Up North Progressive
Politics and commentary for Northern MichiganStop Complaining About No Money To Fix Michigan Roads
Wednesday , 18, June 2014 Community 3 CommentsMichigan does have money to fix roads. A very important road is being fixed right now in the counties of Lake and Osceola. This road not only provides a means of traveling but also supports important tourism and outdoors sporting. Look! Remember these?
Yes, orange barrels! You can’t have road construction without orange barrels. And look here:
A sign stating that road work is happening in the immediate vicinity. Can’t argue with that. There were even those ROAD CLOSED barricades standing nearby:
Okay, TRAIL CLOSED. This is Lake County, a trail is just as important as a road.
So why is MDOT working on this very important road … trail construction project? Because snowmobiles.
The Pere-Marquette State Trail runs from Clare to Baldwin along US 10. It passes through Evart, Reed City, Chase, and ends in Baldwin. The trail runs through part of the Manistee National Forest and has many pretty sights. The only problem was part of the trail was literally a grass lane. And everyone knows snowmobiles don’t work on grass.
Be happy Michigan, while you cry for your suspension months from now when the snow flies again our snowmobilers will have a fresh, newly paved trail to ride on. And look, near Reed City they’re even constructing a new parking lot so those snowmobilers will have someplace to park their trucks and trailers.
Enough whining, there is road trail construction happening in Michigan.
Nonya says: oh wait nevermind. i read the irony. good deal.
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upnorthprogressive@gmail.com says:
I tried, yes, irony tongue firmly in cheek implied here.
Very aware the roads are bad in the cities. Even in smaller towns in Northern Michigan there are terrible road problems that need attention and aren’t getting it. Yet, MDOT has been working on fixing up Pere-Marquette Trail for a couple of months. It’s frustrating for everyone to see a recreation trail getting resurfaced, while in town we’re dodging potholes and praying our tires don’t get punctured.
shut up. move to a major city – drive over those potholes every day to work – then see if you are all happy go lucky about a northern michigan road used for tourism. the money spent on this should have been spent on inner city roads that are used by WAY more people than this place.