Duggan wants to clean up Detroit freeways. Have at it, MDOT says

"With the National Football League Draft in Detroit 15 months away, Duggan is on the hunt for litter in the city, of which the city's freeways and service drives have plenty. He also wants the medians along Detroit's freeways to get mowed more than twice a summer.

"I cannot stand the overgrown grass and the trash," the irritated third-term mayor said last week. The mayor recently asked the Michigan Department of Transportation to let the city take over cleaning and mowing along freeways — a dirty job that some Detroiters assume is already the mayor's responsibility."If I'm going to get the blame, I might as well have the responsibility," Duggan said last week. "We'll do a lot to beautify those freeways."

Like other things, Duggan thinks city departments can do this work better than others. So he's taking on the task as part of a new pre-draft city beautification blitz, which he touted to city business, government and philanthropic leaders at last week's Detroit Policy Conference.

"There is so damn much garbage in the city since COVID," Duggan said on stage at the MotorCity Casino.[/QUOTE]
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