This is normally the time of year that road construction projects are wrapping up and the orange construction barrels are put into storage until next spring.
Every day about 120,000 drivers use US-131 between Wealthy St. and 28th Street. MDOT would like your input on changes and improvements you would like to see.
This all started as a way to engage the folks, especially the kids, maybe take our minds off the pandemic, and, maybe also to call attention to the hard work that snowplow drivers do every winter; giving names to the state's fleet of snowplows.
It's an argument that's raged for years across the state of Michigan and now the Michigan Department of Transportation has taken to social media to settle the 'Zipper Merge' debate.
MDOT will receive state funding to make some changes happen, including the possibility of removing the Wealthy exit altogether or maybe even tunneling a portion of the highway underground.