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Crews will totally reconstruct I-496 between Interstate 96 and Lansing Road, working on one side at a time, the Michigan Department of Transportation said.
A five-month construction project in the heart of Lansing mostly came to a close Tuesday as 2 miles of Interstate 496 reopened to the public, although some exits and a key bridge will remain ...
LANSING – Interstate 496 in Lansing won’t become the Lansing Firefighter Dennis E. Rodeman Memorial Freeway. A state House bill that would have renamed the highway will be substituted with a ...
EAST LANSING — An already difficult stretch of road for drivers will become even more challenging when the state closes southbound U.S. 127 at Interstate 496 entirely for a few hours on Friday ...
Thanks to a $1 million federal grant the city of Lansing can start developing its long-sought-after goal of covering a portion of Interstate 496 with a cap.
A thriving African-American neighborhood once stood in Lansing's I-496 corridor. A new documentary called "They Even Took the Dirt" shows what life was like before the highway came to town.
Construction of I-496 displaced primarily Black families, cleaving a neighborhood centered around the St Joseph-Main Street corridor.
Diane Sulayman says her childhood neighborhood was a special one, full of the type of neighbors that feel more like family. But today when she looks out her window, she doesn't see a friend waving ...
In the 1960’s, Interstate 496 changed the city of Lansing. Starting in 1963, hundreds of homes and businesses in the heart of the city’s African-American… ...
The Michigan Department of Transportation had said it would close the eastbound Interstate 496 and southbound U.S. 127 ramps to Trowbridge Road for bridge demolition this weekend.
The Michigan Department of Transportation said the ramp from eastbound Interstate 496 to northbound U.S. 127 will be closed from about 9 a.m. to noon as part of the ongoing project to revamp U.S ...
High temperatures caused part of Interstate 496 to buckle near downtown Lansing, forcing officials to close a lane of traffic. It happened just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Officials sent out an ...