Michigan's M-37 Gets Safer Four Lanes Approved
Published Date: 4/16/2025
Notice
Summary
The Federal Highway Administration has given the green light to improve and widen M-37 in Kent County, Michigan, turning it into a safer, four-lane boulevard with better turn options. If you live, work, or drive around Caledonia, these changes will make your trips smoother and safer. But heads up—any legal challenges must be filed by September 15, 2025, or they won’t be heard!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
M-37 widening and safety upgrades
The M-37 Improvement Project will widen M-37 from Emmons Street to 92nd Street and reconstruct M-37 as a four-lane boulevard from just south of 92nd Street to north of 76th Street, add directional median crossovers north and south of 84th Street and at 76th Street for left turns, provide additional midblock crossovers, add new traffic signals at the 84th Street crossovers, repave the adjacent nonmotorized path from 92nd Street to Cherry Valley Avenue, replace all culverts including the Emmons Lake Outlet culvert, and locate several detention basins of approximately 5.11 acres at low points along the corridor. The notice says these changes will make trips smoother and safer for people who live, work, or drive around Caledonia.
Deadline to sue: September 15, 2025
If you want to file a legal challenge to the Federal agency actions on this project, your claim must be filed on or before September 15, 2025; if a Federal law gives a shorter time period (less than 150 days) for filing, that shorter period applies.
EA and FONSI documents available for review
The Environmental Assessment (EA), Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), and other project records are available for review by contacting FHWA or MDOT at the addresses and phone numbers in the notice, and can be viewed or downloaded from the project website: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/projects-studies/studies/traffic-and-environmental-linkages-studies/m-37-project.
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