{"id":448861,"date":"2026-08-31T14:08:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T14:08:37","slug":"wb-i-696-ramps-to-i-75-in-oakland-county-to-reopen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448861\/","title":{"rendered":"WB I-696 ramps to I-75 in Oakland County to reopen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All EB\/WB I-696 lanes and ramps to reopen at the end of the year, MDOT says<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. \u2013 After about six months, the westbound ramps on I-696 to I-75 are expected to reopen on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) reported that the ramps on westbound I-696 to northbound and southbound I-75 will open \u201csometime\u201d on Monday, Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Previous coverage &#8211;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/27\/mdot-to-close-i-696-i-75-interchange-ramps-beginning-this-weekend-what-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/27\/mdot-to-close-i-696-i-75-interchange-ramps-beginning-this-weekend-what-to-know\/\">MDOT to close I-696, I-75 interchange ramps beginning this weekend &#8212; what to know<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to MDOT, all eastbound and westbound lanes and ramps of I-696 will reopen by the end of the year. But in 2027, more construction will impact eastbound I-696 between I-75 and Dequindre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">More information on the project <a href=\"https:\/\/drivingoakland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/drivingoakland.com\/\">can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorSamantha Sayles headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/team\/ssayles\/\" title=\"View Samantha Sayles&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Sayles<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Samantha Sayles is an Oakland University alumna who\u2019s been writing Michigan news since 2022. Before joining the ClickOnDetroit team, she wrote stories for WILX in Lansing and WEYI in Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All EB\/WB I-696 lanes and ramps to reopen at the end of the year, MDOT says OAKLAND COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[31220,3441,143,904,145,144,177676],"class_list":["post-448861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-i-696","tag-i-75","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-restore-the-reuther"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}