Detroit News: Prop 1 suffers worst ballot smackdown in decades - Chad Livengood, Leonard Fleming, May 7, 2015

Proposal 1 suffered the worst defeat Tuesday of any Michigan constitutional amendment ballot measure since the current constitution was adopted more than a half-century ago, as 80.1 percent of voters rejected the sales tax increase and road funding plan.

- story by Wayne Peal, the Detroit Free Press

"It's a go," said Michigan Department of Transportation project engineer Jim Daavettila. "The project is already authorized and doesn't depend on the May 5 sales tax vote."

UPDATE: June 30, 2015: The U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, issued a Finding of No Significant Impact [FONSI] for the U.S. 23 corridor improvements project.

UPDATE: The US-23 corridor improvement project has been approved by WATS and SEMCOG.  This was reported to us by Township Manager Howard Fink at the April 15th Planning Commission Meeting (in the case of WATS) and at the April 28th Board of Trustees Meeting, in the case of SEMCOG.

MDOT, Michigan's Department of Transportation, presented updated plans for the US-23 corridor at an August 14th meeting in the Township Hall.  The MDOT presentation documents are here.  The 2009 feasibility studies, broken down into five parts, documenting everything from the value of freight carried annually to environmental constraints, are here.

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