So Far State Officials Can’t Prove Roads Grow Economy
If you have been reading my recent posts at Forward Lookout, you are aware that I have been sending out a series of open...
GOP Bickers Over Zoo Interchange, Ped, Bike Funding Still in Flux
While Wisconsin’s mainstream media degenerate into covering the dispute between Assembly and Senate Republicans over whether the Zoo interchange should be delayed, I checked...
Transportation Budget up for Vote on Friday…
Late Update: Most transportation issues have been pushed off until next week. JFC ended up passing a motion with reduced cuts to the Stewardship...
State Transportation Up at 2pm Today
UPDATE: JFC will not be taking up Transportation Today according to the latest memo. JFC will meet at 2:30pm today to take up issues listed...
$25 State Bike Fee Possible
A followup question from Rep. Nygren to the DOT about raising fees on bicyclists has been answered in a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau Paper...
The Mitch Henck Maneuver
Mitch Henck has been a voice in Madison for quite some time. I do not know Mitch Henck personally, but have listened to...
JFC Co-Chairs Plan to Drop a Highway Bomb on Future Generations
...we can’t expect one generation to pick up the load for all these projects at the same time... Unfortunately, these projects are all coming to fruition at the same time... it’s up to us to figure out what are we going to do to continue...
Walker Proposes Rollback of Complete Streets
Governor Walker's budget address on February third is getting a lot of press for the $1.3 billion of borrowing for transportation, but there is...
An Open Letter To Chris Mertes – The Sequel
A few years back, Sun Prairie Star Editor Chris Mertes wrote such a ridiculous editorial that I wrote him an open letter.
Mertes has outdone...
Wisconsin Road Lovers Stuck in 1990
The Local Government Institute of Wisconsin has a new report out ( Filling Potholes: A New Look at Funding Local Transportation in Wisconsin ) that makes the case for funding Wisconsin Transportation. The problem is that the report they cite to highlight how much highway construction benefits the economy is from 1990.
Stop Wasteful Highway Expansions, No New Transportation Taxes, Fix Local Roads First
Concerned Residents of Cities, Towns Traveling to Capitol to Tell Gov. Walker:
Stop Wasteful Highway Expansions, No New Transportation Taxes, Fix Local Roads First
FOR IMMEDIATE...
Dear Media: Please Research the Declining Returns on Highway Investments
Every couple of weeks, we hear about a $680 million shortfall in the transportation fund. The unspoken premise being that the projects that are creating...