DETROIT, MI – Nearly a decade after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made “fix the damn roads” a campaign rallying cry, Detroit’s new mayor is making road repairs an early priority.
Mayor Mary Sheffield on Monday announced a $58 million investment to improve roads and bridge infrastructure, targeting residential streets and major commercial corridors across the city. She said the money would go towards improving metro Detroit’s residential side streets and major roads in the city’s “commercial corridors.”
The city also will start new streetscape projects along Michigan Avenue from Woodward to Cass Avenue and West Grand Boulevard west of the Lodge near the new Henry Ford Hospital tower, as well as road improvements on city streets serving GM Factory Zero. In total, the program will work on 140 individual major road, residential paving, construction, bridge removals and streetscape construction. The Department of Public Works (DPW) will repave 44 miles of major roads and residential roads…