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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Originally posted on The County Today. By Heidi Clausen, Regional Editor | clausen@amerytel.net. Local roads throughout Wisconsin, but especially those in the state’s northwestern region, are on a collision course for disaster, according to a new analysis.
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Despite Wisconsin’s deep partisan divide, there’s one area of policy on which the state’s Republicans and Democrats emphatically agree: conservation.
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