MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP, MI-- Work on US-41/M-28 in Marquette Township starts on Monday.
The Michigan Department of Transportation is reconstructing the highway between County Road 492 to just west of Brickyard Road, extending the existing boulevard. Roundabouts will replace signaled intersections at Brickyard Road and at 492 near Walmart and Target, and another will be built at the Meijer gas station. Indirect left-turn lanes will also be constructed, as will a multi-use tunnel beneath the highway just west of 492.
Township Supervisor Lyn Durant says the project will make the area a much safer place to drive.
“When you have 30,000 vehicles every single day going through this couple-mile corridor safety’s number one. That’s why they—the state—is all about the Michigan Lefts, as they’re called. That’s why we have that through the whole corridor,” she says.
Durant says keeping traffic moving is a close second when it comes to project benefits.
The $10.9 million project is expected to be finished in June of 2020, weather permitting.
Motorists should expect delays for traffic shifts, lane closures and temporary traffic signals.
