Be aware of fake MDOT texts demanding toll or traffic ticket payments. MDOT does not operate any toll roads. Contact the Michigan Attorney General for information on how to identify scams and file a complaint.
Edward C. Eckert
1902-1966
Often called "The Father of Roadside Development" in Michigan, Eckert was a district forester, then the chief forester of the Department of State highways for 36 years (1930-1966). In that role, he led in development of one of the nation's finest systems of roadside parks, freeway rest areas and scenic turnouts serving more than 40 million travelers a year. By the select use of vegetation, he also established procedures and methods of erosion control on the roadsides and supervised development of a "living snow fence" of carefully selected and placed trees and shrubs for buffering blowing and drifting snow. Throughout his career, Eckert aggressively pursued a goal of a "complete highway", one not only economical, functional and safe, but beautiful as well, with full roadside accommodations for the traveler.
Michigan Transportation Hall of Honor, 1986
