Wisconsin Highway 100

State Trunk Highway 100 (STH-100, commonly known as Highway 100 or WIS 100) is a road which encircles the outer edges of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.

State Trunk Highway 100
WIS 100 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by WisDOT
Length39.7 mi[1] (63.9 km)
Major junctions
South end WIS 32 in Oak Creek
  I-41 / I-94 / US 41 in Oak Creek
US 45 / WIS 36 in Franklin
I-43 / US 45 in Hales Corners
I-94 in West Allis
US 18 in Wauwatosa
US 45 in Wauwatosa
US 45 in Milwaukee
I-41 / US 41 / WIS 175 in Milwaukee
I-41 / US 41 / US 45 in Menomonee Falls
North end I-43 / WIS 32 in Bayside
Location
CountiesMilwaukee, Waukesha
Highway system
WIS 99 WIS 101

Route description

The road is designed as a bypass around the city of Milwaukee, but with residential and commercial development along WIS 100 on almost all portions of the road, this purpose has been negated, and it serves as one of the Milwaukee area's major commercial corridors. WIS 100 roughly parallels the freight railroad beltway around Milwaukee constructed in 1912 by the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, approximately one mile inside the north, west and south county lines.

In Milwaukee's immediate western suburb Wauwatosa, WIS 100's north–south segment was once known as Lovers Lane; parts of the road still have this designation. In the vicinity of Mayfair Shopping Center, it is known as Mayfair Road; this corresponds to 108th street in Milwaukee's numbered roadways scheme.

The roadway served the Muirdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium and County Airfield and Limestone Quarry at what is now Currie Park. In the late 1950s, due to the combination of ready roadway and rail access, the area experienced an employment boom as several large cold storage warehouses and food-related truck terminals were constructed nearby. With the development of Mayfair in 1958 by malting scion Kurtis Froedtert, the name was changed to Mayfair Road.

One of the few vestiges of this earlier era is the roadway's popularity as a cruising strip for mainly young motorists showing off their vehicles. West Allis and Milwaukee eventually cooperated to attempt to outlaw cruising on the road as a violation of unlawful assembly statutes, which result in the fining of drivers and impoundment of their vehicles.[2] Signs are posted along the road to remind motorists of the law, including in West Allis, where the threshold is the passing of a controlled point more than three times in a certain period.

History

Highway 100 was initially a county-constructed concrete loop highway known as County Trunk Highway L.[3]

Major intersections

CountyLocationmikmExitDestinationsNotes
MilwaukeeOak Creek WIS 32 / LMCT Milwaukee, Racine
I-41 / I-94 / US 41 Milwaukee, Chicago
Franklin US 45 south / WIS 36 BurlingtonSouthern end of US 45 concurrency
Rawson Avenue (CTH-BB)Interchange
Hales Corners WIS 24 (Janesville Road)
Greenfield I-43 north / US 45 north to I-894Northern end of US 45 concurrency; no access to southbound I-43 or from northbound I-43
Layton Avenue (CTH-Y) to I-43 southCompletes access to I-43
West Allis WIS 59 (Greenfield Avenue)
I-94 Milwaukee, Madison
Wauwatosa US 18 (Bluemound Road)
I-41 north / US 45 northNorthbound entrance only; no exit ramps
WIS 190 (Capitol Drive)
Milwaukee46 I-41 south / US 45 south / CTH-E (Silver Spring Drive)Southern end of I-41/US 45 concurrency
47A US 41 south / WIS 175 north (Appleton Avenue)Southern end of US 41 concurrency; no northbound access from southbound roadways
47BGood Hope Road
MilwaukeeWaukesha
county line
MilwaukeeMenomonee Falls line48 WIS 145
WaukeshaMenomonee Falls50A I-41 north / US 41 north / US 45 north Fond du LacNorthern end of I-41/US 41/US 45 concurrency
WaukeshaMilwaukee
county line
Menomonee FallsMilwaukee line WIS 145 south
MilwaukeeMilwaukee WIS 181 (76th Street)Interchange
Brown Deer WIS 57 (Green Bay Road)Interchange
River HillsBayside
Fox Point tripoint
I-43 / WIS 32 / LMCT Milwaukee, Green Bay
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

  •  U.S. Roads portal

References

  1. Bessert, Christopher J. "Highways 100-109". Wisconsin Highways.
  2. "Cruisers' cars may be seized". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on July 2, 2006.
  3. The Journal Company (1923). The New 1923 Auto Map of Milwaukee County (Map). Scale not given. Milwaukee: The Journal Company via Wisconsin Historical Society.
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