Route Description
I-275 begins at exit 20 along I-75 in northeastern Monroe County. The surrounding area is farmland and residential subdivisions in the adjacent Frenchtown and Berlin charter townships near the community of Newport. The freeway angles to the northwest and crosses US Highway 24 (US 24), which is also called Telegraph Road. After this interchange, the freeway turns to the north, running east of Carleton, crossing the Canadian National Railway and Conrail Shared Assets lines north of exit 5. At Will Carleton Road, I-275 crosses into Wayne County. There it continues on a northerly path parallel to a CSX Transportation line through southern Wayne County. The freeway crosses the Huron River at South Huron Road, adjacent to Willow Metropark.
In the city of Romulus, I-275 begins to take on a more suburban character when it passes the southwestern boundary of the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. There is access to the south side of the airport signed at Eureka Road and to the north side at I-94. Between these two interchanges, I-275 begins to run to the northwest, cross over the same CSX line and a Norfolk Southern Railway line and pass a campus of Wayne County Community College and the headquarters of the Visteon Corporation, a major auto parts supplier spun off from Ford Motor Corporation. Near these two complexes, the freeway turns north again, running parallel to the east of Haggerty Road. The freeway crosses over another Norfolk Southern Railway line also used by Amtrak trains from Chicago and Pontiac, US 12/Michigan Avenue and M-153/Ford Road in Canton. Michigan Avenue was once the Chicago Road, and before that the Sauk Trail, an early Indian trail. Ford Road was named for William Ford, father of Henry Ford. I-275 crosses the Lower Branch of the River Rouge north of Michigan Avenue and the Middle Branch between Ford Road and the Jeffries Freeway. It also crosses over the same CSX line a second time.
The interchange with the Jeffries Freeway is where the FHWA considers I-275 to end and also where the freeway crosses over another CSX line from Detroit. This interchange is where I-275 meets I-96 which merges from the east on the Jeffries and turns north concurrently with I-275. To the west, the M-14 freeway merges and ends. MDOT still considers the freeway north of here part of I-275, and signs it as such. Other map makers and mapping service providers such as Rand McNally and Google Maps label their maps in accordance with MDOT and not FHWA. The combined freeway curves to the east into Livonia continuing through suburban areas before crossing 8 Mile Road into Oakland County. North of 10 Mile Road, I-96/I-275 crosses Grand River Avenue. Here the ramps start to connect with both directions of M-5, the start of eastbound I-696 or the continuation of westbound I-96. MDOT ends the I-275 designation at this massive interchange.
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