M-134 (Michigan highway)
M- 134 is a 81 km long highway in the Upper Peninsula (UP ) of the U.S. state of Michigan. It connects Interstate 75 (I -75) north of St. Ignace, including the villages of Cedarville and De Tour Village on Lake Huron. East of De Tour Village crosses the highway the De Tour Passage on a ferry and eventually leads to its end point south of Drummond on Drummond Iceland. It involves one of only three highways of the State of Michigan on an island. M -134 is also one of the two highways in Michigan, during which the use of a ferry is provided. A large part of the flow on the mainland sections is part of the Lake Huron Circle Tour.
Another highway was known as M -134 between the end of the 1920s and the late 1930s; he went to the Lower Peninsula. The route of the new M -134 was then the part of the original M-4, but in 1939 the numbering was changed and introduced today's designation as M- 134. Since then, the eastern terminus was moved three times, first in the 1950s, when M -134 south of Goetzville ended and a few years later by De Tour Village and finally in 1989 to its current endpoint. The western section was laid in the 1960s closer to the lakeshore.
Route description
M -134 begins at the intersection with the Exit 359 off I -75 north of St. Ignace in Mackinac County rural near the St. Martin Bay of Lake Huron. He crossed the Pine River as Huron Shore Drive and turns to the southeast, where it follows the shoreline along the bay until he turns away at the base of the two peninsulas, which together form the Search Bay from the shore. At the Mismer Bay he again reached the shore. From there he leads through a wooded area by Hessel. The Huron Shore Drive runs further east to Cedarville, where the highway north of Marquette Iceland touches the southern terminus of the highway M -129. Further east, M- 134 runs along the north side of many narrow creeks and channels that the Les Cheneaux Islands separated from the mainland. About ten kilometers west of Cedarville reaches M -134 initially for about 2500 m the Chippewa County before the highway again passes through a strip of Mackinac County. However, after about a further eight kilometers, the route passes finally into the Chippewa County.
In the near Albany Harbor M -134 leads as Scenic Road to the intersection with M- 48th The main route of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour turns now follows the M-48 north, while a local variant on the M -134 extends further to the east on the banks of the Huron. The highway passes through the De Tour State Park and St. Vital Points before he strikes a northeasterly direction to De Tour Village. In the center of M -134 bends first one north on the Ontario Street and then follows the Elizabeth Street east to the ferry dock; the track layout of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour leads to Countystraßen northward out of the city. The highway route used the ferry, which is operated by a regional company of public transport to cross the De Tour Passage. On Drummond Iceland leads M- 134 Channel Road northward along the shore, before the highway turns east. The highway cuts through the island towards the Sturgeon Bay on the northern shore of the island. To the east of this bay leaves Highway, Lake Front and seeks to Four Corners to the south of the village uninkorporierten Drummond. M -134 finally ends at this intersection south of Drummond Iceland Airports where converge Coming Channel, Town Line, John Wood and Shore Road from the west, north, east and south. M -134 is one of three federal highways in Michigan, which run on an island; the other two are M -154 on Harsens Iceland and M- 185 on Mackinac Iceland.
No portion of the M -134 is part of the National Highway System, a network of roads which are necessary for the economy, defense and mobility of the country. In 2009, the Michigan Department of Transportation ( MDOT ), a traffic count during the course of the highway through to determine the volume of traffic on the track. In this census showed that the annual average of the intersection with M -129 was daily western most. There, as 3595 vehicles were observed on the day. The lowest was the traffic between the intersection with M -48 and De tour village, where the route sailed 659 vehicles daily. On the island the road from 667 vehicles per day was used. The ferry is used annually by more than 100,000 vehicles and nearly twice as many individuals in both directions.
Ferry
The Eastern Upper Transportation Authority ( EUPTA ) operates alongside two other ferry services and the regional bus service in Luce County and Chippewa County ferry traffic between the Upper Peninsula and Drummond Iceland Ferry. The operation between De Tour Village and Drummond Iceland is operated with up to three ferries, SS Drummond Islander, SS Drummond Islander III and IV SS Drummond Islander
The price for the crossing depends on the size of the vehicle, the driver is included. 2011 cost the crossing at least $ 12 for a car, adults pay two dollars, seniors and students half. The ferries in Drummond Iceland always ten minutes after the hour now and in De Tour Village 20 minutes before the hour. They run most of the day, in part but only in the summer season. M -134 is one of two highways in Michigan to the track by one of Fährabschnitt heard; the other highway is U.S. Highway 10 ( U.S. 10 ), which crosses Lake Michigan from Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington.
History
Either late 1928 or early 1929 the first road was laid down with the designation M -134. It was a route in Missaukee County, led by the M -66, about five kilometers north of McBain east to Falmouth in the north of the Lower Peninsula. 1938 gave the Michigan State Highway Department ( MSHD ) back up the road to the local administration.
As the rest of the highway network in Michigan was expelled in 1919 for the first time, the first highway was under administration of the State in the field, which today runs M -134, one of the M -12 section. This stretch was used in 1926 for U.S. 2. A realignment of U.S. 2 in 1933 between Rogers Park and Sault Ste. Marie made. This new route followed the Mackinac Trail, instead of east to Cedarville, and thence to Sault Ste. Marie to lead. The former route was designated M -121, and later became the M- fourth
Today's designation M -134 appeared on the Upper Peninsula for the first time in 1939, shortly after the removal of the street name of the road in Missaukee County. M -134 replaced the then accepted designation M - fourth At that time, the M- 134 between U.S. 2 and a point a location north of Hessel received further inland. The highway ended at the Mackinac Chippewa Countygrenze; then maps showed, however, the extension to the east as being under construction. This stretch was completed in the second half of 1940, so that M -134 ended at the M-48, approximately 15 km west of De Tour Village. 1950 a new piece of road was added to the Highway System of Michigan, who bypassed the former course of the M-48 west of De Tour Village. For this reason, the MSHD the M -134 advanced to this new highway and shortened the M-48 to the intersection south of Goetzville.
1958 Highway west of Hessel was moved closer to the shore of Lake Huron; the former course was handed over to the local authorities. In October 1963, the last section of the highway I-75/US 2 was released on the Upper Peninsula; The western terminus of M -134 was slightly moved to the east, on the approach road to the new highway, instead of at the junction with the former U.S. 2 along Mackinac Trail. 1989 extended the MDOT Highway to the section on Drummond Iceland; at this time the ferry was part of the route.