by Fix MI State | Dec 13, 2024 | Work Zone Safety
This article originally appeared in Upper Michigan’s Source. Read more here. According to the Michigan State Police, Michigan recorded over 8,000 construction work-zone-related crashes with 24 fatalities in 2023. To make work zones a little safer, Gov. Gretchen...
by Fix MI State | Dec 11, 2024 | Work Zone Safety
This article originally appeared in Up North Live. Read more here. A new Michigan law aims to protect construction workers on state highways, by placing cameras along work zones to catch speeding drivers. Another law signed with it, will do a similar thing for kids...
by Fix MI State | Nov 22, 2024 | Work Zone Safety
Police could soon have a new way to ticket people driving too fast in construction zones. A package of bills being considered by lawmakers would create automatic speed enforcement zones where road crews are working. The bill package passed the State Senate earlier...
by Fix MI State | Nov 14, 2024 | Work Zone Safety
This article originally appeared in WSBT. Read more here. A new law could soon be signed by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) that would put speed cameras in work zones. This means you could get a speeding ticket without being pulled over by an officer. Over the...
by Fix MI State | Aug 28, 2024 | Work Zone Safety
LANSING, Mich. – This Labor Day weekend, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is moving orange barrels to the side of the road and removing lane restrictions on 60 percent of its road and bridge projects statewide to...
by Fix MI State | Jul 12, 2024 | Work Zone Safety
This story appeared in Bridge Michigan. Read more here. After a jump in fatal car crashes during the COVID-19 pandemic, overall crashes and fatalities declined in Michigan in 2023 — though work zone incidents have spiked with the increase in construction. Data...
