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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Originally posted in the Leader-Telegram, by Joe Knight. Study: More gas tax dollars are being funneled into expanding highways in Milwaukee, Madison while rural roads deteriorate. When Eau Claire residents fill their gas tanks, they have an expectation that a good portion of the per-gallon gas tax they pay goes toward maintaining local roads.
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Originally posted on Kenosha News – Our View. Potholes in the streets of Kenosha are a local problem, but they aren’t a unique local problem. Local roads all over the state are in bad shape, according to a study by the organization 1,000 Friends of Wisconsin.
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A large part of the $850 million state officials want to spend on widening Interstate 94 could instead go to many southeastern Wisconsin roads that are in urgent need of repair, according to a new study. An analysis of Wisconsin Department of Transportation data by a pair of transportation advocacy groups finds that about 2,500 miles of local roads throughout the region are in a “failed, very poor, or poor” condition. The analysis, released Thursday, concludes that one in three southeastern Wisconsin roads are in urgent need of surface repairs.
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