David Eggert - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed February 05, 2020
Michigan OKs $3.5B in Road Bonding
LANSING, Mich. (AP) A state panel on Jan. 30 authorized borrowing $3.5 billion to roughly double spending on state road and bridge construction over five years, hours after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the plan in her State of the State speech....
Gordie Howe International Bridge - Wed January 22, 2020
International Bridge Team Selects Design
The Gordie Howe International Bridge team announced that following several months of consultation with the community, an aesthetic design has been selected for the five pedestrian bridges to be constructed as part of the Michigan Interchange work being completed for the Gordie Howe International Bridge project....
Michigan Department of Transportation - Wed January 08, 2020
Construction on Northbound I-475 in Michigan Resumes in Spring 2020
Due to a number of factors, and in order to protect a critical state investment, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) will not complete construction on northbound I-475 in Genesee County until approximately mid-summer 2020....
Associated Press - Wed January 08, 2020
Funds Would Aid Great Lakes Clean Up
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) A wide-ranging cleanup of the Great Lakes would receive a funding boost under a spending bill moving toward enactment in Congress. The measure, approved Dec. 17 by the House, includes $320 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative....
Brenda Ruggiero – CEG Correspondent - Thu December 26, 2019
Detroit Sees First New Auto Plant in 30 Years
The first new assembly plant to be built in the city of Detroit, Mich., in nearly three decades is beginning to take shape for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Plans are for it to be up and running by the end of 2020....
Michigan Department of Transportation - Wed December 11, 2019
Ford Receives TEDF Grant to Support Transformation
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is awarding a state transportation economic development grant that will support more than 11,000 existing jobs in Wayne County. The grant will go toward infrastructure improvements related to Ford Motor Co.'s plans to transform its Research and Engineering Center in Dearborn into an open, high-tech campus that could one day house more than 20,000 designers, engineers and product development workers....
American Concrete Pavement Association - Wed December 11, 2019
ACPA Recasts Life Membership in Honor of Concrete Pavement Pioneer
The American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA) has recast its honorary life membership and named it in honor of Leet "Ed" Denton, retired president of Denton Enterprises of St. Clair Shores, Mich. Denton also became the first recipient of the namesake membership category....
Volvo Penta - Wed October 16, 2019
Recycler Slashes Costs, Cuts Downtime With Volvo Generator
Thompson Recycle Company reprocesses mountains of used asphalt rubble every year with its three mobile crushing plants in Michigan. The mobile plants use generators as their prime power source at road construction sites....
Associated Press - Wed October 02, 2019
Michigan Governor Vetoes $375M for Roads
LANSING, Mich. (AP) Michigan won't be spending $400 million in general funds to boost its roads and bridges after Gov. Whitmer vetoed $375 million from the state budget Sept. 30. Under a budget bill approved on party-line votes Sept....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Tue September 17, 2019
New Bridges Part of $3B I-94 MDOT Project
As part of its $3 billion I-94 Modernization Project, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is demolishing and reconstructing 14 bridges in Detroit in advance of the main work via the Advanced Bridges program between 2019 and 2022 to help minimize the traffic impact of the construction on local residents and businesses when the main project gets underway....
