The grades are in and Michigan infrastructure still needs help

Talking Michigan Transportation · May 11, 2023 · 26m

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released their infrastructure report card for Michigan at a May 8 news conference and gave the state a cumulative grade of C-, which counts as improvement since the previous grade was D+.

On this week’s Talking Michigan Transportation podcast, two people who participated in the news conference talk about the roads component of the report card.

First, Ron Brenke, executive director of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Michigan and the Michigan section of ASCE, talks about how decades of underinvestment in transportation…