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Highway expansions are hindering multi-modal transportation across Wisconsin

July 24, 2020October 13, 2023 by admin in Archives, Fighting Wasteful Spending, I-94, News, Transportation, Video, Webinar

The Coalition for More Responsible Transportation co-hosted a webinar on how highway expansions are hindering multi-modal transportation across Wisconsin. Hear from Beth Osborne, director of Transportation for America, about how the billions of dollars spent on massive highway mega-projects have left the current transportation fund insolvent and failed to solve congestion. Milwaukee environmental attorney Dennis Grzezinski, and Eau Claire City […]

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I-94 East-West Expansion: a Fiscal, Social, and Environmental Mistake

July 8, 2020September 22, 2023 by admin in Balanced Transportation, Climate Change, Fighting Wasteful Spending, I-94, Land Use, News, Transportation, Transportation Equity

Today, Governor Evers announced his intention to restart the I-94 East-West expansion near Story Hill in Milwaukee. This project is a fiscal, social, and environmental mistake. The last time the I-94 project was proposed, it was estimated to cost more than $1 billion. The 3.5 mile highway expansion was eventually dismissed by Governor Walker for […]

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WisDOT asks feds to withdraw approvals for I94 EW, huge win for Milwaukee and state taxpayers

October 6, 2017October 13, 2023 by admin in Archives, I-94, In the News, News, Transportation

WisDOT Secretary Dave Ross sent a letter to the United States Department of Transportation this week, asking the federal agency to rescind support for the expansion of Interstate 94 East-West in Milwaukee. This is likely to kill the project in the short-term, and force both agencies to go back to the drawing board and study more options to address congestion, and safety along the corridor.

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Federal Court: Wisconsin Uses Bogus Traffic Data to Justify Highways

May 28, 2015September 7, 2023 by admin in Archives, Balanced Transportation, Fighting Wasteful Spending, Hwy 23, I-94, In the News, News, Transportation, WisDOT budget

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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Press Release: 1000 Friends Calls For Road Audit and Moratorium

May 27, 2015October 13, 2023 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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WisDOT ignores science, cherry picks numbers

March 25, 2015October 13, 2023 by admin in Archives, Balanced Transportation, Fighting Wasteful Spending, I-94, Local Roads, News, Transportation, WisDOT budget

In a recent testimony to the Joint Finance Commission of the Wisconsin Legislature, WisDOT Secretary Mark Gottlieb accused “certain groups” of cherry picking traffic numbers to show that VMT on the I94 corridor in Milwaukee has gone down over the last decade. It is likely that he was referring to 1000 Friends’ recent analysis of traffic counts across the state that show consistent declines in driving on almost every single major highway.

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