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Show MICHIGAN HIGHWAY PROGRAM IS READY Mu'hi::;!ns highway 'rc,-!';iiit, A'liirh Cununi'.iilaie.s the cuiwinirt ion nf ap-lii'oximaii'ly ap-lii'oximaii'ly l:' mill' nf iH'v uirnii!e at a cost of al'out ?l.".(iuO,t!HO, lias just lu'i'ii t'oiKi'.'u'teil ami subniiuod to the ailiiiinistratiw lai'd. C'f the proposed mileage o25 miles will be pavement and out of this a total of T.74 miles will be newly authorized construetion and .Til miles will ho in completion of work started during T.'-o. The re-niainiler re-niainiler will ini'lude f;ravi'l, gradins and drainage. In all, the lllL'-l plan is not only the largest undertaken by the state since the present system of highways high-ways was planned, but exceeds the largest previous year's construction by almost 100 per cent. When the construction program for the present year first assumed definite form the contemplated expenditure represented about $2,', 000,000 but, as a result of many months of work by Governor Alexander Groesbeek and the state highway commissioner, this was pared to (he amount now indicated. Of this the federal government will pay 50 per cent of the construction cost, of all roads which have been approved under the federal aid plan and the state ,and counties will bear the remainder re-mainder of the expense. On all other roads the stale and counties will supply sup-ply the entire construction capital. ' Practically all of the more important impor-tant and heavily traveled trunk lines will come in for a share of the proposed pro-posed work and at the completion of this season's activities it is believed that the main arteries both north and south and east and west will have been practically completed. One of the most important stretches of highway high-way to he affected will be the Grand river road from Detroit and Muskegon, which will be practically finished. About forty miles of concrete will be required to fill in the gaps on the stretch between Detroit and Lansing. The stretch lying in Ionia county between be-tween Lansing and Grand Kapids will probably remain as a gravel road due to the failure of the officials of that county to appropriate the necessary funds to cover the county's share of , this construction. Some paving, amounting to $325,000, will be clone on . the road between Lansing and Jackson, Jack-son, but this road will not be completed com-pleted due to the insufficiency of money to cover the whole cost. |