U.S. Route 41 Business (Marquette, Michigan)

Infobox road
state=MI
type=US
route=41
marker_

highway_name=BUS US 41
name_notes=Former state trunkline


maint=City of Marquette
length_mi=2.343
length_round=3
length_ref=
established=by 1964cite map |publisher=Michigan State Highway Department |title=Official Highway Map |year=1964]
deleted=October 10, 2005
direction_a=West
starting_terminus=jct|state=MI|US|41|M|28 & Washington St. in Marquette
junction=
direction_b=East
ending_terminus=jct|state=MI|US|41|M|28 & Front St. in Marquette
counties=Marquette
cites=Marquette

U.S. Highway 41 Business Route (BUS US 41) was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop in the U.S. state of Michigan through the City of Marquette along Washington and Front streets. Jurisdiction over the two streets was transferred to the City as part of a route swap that resulted in the decommissioning of the trunkline. It was also previously co-designated BUS M-28, mirroring the BUS US 41/BUS M-28 designations along BUS M-28 in Ishpeming and Negaunee.

Route description

The western terminus of former BUS US 41 is the west end of Washington Street. Washington Street is four lanes, divided by a center median before a center turn lane replaces the median. Washington narrows to one lane in each direction at Lincoln Avenue and the turn lane is dropped by Seventh Street. At Front Street, BUS US 41 turned south one block away from Lake Superior. BUS US 41 ended where US 41 turns south along Front Street at the east end of the Marquette Bypass.cite map|url=http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=US-41+%26+W+Washington+St,+Marquette,+Marquette,+Michigan+49855,+United+States&daddr=US-41-BR+%26+S+Front+St,+Marquette,+Marquette,+Michigan+49855,+United+States&hl=en&geocode=&mra=pe&mrcr=0&sll=46.540025,-87.411315&sspn=0.037548,0.057335&ie=UTF8&ll=46.541565,-87.410316&spn=0.037547,0.057335&z=14 |title=Marquette, MI |cartography=NAVTEQ |publisher=Google Maps |year=2008| accessdate=2008-08-14]

History

BUS US 41 was originally a portion of US 41/M-28 before the construction of the Marquette Bypass in the 1960s. It was designated for the first time on the 1964 state highway map. A BUS M-28 designation was added to the route in 1975, making it similar to the BUS US 41/BUS M-28 designation along BUS M-28 in Ishpeming and Negaunee.cite map |publisher=Michigan Department of Transportation |title=Official Transportation Map |year=1975 |inset=Marquette] This second designation was removed by 1982.cite map |publisher=Michigan Department of Transportation |title=Official Transportation Map |year=1982 |inset=Marquette]

BUS US 41 was turned back to local control in a "route swap" between the City of Marquette and the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) on October 10, 2005. MDOT relinquished jurisdiction over BUS US 41 and the unsigned M-554 to the City in exchange for jurisdiction over a section of McClellan Ave used to extend M-553. As a result, BUS US 41 was decommissioned when the City took control over Washington and Front streets.cite press release |title= MDOT and city of Marquette complete jurisdictional transfer |publisher=Michigan Department of Transportation |date=November 9, 2005 |url=http://www.michigan.gov/mdot/0,1607,7-151-9620_11057-129975--,00.html |accessdate=2008-07-31]

Major intersections

MIint
county=Marquette
cspan=2
location=Marquette
lspan=2
mile=0.000
road=jct|state=MI|US|41|M|28
notes=West end of BUS US 41MIint
mile=2.343
road=jct|state=MI|US|41|M|28
street=Front Street
notes=East end of BUS US 41

ee also

*U.S. Route 41 in Michigan

References

External links

* [http://www.michiganhighways.org/listings/MichHwysBus32-94.html#US-41BUS Former BUS US 41 at Michigan Highways]
* [http://www.state-ends.com/michigan/bus41-1/ Former BUS US 41 at Michigan Highway Ends]