Originally posted in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Opinion page, by Steve Hiniker. Taxpayers scored a huge victory recently when U.S. District judge Lynn Adelman ruled that the expansion of a 17-mile stretch of state Highway 23 near Fond du Lac was no longer eligible for federal highway funds.
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By Charles Marohn. www.StrongTowns.org. This podcast features an interview with Steve Hiniker, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, the plaintiff that prevailed in a recent lawsuit against the USDOT, WisDOT and others.
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This article was originally featured on streetsblog.net. By Angie Schmitt. State departments of transportation all over the country use specious traffic projections to justify hugely expensive road widening projects. That’s how you end up with the graph on the right — showing how DOTs continued to forecast traffic growth year after year, even as driving stagnated.
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This article was originally featured on the front page of the Atlantic’s CityLab. By ERIC JAFFE. A federal district court ruled against a highway expansion on the grounds of flawed traffic predictions.
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Calling the state of local roads “deplorable”, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin today unveiled an interactive map that shows the condition of local roads by state assembly district.
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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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