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It's not often that motorists get this kind of good news; actually excellent news.
Mike Martindale of the Detroit News reports:
State transportation officials plan Monday to announce that the $1 billion Interstate 75 widening project in Oakland County, the first major road plan in Michigan to use a private investment model instead of state and federal money, could be completed up to 10 years sooner than planned.
The Michigan Department of Transportation’s 18-mile project to modernize the expressway between Ferndale and Pontiac was part of a “pay as you go” plan designed to be financed entirely by public money.
Now that the state doesn’t have to come up with the money for the rehabilitation, which often results in publicly funded projects being done piecemeal, or pay as you go, the work initially envisioned to last until 2030 could be done as soon as 2020, transportation officials said.
