The Detroit News
By Riley Beggin
March 3, 2021
Washington — The last four years have delivered "incremental progress" on improving U.S. infrastructure, a new report says, but the country is still paying only about half of what is needed to maintain it. That leaves a gap of nearly $2.59 trillion over the next 10 years to make up the difference, wrote the non-partisan American Society of Civil Engineers in a report that comes out once in four years. In Michigan, that's resulted in nearly a quarter of roads in poor condition, prompting drivers to spend nearly $650 every year on average for maintenance and other costs of traveling on crumbling roads. More than 170 dams are considered "high hazard" and around $13 billion is needed to make drinking water safe statewide over the next 20 years, according to new state-level data from the group.
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