by Fix MI State | Mar 5, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
UPDATE: With March Madness canceled, we have decided to cancel the accompanying Pothole Madness challenge. Thank you to everyone for your engagement around this. We will be in touch about future contest opportunities down the line. Until then, drive safe, and stay...
by Fix MI State | Mar 4, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
April showers are still a while off but now is a good time to start thinking about ways to help keep our rivers and lakes clean by managing stormwater. Stormwater is what ends up on the ground and in our waterways as the result of rainfall or snowmelt. Stormwater...
by Fix MI State | Feb 26, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Weeks after township officials ordered “no body contact” with Four Mile Creek, a body of water that feeds the Muskegon River and passes under Muskegon Community College, that advisory has been lifted. Recent testing of the waters came back within quality standards,...
by Fix MI State | Feb 26, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The daily commute for Amanda Miles used to be so simple. Six or seven minutes to work as a bartender. Another short trip for her kids to elementary school, just around the corner from her job. That all ended two years ago when the county shut down the decaying Waltz...
by Fix MI State | Feb 24, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The 38-year-old Jackson woman who got hit by a piece of concrete that fell from a bridge over U.S. 127 this week could’ve been any driver. The woman was driving north on U.S. 127 when the concrete chunk fell off the Barnes Road overpass near Mason, crashed...
by Fix MI State | Feb 24, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
Bridge conditions are a growing concern after a chunk of concrete fell from an overpass on U.S. 127 near Mason [last] week. “This needs to be solved now. The governor’s got a plan that’s got to do with bonding. That moves this bridge into the five...
by Fix MI State | Feb 17, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Forecasts for Great Lakes water levels to keep rising means Michigan’s related costs will climb into the hundreds of millions of dollars as the state confronts the impact. That’s the initial conclusion offered by directors of state agencies after the first statewide...
by Fix MI State | Feb 17, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
While Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s multi-billion dollar bonding plan fixes Michigan’s major highway systems, she’ll still need Republican lawmakers to address local roads funding. The GOP-controlled state Legislature has largely criticized the plan for ignoring local and...
by Fix MI State | Feb 10, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Michigan’s infrastructure is in tough shape, from potholed roads and deteriorating bridges to aging sewers and dams in dire need of maintenance. A panel appointed by former Gov. Rick Snyder in 2016 following the Flint water crisis concluded Michigan needed $4 billion...
by Fix MI State | Feb 3, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The State Transportation Commission has given the go-ahead to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s plan to sell bonds to finance Michigan’s most urgently needed road repairs. But, as we hear from Rick Pluta, she says bonding does not solve the entire problem. The governor...
