The Michigan legislature placed road and transit projects on the
priority list and fast tracked legislation to funnel millions of
federal dollars to those projects. State leaders expect the projects to
create thousands of jobs.
According to excerpts from the story:
Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm today signed
legislation authorizing Michigan to spend $873 million of federal
recovery money on hundreds of road and transit projects across the
state that will create approximately 25,000 jobs.
The
legislation authorized Michigan to spend $873 million in money from the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) for a range of
“shovel-ready” projects such as road-resurfacing, rehabilitation and
widening, bridge rehabilitation, and transportation enhancement
projects. The projects were chosen by planners, engineers, and local
leaders and cover every region of the state.
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