Gannon, The hinderance of M-59, was done by one Mayor Beck. He had all the power in Utica for years. The highway depts. plans called for M-59, to run dead center in the small city of Utica, which would have destroyed the city of Utica, and the end of his Mayorship. He made other blunders too. We had the Historic Clinton/Kalamazoo canal, running through the center of the city. It would have been a Historical highlight, and been a revenue maker. He had it filled in, and now it's a parking lot.