“If they hadn’t made that quick decision, I don’t think I’d be here,” Ron said from his hospital bed. “I credit all of the people here at this hospital for where I am right now.”
“If they hadn’t made that quick decision, I don’t think I’d be here,” Ron said from his hospital bed. “I credit all of the people here at this hospital for where I am right now.”
After a man fell through a pedestrian bridge over the Lodge Freeway in Detroit earlier this month, many wondered why it took the Michigan Department of Transportation almost a week to respond to the incident.
Detroit Free Press
LANSING Not just roads, but bridges and dams will be targeted for extra funding in the 2022 state budget and a new supplemental spending plan for this year, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday.
Whitmer, in her first detailed discussion of the budget plan that will be presented to the Legislature Thursday, told the Free Press her plan will include $300 million from the state general fund to repair or replace up to 129 local bridges that are in serious or critical condition.
That s on top of the record $3.6 billion in proposed capital spending on roads in 2021 up from just under $2 billion in 2020, as first reported by the Free Press just ahead of Whitmer s State of the State address in January. Proposed capital spending on roads for fiscal year 2022 is $3.1 billion, Michigan Department of Transportation spokesman Jeff Cranson said.