Freeways in metropolitan Detroit

Freeways in metropolitan Detroit consist of several major interconnecting Interstate highways and additional supporting freeways. The Metro Detroit region has an extensive toll-free expressway system which, together with its status as a major port city, provide advantages to its location as a global business center. [http://www.wtcdw.com/regionaladvantages.pdf Regional Advantages for International Business] . "World Trade Center Detroit Windsor". Retrieved on September 3, 2007.] There are no toll roads in Michigan. [ [http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9631_12965_14013-28071--,00.html Why doesn't Michigan have toll roads] ."Michigan Department of Transportation". Retrieved on September 5, 2007. "A system of toll free highways has been viewed as important to commerce, industry, tourism, and general economic development."] Traditionally, Detroiters referred to their freeways by name rather than route number. Today, the Davison, Lodge, and Southfield Freeways are almost always referred to by name rather than route number. True Detroiters precede each freeway name with the word 'the' as in The Lodge, The Southfield, and The Davison. This was also once true for the Chrysler, Fisher, and Ford Freeways (and to a lesser extent the Jeffries and Reuther Freeways) before the Department of Transportation mandated deemphasis of the use of proper names on guide signs for Interstates. Other freeways are referred to only by number (I-275 and M-59); their names, if any, were never in common everyday usage.

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