MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) – U.S. Highway 10 in Wisconsin and lower Michigan could soon be going over water.
A national group of transportation officials says it’s working to get the route of the S.S. Badger car ferry across Lake Michigan officially designated as Highway 10.
In Wisconsin, the road ends at Manitowoc on the lake’s eastern border. The same designation is picked up again at Lundington on the lake’s western border.
The car ferry carries up to 600 people and 180 vehicles over Lake Michigan, between the two cities.
Officially, Highway 10 has been two segments since 1926 — and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials is now working with DOT officials in both states to make the water route part of the U.S. highway as well.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
