Thank you for your support in 2024. With your help, we will build on our successes in 2025! Please consider giving a gift so that we’re off to a great start in 2025, and thank you for being a friend we can count on.
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2024 Highlights
At 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, we advocate for sustainable land use and equitable transportation policy to support healthy communities. Watch our highlights from 2024 and consider making an end-of-year donation to support our work.
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Happy Holidays
Wishing you a healthy and happy holiday season! The Staff and Board of 1000 Friends
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Final Kenosha Transportation Academy
The Kenosha Transportation Academy wrapped up last week with final project presentations held at Carthage College. I’ll be honest, when I started preparation for this Academy, I wasn’t sure how it was going to unfold. Kenosha is bigger and more spread out than any other location where we’ve run this program so far. The city’s […]
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Challenging the Expansion of I-94 in Milwaukee
We have joined a lawsuit filed by Midwest Environmental Advocates and Legal Action of Wisconsin challenging federal approval of a $1.75 billion plan to expand I-94 in Milwaukee. The lawsuit alleges transportation officials refused to consider an alternative plan that would have incorporated a public transportation element and fixed safety concerns without expanding the highway. […]
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1k Friends webinar December 4
Join us on Wednesday, December 4 from 12-1 (central) for a webinar with Dr. Wes Marshall, professor at the University of Colorado in Denver and author of Killed by a Traffic Engineer! Killed by a Traffic Engineer was the book of the month for September. Marshall pulls back the glittering green curtain to reveal that […]
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