Auxiliary Routes
I-96 has four auxiliary routes, connecting the freeway to downtowns and other cities. I-196 is a relatively long route, beginning at I-96 east of downtown Grand Rapids and heading west through downtown to Holland, and then south to I-94 near Benton Harbor. The unsigned I-296 connects I-96 north of downtown Grand Rapids with I-196 in downtown, and is signed as US 131. I-496 is a loop through downtown Lansing, which I-96 bypasses to the south, and I-696 is a northern bypass of Detroit, connecting I-96 in Novi with I-75 in Royal Oak and I-94 in St. Clair Shores.
I-96 presently has two business routes: a loop through Lansing and a loop through Howell. Both follow the old route of US 16, with appropriate connections to I-96. A spur into Muskegon once existed, running concurrently with part of BUS US 31 along former US 16, but it has been eliminated. Two routes in the Detroit area—a loop through Farmington and a spur into Detroit—both using Grand River Avenue, and meeting at the temporary end of I-96 near Purdue Avenue, were eliminated when I-96 was moved to the completed Jeffries Freeway in 1977. On October 31, 2007, a spur into Portland was decommissioned and turned back to the City of Portland.
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