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Cityscape
The city runs largely on the grid system, although in the far northwest and
southwest corners of the city, the grid pattern gives way to a more
suburban-style streetscape. North-south streets are numbered, and east-west
streets are named. However north-south streets east of 1st street are named,
like east-west streets. The north-south numbering line is along the Menomonee
River (east of Hawley Road) and Fairview Avenue/Golfview Parkway (west of Hawley
Road), with the east-west numbering line defined along 1st Street (north of
Oklahoma Avenue) and Chase/Howell Avenue (south of Oklahoma Avenue). This
numbering system is also used to the north by Mequon in Ozaukee County, and by
some Waukesha County communities.
It is crossed by Interstate 43 and Interstate 94, which come together downtown
at the Marquette Interchange, which is currently under an extensive construction
project set to be completed in 2008. The cost of the reconstruction will be
around $810 million. The Interstate 894 bypass runs through portions of the
city's southwest side, and Interstate 794 comes out of the Marquette interchange
eastbound, bends south along the lakefront and crosses the harbor over the Hoan
Bridge, then ends near the Bay View neighborhood and becomes the "Lake Parkway"
(WIS-794).
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