Michigan’s roads, bridges, dams, harbors, water and stormwater systems are all in need of long-term repairs. That costs lots of money. What would cost more? Not making plans to start paying that money now. (Bridge/Crain’s photo by Michael Lee II)
LANSING In the summer of 2003, a massive power outage brought a swath of the eastern United States and Canada ‒ including much of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula ‒ to a standstill.
The blackout, which started when a single electrical wire touched a tree in Ohio, left roughly 50 million people in the dark for days, and exposed the vulnerability of the electric grid.
Whitmer vetoes attempt to let hazmat trucks cross Ambassador Bridge
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
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LANSING, MI A provision that would have allowed trucks to haul hazardous materials across the Ambassador Bridge for the first time in several decades was struck from the $106 million state pandemic relief bill this week. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s line-item veto blocks a legislative order to the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in the bill that would have allowed the 91-year-old bridge over the Detroit River to accept truck traffic carrying flammable liquids and other corrosive materials.
The restriction has been in place since the mid-1990s on the international crossing, which is operated by the billionaire Moroun family’s Detroit International Bridge Company.