It serves as a business loop and an alternate route for I-70.
This is second business loop through Andrew, following exactly the same route from 1960-63 until 1970.
Consequently, they converted the former route through town into a business loop.
As a result of the decommissioning, the 2006 maps did not show the former business loop.
Within many cities, the route became a "business loop" for the interstate.
The following year, a business loop in Kalamazoo was created.
The former route through town and a section of M-20 were designated as a business loop simultaneously.
From the park east, the business loop entered the downtown area.
This version of the business loop lasted until the main highway was moved a second time in 1956.
There, M-76 met the southeastern end of its business loop that ran north into downtown.