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Previously assigned to Schaefer Highway from the intersection of Dix Highway (former U.S. Highway 25 ) in Melvindale to the intersection of Grand River Avenue (former U.S. Highway 16 ) in Detroit , M-39 was reassigned to Southfield Road, connecting Fort Street with Northwestern Highway in 1959. In the 1960s, the length of Southfield Road from Interstate 94 to Northwestern was rebuilt as the Southfield Freeway, with the service drive retaining the Southfield Road name. The southern portion of M-39 was improved as Southfield Highway. From 1966 to 1969, while Interstate 75 (Chrysler and Fisher Freeways) was still being constructed through Detroit, M-39 also bore a "TO I-75" designation from its junction with I-75 in Lincoln Park to M-102 , 8 Mile Road . Recently, the M-39 designation was truncated slightly, as Lincoln Park officials sought to make modifications along Southfield Highway that were not up to MDOT 's standards. As a result, M-39 no longer officially connects to M-85. Southfield Road continues southeasterly, ending at West Jefferson Avenue along the Detroit River . Beyond M-39's northern terminus, just north of 9 Mile Road in Southfield, Southfield Road continues northward as a local road, ending at Maple Road in Birmingham . The freeway portion is virtually always referred to as the Southfield Freeway, or "the Southfield," rather than by route number. Until the Michigan Department of Transportation's deemphasization of the use of proper names for Detroit's Interstates , all Metro Detroit freeways were referred to by name rather than by number by locals. |
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