avenue in 2007 each day the eastern segment carried 37,300 vehicles. MDOT's 2007 traffic surveys counted the average annual daily traffic (AADT), a measure of the number of vehicles using a section of roadway on any given day of the year. Davison Avenue continues past Mound Road where it turns back due east until it ends at Van Dyke Street next to the Mt.
M-8 continues to Conant Street where the designation ends. The freeway ends between Gallagher and Newbern avenues. The Davison Freeway continues northeasterly in Detroit north of Hamtramck. There are interchanges for M-1/Woodward Avenue and Oakland Avenue before meeting the Chrysler Freeway (I-75) on the eastern border of Highland Park. Northeast of this interchange, M-8 becomes the Davison Freeway, running depressed below the level of the cross streets. The trunkline meets M-10/Lodge Freeway on the border between Detroit and Highland Park, a city surrounded by Detroit. East of this transition, the roadway turns northeasterly running through residential areas of Detroit. This short freeway segment runs easterly to Livernois Avenue where the trunkline transitions into Davison Avenue. Davison Avenue continues west of this interchange forming a service drive for the freeway while M-8 uses a short section of freeway to connect between I-96 and Davison Avenue. M-8 starts on the western end at an interchange with I-96 in Detroit. Subsequent changes by the state rebuilt the freeway and extended the M-8 designation to connect to the Jeffries Freeway ( I-96). The roadway was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in 1993 and numbered as M-8. It was rebuilt by the city and Wayne County as a freeway during World War II. Named for an English immigrant to the area, Davison Avenue was originally the only street connecting across Highland Park to Detroit. Much of it is the Davison Freeway, the nation's first urban depressed freeway, which became a connector between the Lodge ( M-10) and the Chrysler ( Interstate 75, I-75) freeways. state of Michigan lying within the cities of Detroit and Highland Park. M-8 is a 5.5-mile (8.9 km) state trunkline highway in the U.S. Michigan State Trunkline Highway System.Thank you so much for your work to get a new one out. If it ever seems that your finances might cause you to go out of business again (let’s hope not), at least let people know well in advance in case there might be enough of us out here to jump in and find a way to keep things afloat. So you’re clearly working with a really good worldwide group behind you. I’m also proud of the Freeway community that is so solid in its loyalty even while making do with workarounds. There are clearly more than the few, important, appreciated regulars who are also proud of Freeway and don’t really want to use anything else unless tied to a post and beaten into submission to leave it. We will make our concrete presence known when it comes time to jump in and give you our money for the coming update. But I want to chime in and let you know that I and, I suspect, many others are quiet in the background hanging in and fully supporting you.
I don’t want to disrupt you (or anyone) with a non-urgent email here.
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