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The Ghostbuster:
Google Maps has been updated to include M-30's re-extension to M-46. At least they didn't drag their feet on that!
bessertc:
--- Quote from: The Ghostbuster on September 05, 2023, 03:25:29 PM ---Google Maps has been updated to include M-30's re-extension to M-46. At least they didn't drag their feet on that!
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Yeah, I saw Google had updated that back in mid-July. That's when I asked a contact at MDOT what the plan was for actually signing the new extension. She's the one that said the Midland section would be done by mid-August and the Saginaw portion would wait until the "scheduled maintenance project" was completed "hopefully this fall." Obviously, at least some of the signs were placed south of the Midland Co line anyway.
afguy:
MDOT has published their final version of the PEL study for I-475 in Flint. Some of the highlights of the study includes the following:
* The overall cost will more than double from $300 million to $700 million, due to the additional improvements along the corridor.
* The preferred alternative is the reduced footprint with the urban retaining walls
* A potential freeway cap may be added
Here's a link to the final PEL report: https://www.michigan.gov/mdot/-/media/Project/Websites/MDOT/Projects-Studies/Studies/Planning-and-Environmental-Linkages-Studies/I-475/PEL-Report.pdf?rev=63f4edd73d58419dac97ebce8a571b02&hash=1E4CF29F1F4A8A0F623DFF64F9717243
dvferyance:
I wonder if Michigan will ever reopen the welcome center coming in on US 31 if Indiana upgrades it to a major corridor.
JREwing78:
--- Quote from: dvferyance on September 24, 2023, 06:22:36 PM ---I wonder if Michigan will ever reopen the welcome center coming in on US 31 if Indiana upgrades it to a major corridor.
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It's kind of odd that MDOT can staff a Welcome Center on lightly-trafficked corridors like US-2, US-141, or US-41, but US-31 and US-131 are neglected. Then again, MDOT has spent the last 20+ years closing rest areas, so it probably shouldn't be surprising.
The real estate is still there for the Welcome Center. Whenever the powers that be decide to make it happen, they can do it. But as long as US-31 in Berrien County was an unfinished red-headed stepchild, building and staffing a rest area was apparently very low priority.
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