by Fix MI State | Jan 14, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The Oakland County Board of Commissioners are calling on state legislators to amend a 69-year-old law that determines how much money governments receive for road repairs. Public Act 51 of 1951 is the state’s funding mechanism that determines how revenue dollars...
by Fix MI State | Jan 14, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The Michigan Department of Transportation intends to close the crumbling Mt. Elliott Street bridge by the end of January as part of a plan to replace four aging bridges over I-94 and I-75 in Detroit this year. The 65-year-old Mt. Elliott Street bridge, part of which...
by Fix MI State | Jan 14, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
With the Michigan Legislature returning to session, finding a new source for funding new road funding is top of mind for the governor and lawmakers. The governor is considering selling bonds to pay for the roads after GOP leadership rejected her gas tax increase...
by Fix MI State | Jan 7, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The LSJ Editorial Board is a four-member body, speaking for the Lansing State Journal as an institution on issues that impact the community. We craft editorials to help elevate conversations around these topics, with the hope of positively affecting change in the...
by Fix MI State | Jan 6, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
It was a rocky first year of divided government, and none of Michigan’s leaders deny it. But Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Republican legislative leaders in the House and Senate say they’re going into 2020 wiser, relationships strengthened, to tackle the...
by Fix MI State | Jan 3, 2020 | Stormwater & Wastewater
A broken force main pipe on Bunton Road caused about 50 gallons of sewage to overflow in Augusta Township on New Year’s Eve, the line’s owner announced Thursday. F&V Operations and Resource Management said on Jan. 2 that the old pipe had reached the end of its...
by Fix MI State | Jan 3, 2020 | Dams & Other
The Sturgis Dam was built more than a century ago as an economic development project for the city of Sturgis. Michigan’s first municipal water power plant, the dam became operational in 1911 along the St. Joseph River near the Langley Covered Bridge in Centreville....
by Fix MI State | Jan 1, 2020 | Roads & Bridges
The new decade brings a new reality about Michigan’s roads: The quality of the pavement on which motorists will be driving in 2020 is the best it’s been since 2006. All of those orange barrel slowdowns on the highways the past few summers are starting to...
by Fix MI State | Dec 30, 2019 | Stormwater & Wastewater
Heavy rains that have drenched Michigan since the weekend are being blamed for separate sewage discharges into the Saginaw River. Officials from the Saginaw and Bay City wastewater treatment plants reported separate discharges of partly treated sewage Monday, Dec. 30,...
by Fix MI State | Dec 21, 2019 | Roads & Bridges
LANSING, MI (WILX) — Millions of dollars that Governor Gretchen Whitmer took out of the state’s budget have been put back in, but that doesn’t include new money for roads, which is what started the whole budget fight in the first place. The deal...
