Listen to the 3-minute podcast -- Reports indicate Michigan continues to enjoy a slow and steady economic rebound. However, the state is still shouldering a huge weight: a deteriorating transportation network that elected state leaders cannot agree on how to fund and revive.

WATCH our video -- Gallup senior scientist Frank Newport, Ph.D., wrote that “every bit of polling evidence I have reviewed shows that Americans are extremely supportive of new government infrastructure legislation.”

Part Two of a Two-Part Series -- Frustration from citizens, business executives, the labor sector and local officials is mounting as states, such as Michigan, face major revenue shortfalls to modernize America’s once-unequalled transportation infrastructure.

Part One of a Two-Part Series -- If incontrovertible evidence is needed that America’s transportation infrastructure is decaying, one need look no farther than Michigan, a destination state in the Great Lakes region whose success is also rooted in manufacturing and agribusiness.