response 50 of 96:

Jan 12 15:29 UTC 2006

Re 47  "The Tecumseh Highway"?  I've never heard of it, unless you mean M-50
- and I'm from Tecumseh.

response 52 of 96:

Jan 12 16:48 UTC 2006

re 10 - yes, a place where you buy party supplies is a party supply store.
like "Party Time"

response 54 of 96:

Jan 12 17:47 UTC 2006

I suppose people can call any road anything they want (if they don't mind a
little confusion now and then), but MapQuest thinks it is Techumseh-Clinton
Highway (and I vaguely recall road signs call it that). See
http://tinyurl.com/774r6 and zoom in a couple of times. 

response 56 of 96:

Jan 12 19:14 UTC 2006

Huh.  Mapquest calls it "Tecumseh-Clinton Hwy."  Google Maps calls it
"Tecumseh Hwy" and so does Yahoo! Maps.

On a Google Search, "Tecumseh Clinton Rd" has somewhat more hits than
any permutation of "highway" although it's common to call something a
"road" in town and a "highway" between towns, and obviously there are
more businesses with web pages within town.

response 58 of 96:

Jan 12 19:45 UTC 2006

re resp:57: I know, Brooke.  The fact that I have driven that road 
probably at least twice per week on the average for the last 10 years 
doesn't mean much, either.  Google Maps says it's "Tecumseh Highway" 
and doesn't have a state highway designation.  You and I must be having 
a mass hallucination.

response 60 of 96:

Jan 12 20:03 UTC 2006

 re #57, 58:  So what do the locals call it?  Let us know so we won't
 stick out like sore thumbs when we visit..

response 62 of 96:

Jan 12 22:25 UTC 2006

What the locals call it is of interest, but its "official name" is what it
is called by the authority who controls and maintains it (presumably the
Lenawee County Road Commission.)  I'm unable to find any official
statement from them, they don't appear to publish a lot of info on their
web site.

The USGS clearly thinks it's called "Highway", as shown in the
following (somewhat large) map distributed by the state:

http://www.dnr.state.mi.us/spatialdatalibrary/pdf_maps/topomaps/TECUMSEH_NO
RTH.pdf

response 64 of 96:

Jan 13 20:35 UTC 2006

It's official name is "Highway" of course, but yeah nobody calls it that.

I don't think the word "Highway" is ever really used in Michigan.  Nobody
would refer to M-52 as Highway 52, or US-12 as Highway 12.  Nor is I-94 a
highway, it's an expressway.

down south here yonder though.... US-64 is often referred to as "Highway 64",
NC-55 is "Highway 55".  US-401 is "Highway 401".  Of course they're often
shorted to "55 south", "64 west" "401 south" etc...

I don't ever recall saying "52 south" or "36 east".. those roads ALWAYS had
the "M" in front of them, as did "US-12"

response 66 of 96:

Jan 15 02:42 UTC 2006

Nothwestern Highway
Coolidge Highway
Dixie Highway

response 68 of 96:

Jan 16 19:38 UTC 2006

I think in Michigan it is a mixed bag.  Re: the major metro Detroit freeways,
most of the time when a name reference isn't used it's just the number, not
"interstate" or "I", e.g. 75, 275.  Nobody calls the Lodge "10" though, or
even M-10.  One of the newer freeways, which used to be only a 2-way road,
*is* referred to as M-14.  And it's always US-12, not just "12".  However,
upstate a ways, people who live along M-46 say just "46".  Grand Rapids types
say just 131.

response 70 of 96:

Jan 16 20:37 UTC 2006

We didn't call it "the interstate" but rather "the superslab."
That was probably just my father though.

response 72 of 96:

Jan 17 07:48 UTC 2006

I'm actually used to calling it soda, myself.  *shrugs* My friends who
are transplants in Michigan from New York practically wept with
gratitude. :p

response 74 of 96:

Jan 17 14:53 UTC 2006

I got used to saying soda instead of pop after living in Alice Lloyd
dorm for two years with numerous, numerous Long Island, NY people.