The state said today it will spend $274 million to fix and upgrade freeways and major highways across metro Detroit this year,

The two largest southeast Michigan projects are the $80 million rebuilding of more than three miles of the Southfield Freeway and 24 of the expressway’s overpasses in Detroit and Southfield, and a $90 million upgrade of the I-94/I-69 freeway near the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron.

The Southfield Freeway project is under way, with bridge repairs on 8 Mile, but the biggest impact will be the shutdown of the expressway between I-96 and the Lodge Freeway from June to October. Traffic will be detoured to Telegraph Road.

The $90 million Port Huron project will widen more than two miles of the I-94/I-69 expressway between Lapeer Road and Pine Grove Avenue and revamp a bridge carrying traffic over the Black River.


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