Editing Wayne County, Michigan (section)

===Wayne County Department of Public Services===
The '''Wayne County Department of Public Services''' was formed in 1906 as the '''Wayne County Road Commission'''. It was the government agency in Wayne County, Michigan responsible for building and maintaining the county's roads and highways.<ref>{{cite web |author= Staff |title= Department of Public Services |publisher= Wayne County Department of Public Services |url= http://www.co.wayne.mi.us/dps/index.htm |archive-date= September 26, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120926064139/http://www.co.wayne.mi.us/dps/index.htm |url-status= live }}</ref>

Its first commissioners were [[Edward N. Hines]], Cassius R. Benton, and automobile manufacturer [[Henry Ford]]. While the commission was authorized by an 80% positive vote of county voters in a 1906 referendum, it was controversial and there was a Michigan state supreme court case pressed which found it unconstitutional. Commissioners Benton and Ford quit, but commissioner Hines persisted and led the commission through reorganization getting around the obstacles.<ref name="mps" />{{rp|33}} Hines was a commissioner continuously from 1906 to 1938. Hines is credited with the idea of putting a painted line down a roadway's center to divide traffic, and other innovations that were later widely adopted.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 28, 2017|title=Painting lane lines on roadways was a Michigan man's idea|url=https://www.mlive.com/news/2017/12/painted_lines_on_roadways_was.html|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=mlive|language=en}}</ref>

The commission claims credit for constructing the country's first mile of concrete-paved rural highway, a section of Woodward Avenue just outside the Detroit city limits.<ref name="mps" />

A number of the county road commissions' works are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Wayne County, Michigan|National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=mps>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=64500271}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Historic Highway Bridges of Michigan, 1875-1948 / Wayne County: An Exemplary Road Commission, 1906-1948 |first1= Charlene K. |last1= Roise |first2= Clayton B. |last2=Fraser |date=August 1998 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a|dateform=mdy}}</ref>

The county road commission was merged into the general county government,<ref name=mps/>{{rp|42}} becoming the Roads Division of the Department of Public Services.<ref>{{cite web |author= Roads Division |url= http://www.co.wayne.mi.us/dps/dps_roads_history.htm |title= History of the Wayne County Road Commission |publisher= Wayne County Department of Public Services |access-date= October 18, 2012 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121101031522/http://www.co.wayne.mi.us/dps/dps_roads_history.htm |archive-date= November 1, 2012 }}</ref>