M-247 (Michigan highway)
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Route description
Starting at its southern terminus at M-13, M-247 follows Euclid Avenue north about Script error: No such module "convert"., crossing the Kawkawlin River. When it meets Beaver Road, M-247 turns east leading directly into the state park and ends at its entrance.[1] The entire roadway passes through suburban Bay City near the Saginaw Bay.[2] None of the highway is listed on the National Highway System, a system of regionally important highways.[3]
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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) measures the traffic volumes on its highways using a calculation called average annual daily traffic (AADT). This value is an expression of the number of vehicles that use a section of roadway on any average day of the year. When the department surveyed M-247 in 2009, the southernmost section near M-13 carried 6,135 vehicles; the remainder carried 6,224 vehicles. As a subset of these figures, 190 commercial vehicles used the trunkline on average. This was an overall increase from 2008 when the sections carried 5,031 and 5,573 vehicles respectively, but a decrease from the 214 commercial vehicles.[4]
History
By 1929, the first highway designation along the current M-247 was assigned. That first number was M-111,[5] which lasted until 1937 when all of M-111 became part of M-47.[6] In early 1961, the roadway changed numbers once more. This time M-47 was realigned to a former section of US Highway 10 (US 10), and the connection to the state park was assigned the M-247 designation.[7] This was the highest highway number in the state, excluding Interstates, until the 1998 designation of M-553 in the Upper Peninsula.[8]
Major intersections
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See also
References
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External links
- M-247 at Michigan Highways