by Fix MI State | Jul 23, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Lansing residents got more information about which roads will be fixed in the coming fiscal year when Mayor Andy Schor rolled out his Road Project Plan this morning. Katie Cook has more. The fiscal year 2019 plan includes work on several major streets in Lansing, and...
by Fix MI State | Jul 23, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Lansing is getting serious about its road work. Today the city announced its “Road Project Plan” for fiscal year 2019. The plan includes work on several major streets in Lansing, including pothole repairs that the city says will average 48 hours from start...
by Fix MI State | Jul 18, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Officials broke ground on the Gordie Howe International Bridge project Tuesday morning in Detroit’s Delray neighborhood, noting the project is about friendly U.S.-Canada relations, as well as jobs. Gov. Rick Snyder, joining leaders from Canada and Detroit to...
by Fix MI State | Jul 10, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Recently this newspaper asked why 2,000-year-old Roman roads are still in good shape when Michigan pavements seem to decay regularly. A few years ago, at the request of legislators, my bureau at the Michigan Department of Transportation prepared pavement designs and...
by Fix MI State | Jul 9, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Drivers should brace themselves for more cases of “buckling” roads so long as hot weather persists. Recent high temperatures in the 90s caused buckling on three Lansing-area highways at least six times since Saturday. Particularly troublesome was...
by Fix MI State | Jul 9, 2018 | Roads & Bridges
Hotter than average temperatures so far this summer are causing Michigan’s aging concrete roads to blow up. That’s not an exaggeration: from June 30 to July 4, 90-degree weather caused at least seven instances of highways buckling from extreme pressure....
