Repair Old Roads Before Building New Ones

15 June 2003 - 1:00pm

Michigan citizens advocate to improve state funding for public transportation and repair old roads before building new ones.

Kelly Thayer, the Institute's transportation project manager, coversrecent hearings in Lansing, where citizens from across the state told aHouse committee that they are tired of the partisan politicking obstructing Governor Jennifer Granholm's efforts to get the state's crumbling highways fixed before it builds new ones.

Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, June 12, 2003
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