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on 600 miles of Michigan freeways, including major corridors connecting the northern and southern regions. The first freeways affected are I-75 between Bay City and Sault Ste. Marie, stretches of U.S.-127 from north of Lansing to the Grayling area, and U.S.-131 between suburban Grand Rapids and northern Michigan. New signs, which the state will start updating Monday to replace limits, will be installed on those three freeways by mid- May. Other places where motorists will legally be able to drive 75 m.p.h.

later this year include much of I-69 between Lansing and Port Huron, U.S.-10 in central Michigan and U.S.-31 near Ludington. The state also announced Wednesday 900 miles of roads where limits will increase from 55 m.p.h. to 65 m.p.h. All of the new 75- and limits will be posted by mid- November. The higher speeds are re- quired under a law that Gov.

Rick Snyder signed in January. It allows the new limits only if engineering and safety studies indicate it is OK and if of traffic survey already is traveling at those speeds on the affected highways. State Transportation Department Director Kirk Steudle said his agency and the Michigan State Police reviewed design speeds, crash patterns, traffic volumes and other factors in choosing where to raise the limits. The law also raises the max- imum speed limit for trucks and school buses from 60 m.p.h. to 65 m.p.h.

and reduces some speeding penalties that can affect licenses and their insurance premiums. Eighteen states now authorize 75 m.p.h. or higher speed limits on some roads, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Christopher Haxel contributed to this report. Some Michigan highways will get a speed limit of 75 m.p.h.

WHERE SPEED LIMITS WILL RISE FREEWAYS GOING TO 75 M.P.H. I-75 Bay City to U.S.-23 in Mackinaw City (Bay, Arenac, Ogemaw, Roscommon, Crawford, Otsego, Cheboygan and Emmet counties), and St. Ignace to Sault Ste. Marie (Mackinac and Chippewa counties) U.S.-127 I-69 to the end of the freeway at St. Johns (Clinton County), and the beginning of the freeway at Ithaca to I-75 (Gratiot, Isabella, Clare, Roscommon, and Crawford counties) U.S.-131 M-57 to the end of the freeway north of Manton (Kent, Montcalm, Mecosta, Osceola, and Wexford counties) LIMITED-ACCESS FREEWAYS GOING TO 75 M.P.H.

I-69 I-69 Business Route (Saginaw Highway) to Swartz Creek (Clinton, Shiawassee and Genesee counties) I-69 From the county line to I-94 (Genesee, Lapeer and St. Clair counties) U.S.-10 M-115 to I-75 (Clare, Isabella, Midland and Bay counties) U.S.-31 South Oceana County line to U.S.-10 (Oceana and Mason counties) And 900 miles of roads will get limit Associated Press The astronomical cost of auto insurance is the biggest impediment to continued economic and population growth, Mayor Mike Duggan told a panel of state lawmakers Wednesday. After reciting examples of progress the city has made since emerging from bankruptcy including reduced ambulance run times, rising house prices, more on-time bus routesand a well-lit city Duggan said there still are challenges facing Detroit. biggest scandal in the state is auto Duggan told members of the House Michigan Competitiveness Committee. absolutely indefensible what the people of this state pay for especially bad in Detroit, where drivers can pay up to $3,000 a year for insurance, compared to $900 a year in Ohio.

The cost is so high, Duggan said, that residents are giving up their cars, driving without insurance or registering their cars at homes in suburbs. whole lot of people are moving out of the neighborhoods because they afford car insurance. almost as much as a housing pay- he said. Lawmakers have tried to reform the no-fault auto insurance system, which carries among the highest costs in the nation and includes lifetime health benefits for people catastrophically injured in vehicle crashes. But there has always been a concerted effort by many in the medical community, as well as by advocates for injured drivers, to maintain the system as it is, and change has been next to impossible.

But Duggan said after his testimony that this may be the year that reform can happen. He tried in 2015 with a In- suranceproposal, a low-cost auto policy with pared benefits, but it stalled. building a coalition. amazing the amount of people who are starting to understand the issue and are starting to come Duggan said. (of the House Tom) Leonard and I have an agreement that not going down the D-Insurance road.

As he says, people all across Michigan are being overcharged. So going to work toward a statewide The push for auto insurance reform came at the end of what was an otherwise positive presentation of the emergence from bankruptcy. Duggan, running for another term as mayor this year, said confident that the city will meet all the financial benchmarks that came as a part of the $350-million so- called Grand Bargainwith the state that helped the city emerge from bankruptcy. By early January 2018, he predicted, the city will be able come out from under state financial oversight. running a comfortable, balanced budget every he said.

I still face While members of the committee take specific action after hearing from Duggan, the leadership of the Detroit Institute of Arts and former state Rep. John Walsh, who helped shepherd the Grand Bargain through the Legislature and now serves as Gov. Rick director of strategy, they seemed eager to help build on the momentum. story truly is remarkable. It truly is a night- and-day difference in said state Rep.

Lee Chatfield, R-Levering. can we do? What bills can we pass that will Contact Kathleen Gray: 313-223-4430 or Duggan: Coalition forming to reform car insurance in state By Kathleen Gray Detroit Free Press.