Michigan State Highway 10, also known as the John C. Lodge Freeway, M-10, and Northwestern Highway. Its southern terminus is at Jefferson Avenue (unsigned Business Spur Interstate 375) in downtown Detroit, USA, and its northern terminus is in West Bloomfield at the intersection with Orchard Lake Road. M-10 was built in segments throughout much of the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. It carried several different names before the entire route was finally officially named The John C. Lodge Freeway in the 1980s. M-10 was named after John C. Lodge, and influential Detroiter and mayor of Detroit from 1927-1928.
M-10 had 3 iterations since the start of state highways. Coincidentally, John C. Lodge's term for Detroit mayor coincides the decommissioning of the first iteration of M-10 and the fact that the 3rd iteration of it was designated on a freeway named after him. Even more coincidental; the 80's was also the time when the Lodge freeway was officially named the Lodge. Every iteration of M-10 coicided the fact it was geographically close to or runs on some former portions of US-10.
First iteration
The first iteration of M-10 runs geographically close to or on present-day segments of these following highways; US-24, M-13, US-23 and M-33 (former alignment of US-23). Basically, the first iteration of M-10 was known as Dixie Highway (east branch) in much of its length.
Second iteration
This iteration was somewhere in/around Flint, Michigan.
Third iteration
John C. Lodge freeway portion
This expressway is a short and busy one in Detroit, Michigan running north from downtown Detroit to Oakland County. The expressway portion of M-10 ends at an intersection with I-696 and Telegraph Rd, and M-10 continues for several miles after that intersection as an 8-lane surface road with stop lights and a wide median.
Back in the days before this segment of freeway had the designation M-10, this freeway had no designation. The first designation applied to it was BS I-696. The BS I-696 designation was applied to it in the 1960's. Then, after a while, it became a realignment of US-10. In the 1980's, US-10 got scaled back to Bay City, Michigan, and that is when the third iteration of M-10 arose making the Lodge Freeway a state highway.
Northwestern Highway portion
The portion of M-10 north of I-696 is known as Northwestern Highway. Decades ago, there were proposals to extend this highway as far as the Fenton-Clio Expressway (US-23). This project has been going on and off due to fluctuating homeowner opposition. The reason why Interstate 275 didn't extend north to Interstate 75 was similar to why Northwestern Highway ended in West Bloomfield. At that area, metro Detroit's most desirable homes are built.
This individual segment of M-10 used to be M-4 until US-10 was scaled back to Bay City, Michigan.
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