Find the grade of the local roads in the assembly district you live in. Tell your local legislator that we need to repair and maintain our local roads first, instead of expanding freeways on borrowed money. Click on your legislator’s picture to go to their website, where you will find ways to contact them.
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Gas taxes, auto registration fees, property taxes and now sales taxes just to fix local roads. 1000 Friends of Wisconsin today slammed a proposal that would require local governments to impose a new tax if they want to maintain local roads, calling the proposal quadruple taxation for road repairs.
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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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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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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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