Overview
- Preliminary work began Tuesday, coupled with a public meeting in Allen Park where residents reviewed the Restore I-94 plan.
- The project spans Wayne Road near I-275 to Schaefer west of Michigan Avenue, featuring a full-depth rebuild and a new right-entry interchange at Ecorse.
- Traffic will shift to bidirectional lanes on one side during construction, reducing capacity to two lanes in each direction with occasional single-lane periods and a major shift targeted for late summer.
- Airport access will stay open throughout the work, though MDOT warns of longer travel times over the three-year schedule.
- The effort carries an estimated cost of about $350 million funded by state and federal sources, with a second public meeting in Taylor reported for either Feb. 4 or Feb. 11.