Freeway was designated as M-8. Three years later, the Davison was closed for a year and a half to reconstruct it to Interstate Highway standards with an additional through travel lane and a wider left shoulder for improved safety and traffic handling as well as a new interchange with Woodward Avenue. The reconstructed freeway was reopened on October 8, 1997, by Governor John Engler. In 2001, M-8 was extended to include the segment of Davison Avenue between the freeway's western terminus and Davison Avenue's junction with I-96 (Jeffries Freeway). Except for a M-8 shield on the Lodge Freeway's Davison Avenue exit signs, the non-freeway portion of M-8 remains unsigned, including at the Davison Avenue exit from the Jeffries where new Clearview signs were erected as part of a large I-96 reconstruction project in 2005. Exit list See also References External links M-8 at Michigan Highways Photos of the Davison Freeway construction and opening at the University of Michigan Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation, filed under Highland Park, Wayne County, MI: Freeways and expressways in Michigan Historic American Engineering Record in Michigan 008 Transportation in Wayne County, Michigan