Michigan's first four lane divided expressway -- Detroit Industrial Expressway – ran between Detroit and Willow Run 1941.
Adopt-A-Highway volunteers have removed more than 1.4 million bags of trash from state roadsides since their start in Michigan in 1990. Approximately 2,500 citizen volunteer groups pick up trash three times a year on nearly 6,000 miles of state highways.
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More than $6 billion is needed to improve Michigan's transportation system, according to a report release July 21, 2008 by the Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation (CAC), appointed by Governor Granholm earlier this year.
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Recent comments from Drive MI visitors
Please fix VanDyke from 15 Mile to Hall Road.Last year workers were moving at lightning speed fixing VanDyke from 8 Mile to 15. Every night lanes were shut down and it was amazing how much they accomplished each night. I could hardly wait to go to work so I could see what had been done during the night. Then all of a sudden work came to a screeching halt. The worst part of VanDyke was left to fall apart even more. I drive on VanDyke to work from just North of Plumbrook almost to Jefferson Ave. The random patching that has been done in the last few weeks merely puts loose material heaped up in a hole for cars to drive over. So most of the mess winds up on my windshield or on my undercairrage. So within a few days the holes are back worse than before because now all that repair material is everywhere being shot through the air by cars and trucks.
--Sandra Phillips, Sterling Heights
I can't believe the Governor is wanting to spend billions on windmills when no business in their right mind would come to a state with such pathetic roads. Lets get back to basics and fix our roads.
--Fred Akers, Lansing
I have been in this city for a good 25 years I have seen potholes every year but this year it was terrible. I will give you some examples: Livernois & Long Lake, John R south of long lake, Crooks & Sq Lake Rd, Crooks Rd south of Big beaver and on and on. I almost had an accident. Thank you
--Dilli Thapa, Troy