The sidewalk running along the Kilgore Road bridge in Portage is showing its age. Broken concrete, rocks and glass litter the walkway directly above traffic passing under it on I-94. Even with the lanes shifted, this traffic moves at a minimum of the posted 45 mile per hour speed limit – and often faster as
Michigan road worker deaths rise in 2020 as families grapple with ‘devastation’ left in their wake More road workers killed in 2020 than 2019 while traffic volumes were lower https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/05/michigan-road-worker-deaths-rise-in-2020-as-families-grapple-with-devastation-left-in-their-wake.html By Marie Weidmayer | mweidmay@mlive.com Dolores and Nick Male watched as their youngest son, Joaquin, played with his yo-yo on Christmas morning. The child, 7
Gov. Whitmer announces 21 Rebuilding Michigan Road Projects for 2021 Here’s a rundown of roadwork set to begin or resume this month By WWJ Newsradio 950 https://www.radio.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/gov-whitmer-announces-21-rebuilding-michigan-road-projects (WWJ) Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s famous campaign promise was to “fix the damn roads!” And while many in Michigan say she has not done enough to that end, there’s
Operating Engineers 324 today applauded Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s vetoing of several items in the submitted 2019 Transportation budget that would have drastically impacted the state’s ability to move forward on infrastructure. This includes the veto of a section added to the boilerplate language that would have prohibited MDoT from awarding road contracts to union contractors
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/07/09/letter-let-free-market-competition-fix-roads/1672920001/ A few legislators in Lansing, backed by special interests, are trying to sneak through a proposal to bar many contractors from bidding on state projects. This is government meddling in private commerce. That the Detroit News supports government intrusion into private business is both surprising and disappointing. Here are a few things they fail