Michigan roads

Why should rich suburbs receive lavish freeway projects while so many other transportation needs remain neglected?

The Michigan Legislature and motorists can help make sure everyone gets home safe at the end of their day.

The Democratic governor says she never intended to repair all roads in one term. Republicans say she’s revising history.

A bipartisan plan approved Thursday would temporarily suspend sales and fuel taxes at the pump. Whitmer had earlier vetoed earlier relief.

Some lawmakers want Michigan to join other states and use cameras to nab speeders in highway construction zones. First offense: Warning. Second: $150 fines.

Federal and state governments begin to reverse course on underinvestment to address water’s true cost.

A new report says the state needs to dramatically increase funding just to keep the status quo.

Michigan is poised to spend nearly $3 billion to upgrade or expand aging water, road and broadband infrastructure. It’s a big deal, but experts contend the state should be spending even more than that every year.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and GOP leader struck a deal late Wednesday on a massive spending plan that will use state and federal stimulus funds for what they call “transformational” infrastructure projects.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive directive orders the Michigan Department of Transportation to use all its available resources to fix potholes.

Counties are working overtime to fill in potholes. Some road commissioners say this is one of the most severe pothole seasons they have experienced.

Gretchen Whitmer’s $74 billion budget would be by far the largest in state history. But problems with roads, schools, infrastructure and broadband have been years in the making and became worse in the pandemic.

When Michigan is awash in extra funds and other compromises are tough to find, lowering tax burdens is something that ought to be attractive to people on both sides of the aisle.

The state Senate allocates more than Gov. Gretchen Whitmer proposed, but Michigan’s infrastructure has been underfunded for years.

In Michigan’s slice of Trump Country, some communities say the federal stimulus isn’t worth the hassle. Their neighbors may get the money instead.

The once-in-a-generation legislation promises to bring more than $10 billion in public works aid to Michigan, a state in dire need of upgrades to roads, dams and bridges, drinking water systems and other protections against climate change.

At all levels of government in Michigan, federal COVID relief funds are a potential boon for public projects and programs that have endured decades of chronically low investment.

Michigan’s roads and bridges are in sorry shape. Biden’s infrastructure bill wouldn’t fix all of them.

The massive storms that ripped through southeast Michigan this summer are likely the state’s new normal, but our aging infrastructure was designed for the climate of the past.