Please consider calling members of the Michigan House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to ask them to bring HB-4597 “Restoring Local Control over Speed Limits” up for consideration and ultimately pass it on to the full legislature for a vote. Unless this committee does that, HB-4597 will die in committee and will never even be considered.
Also consider speaking at September 9 Board of Trustees meeting in favor of a resolution proposed to be sent to this committee in support of considering this bill. A unanimous vote by our Board on this would be useful.
Phone numbers are at the end of the email below in bold type from local residents Phyliss Andrus and Jodi Byers. They have lead a nine year effort to lower the speed limit on Collins Rd. It is now 45. It used to be 25. Part of Collins. , in my view is a school zone (Baldwin Elementary). This bill goes beyond that to give us local control of our local roads.
As you may know at the August 12th Oakland Township Board of Trustees meeting Supervisor Buxar presented what is considered a probable remedy to dangerous road conditions here in Oakland Township, particularly the excessively high speed limits in our residential neighborhoods.
Though our interest began on our formerly sleepy, little, Collins Road, posted for many years at 25mph and then boosted to an unsafe speed of 45mph, complaints regarding dangerous conditions on many roads have been heard by township leadership for years.
House Bill 4597 has been introduced by Michigan House District 66 Representative Josh Schriver on June 10, 2025.
The Bill is entitled “Restoring Local Control Over Speed Limits”
The first step in getting a bill to become law is to get it heard and discussed in committee.
This is where citizen input is absolutely crucial. Citizens can let their legislators know that this bill- becoming-law is important to them by emailing and phoning (preferable) their House and Senate representatives.
Please see the 2 attachments below with an easily understood overview of HB 4597 and a list of members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to contact. This committee is where the bill’s journey begins.
Please do all YOU can to make this long-sought-for help to make residential streets safer for ALL Michigan residents.
E-mail and/or phone the members of the Transportation Committee, starting with Chairperson Michigan House Representative Patrick Outman and urge a public hearing regarding this very important matter, the passage of HB 4597.
School starting has greatly affected the number of cars and busses that impact safe residential streets in our area (perhaps yours as well), thus the request for your immediate attention to this matter.
The Michigan House is in session most Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays of the month.
It is advised to call on those days to maximize your ability to speak to a live person rather than leave a message.
When you call (preferable) or email, identify yourself, your address and then simply state your complaint about an unsafe road condition in your vicinity and request committee action on House Bill 4597 to bring it to the Floor ASAP.
If you wish to contact the Bill’s primary sponsor Representative Josh Schriver here is his information.
email: Josh Schriver@house.mi.gov
phone: 1-517-373-0839
If you are concerned, as we are, with making Michigan roads safer and would like to be kept apprised of progress of HB 4597 kindly e-mail us back so that we may communicate with you easily. Please feel free to contact either Jodi or me if you need further Information.
Oakland Township Sentinel 