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Each year in the spring, National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) is held to bring national attention to motorist and worker safety in work zones. There has been a heartbreakingly high number of fatalities and injuries in work zones on Michigan roads over the past year and the motoring public
MITA’s Vice President of Engineering Services Glenn Bukoski, P.E., is retiring December 31, 2021 after a nearly 50-year career in the industry. You can help us honor his many contributions to the heavy construction industry by purchasing an advertisement or submitting a free congratulatory note that will appear in
MITA REACHES TABLE AGREEMENT SETTLEMENT WITH MI REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS FOR FIVE-YEAR DEAL THROUGH MAY 2026 FOR OUTSTATE CONTRACT A committee made up of Labor Relations Division (LRD) members of MITA who are signatory with the Carpenters Outstate Agreement have reached a settlement with that union for a five-year
Biden’s Infrastructure Sales Force Knows Its Potholes and Bridges The New York Times, April 8, 2021 WASHINGTON — As mayor of South Bend, Ind., Pete Buttigieg grew to view asphalt as his enemy. As governor of Michigan, Jennifer M. Granholm faced a Republican-led legislature intent on blocking her biggest infrastructure
USIC has released an updated contact list. Please click here to download the list and coordinating service area map. MITA suggests if your ticket is marked with an ongoing coordination code or anything out of the norm. To call in for additional assistance which you are allowed by law. Also,
MITA’s 2021-2022 Member Directory and Buyer’s Guide will go to press soon. Each MITA member company headquarters and each branch location will receive a free directory, and you can place an order for additional directories ($25 per directory) by emailing Nancy Brown at nancybrown@thinkmita.org. The deadline to place your order
Effective Monday, April 12, 2021, 6 a.m., weight restrictions will be lifted on all state trunkline highways from the southern Michigan border north to and including US-2/US-141 at the Menominee River bridge west of Iron Mountain, then east on US-2 to St. Ignace. Frost restrictions are still in effect for
Last week, President Joe Biden proposed $387 billion for transportation infrastructure improvements. The proposal, called the American Jobs Plan, is billed as a way to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure as well as create employment and economic growth. Included are investments beyond just roads and bridges. Other infrastructure investments include broadband,
The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), University Region, is requesting Statements of Qualifications (“SOQs”) from entities (“Submitters”) interested in submitting proposals for the design and construction for reconstruction of I-496 from Lansing Road easterly to the bridges over the Grand River, structure rehabilitation, and improvements on W Saint Joseph Street
Effective Friday, April 2, 2021, 6 a.m., weight restrictions will be lifted on all state trunkline highways from the southern Michigan border north to the Mackinac Bridge. Frost restrictions are still in effect for the remainder of the state and will be imposed and enforced on all state trunkline highways
The Utility Distribution wage rates for Laborers have been updated and are effective 4/1/21. Click here to view the rates. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me via email at mikenystrom@thinkmita.org, or at the MITA office at 517-347-8336.
MITA REACHES TABLE AGREEMENT SETTLEMENT WITH CEMENT MASONS FOR FIVE-YEAR DEAL THROUGH MAY 2026 A committee made up of Labor Relations Division (LRD) members of MITA who are signatory with the Cement Masons have reached a settlement with that union for a five-year deal. That agreement included some language changes,
