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Press Release: 1000 Friends Calls For Road Audit and Moratorium

by admin in Archives, Balanced Transportation, Fighting Wasteful Spending, Hwy 23, I-94, News, Press Releases, Transportation, WisDOT budget

Seeks Halt of All Highway Expansions Until Audit on Traffic Projections is Complete. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin today called for an immediate halt to all new highway widening projects until the state conducts an audit of the traffic projections used to justify those projects. The moratorium and audit request comes on the heels of a federal court decision last week that halted the widening of Highway 23 near Fond du Lac because of unjustified and likely erroneous traffic counts predicted for the highway.

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MAJOR LAWSUIT VICTORY FOR 1000 FRIENDS

by admin in Archives, Balanced Transportation, Fighting Wasteful Spending, Hwy 23, News, Press Releases, Transportation, WisDOT budget

Federal Court Derails Highway 23 Project. Flawed Traffic Forecasts Ends Federal Funding in Huge Victory for Taxpayers. On Friday, the U.S. Eastern District Court upheld claims in a lawsuit filed by 1000 Friends of Wisconsin and cut off federal funding for the beleaguered Highway 23 road expansion project between Fond du Lac and Plymouth. The Court agreed with the land use organization that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation used unsupported, inflated traffic forecasts to justify the project.

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Local Road Conditions – Interactive Map

by admin in Archives, Balanced Transportation, Fighting Wasteful Spending, Local Roads, Maps, News, Resources, Transportation

Find the grade of the local roads in the assembly district you live in. Tell your local legislator that we need to repair and maintain our local roads first, instead of expanding freeways on borrowed money. Click on your legislator’s picture to go to their website, where you will find ways to contact them.

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Press Release – Quadruple Taxation Bill Introduced For Local Roads

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Gas taxes, auto registration fees, property taxes and now sales taxes just to fix local roads. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin today slammed a proposal that would require local governments to impose a new tax if they want to maintain local roads, calling the proposal quadruple taxation for road repairs.

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Wisconsin lawmakers discuss delaying Hwy. 23 expansion

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Originally posted at fdlreporter.com – Fond du Lac. By Justin Kabbes. State lawmakers could kick the can down the road again for the Highway 23 project. That is if the state reduces the amount of money Gov. Scott Walker is requesting to borrow for the transportation budget.

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