Royal Oak to Save $4M in New Road Funding Bill

(Originally posted on Dec. 8, 2016) ROYAL OAK, MI — Royal Oak is due to save more than $4 million on an Interstate 75 expansion under a new legislation that passed in the state Senate, the Daily Tribune is reporting. Madison Heights and Troy stand to save about the same.

Republican state Sen. Marty Knollenberg of Troy sponsored the bill, which is a compromise of an earlier bill that Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed in July.

“Current law forces cities to pay for roads that they do not own,” Knollenberg said in a statement. “The goal of this legislation was to come up with a system that treats all cities that host a portion of our highways the same.”

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