Well, surprising no one really, there's a very cozy relationship between the state road agency and the contractors that "fix" the damn roads.
That cozy relationship extends to a lack of competent quality testing, resulting in you guessed it - roads that don't even meet the already low quality standards in this state.
The Detroit Free Press: MDOT fails to ensure quality of gravel used in Michigan road projects, audit shows
I mean, our current road construction and quality standards are great - if this state was Georgia.
For Michigan, however, with our winters even our current standards are not enough, and the state can't or will not even enforce those basic standards.
So much for Gov. "Fix the damn roads" Whitmer - it's now over four years and she can't even ensure her own agency is holding the (union) road construction companies to the bare minimums, or her own state agencies to do their own damn jobs.
This is but one of the reasons why Michigan has some of the highest gas taxes and spending on roads, and yet continues to have some of the worst roads in the nation.
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Not like it's going to get any better either... sigh
I am afraid that we have seen the last Republican government in Michigan ever. I am one of those conspiracy theorists who do not believe that the election was legitimate. Not with the economy, the governor and her handling of the Covid crisis, and her general ignoring of the rules she set for the little people of the state.
But we are supposed to believe that the Democrats swept the entire state, including the 3 proposals that they put forth that not only put abortion into the constitution, but messed with our elections making it even easier to cheat elections into the future.
Old NFO: You're right, it will not.
pigpen51: I have questions as well, but between the horrendous candidates and campaigns run by the GOP in this state in the last election as well as how impressively propagandized the populace has been that the governor was "saving them" during Covid, I can see why it occurred.
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