April 29, 2021
An annual spring campaign to encourage safe driving through construction zones is underway.
Itâs National Work Zone Awareness Week - an annual event that focuses national attention on worker and motorist safety in work zones. The Michigan Department of Transportation is kicking off the campaign and highlighting the theme: âDrive Safe. Work Safe. Save Livesâ.
Fall 2020 was said to be a time of tragedy for Michiganâs road and bridge workers. In a matter of three months, five workers were struck and killed and three more were injured in work zone crashes.
MDOT Spokeswoman Courtney Bates says most work zone crashes caused by inattentive or distracted drivers and speeding is the leading cause of fatal work zone crashes. She says their awareness campaign starts at the beginning of spring when MDOT gets going on its big rebuilding and maintenance season, which lasts throughout the summer and fall â sometimes into Novemb
TWO Musselburgh residents feature in a new online digital art exhibition which captures the lives of staff, students and the local community at Queen Margaret University during the first Covid-19 lockdown last year. Gran Olivia Begbie – whose image ‘Hands On Windows – Grandmother and Granddaughter’ (see below) features in the ‘Stories of Covid’ exhibition – ended up celebrating her 76th birthday on campus with a bacon roll at Maggie’s, the Students’ Union cafe. Jim McRobert, who, along with his partner, is “an invaluable member and supporter of the QMU allotment community”, wrote a poem about lockdown which is also part of the exhibition.