Michigan Road Funding is A Joke

Back when a Road Funding bill finally got passed (like gas) about a year ago in our state many people, including myself, said it was too little too late. We would not notice any road improvements - that the roads will only continue get worse.

Latest Road Funding Package

Not enough money was voted into the road package to turn back the terrible ongoing deterioation of our driving infrastructure. Bad roads would turn into Deadly roads.

And to make matters worse, much of the money which the Do Nothing Michigan legislators said was in the bill was actually based on Michigans improving economy and increased tax revenues. Now what do we see? A stagnant economy and Millions, maybe Billions of dollars diverted to pay for crap like the Flint Water Crisis and the DPS Meltdown/Bailout. Both situations caused by a failed government in Lansing. Now comes an outrageous example of why Road Funding in Michigan stinks.  

The Michigan Department of Transportation's plans for construction on I-75 have hit a funding snag
 
So the news articles begin to pop up.

"The Michigan Department of Transportation plans to widen Interstate 75 through Oakland County — but there’s a snag in the funding. A provision in a 1951 law requires cities or villages with a minimum of 25,000 residents, such as Troy, to pay a part for any highway construction within the state. But some residents whose communities fall under the provision don’t want to pay." -StateSide, Michigan Public Radio.

Yes, the paltry dollars cities are to receive from the latest road package will be forcibly diverted to widen a section of I-75 where it passes through a city. That means they will have little or no money left over to fix their local roads. The really bad local roads. The ones we drive on every day and which wreak havoc on our cars suspensions to the tune of hundreds of dollars out of our pockets each year. And that's in addition to the increased taxes intended to fix those local roads!

Whisky Tango Foxtrot

So now the Michigan Do Nothing legislators have to scramble to repeal that 1951 law to stop the local road money drain. So what will happen to the I-75 widening project? Huh? What....?

Get used to it, Michigan lawmakers can not do their job, which the constitution says they must do; Provide safe roadways for the citizens of Michigan (Look it Up)!

And while you're at it, might as well get this attitude about our crumbling roads:

‘There Is Beauty In Decay,’ Says Head Of Federal Highway Administration While Surveying Nation’s Crumbling Roads
-TheOnion

 

OK, that's a joke. And so are our roads here is good 'ol Michigan

Drive Careful,
Will