Barrett asks state to divert funds from I-94 project to mass transit
Monday, 05 May 2008
- Dan Knauss
From the Small Business Times :
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and three Milwaukee aldermen today sent a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, urging the agency to downsize the Interstate 94 widening project and divert some of the funds instead for mass transit in the region.
Barrett and aldermen Willie Hines, Michael Murphy and Robert Bauman sent the letter in response to the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) compiled by the Federal Highway Administration and the DOT for the I-94 north/south corridor reconstruction and expansion project. [...]
Also at MilwaukeeRising:
No expansion on North-South I-94, they say
May 6 -- The $200 million the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has proposed spending to expand North-South I-94 "could be better spent implementing a balanced transit strategy that includes mass transit alternatives and increased local road aids," top city officials said Monday.
Mayor Tom Barrett, Common Council President Willie Hines and Aldermen Robert Bauman and Michael Murphy signed the letter to letter to Robert Gutierrez, WisDOT project manager. Monday was the deadline for public comments on the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed $1.9 billion freeway reconstruction and expansion project....
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