Good morning, Northern Michigan. This is your cup
of Traverse City for the 04/09/2026.
I'm Mike, and, I do have my coffee
handy.
Happy Thursday.
So traffic is going to get
ridiculous around on the East Side Of Traverse
City. That's just my humble opinion since,
I'll be intimately involved.
Not not involved with the actual construction, but,
the
effects of it. But, Michigan Department of Transportation
is planning to start a near nearly three
month project on Monday, April 13 to redesign
the 3 Mile Road US 31 intersection.
Plans call for aligning the Traverse City State
Park Beach driveway with the northbound approach
of the intersection,
which will improve traffic flow entering and exiting
the beach,
day use area.
So
what they're basically doing, if you're familiar with
the area, 3 Mile Road butts up against
US 31 right there at the beach,
And about
50 yards
to the west is the entrance to the
State Park Beach, which is
getting problematic,
especially in heavy traffic,
to get in and out of that beach
area.
So what they're doing is they're moving the
driveway to line up
with with, three mile road. So you'll have
a traffic light to go in and out
of the park
and a traffic light to get out of
the park, which
I totally support,
but they're gonna be doing that,
starting Monday.
So
you're gonna be detouring,
3 Mile Road.
I'm not sure where you would get on.
Probably go probably at 4 Mile Road and
go up to Hammond.
Or
if you're
a little further past
3 Mile Road, you go down to Airport
Access and up to Parsons maybe
and back around.
I I don't know what that looks like.
I guess we'll find out on Monday. But,
yeah, that's, right in my neighborhood.
So,
yeah.
Like, that's why I say I might be
in intimately
involved.
And they're also gonna be doing something up
by Royce,
by Hammond Road.
So there,
there's something going on up there.
What do they call that?
Let's see. Just, oh, here we go. Here's
the detour information. 3 Mile Road traffic will
be detoured to Parsons Road and airport access.
That's if you're coming
north on 3 Mile Road.
It doesn't say what you'll do if you
wanna go
south on 3 Mile Road.
So, anyway, interesting. And they're also, of course,
in that same area putting a new traffic
light at the campground entrance.
So
more traffic lights, more stops, and, yeah, this
is gonna be a fun summer.
And they're also doing something, like I said,
up by Roy's at, Hammond Road to,
safe trail to school project.
So they're
they're gonna be connecting,
apparently, connecting the Tart Trail that goes,
well, I think it stops at South Airport
Road right now, but they wanna extend it
up to three mile or up to Hammond
or down to Hammond if you count, you
know, south,
and probably a crossing there and then getting
to the middle school and the elementary school
that's on the other side, Olsen's.
So anyway, yeah, this is hyper hyper local
on the East Side Of Traverse City.
Not to mention all the craziness that's gonna
be happening around Interlochen
for the big roundabout they're building,
and
sure there's a whole lot more. Maybe, maybe
tomorrow I'll I'll talk about construction in the
area, but this this one,
area,
but
this this one, kinda surprised me. I didn't
realize they were gonna start that that quick,
one that, you know, where they move where
they're moving the park entrance.
So let me grab the weather here.
I can find it, and we'll
get out of here for Thursday.
Let's see. Today,
mostly sunny with a high
steady temperature of 46.
That doesn't,
that's a high.
You know, I guess that's the high for
the day. West wind, 10 to 15 miles
per hour with gust as high as 25.
Tonight, chance of rain after 1AM,
mixing with snow after 3AM, and creasing
clouds with low around 36, west wind around
five miles per hour. East
after midnight,
chance precipitation
is 40%.
And,
tomorrow, a chance of rain and snow before
8AM. Cloudy with gradually,
mostly sunny. Okay. So it's gonna clear up
a little bit. High near 44. North wind,
five to 10 miles per hour. Chance precipitation
is 30%.
It's like you said, gonna be in the
morning.
So everybody have a great Thursday,
and I will catch you tomorrow.