Washtenaw Avenue (M-17) is the primary road link between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. We'll start from where Huron Street (Ann Arbor) takes a wide sweeping curve to the southeast, and we'll end up in Ypsilanti. Over the course of this journey Washtenaw will pass both UM's and EMU's campuses, and range from a five lane river of traffic passing through urban sprawl to a one way residential street, before dead ending at Huron Street (Ypsilanti).

Washtenaw is a tricky street for numbering; there is at least one case where two places share the same street number, one in Ann Arbor, one in Ypsilanti. (need details)

M-17 leaves Washtenaw at Hamilton Street, cutting south to Michigan Avenue.

 

East side:

• Palmer Field
• CCRB

West side:

• 204: Undergraduate Science Building (USB)
  • formerly NUBS (UM)

 

photo: view of intersection

• The Rock
• First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor

 

• 1705: Ozone House

 

• 2000: Beth Israel Congregation

 

 

 

 

• County Farm Park

 

• Whole Foods
• Barnes and Noble
• Panera Bread

 

• Ace Barnes Hardware
• 3750 Victory Inn
• 3597B Cold Stone Creamery ice cream

photo: traffic congestion

Cloverleaf intersection for US-23 freeway.

 

 

Northbound to Flint, southbound to Toledo

 

• 4837: vacant, for sale
  • formerly Banh Na Thai and Laotian restaurant
• 4872: University Office Equipment office printers and copiers
• 4890: Washtenaw Wash coin laundry
• 4896: Tuptim Thai restaurant formerly 

 

• Ypsi-Arbor Lanes

 

 

 

 

• Dom Bakeries

 

 

 

 

 

At this awkward X-intersection, Washtenaw becomes one-way, east-bound; Cross is one-way, westbound, until it hits Washtenaw. This intersection, and surrounding one-way streets, helps many get lost in Ypsi.

• Statue of Demetrius Ypsilanti
• Ypsilanti Water Tower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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