 The bridge over the rail line near the Air Force Base had weakened sufficiently by December 1988 that the MCRC had to lower the truck weight limits for the structure from for single-unit trucks and for double- or triple-unit trucks; repairs to the structure were planned for the following year.The City of Marquette started planning an extension of McClellan Avenue southward to CR 553 in the 1970s.When the projects were started in the 1990s, the goal was to reroute traffic and relieve congestion in town.