Klohs: How Can Michigan Attract Business With 3rd World Roads?
The Grand Rapids Press has this story on Michigan's crumbling transportation infrastructure:
"Birgit Klohs, president of the Grand Rapids-based economic development group The Right Place Inc., says the state of Michigan roads makes it difficult to attract business.
“You bring a company in, you put them in a car and the first thing they do is hit potholes,” Klohs said. “We drive roads that are Third World, and that’s supposed to be the impression they have of us?”
"Michigan is near the bottom for per-capita state and local road funding The Reason Foundation's 2007 Report on the Performance of State Highway Systems gave us bad marks for overall performance, urban and rural interstate conditions and condition of bridges."
To read the full article including potential ideas to raise transportation funds (Gas Tax, Mileage Tax, Toll Roads), click here.
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What is attractive about Michigan and particularly Northern Michigan IS our 'third world roads". It is what people want… they are tired of urban roads and freeways and NO open space.
I HATE freeways… oh and have you ever been in a genuine 3rd world country? Michigan is NOT that.