by Fix MI State | May 24, 2017 | Roads & Bridges
The number of structurally deficient bridges in Livingston County dropped after the Michigan Department of Transportation completely reconstructed the interchange between Interstate 96 and U.S. 23 near Brighton in a project that ended last year. But no progress has...
by Fix MI State | May 18, 2017 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Dams & Other, Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
Michiganians have daily encounters with aging, crumbling and failing infrastructure. Our cars shake, rattle and roll down some of the nation’s worst roads. The Flint water crisis makes state and national news. Sinkholes from failing sewers swallow homes and crumble...
by Fix MI State | May 17, 2017 | Roads & Bridges, Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Stormwater & Wastewater
Warmer weather ushers in a season of picnics, proms and pool parties but with along with the fun comes another rite of summer — road construction. The orange barrels are visible around the state, and Dearborn is no exception. The city’s road projects and construction...
by Fix MI State | May 11, 2017 | Michigan beaches, Drinking Water & Recreational Waters, Dams & Other, Roads & Bridges, Stormwater & Wastewater
Roads, bridges, sewer lines, water systems and all the other infrastructure in the state is, by multiple assessments, in trouble in Michigan. Two studies say the state needs to spend $4 billion a year. The governor wants at least $1.2 billion a year more to get...
by Natalie Kozma | May 8, 2017 | Stormwater & Wastewater, Roads & Bridges
FRASER, Mich. (AP) — Dora Linda Nishihara was driving in San Antonio one dark evening in early December when she suddenly disappeared from sight. Later, her car, with her body inside, was found at the bottom of a 12-foot-deep water-filled sinkhole that had swallowed...
