Category: Transportation

WisDOT does not take into account the huge maintenance and rehabilitation costs the expanded I-94 highway will require. In addition, there is no clear understanding of the economic benefits the expansion will provide due to a lack of cost-benefit analyses. The total capital cost of expanding this 3.5-mile stretch of highway is greater than the entire annual roadway maintenance and rehabilitation cost for every single highway and road in Wisconsin.

WisDOT does not adequately seek to understand the impacts of the projects on minority and marginalized communities and misrepresents data in claiming negligible impacts.

With a discrepancy of 11,300 cars in WisDOT’s own data – it is baffling that a decision to expand the highway at up to a cost of $1.2 billion could be made.