A special task force starts work this week to try to come up with a plan to better spend state tax dollars to fix Michigan’s roads.
The Michigan Department of Transportation is spending about a billion dollars building and repairing the state’s roads this year.
But to keep pace with what’s needed to just maintain the state’s infrastructure, its estimated Michigan would need to spend $1.4 billion.
State Senator Roger Kahn wonders if that money is being spent efficiently enough.