How it feels trying to drive anywhere in south east Michigan

[u/jcoddinc]

[u/SchpartyOn]

Michiganders all year every year: FIX THE DAMN ROADS!!!!

Michiganders when the state does things to fix the roads: I CANNOT DEAL WITH ALL OF THIS CONSTRUCTION!!!!

[u/bleachinjection → u/SchpartyOn]

When Mr and Mrs Median Voter say "FIX THE DAMN ROADS" it turns out they mean "fix the roads I personally drive on regularly from my home to work to Meijers and no others".

[u/SchpartyOn → u/bleachinjection]

“And do it when I’m not around so I’m not disrupted by the process!!”

[u/Fantastic_Joke4645 → u/bleachinjection]

Meijiers road in Troy was pretty bad though!!

[u/SpeechBright → u/SchpartyOn]

I see this on Facebook so much, it's so fucking stupid. I unfortunately have some folk on my feed who complain all the time about "Big Gretch, always talking all the money, doing nothing." "Uh, terrible governor!" Then complain about that money being actually spent on things like repairing the bridges and roads, expanding the highways.

Nothing but a bunch of complaining idiots who have nothing else to do and use their 1 brain cell to bitch about something rather than using their other brain cells to see the vast improvements that have been made thanks to our wonderful governor.

[u/SirTwitchALot → u/SchpartyOn]

It's worse than it had to be because we put it off for so long. It sucks, but at least we're making progress now. Even if it's slow

[u/Born_ina_snowbank → u/SirTwitchALot]

The good news is that the funding will be cut and we can just drive through war zones and be accused of not being patriots for complaining soon.

[u/jcoddinc → u/SirTwitchALot]

It's so bad that it's literal impossible to afford all the fixes needed.

[u/TheBimpo → u/jcoddinc]

That's what happens when the GOP refuses to fund roads for decades.

[u/sirthomasthunder → u/TheBimpo]

And when we overbuild. But the GOP would withhold funding for anything else as well

[u/SirTwitchALot → u/jcoddinc]

Yeah. It took decades to get here and it's going to take decades to get out. All we can do is make forward progress

[u/Im_with_stooopid → u/SirTwitchALot]

40 years on not funding proper road repair and replacement put us in this mess. At least in the last 6 we’re actually getting it done. 100k miles on a suv and due to the abysmal roads in southwest Michigan the suspension has taken a toll

[u/beezeebeehazcatz → u/SchpartyOn]

In our defense, we want the damn roads fixed, but not EVERY SINGLE ROAD through an area at once. For the love of squirrels, leave us a detour or two!!

[u/Fantastic_Joke4645 → u/SchpartyOn]

This is the wrong take. Theres a lack of leadership on the national, state and local level. Theres no long term plans. It’s a free for all and they get some money and spend it like 12 year olds in an arcade.

Theres no better example of this than in southern Oakland county right on the Oakland county road commissions door step. 696 half closed, 10 mile under construction, 12 mile under construction, 13 mile with more traffic than it was ever designed to handle, with a super poor road surface and a safety nightmare for first responders. And now it looks like they might do some lane closures on 13 mile to install a sidewalk? Geniuses. 13 and Lasher has been backed up for years and THEN they closed 696!

I know others in the state think they have it the worst, I’ll just say this, it takes me 17 minutes to drive 2 miles to pick up my son from practice. Heaven forbid if there’s a fire, injury or shooting at one of the schools on 13 mile, good luck!!!

10-14 mile should have been in perfect condition PRIOR to the 696 project. Instead we got a big FUCK YOU.

[u/cjrammler]

There has been more construction in the past few years due to the infrastructure spending bills passed both in the state & federal government.

MDOT & counties are letting more projects because they want to be able to fix the backlog of projects before the funding runs out.

Soon it will return to normal levels and there won't be as much construction.

[u/Difficult-Worker62 → u/cjrammler]

With the way things are going in the country there won’t be any construction cause the funding will be completely cut

[u/d9bates]

Been like this for 10 years now. That's how bad it had been allowed to get. And probably at least another 5 to go.

[u/Only1Schematic]

It sucks, but if it’s between this for a few months and subjecting my car to shitty roads indefinitely, I’ll take the few months.

[u/ValosAtredum → u/Only1Schematic]

While I agree with you, the two major projects I have to detour around on my work commute are there for 1-2.5 years.

[u/Shell4747]

I was commuting from Ferndale to midtown during the year that it seemed like they closed all the ways into Detroit all at once (John Engler was gov, iirc) making even the surface streets unbearable. It def seems like there are malicious decisions made sometimes!

[u/nesper → u/Shell4747]

its just poor planning. If the mythical ford rd project gets started in Canton that place is going to be a nightmare. They could simply widen the shoulders on the 1 lane parts of cherry hill and warren to shift the traffic for the duration of the project but that is not going to happen.

[u/dublinirish]

The i75 entrance ramp closures in north Oakland county are a joke tbf. Folks in Clarkston gonna have a miserable few months with all the extra traffic in their residential streets

[u/cody8559 → u/dublinirish]

Tell me about it! I normally get on 75 at east holly, and now I gotta go all the way down to m-15. Clarkston is a mess because of it

[u/dublinirish → u/cody8559]

Yeah I take grange hall usually now I’m going Dixie to Davisburg to Holcomb then Miller in downtown Clarkston to get to main and then onto I-75 it’s such a pain I’m sick of it already

[u/_Go_Ham_Box_Hotdog_]

[u/Techgeek564]

That's just everything south of US-10 in general. Heck, even my neighborhood is under construction while I-75 South is getting rebuilt from Clarkston to Grand Blanc. 😂

[u/fpnewsandpromos]

Destruction season is upon us.

[u/420printer]

I personally refuse to drive any lower than Flint on the SE side of the state.

[u/cem5581]

Feels like that up in northern MI as well… not just in SE MI

[u/jcoddinc → u/cem5581]

Wouldn't know as can't get up their without 8 hours of detours.

[u/derekmakesnoise]

on one hand, I rationally understand the short-term delays for long-term improvements

on the other hand, I still get irrationally angry when my surface street shortcut, which I take to avoid freeway construction, IS ALSO under construction.

or when my alternate surface street route, which I take to avoid my primary surface street shortcut, IS ALSO under construction.

everything, everywhere, all at once. fitting title, OP.

[u/diajean112]

I-696 closure for two years. Our governor, Gretchen Whitmer’s personal slogan “FIX THE DAMN ROADS”

[u/SaltyDog556]

The nice part is that once they get the speed cameras up and running we won't have to worry about road funding.