by Fix MI State | Mar 24, 2023 | Roads & Bridges
Michigan is underfunding its road system by between $2.1 billion and $3.9 billion a year, and the condition of highways and streets will continue to decline if funding is not substantially increased, according to a study released Tuesday. The analysis was commissioned...
by Fix MI State | Mar 16, 2023 | Roads & Bridges
The cost to fix local roads and highways in Michigan is larger than the state’s previous estimates, a new study found. A year of research by the Public Sector Consultants, a nonpartisan Lansing firm, found the state is facing an annual shortfall upwards of $3.9...
by Fix MI State | Mar 10, 2023 | Roads & Bridges
Michigan needs between two and four billion dollars to fix its roads, according to a new report from the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association, a construction trades group. According to our sister station WILX, the group is laying out its plan for...
by Fix MI State | Mar 10, 2023 | Roads & Bridges
A new report says Michigan’s road and bridge funding gap is growing. In 2016, the state’s 21st Century Infrastructure Commission estimated Michigan needed to invest an additional $2.2 billion annually in roads and bridges. The new report (Michigan Transportation...
by Fix MI State | Mar 9, 2023 | Roads & Bridges
“It’s absolutely baffling to me that the roads are in the condition that they are,” says Zach Murrell. Murrell tells 7 Action News he’s still getting used to road conditions south of the Mackinac Bridge having moved to metro Detroit from the Upper Peninsula. “I’ve...
by Fix MI State | Mar 9, 2023 | Roads & Bridges
Michigan has an annual funding gap of roughly $3.9 billion when it comes to money to maintain the state’s crumbling roads and bridges — even after record federal aid and state bonding is taken into account, according to a new study of the state’s...
