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The New Farm Lane - Bridge to the Future
Farm Lane Road Closures

  • Starting Thursday, May 22, Farm Lane will be closed from Mt. Hope Road to Wilson Road. In addition, Trowbridge Road will be closed from the east side of the Lot 48E driveway, south of Natural Resources, through the Trowbridge Road and Farm Lane intersection.
  • Service Road is also closed from the Laundry parking lot (Lot 88), east to the Lewis Landscape Arboretum parking lot (Lot 101). And the intersection of Farm Lane and Service Road is closed.
  • All roads closed as part of the Farm Lane project are expected to reopen in the summer of 2009.
How traffic is affected
  • While Farm Lane and Service Road are closed, motorists can detour construction using the following roads in and around campus: Harrison Road, Mt. Hope Road, Hagadorn Road, Wilson Road, Bogue Street, Red Cedar Road, Trowbridge Road and Shaw Lane.
  • The commuter lot (Lot 89), on the corner of Mt. Hope Road and Farm Lane, will remain open at all times during construction. NOTE: CATA bus service to the commuter lot is currently suspended. Service will resume for fall semester on August 18, 2008
  • Commuter lot users who want to continue walking and biking to campus can go through the Ag Expo site (located northwest of Lot 89) to Harrison Road north to campus. Please note that the Ag Expo will not be lit.
  • For employees and visitors wishing to access the Plant Science Greenhouses (Lot 47) and the Food Toxicology Building (Lot 53), access will be provided through a temporary driveway off Farm Lane, just south of the Wilson Road intersection.
Project Map
For daily closure information:
Visit MDOT's lane closure pages.

Project description

• What we are doing

This project, on the Michigan State University campus in East Lansing, will lower Farm Lane under two railroad crossings, widen and realign the road, improve drainage, and add sidewalks and bike paths. The project is a joint partnership between the Michigan Department of Transportation and Michigan State University.

• Project flyover video (Flash 8 Required)
Length: 3:13 min. File size: 5MB

• Contact: Lansing Transportation Service Center: 517-324-2260


More information

• Farm Lane safety improvement project begins on Michigan State University campus

• Project brochure PDF icon

• CATA Route 32 Detour and link to the Farm Lane Detour page

• Construction alerts and detours from MSU Engineering & Architectural Services

• Farm Lane Project Photo Gallery


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